King Akbar's Trick

King Akbar likes to play funny tricks on his ministers, and his chief minister Birbal is sure in for a big surprise! 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 - King Akbar's Trick is a Phase 5 book. It introduces alternative pronunciations of the known graphemes for reading: ow (snow), ie (chief), and the common exception words many, laughed 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 (fast, was), e (he), i (mind), o (no), ow (snow), ie (chief) Common exception words: looked, called, asked, where, again, many, laughed