Cath Jones is the author of quirky picture book Bonkers About Beetroot and lots of early and reluctant readers. She also writes junior and middle grade fiction and the occasional poem. Cath trained as a librarian, worked as an editor and then a teacher, before becoming a community gardener where she ran vegetable themed story-time!
Category:
Literacy
Strand:
Decodables
How the Zebra Got His Coat is a low level phonics reading book. It introduces CVCC, CCVC and some CCVCC words, and the High Frequency words there and were. How the Zebra Got His Coat covers the words that students meet in Phase 4 of Letters and Sounds, the UK Government's synthetic phonics reading programme. It meets the UK Ofsted requirements in only including letters, sounds and words that students have met by this stage of their phonics learning. This title is part of Ransom Reading Stars, a structured reading programme for students learning to read. The series has ten levels: four phonics levels (covering Letters and Sounds Phases 2 to 5) and six book bands (Pink through to Orange).