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.
Category:
Literacy
Strand:
Decodables
Without bees, we wouldn't survive. This book looks at how important they are and how they help us to stay alive. 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 - We Need Bees! is a Phase 5 book. It introduces alternative spellings for the phoneme: /or/ (all) 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 phonemes: /u/ (some), /i/ (happy, donkey), /air/ (there), /or/ (all) Common exception words: their, people, called, where, work, many, different