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.
Haden can't sleep, he keeps hearing sounds in the night. Can you figure what that sound is before Haden does? 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 - What's That Sound? is a Phase 5 book. It introduces alternative pronunciations of the known grapheme for reading: a (acorn, fast), and the common exception words water, where This book uses letters and sounds and common exception words that are found in Phases 2, 3 and 4, plus the Phase 5 new graphemes for reading. It also uses the following from Phase 5: Alternative pronunciations of known grapheme for reading: a (acorn, fast) Common exception words: their, asked, water, where

