Strange Ways to Earn a Living 6-Pack

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: White
Catch Up Level: TBC
Lexile Level: TBC
Pages: 16pp
Words: 499
Non-Fiction
Pack (format)
ISBN: 9781836600749

Availability: In stock

£29.70

Description

You won’t believe how many strange ways there are to earn money in life. Come and discover some of the strangest 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 - Strange Ways to Earn a Living is a Phase 5 book.

It introduces alternative spellings for the phonemes: /(y)oo/ (stew), /oo/ (clue, June, blew)

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/ (picture, catch), /n/ (gnat, knit), /s/ (listen, house), /u/ (some), /i/ (happy, donkey), /ear/ (here, beer), /ar/ (father), /air/ (pear), /or/ (all, four), /ur/ (learn), /oo/ (could, put), /li/ (day, came), /ee/ (sea, these, happy, key), /igh/ (pie, by, like), /oa/ (low, bone), /(y)oo/ (cue, tune, stew), /oo/ (clue, June, blew)
  • Common exception words: their, people, water, where, who, thought, any