This summer Ying Ying, Yousseff and Jeevan are going to learn Ping Pong. Will they become Ping Pong Champions? The Ping Pong Gang is a low level phonics reading book. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this fiction story features a fully decodable text, suitable for ages 9 – 13. The Ping Pong Gang covers the fourth set of basic letters and sounds that students meet in Phase 5 of Letters and Sounds, the UK Government’s synthetic phonics reading programme. The Ping Pong Gang is part of Ransom Reading Stars Plus, a structured reading programme for students learning to read. The series has ten levels: four phonics levels (covering Letters and Sounds Phases 2 to 5) and six book bands (Pink through to Orange).