Find out about different breeds of dogs, from labradors to boxers, pugs to bulldogs. Breeds of Dogs is a phonics-based reading book. Illustrated throughout with beautiful photographs, this 254-word non-fiction book features a fully decodable text, suitable for ages 6 - 7. Breeds of Dogs covers the second set of graphemes that children meet in Phase 4 of Letters and Sounds, the UK Government's synthetic phonics reading programme.Breeds of Dogs is part of Ransom Reading Stars, a structured reading programme for children learning to read. The series has fifteen levels: four phonics levels (covering Letters and Sounds Phases 2 to 5) and eleven book band levels (Pink through to Lime).