Dog is thin and very hungry, so he and Monkey decide to trick the mean local shopkeeper. Join Dog and Monkey in this high-level phonics book. 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 - The Cunning Plan is a Phase 5 book. It introduces some new graphemes for reading: ay, ou, ie, ea, ir, aw, wh, ew (blew), ew (few), oe, au, ey, a_e, e_e, i_e, o_e, and the common exception words people, looked, called, asked. This book includes words with the grapheme tch, such as ditch and hatch.