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
Spring, Sage and Toby tap dance day and night. They soon seek their fortune away from the farm and become tap dancing stars. Part of Reading Stars Phonics - our structured programme of fully decodable phonics readers to support the teaching of phonics using the UK Government's Letters and Sounds programme - The Tap Tap Kids is a Phase 5 book. It introduces alternative pronunciations of some known graphemes for reading: y (very), c (cell), g (gent), and the common exception word please This book uses letters and sounds and common exception words that are found in Phases 2, 3 and 4, plus the Phase 5 new graphemes for reading. It also uses the following from Phase 5: Alternative pronunciations of known graphemes for reading: a (acorn), e (he), i (mind), o (no), ow (snow), ie (chief), ou (could), y (by, very), c (cell), g (gent) Common exception words: oh, their, people, called, asked, where, again, laughed, any, please