What's a duck's favourite snack? How do you make a cheese roll? Children will laugh out loud with this book packed with jokes and fun facts! Laugh Out Loud and Other Fun Facts is part of the Galaxy range of books from Rising Stars Reading Planet. Galaxy provides captivating fiction and non-fiction for Pink A to White band. The rich collection of highly decodable books immerses children in a range of cross-curricular topics and genres. Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and activities to support reading at home as well as comprehension questions to check understanding. Reading age: 5-6 years

Shortlisted for the UK Literacy Association's Academic Book Award 2021 The Bloomsbury Handbook of Reading Perspectives and Practices focuses on the experiences of reading from a young age to maturity and the different ways reading is encountered: in other words, the processes involved as well as the outcomes. The international group of experts, within both teaching and academia, focuses on reading in school: how is it taught? What is taught? How is it assessed? Controversial issues are explored: the acquisition of phonics; teaching the canon, including or ignoring digital texts; the advent of standards-based tests. The contributions also consider people's biographies of reading, their memories of reading in school and their current views on literature. Together, this well-edited volume provides a more complete view of reading than is currently on offer, exploring all aspects of what it means to be literate and how we define being literate.

Based on the CBBC TV series, Alphablocks is great for encouraging early readers. This pack contains 4 fiction books - 'Stop That Popcorn!', 'Is it a monster?', 'Look What We Can Do!' and 'Alphablocks Stop Helping!' Suitable for children age 4-5. Bug Club Phonics is a Department for Education-approved phonics teaching programme that gives children a strong foundation in phonics. It uses research-based teaching methods, proven to work. All books are 100% decodable to help today's little readers get started on their journey to reading success. Bug Club Phonics books are ideal for use at home and are a great way to help your child take their first steps towards 'cracking the code' which will enable them to learn to read and spell. Helpful notes on the inside front cover of each book highlight tricky words and give you ideas for before and during reading, and the inside back covers include ideas for delving deeper after reading to check understanding. The packs are matched to the phonics phases children are taught in school by term, from nursery to Year 1: Nursery (EYFS): phase 1 Reception, term 1: phase 2 Reception, term 2: phase 3 Reception, term 3: phase 4 Year 1, term 1: Phase 5 Year 1, term 2: Phase 5/6 Year 1, term 3: Phase 6

Bring reading to life with well-known, family favourite characters!

• Help your child progress at home with Bug Club and Disney decodable readers for phonics phases 1-3..
• Bug Club captures children's imagination, nurtures lifelong readers, and is proven to work: research shows that after 18 months, children using Bug Club were 11 months ahead of their expected reading age.
• Bug Club at home will complement children's school learning as they develop comprehension and fluency and provide independent reading practice with fully decodable phonics patterns.
• Children can engage with extra learning content, and activities at the back of each book – now with their favourite Disney characters!
• The books all feature our specially designed dyslexia-friendly font and are set on pastel coloured backgrounds to help reduce visual stress.
• Already used by 1.5 million children in over 3,300 Primary schools in the UK, Bug Club is an ideal solution to help fill in any reading gaps.

Ellie persuades Cam to play a trick on the Year 7 pupils in the canteen. Will they get away with it?