Helen Orme runs workshops for children on fiction and non-fiction writing, and courses for teachers in both primary and secondary schools. At the last count she had written around 40 books, many for reluctant readers. Before becoming a writer and consultant she taught as a Special Needs Co-ordinator in a large comprehensive school.
Interest Age:
7
Reading Age:
5
Category:
Literacy
Strand:
Decodables
Life isn't easy to find in the vast expansive of the galaxy. In this book, we follow a team of space explorers in their search to find life. 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 Search for Life is a Phase 5 book. It introduces alternative spellings for the phoneme: /sh/ (station, mission, mansion) 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: /j/ (fudge), /r/ (wrap), /s/ (scent), /i/ (happy), /ear/ (here, beer), /ar/ (father), /air/ (bare), /or/ (all, four, roar), /ur/ (learn), /oo/ (could, put), /ai/ (day, came, eight), /ee/ (sea, these, happy, chief), /igh/ (pie, by, like), /oa/ (low, toe, bone), /(y)oo/ (cue, tune), /oo/ (blew, fruit), /sh/ (station, mission, mansion) Common exception words: their, looked, water, where, again, thought, work, many, different, any