June Crebbin

A fantastic introduction to new and traditional poetry for children under seven. Brilliantly illustrated by several different illustrators, it includes poems about mealtimes, playtime, animals, family, bedtime and lots more.

The Puffin Book of Fantastic First Poems

The Jungle Sale

Polly Dunbar

Illustrated in just two colours, these first readers use several different media - posters, letters, video diary - to tell stories such as football, giants, dragons and highwaymen. Indicated for use in the classroom as well as at home, this series fits guidelines in the Literacy Strategy, which recommend using different media and sources to teach children to read.

The Dragon Test

Stephen Lambert

Candlewick Books

A journey on a train provides excitement, nice scenery, and pleasant anticipation.

The Train Ride

This series of delightful storybooks is a flexible resource designed to help teachers engage and motivate young learners in the classroom. They are an ideal way to support children in the early stages of learning English. Teacher's Books and Audio Cassettes/CDs make the Storybooks simple to use: the Teacher's Books cover the entire level and include step-by-step teaching notes with ideas for classes of different ability, photocopiable worksheets, and 'If you have time' sections suggesting original ideas for games and activities. The Audio Cassettes/CDs feature all the titles in each level read aloud, exposing children to different voices while they have fun listening to the dramatisations. At levels 3 and 4 selected titles are designed to be read as a play. Watch your pupils' confidence in English grow as they act out the stories together!

Please Sit Still ELT Edition

Cambridge Reading is a major reading scheme which provides stimulating books and support materials for the teaching of reading and the development of literacy throughout the primary years.

Apples!

Nibbles ELT Edition

The Flying Football ELT Edition

Reading Together is a learn-to-read series of picture books for young children and parents to enjoy together. There are four levels, each consisting of six books, offering a variety of reading experiences: stories, poems, rhymes and songs, traditional tales and information books.

While Tom Farmer is asleep under the haystack, the cows, ducks, pigs, hens, and sheep make quite a mess in the farmhouse.

Cows in the Kitchen

James De la Rue

Lady Jane has a taste for Elizabethan adventure in this spirited historical "Racing Read". Lady Jane Hargrave is a reluctant maid of honour at the court of Queen Elizabeth I - but before she knows it she is appearing in a Shakespeare play, helping Francis Drake fight off the Spanish Armada and saving the Queen's life. Long live the Queen! Long live adventure! Join Lady Jane on breathless adventures in the real historical setting of Elizabethan England.

The Queen's Maid

This series of first readers uses several different media - posters, letters, video diary - to tell stories about subjects with strong child appeal, such as football, giants, dragons and highwaymen. They are suitable for use in the classroom or at home, and fit guidelines for the Literacy Strategy.

Hal the Highwayman

Band 14/Ruby

The Firebird: A Russian Folk Tale

Caroline Romanet

A retelling of the traditional tale of the Pied Piper, and how he saves the village of Hamelin from the invasion of rats, only to take his cruel revenge on the people after the mayor refuses to pay him for his good deed. June Crebbin wonderfully captures the spirit of this story for older children, with a spine-tingling finale. Band info: Ruby/Band 14 books give increasing opportunities for children to develop their skills of inference and deduction. Text type: A traditional tale from another culture Curriculum links: English: fairy stories, myths and legends; books from other cultures and traditions

The Rat-Catcher of Hamelin

Inga Moore

This collection of horse stories draws on a wide range of locations, times and cultures, featuring tales from ancient Greece, 14th-century Mongolia, medieval France and the present day.

Horse Tales

Hannah would love to have a pet, so when she finds a large white rabbit in the snow, she wants to keep him, and her father agrees, at least until they can find the real owner.

Finders Keepers

Year 4 Invasion

Literacy Evolve

A young owl eagerly awaits the nighttime to make his first flight with his mother.

Fly by Night

Once, at the edge of a wood, lived two owls, a mother owl and her young one, Blink. Every day, all day long, they slept. Every night, all night long, the mother owl flew and Blink waited.

While Tom Farmer is asleep under the haystack, the cows, ducks, pigs, hens, and sheep make quite a mess in the farmhouse. On board pages.

June Crebbin

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