So many of us love to travel. This book explores many different modes of transport that we can embark upon. Part of Reading Stars Phonics – a structured programme of fully decodable phonics readers to support the teaching of phonics using the UK Government’s Letters and Sounds programme – Travel and Transport is a Phase 5 book. It introduces alternative spellings for the phoneme: /oo/ (fruit) This book uses letters and sounds and common exception words that are found in Phases 2, 3 and 4 plus, from 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: /u/ (some), /i/ (happy, donkey), /ar/ (father), /or/ (all, four, caught, roar, door), /oo/ (could, put), /ai/ (day, came), /ee/ (sea, these, happy, key), /igh/ (by, like), /oa/ (low, bone), /(y)oo/ (tune, stew), /oo/ (fruit) Common exception words: their, people, thought, through, many,because, different, any

Jill Atkins is a prolific children’s author and to date has had over 50 books published, for a variety of ages. Jill began her career as a teacher, but her interest in being a children’s author saw her successfully complete an MA in Writing for Children at Winchester University. In the past she has lectured part-time on the subject of early childhood, and she is a member of the Society of Authors and the Children’s Book Circle.