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.
Interest Age:
7
Reading Age:
5
Category:
Literacy
Strand:
Decodables
Ug has been thinking hard but can't remember the important thing he had to do today. Follow Ug's journey as he tries to remember today's important goal. 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 - Was That Today? is a Phase 5 book. It introduces the new grapheme for reading: u_e (cube), and the common exception word asked 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 (cue), aw, ph, ew (few), a_e, i_e, o_e, u_e (cube) Common exception words: oh, their, Mr, Mrs, looked, asked