We Look for Hawks: Level 1: Book 24 - Paperback

by Monika Davies (Author), Lucky Johnston (Illustrator)

Make learning to read engaging for children with this decodable fiction book about a girl and her aunt on the lookout for hawks! This book provides a built-in phonics review for early readers. Today, students need help learning how to read more than ever before. This illustrated book excites young readers while they gain important practice with several high-frequency words: know, look, too, two. Each book includes family engagement activities to extend phonics learning and has a specific phonics focus. Book 24 covers vowel teams au, aw, and oo. Build foundational reading skills with the research-based approach to phonics instruction used in this book!

Author Biography

Since her kid years, Monika Davies has been imagining and writing up stories. (Her first stories featured temperamental unicorns and wayward wizards.) She is now the author of over 60 books for kids and a workshop facilitator for adult-sized writers. She has written books on an eclectic range of topics, from surprising things we eat to global citizenship to the hidden world of toilets! She also deeply believes everyone is a writer and is on a mission to inspire and encourage people of all ages to write down their stories.
Monika holds a BFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and is certified to lead writing workshops using the AWA (Amherst Artists & Writers) method. She lives on Vancouver Island with her family and two ridiculous cats.