Based on the CBBC TV series, Alphablocks is great for encouraging early readers. This pack contains 4 fiction books - 'I Can Fix It!', 'Zap!', 'Go Boat Go!' and 'The Thing'. 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

This book is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with UCL Institute of Education (IOE) Homing Pigeons is a non-fiction text reporting on the amazing skill and history of homing pigeons. The simple sentence structure offers readers the opportunity for an independent reading experience with the support of the illustrations. Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills. This early non-fiction text is accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity. Each book has been carefully graded so that it can be matched to a child's reading ability, encouraging reading for pleasure.

The Mr. Men and Little Miss are here to help engage children and inspire them to read with confidence. This book includes two funny stories one about the character with the longest nose you've ever seen and the other about a character so small you may never have seen him at all - Mr. Nosey and Mr. Small! With colourful pictures, short sentences and simple, phonetic-based vocabulary, children will love learning to read with the Mr. Men and Little Miss. Level 1 Reading Ladder titles are perfect for new readers who are beginning to read simple stories with help.

CGP's bright and colourful Spelling Flashcards for Ages 7-9 are spot-on for helping children practise their spelling skills! Each card has a selection of words to test their knowledge, and the pack is split into different sections, each gradually increasing in difficulty to test the different spelling rules across Years 3 and 4 of the National Curriculum. For children looking for an extra challenge, there's also a section covering some of the spelling rules for Years 5-6, and we've also included some suggestions of games you can play to practise these key skills in different ways.