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
When Karl and his friends find themselves in danger while snowboarding, how will they survive? 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 - The Ticket is a Phase 5 book. It introduces alternative spellings for the phoneme: /oo/ (fruit) 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/ (catch), /s/ (scent, house), /z/ (please), /i/ (happy), /ar/ (father), /or/ (roar, door), /oo/ (could, put), /ai/ (day, came, eight), /ee/ (sea, these, happy), /igh/ (pie, like), /oa/ (low, bone), /(y)oo/ (cue), /oo/ (fruit) Common exception words: their, looked, where, again, thought, eyes, friends