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.

This title is part of Pearson's Bug Club - the first whole-school reading programme that joins books and an online reading world to teach today's children to read. In this book: What would it be like to live in space? In space everything just floats around So how do people living in space work, eat, keep clean, exercise and sleep? This title is suitable for ages 6-7 (Gold level)

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. C and K find a rock. They each try to break it, but only manage to do so by joining together to make it crack. The rock is actually a dinosaur egg! Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 3-5 Book band: Pink B Phonics phase: 2

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.

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.

Interest ages: 4-5 (Reception) Level: EYFS Subject: phonics In this wordless fiction book, Tad the Monster and his friend Mit plant a magic seed and watch it grow! Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop an understanding of how stories work Suitable for children aged 4-5 (Reception) Phonics phase: 1 This book aligns with Letters and Sounds (2007) Phase 1. This title is part of Pearson's Bug Club, a reading programme used in over 3500 schools. Bug Club books are designed to help children enjoy learning to read. For more Bug Club books and learn at home resources, search for Bug Club.

This graded reader is the second book in the eighth level. It enriches reading, develops an interest in books and reading and helps learners to develop their vocabulary and reading in Grade R. This reading series is graded from easy-to-read language (Level 1-4) to more difficult reading (Level 5-8). The series comprises forty readers - one reader per teaching week - in which learners are introduced to phonics, initial sounds and sight words. This reader is used for Shared Reading. This reading series is used with the New All-In-One Grade R Home Language Learner’s Book, Workbook, Phonics Book and Teacher’s Guide for optimal learning. It can also be used with another teaching programme.

Phonics Bug is a pretty special Phonics programme that gives children a firm, fun foundation in phonics. It uses research-based teaching methods so it's proven to work, and it joins 100% decodable books with CBeebies videos and an online reading world, so it's the ideal way to get today's little readers started on their journey to reading success. Phonics Bug books are ideal for use at home too, 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 parent 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 cover include ideas for delving deeper after reading to check understanding. Phonics Bug Pack 3 is great for encouraging your Foundation Stage early readers. It contains 3 fiction and 1 non-fiction Phase 3 books -- Sid is Sick; The Fox and the Ducks; Sid and Zak; and Jack Gets a Pet -- which are perfect for reading before stepping across to the Bug Club Red Level Pack. This pack covers the sounds j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu.Sid is Sick: Sid and Viv are pretending to be vets, but then Sid pretends to be sick too...The Fox and the Ducks: Fox's plan to take some ducks to feed his cubs is foiled when he gets stuck in the mud. Sid and Zak: Zak and Sid are playing with their spacemen. A fierce battle is fough but then Nan arrives. Jack Gets a Pet: Jack has a new pet dog, Rex and finds out how to look after him.

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

Comet Street Kids reading books follow the adventures of Rav, Asha, Tess and Finn, four of the residents of Comet Street. There are 144 exciting stories in the series that children won't be able to put down. The Comet Street Kids are looking at models of Gaudi's amazing buildings when they're transported to Barcelona! There, they can see the colourful creations for themselves - and they get to meet the great Gaudi in person! But he's stuck for ideas ... Can the friends use their imaginations to help him? Reading age: 6-7 years

Join Ruby and Jack in Fairytale Woods as they teach their friend Goldy some facts about fungi. On the way, you'll learn about how mushrooms grow, about different types of fungi and what they need to survive. You'll also learn important rules about picking mushrooms in the wild as many can be poisonous. (Letter-sounds featured: /or/ -our ore ) Fungi Facts with Ruby and Jack 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

Can Marv and Maya help Patricia the musician on a fantasy mission to find four missing animals? In order to do so, they will need to do the special chair yoga poses - the eagle, lion, cobra and downward dog. Would you like to join in with the yoga poses, too? (Letter-sounds featured: /o/ (w)a /sh/ -ssi -ci -ti) The Musicians Mission 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