Daisy Hawkins specialises in books for children who don't like and/or struggle with reading. After completing a BA in English Literature at the University of Southampton, she began a successful career in publishing alongside her own writing. To date she has had over 20 books published, most of which are fully decodable phonics titles. The phonics pedagogy is a particular specialism of hers, and one that she has helped to train people on around the world.
Discover the wonderful power of mushrooms in this low-level phonics reading book. Part of Reading Stars Achieve Phonics - our brand-new programme of 98 fully decodable, age-appropriate phonics readers for KS2/KS3 students who are still on their phonics journey - Mushroom Power is a Phase 5 book. It introduces some new graphemes for reading: i_e and o_e This book uses letters and sounds and common exception words that are found in Phases 2, 3 and 4, plus the following letters and sounds and common exception words from Phase 5: New graphemes for reading: ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ir, ue (glue), wh, ph, i_e, o_e Common exception words: their, people

