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
There have been all sorts of trends throughout time. Can you find your favourite in this 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 - Trends is a Phase 5 book. It revisits some new Phase 5 graphemes for reading. 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, ea, ir, aw, wh, ew (few), oe, a_e, e_e, i_e, o_e Common exception words: people, looked, called This book includes words with the ending -ve, such as active and give.