Overview
The School of Monsters has begun. Let's learn about PHONICS – just for fun! The School of Monsters: Learn and Play series bridges the gap between school and home to ignite the spark of learning. Kids getting ready for kinder and school will love practising real schoolwork with their friends at the School of Monsters – in a funny, silly (and smelly) way! These teacher-approved School of Monsters phonics workbook can be used to promote school readiness or in conjunction with schoolwork! There are 44 spoken sounds in English and approximately 200 ways of spelling these sounds. This pack contains the phonics sounds children will most likely be taught first, and it is designed to help them start learning to read and spell. The workbook includes the most used alphabet sounds, then common consonant (digraphs/trigraphs) and other vowel sounds. Familiar words and characters from the beloved School of Monsters will encourage children to apply their phonics knowledge and grow their vocabulary! Worksheets will help children learn the sounds of combinations of letters in a fun and memorable way. Includes instructions for adults on how to guide and encourage a child’s phonic learning journey. All Victorian, New South Wales, Queensland and South Australian government schools are required to use systematic synthetic phonics as part of their comprehensive reading programs from 2025. Additional guidance provided by Gisela Ervin-Ward, Specialist Literacy Teacher. Kids will love other books in the School of Monsters Learn and Play series: Fun with Phonics! Flashcards Fun with Letters! Fun with Numbers! Fun with Shapes! Fun with Words! ABC 123: Trace and Learn Big Book of Fun!
Full Product Details
Author: Sally Rippin ,
Chris Kennett
Publisher: Hardie Grant Children's Publishing
Imprint: Hardie Grant Children's Publishing
Weight: 0.216kg
ISBN: 9781761215971
ISBN 10: 1761215973
Pages: 48
Publication Date: 04 March 2025
Recommended Age: From 6 to 8 years
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
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Children / Juvenile
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Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Author Information
The Australian Children’s Laureate, Sally Rippin, is a best-selling and beloved author for children. Her most popular series include Billie B Brown , Hey Jack! and School of Monsters , and she has over 10 million books in print worldwide. She is also the author of one book for adults, Wild Things: How We Learn to Read and What Can Happen If We Don’t . Sally loves to write stories with heart featuring characters that resonate with children and is passionate about literacy and access to stories. She travels across the world speaking with parents, teachers and librarians about how to engage struggling readers. In 2024, Sally was named the eighth Australian Children’s Laureate, a two-year appointment to promote the importance and transformational power of reading, creativity and story in the lives of young Australians. Chris Kennett has been drawing ever since he could hold a pencil (or so his mum says). But professionally, Chris has been creating quirky characters for just over 20 years. He's best known for drawing weird and wonderful creatures from the Star Wars universe, and his School of Monsters and Nerd Herd series.
