Superhero Phonic Readers

Superhero Phonic Readers are ideal adventure stories for all children who are learning to read. The stories are made up of words that are easy to read by both phonic and look and say methods. There are 10 exciting books in the Superhero Phonics series.

These books are especially ideal for children who have completed their initial phonic learning and are ready to read books with an increasingly wide vocabulary.

Beginning to read stories for themselves is exciting for young readers. Success and confidence at this stage is the vital foundation of life-long reading.

What is the phonics method of reading?

Phonics is the name we give the system of sounds and letters that make up our language. Over the period of time that children spend learning to read, they need to develop their understanding of knowledge by:

• matching sounds they hear to letters of the alphabet
• building words from alphabet sounds that they already know: m-u-m, c-a-t
• hearing sounds in the middle of simple words, e.g. cat sounds different from cot
• hearing sounds at the ends of words, e.g. cap sounds different from cat
• blending two or more sounds together, e.g. str as in street, strange