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.
Interest Age:
7
Reading Age:
5
Category:
Literacy
Strand:
Decodables
We still don't know if all Vikings were bad. Find out more about the Viking peoples 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 - Were The Vikings All Bad? is a Phase 5 book. It introduces alternative spellings for the phoneme: /ee/ (chief, key) 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 and alternative pronunciations of known graphemes for reading. It also uses the following from Phase 5: Alternative spellings for the phonemes: /ch/ (picture), /n/ (knit), /r/ (wrap), /s/ (house), /z/ (please), /u/ (some), /i/ (happy, donkey), /ar/ (father), /or/ (all), /ur/ (learn, word), /oo/ (could, put), /ai/ (day, came), /ee/ (sea, chief, key) Common exception words: people, looked, called, who, many, because, different, any