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
Sophie's mum wants her to be amazing at the clarinet, but Sophie doesn't like playing it. Find out what happens when Sophie discovers something she loves doing. 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 - Pushing Sophie is a Phase 5 book It introduces alternative spellings for the phonemes: /igh/ (like), /oa/ (low) 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: /n/ (knit), /r/ (wrap), /s/ (listen, house), /z/ (please), /u/ (some), /i/ (happy), /ar/ (father), /air/ (bare), /or/ (four, caught), /ur/ (learn), /oo/ (could, put), /ai/ (day, came), /ee/ (sea, these, happy, chief), /igh/ (like), /oa/ (low) Common exception words: asked, who, work, different, any, eyes