The activities in How to Dazzle at Reading will help pupils to: understand and use a variety of decoding techniques; discriminate between sounds in words; learn letters and letter combinations; and read words by sounding out and blending the sounds. The pupils practise: identifing the sounds they hear at the start and end of specified words; the sounds of short and long vowels; identifing which words have a short 'oo' and which words have a long 'oo'; identifing words which rhyme with a specified word; filling in gaps in sentences and paragraphs; changing the meaning of a word by changing its 'end' sound; splitting up compound words into their components; and scanning texts.