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
Todd is battling against the Space Invaders on his computer. But something strange is going on with the game, read this book to find out what. 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 - Space Invaders is a Phase 5 book. It introduces alternative spellings for the phoneme: /oa/ (bone) 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: /r/ (wrap), /u/ (some), /i/ (happy), /ear/ (here, beer), /ar/ (father), /or/ (all, four), /ur/ (learn), /oo/ (could), /ai/ (day, came), /ee/ (these, happy, chief), /igh/ (pie, like), /oa/ (low, bone) Common exception words: looked, where, again, thought, mouse