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), /ai/ (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