‘Dragon’s Hiccups’

Genre: fantasy

Author: Jenny Links and Martin Remphry

Publisher: Franklin Watts’ Reading Champions, graded at Orange 6

What’s the book about? A dragon called ‘Dimpy’ gets hiccups and keeps setting fire to things.

Which Hatcher Reading level is this book? 13. The pages were illustrated, and a maximum of 5 lines per page. One 10 word sentence was identified.

Phonics info: my recommendation is that students follow a good quality phonic-based decodeable reading scheme, to phase 5, before tackling this book. Knowledge of vowel digraphs is needed, and ability to read past tense endings, such as ‘closed’, ‘opened’ and ‘jumped’. More complex words ‘hiccups’, ‘friends’ and ‘shouted’ were also identified.

Interest level: 5+

Is this book part of a series? Yes, book the books are standalone

If you’d like to get a copy of the book, it’s here (affiliated link)

If you enjoyed this, try: [firstly take a look at the other books in this level, and if you didn’t struggle to read this book, take a look at the books in the next level]