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
Do you have what it takes to trick the famous polygraph test? Find out in this phonics reading 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 - Can You Trick a Polygraph? is a Phase 5 book. It introduces alternative spellings for the phonemes: /oa/ (toe), /(y)oo/ (cue, tune) 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: /s/ (house), /u/ (some), /i/ (happy), /ar/ (father), /or/ (four), /ur/ (word), /oo/ (could, put), /ai/ (day, came), /ee/ (sea, these, happy), /igh/ (pie, by, like), /oa/ (low, toe), /(y)oo/ (cue, tune) Common exception words: people, called, who, work, many, different, any