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!
Interest Age:
7
Reading Age:
5
Category:
Literacy
Strand:
Decodables
When three friends get lost in the woods, only a gang of litter pickers can help them find their way out! The Long, Dark Trek is a low-level phonics reading book. Part of Reading Stars Achieve Phonics - our brand-new programme of 98 fully decodable, age-appropriate phonics readers for KS2/KS3 students who are still on their phonics journey - The Long, Dark Trek is a Phase 4 book. It introduces CCVCC words and offers more blending practice. It uses letters and sounds and common exception words from Phases 2 and 3, as well as the following common exception words from Phase 4 said, so, do, were, there, one, out, what