This book introduces the simplest spelling for each sound (e.g. ee as in keep), then looks at alternative spellings for the sounds (e.g. ea as in bead), followed by root words and word endings, and more difficult spellings. There is a Useful Words unit at the back of the book which focuses on groups of words which are frequently needed but difficult to spell. Lively illustrated in full colour.

 

This book is part of a book series called Superphonics .

. This reading book uses the phonics method. This approach concentrates on teaching children how to map between sounds and spellings, allowing them to decode written words into their constituent sounds. Phonics skill thus involves being able to split the written word 'cat' into the phonemes /k/, /a/, /t/, and to map from letter 'c' to phoneme /k/, from letter 'a' to phoneme /ae/ and from letter 't' to phoneme /t/. Decoding skill is useful when reading unfamiliar words which use regular spelling sequences.

There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Hachette Children's Group .

Ruth Miskin is an expert in synthetic phonics with over 25 years' teaching experience. She is involved in advising the UK government on literacy training, and in training senior literacy advisers.