This report text gives a clear introduction to fossils: what they are, where they are found, how they are made and what we can learn from them. A short quiz is provided at the end. Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 6-7 (Year 2) Book band: Gold A Phonics phase: N/A

Excite your children and give them a firm foundation in phonics. Part of the Bug Club family, Bug Club Phonics aims to help children learn to read by the age of six in a fun and accessible way. Following the order of Letters and Sounds, the Bug Club Phonics programme matches the National Curriculum and Early Learning Goals and ensures children read from books with the sounds they know as they are learning to read. Ideal for home learning. Zak and Sid are playing with their spaceman. A fierce battle is fought, with Sid's doll winning - until Nan arrives to scold them about the noise. Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 4-5 (Reception) Book band: Red A Phonics phase: 3

Today, the meaning of literacy, what it means to be literate, has shifted dramatically. Literacy involves more than a set of conventions to be learned, either through print or technological formats. Rather, literacy enables people to negotiate meaning. The past decade has witnessed increased attention on multiple literacies and modalities of learning associated with teacher preparation and practice. Research recognizes both the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity in the new globalized society and the new variety of text forms from multiple communicative technologies. There is also the need for new skills to operate successfully in the changing literate and increasingly diversified social environment. Linguists, anthropologists, educators, and social theorists no longer believe that literacy can be defined as a concrete list of skills that people merely manipulate and use. Rather, they argue that becoming literate is about what people do with literacy-the values people place on various acts and their associated ideologies. In other words, literacy is more than linguistic; it is political and social practice that limits or creates possibilities for who people become as literate beings. Such understandings of literacy have informed and continue to inform our work with teachers who take a sociological or critical perspective toward literacy instruction. Importantly, as research indicates, the disciplines pose specialized and unique literacy demands. Disciplinary literacy refers to the idea that we should teach the specialized ways of reading, understanding, and thinking used in each academic discipline, such as science, mathematics, engineering, history, or literature. Each field has its own ways of using text to create and communicate meaning. Accordingly, as children advance through school, literacy instruction should shift from general literacy strategies to the more specific or specialized ones from each discipline. Teacher preparation programs emphasizing different disciplinary literacies acknowledge that old approaches to literacy are no longer sufficient.

Excite your children and give them a firm foundation in phonics. Part of the Bug Club family, Bug Club Phonics aims to help children learn to read by the age of six in a fun and accessible way. Following the order of Letters and Sounds, the Bug Club Phonics programme matches the National Curriculum and Early Learning Goals and ensures children read from books with the sounds they know as they are learning to read. Ideal for home learning. Sharon's pony Flash gets stuck in a trench. Sharon and her dad work together to help get him out of the trench and safely back in his shed. Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 4-5 (Reception) Book band: Red B Phonics phase: 3

Jumpstart reading success with these reproducible learning packets that teach the first 100 Dolch words in a systematic and fun way! The packets are so easy to use that most children will be able to complete them independently. Perfect for whole-class learning or homework! For use with Grades K-2.

Topher begs his cat Ka not to go time travelling again. But Ka disappears leaving only a one word clue on Topher's computer screen. Topher tracks Ka down and finds himself in the household of Dr Dee, a trusted adviser to Queen Elizabeth I.

Each Reading Book in the Rapid Plus series is finely levelled and trialled with KS3 students, and includes: all-new content, rigorously levelled and trialled with Key Stage 3 students pre-reading pages which introduce the main characters, plots and key concepts, helping to build understanding and confidence a quiz page after each text providing opportunities for discussion and to check comprehension word and spelling activities to extend language knowledge a non-fiction section that helps to build vocabulary and offers a different reading experience.

It was lockdown and Kirsten started to feed the birds that came into her garden every day. Little by little the birds began to trust her. Kirsten's favourites were the blackbirds. When Dad helps her set up a camera to watch the blackbirds' eggs hatch, Kirsten sees Sherbert the cat from number thirteen sneak up on the nest. Will Kirsten shoo the cat away in time? (Letter-sounds featured: /ur/ ir er ) Blackbird Girl is part of the Rocket Phonics systematic synthetic phonics programme from Reading Planet. Rocket Phonics ensures that every child achieves phonics success. This fully-decodable Target Practice reading book provides focused practice of a small group of letter-sounds. The book also includes useful notes and activities to support reading in school and at home as well as comprehension questions to check understanding. Reading age: 5-6/Year 1

Irving loves to play with his toy dinosaurs and uses his ear defenders when he's in noisy places. When Irving's dad takes him to a summer activity group, he encourages Irving to make a new friend. Diya is also very quiet, but she knows lots about names and what they mean. Soon the two children bond over Iriving's dinosaurs and both are happy to have found a new friend. (Letter-sounds featured: /or/ au aw /ar/ al long /oo/ /oa/ -ou short /oo/ -oul ) Irving's New Friend is part of the Rocket Phonics systematic synthetic phonics programme from Reading Planet. Rocket Phonics ensures that every child achieves phonics success. This fully-decodable Target Practice reading book provides focused practice of a small group of letter-sounds. The book also includes useful notes and activities to support reading in school and at home as well as comprehension questions to check understanding. Reading age: 5-6/Year 1

When Coach Hall announces that they are playing in a tournament at Medchester Football Club, Jez and his teammates are over the moon and decide to buy a much-needed new kit for the event. But when Dexter Hadfield - the star striker for Medchester FC - speaks to their school about a local food bank, Jez and his friends decide to donate the money they have raised to the food bank instead. How will they they progress in the tournament with such a shabby kit? (Letter-sounds featured: /air/ -are -ear -ere /or/ -al ) We Care FC! is part of the Rocket Phonics systematic synthetic phonics programme from Reading Planet. Rocket Phonics ensures that every child achieves phonics success. This fully-decodable Target Practice reading book provides focused practice of a small group of letter-sounds. The book also includes useful notes and activities to support reading in school and at home as well as comprehension questions to check understanding. Reading age: 5-6/Year 1

Everyone is having so much fun at Preeya's party at the soft play centre! Artem and his friends climb nets, crawl through tunnels and race down slides. Then suddenly, Preeya crashes into Artem at the bottom of a slide, causing him to break his wrist. How long will it take for his wrist to heal? (Letter-sounds featured: /n/ gn /r/ wr ) Artem's Broken Wrist is part of the Rocket Phonics systematic synthetic phonics programme from Reading Planet. Rocket Phonics ensures that every child achieves phonics success. This fully-decodable Target Practice reading book provides focused practice of a small group of letter-sounds. The book also includes useful notes and activities to support reading in school and at home as well as comprehension questions to check understanding. Reading age: 5-6/Year 1

Would you like to learn how to sketch? Join Doodle the Dog as he teaches the basic principles of sketching. Find out how to draw a variety of things, including a lion, a gnome and a person. All you need is a sharp pencil, a notepad and a can-do attitude! (Letter-sounds featured: /n/ gn/r/ wr/ch/ -tch/zh/ -s -si -ge) Sketch with Doodle is part of the Rocket Phonics systematic synthetic phonics programme from Reading Planet. Rocket Phonics ensures that every child achieves phonics success. This fully-decodable Target Practice reading book provides focused practice of a small group of letter-sounds. The book also includes useful notes and activities to support reading in school and at home as well as comprehension questions to check understanding. Reading age: 5-6/Year 1