Big Max the monster has been let loose in the kitchen to bake a cake - what a mess he is making! But will his cake taste yummy in the end, or will it all end in disaster? Monster Max is part of the Galaxy range from Rising Stars Reading Planet. Galaxy offers a rich collection of highly decodable fiction and non-fiction for Pink A to White band. Children will broaden their knowledge and widen vocabulary through a diverse range of books which are ideal for cross-curricular reading. Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and activities to support reading at home as well as comprehension questions to check understanding.

Reading age: 4-5 years

This book features in the following series: Galaxy Series, Rising Stars Reading Planet .

This book has been graded for interest at 4-5 years. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. 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 12 pages in this book. This book was published 2016 by Rising Stars UK Ltd .

Zoe Clarke is a author and editor. She works mainly on illustrated fiction and non-fiction children's books, with over 40 titles published for the educational market.