Cath Jones is the author of lots of early and reluctant readers, including a wide range of titles in Ransom's Reading Stars Phonics programme. 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
Running is a great pastime for keeping fit and this text explores the different types of running that we can take part in. Part of Reading Stars Phonics - a structured programme of fully decodable phonics readers to support the teaching of phonics using the UK Government's Letters and Sounds programme - Let's Go Running is a Phase 5 book. It introduces alternative spellings for the phoneme: /ur/ (word) This book uses letters and sounds and common exception words that are found in Phases 2, 3 and 4 plus, from Phase 5, new graphemes for reading and alternative pronunciations of known graphemes for reading. It also uses the following from Phase 5: Alternative spellings for the phonemes: /u/ (some), /i/ (happy), /ur/ (word) Common exception words: their, people, called, water, again, through, work, many, different