The Creature with Nine Brains

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: Lime
Catch Up Level: TBC
Lexile Level: TBC
Pages: 16pp
Words: 395
Non-Fiction
Paperback (format)
ISBN: 9781800479159

Availability: In stock

£5.50

Description

Discover this alien-like creature. It has nine brains... and so much more!

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 Creature with Nine Brains is a Phase 5 book.

It introduces alternative spellings for the phoneme: /ur/ (learn, word)

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), /s/ (house), /u/ (some), /i/ (happy), /ar/ (father), /ur/ (learn, word)
  • Common exception words: their, people, water, thought, through, many, different, any, eyes