Anne Rooney writes for children, teens and adults. As she says, she writes short books for short people, longer books for longer people. A lot of the books she writes are things that are true. Others are totally made up. Even the made up ones aren't entirely lies.
Interest Age:
7
Reading Age:
5
Category:
Literacy
Strand:
Decodables
Do you want to become a Dragon? This book will uncover the secrets to living the life of these fire-breathing beasts. 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 - How to be a Dragon is a Phase 5 book. It introduces alternative spellings for the phoneme: /igh/ (pie, by) 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, catch), /m/ (lamb), /n/ (knit), /s/ (house), /i/ (happy), /ar/ (father), /or/ (four), /ur/ (learn), /oo/ (could, put), /ai/ (came), /ee/ (sea, happy), /igh/ (pie, by) Common exception words: people, where, who, eyes