Why Do We Drive on Our Side of the Road?

Stephen Rickard

Series: Reading Stars Achieve Phonics
Interest Age: 7 - 14
Reading Age: 4 - 6
Published: 16 January 2025
AR Book Level: MY 4.2
Book Band: White
Catch Up Level: TBC
Lexile Level: TBC
Pages: 16pp
Words: 499
Non-Fiction
Paperback (format)
ISBN: 9781800479180

Availability: In stock

£5.50

Description

Find out why in some countries people drive on a different side of the road.

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 - Why Do We Drive on Our Side of the Road? is a Phase 5 book.

It introduces alternative spellings for the phoneme: /ee/ (these, happy)

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: /n/ (knit), /s/ (house), /u/ (some), /i/ (happy, donkey), /ar/ (father), /or/ (all, four), /ur/ (word), /oo/ (could), /ai/ (day, came), /ee/ (sea, these, happy)
  • Common exception words: people, many, because, any