Book Band Pink to Purple

Children love the bright coloured pictures and techers love the range of texts in each level.

The teachers books are particularly useful for the teaching assistants.

We like the way they naturally progress into the Year 2,3, and 4 core reading books.

Book Band Lime – Magenta

The Year 3 and 4 and 5 core reading books - friends and friendship, wild and wonderful, challenges and choices are excellent and by far the best resource in the series.

The teachers books (Questioning the Text) are excellent - with the key questions for each section of pages make guided reading easy and stress free for teachers and teaching assistants.

We strongly believe that our excellent Year 4 reading SATS results last year were partly due to these books.

The boys particularly liked the black and white books such as nightmare and midnight rescue.

The follow up writing activities are also useful to use and children enjoyed these once they have read the books.

A fantastic resource which teachers and children are enjoying using from Reception through to Year 4 - well worth the money!!
Mrs Burgess, Gothic Meade Lower School , Arlesey

Book Band levels 1-14

I purchased this resource because I was very impressed with the many types of genre available. There is excellent illustration and content that would be of high interest to all children especially boys. I like the variety of genres and the shape of the books.

I use this resource for whole class teaching, groups and for homework. The books are levelled according to Reading Recovery levels, which suits us well. We will be very happy to share with other schools our knowledge and success with the scheme.are enjoying using from Reception through to Year 4 - well worth the money!!
Mrs Donashy – St Mary’s Primary School, N.Ireland

We purchased this resource because the school required a Guided Reading system. Books looked varied, well structured, levelled and came with follow-up activities. We like the fact that setting up the entire range was easy, and the books include fiction and non-fiction. They are structured well for all readers to use a variety of strategies. The early learners are keen to read as books are repetitive and have great illustrations/photos and target ideas that interest them.

We use this resource with groups – ability-grouped Guided Reading sessions with teachers or teaching assistants, from foundation level to Year 6. All our literacy objectives are met – based on the literacy framework. The school target is to accelerate reading progress – improvements have already been seen after 6 months. We have seen success through ability gains where children have moved level.
Paula Bevilacqua – The Stonebridge School , London

All base staff love these books and have trialed them with various age groups and suggested parents share a book together. We have taken these out with us on school visits and they have been very well received. Beautiful illustrations, clear text and different presentation styles are some of the comments teachers have made.
Rosie Bennett / Lynn Pickering / Bernadette Laws – Thorley Hill SPLD Base, Bishops Stortford