Jill Atkins is a prolific children's author and to date has had over 50 books published, for a variety of ages. Jill began her career as a teacher, but her interest in being a children's author saw her successfully complete an MA in Writing for Children at Winchester University. In the past she has lectured part-time on the subject of early childhood, and she is a member of the Society of Authors and the Children's Book Circle.
Music is loved around the world. This book looks at some of the different types of music that we can experience. Part of Reading Stars Phonics - a structured programme of fully decodable phonics readers to support the teaching of phonics using the UK Government's Letters and Sounds programme - Different Kinds of Music is a Phase 5 book. It introduces alternative spellings for the phoneme: /u/ (some) This book uses letters and sounds and common exception words that are found in Phases 2, 3 and 4 plus, from Phase 5, new graphemes for reading and alternative pronunciations of known graphemes for reading. It also uses the following from Phase 5: Alternative spellings for the phoneme: /u/ (some) Common exception words: their, people, called, many, laughed, because, different

