Everything you ever wanted to know about animation.

Find out how the latest animated films are made and how animation has developed since its early days. Plus find out how to create your own flick-book and clay animations.

*Help Key Stage 3 students move from Level 3c to Level 3b in reading.
*Support comprehension with the fascinating photographs and drawings from a range of animations.
*Encourage shared and guided reading using the ready-made tasks and discussion points on the activity pages at the back of the book.

This book is part of a book series called Read On .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 3. KS3 covers school years 7, 8 and 9, and ages 12-14 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. This book is aimed at children in secondary school. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. This reading scheme is not levelled. This reading book uses the phonics method. This approach concentrates on teaching children how to map between sounds and spellings, allowing them to decode written words into their constituent sounds. Phonics skill thus involves being able to split the written word 'cat' into the phonemes /k/, /a/, /t/, and to map from letter 'c' to phoneme /k/, from letter 'a' to phoneme /ae/ and from letter 't' to phoneme /t/. Decoding skill is useful when reading unfamiliar words which use regular spelling sequences.

There are 40 pages in this book. This book was published 2012 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Samuel Connor is an artist and a teacher. He studied Drawing and Painting at Edinburgh College of Art, then completed a Masters in Education at the University of Cambridge. He teaches art to students aged 11-18, exploring topics such as animation, photography, drawing, painting and sculpture. His aim is to inspire young people to get involved in art and be creative!