• Meg and her mum go to the market with their donkey, but find that listening to everyone else’s advice along the way doesn’t always make for a smooth journey. This humorous fiction story is based on
• Pink B/Band 1B books offer simple, predictable text with familiar objects and actions. • Children can re-cap the journey and the changing weather on pages 14–15. • Text type: A story with a predicta
• Lilac/Band 0 - wordless book that tells a story through pictures and is designed to develop understanding about how stories work. • Text type - Fiction, a wordless traditional story. • A storyboard
Ros Asquith, cartoonist and author of many children's books such as Trixie Tempest and Pass the Parcel), gives a masterclass on illustrating your own cartoons - with help from Trixie Tempest and other
• Red B/Band 2B books offer simple but varied text with familiar objects and actions, combined with simple story development and a satisfying conclusion. • Text type - A story with a predictable struc
Inspiration for poetry can come from anywhere - a memory, an insight and even broccoli! Former Children's Laureate Michael Rosen explains the inspiration behind a selection of his own quirky poems, hi
Level 1: First reading Decoding simple, short sentences, practicing limited, specific phonemes, with very few tricky words. Big Cat Reading Lions help you to support your child’s reading development a
• A colourful retelling of Rudyard Kipling’s The Elephant’s Child, this fable explains how the elephant got its long trunk. As the elephant journeys through the jungle it admires the features of the o
• The fox invites his friend the stork to dinner, but serves the stork his meal on a flat plate. Find out how the fox and the stork play tricks on one another at dinnertime. This retelling of a tradit
• Jack’s mum sends Jack to sell their cow so that they have food to eat. But instead of coming home with money, Jack comes home with magic beans that grown into a giant beanstalk. What does Jack find
• This illustrated wordless version of the poem “The Owl and the Pussycat” by Edward Lear is told through the beautiful artwork of award-winning illustrator Polly Dunbar. • Lilac/Band 0 books are word
• Follow the ugly duckling who is rejected by the other ducks because he doesn’t look like them and doesn’t fit in. Will they change their mind when he grows up – and will they have a surprise in stor
• This photographic information book by Moira Butterfield shows the variety of creatures that hatch from eggs, including fish, turtles, crocodiles, seagulls and eagles. • Lilac/Band 0 books are wordle
• A boy makes a paper plane and accidentally throws it over the wall. Little does he know that another boy called Joe lives on the other side of that wall and wants to play, too. This beautiful narrat
• A big owl and a small owl sit up in a tree. In trying to show each other how big they are, the small owl is accidentally knocked out of the tree. Can the big owl save him? This quirkily illustrated
• Three young rabbits have built their homes from straw, wood and bricks. But will their houses be strong enough to stop the Big Bad Wolf from destroying them? This beautiful retelling of the traditio
• A shepherd boy decides to play a trick on the people in his village by telling them that there is a wolf nearby. But will the villagers believe him when a wolf really does turn up? This witty retell
• Red A/Band 2A books offer predictable text with familiar objects and actions, combined with simple story development. • Children can re-cap the events of the book on pages 14–15. • Text type: A stor
• Red B/Band 2B books offer simple but varied text with familiar objects and actions, combined with simple story development and a satisfying conclusion. • Children can re-cap key events in the story
• Lilac/Band 0 books are wordless books that tell a story through pictures and are designed to develop understanding about how stories work. • Text type: A simple non-fiction book. • Children can reca
• Lilac/Band 0 books are wordless books that tell a story through pictures and are designed to develop understanding about how stories work. • Text type: A wordless instruction book. • Children can re
Pink B//Band 1B books offer simple, predictable text with familiar objects and actions Children can re-cap the stages of the day with the storymap on pages 14–15. Text type: A story with a predictable
• Red A/Band 2A books offer predictable text with familiar objects and actions, combined with simple story development. • Children can re-cap the events of the story on pages 14–15. • Text type: A sto
• Red B/Band 2B books offer simple but varied text with familiar objects and actions, combined with simple story development and a satisfying conclusion. • Text type: A simple story with a familiar se
• Lilac/Band 0 books are wordless books that tell a story through pictures and are designed to develop understanding about how stories work. • Text type: A wordless traditional story • Children can re
• Pink A/Band 1A books offer emergent readers very simple text supported by illustrations. • Text type: A story with predictable structure and patterned language. • Children can re-tell the story usin
Red B/Band 2B books offer simple but varied text with familiar objects and actions, combined with simple story development and a satisfying conclusion. Children can re-cap key events in the story usin
• Lilac/Band 0 books are wordless books that tell a story through pictures and are designed to develop understanding about how stories work. • Text type: A wordless traditional story • The storyboard
• Pink A/Band 1A books offer emergent readers very simple text supported by illustrations. • A story map on pages 14–15 allows children to recap the story and discuss each stage. • Text type: A story
• Pink B level/Band 1B books offer simple, predictable text with familiar objects and actions • Text type: A story with predictable structure and patterned language. • Illustrations of each of the fou
• Read B/Band 2B books offer simple but varied text with familiar objects and actions, combined with simple story development and a satisfying conclusion • Text type: A story with predictable structur
• Pink A/Band 1A books offer emergent readers very simple text supported by illustrations. • Text type: A story with predictable structure and patterned language. • A map of the farm showing all the a
Ned the hedgehog is looking for a home in the cold, dark forest. He needs somewhere warm and cosy to sleep, but all he keeps finding are other creatures' homes: rabbits', foxes', owls', bats'. Will he
• Lilac/Band 0 books are wordless that tell a story through pictures and are designed to develop understanding about how stories work. • Text type: A wordless traditional story • Children can follow L
• Red A/Band 2A books offer predictable text with familiar objects and actions, combined with simple story development. • Text type: A story with predictable structure and patterned language. • A circ
• Lilac/Band 0 books wordless that tell a story through pictures and are designed to develop understanding about how stories work. • Text type: A wordless instruction text. • Ideas for guided reading
• Pink A/Band 1A books offer emergent readers very simple text supported by illustrations. • Text type - A patterned story with predictable structure. • The labelled flow diagram on pages 14 and 15 re
• Pink B/ Band 1B books offer emergent readers simple, predictable text with familiar objects and actions. • Text type - A story with predictable structure and patterned language. • Pages 14 and 15 fe
