Joe's Gold

Old Joe is looking for treasure! This rhyming tale tells of Old Joe's journey and the obstacles that he faces along the way.Part of Reading Stars Phonics - our structured programme of fully decodable phonics readers to support the teaching of phonics using the UK Government's Letters and Sounds programme - Joe's Gold is a Phase 5 book.It 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), /or/ (all)Common exception words: oh, their, looked, laughed, because