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, laughedThis 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