Death Valley

Stephen Rickard

Series: Reading Stars Achieve Phonics
Interest Age: 7 - 14
Reading Age: 4 - 6
Published: 16 January 2025
AR Book Level: TBC
Book Band: Purple
Catch Up Level: TBC
Lexile Level: TBC
Pages: 16pp
Words: 450
Non-Fiction
Paperback (format)
ISBN: 9781800479005

Availability: In stock

£5.50

Description

Do you know there’s a place in the world called Death Valley where it’s so hot you can die. Uncover this barren land 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 - Death Valley is a Phase 5 book.

It introduces alternative pronunciations of the known grapheme for reading: ou (you, could, mould), and the common exception word different

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. It also uses the following from Phase 5:

  • Alternative pronunciations of known graphemes for reading: a (acorn, fast, was), e (he), i (mind), o (no), u (unit, put), ow (snow), ie (chief), ea (head), er (her), ou (you, could, mould)
  • Common exception words: their, people, called, water, where, who, thought, work, many, because, different