Reading Plus is an online reading programme suitable for use at school and at home.

Aimed at pupils in KS2 and above, Reading Plus has a readability range from Y2 to beyond GCSE. Using a unique Guided Window system, Reading Plus accelerates silent reading speed and increases pupil’s stamina. Whilst often overlooked, reading fluency is an essential component for developing confident, motivated, and engaged readers.

The programme combines a wide variety of age-appropriate texts with rigorous questioning designed to challenge a pupil’s deeper understanding. This, together with vocabulary exercises, builds a stronger foundation for reading comprehension.

For Years 3 to beyond GCSE

Features

• InSights Assessments - Determines a pupil’s individual reading proficiency and automatically places them at their correct reading level in the programme.

• Guided Window - scaffolds the reading experience by guiding the reader’s eyes across a page of text. This is done at a bespoke speed for each pupil to build fluency and stamina.

• Skills domain - Teachers can see at class and at individual levels pupils who require extra support in specific skills domains (i.e. inference and retrieval). Intervention materials such as lesson plans and worksheets are available for each domain.

Staff Training & Support

Our Partner Plus customer support team works closely with teachers and leaders to ensure that Reading Plus achieves the positive impact we’d expect. Implementation support, unlimited online training and admin meetings, pedagogy advice and progress reports are provided free of charge for all licence holders (support hours Mon-Fri 8.15am-4.30pm).

Cost

Costs are dependent upon whether the programme is to be used as a targeted intervention, support for a specific class or year group, or across a key stage. The easiest way to discuss costs is to have a chat with us. We promise it won’t be a pushy sales call – that’s not our style. You can arrange a call on 0191 389 6089 or request a price via our website here.

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From early phonic development to fluent reading, Collins Big Cat is a whole-school reading scheme that provides complete support for primary reading. With over 1,000 levelled readers, equally split between fiction and non-fiction and covering a wide variety of genres and text types, you can support teaching across the curriculum as well as finding something to inspire and engage every reader. 

All books feature beautiful illustrations and stunning photography and many have been quizzed for Accelerated Reader and Reading Recovery. You can also develop and assess key reading skills, including inference and deduction, through comprehensive teaching and assessment support.

For Years Reception - Year 6

Features

• Phonics for Letters and Sounds – 256 fully decodable readers and 2 Phonics Teacher Handbooks

• Phonics Practice – 72 phonic-based readers for further practice

• Guided, whole-class and independent readers – Over 1000 high-quality banded readers for the whole school covering a wealth of genres and topics

• Ebook library – Over 1000 ebooks

• Assessment – Digital and print

• Extended readers to challenge able readers

• Phonics Progress – 24 books for Year 2/P3 children

• Progress – 71 books at KS1 reading levels with KS2 interest levels

• Free resources

Staff Training & Support

Our customer service team are available Monday to Friday 9:00 – 17:00 via email (education@harpercollins.co.uk) or telephone (01484 668 148) and are always happy to help with any questions. We also have a dedicated support team for our digital products.

Cost

The most cost-effective way to buy Big Cat is through purchasing sets as these contain a 20% discount built-in to the price. You can also purchase 1 year subscriptions to our ebook library. View our subscription options. Each Big Cat book is also available to buy individually. Our sales consultants are always happy to discuss discounts and offers with you.

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Steps to Read is planning support for whole class Shared Reading through carefully crafted units of work. They empower teachers to teach all aspects of word reading and comprehension through high-quality fiction, non-fiction and poetry texts.

Steps to Read provides a clear teaching sequence to reading sessions that explicitly teach reading skills and strategies in a cumulative way through evidence-based approaches. These comprehensive units have been constructed so that the entire statutory curriculum for reading is covered from Year 1 – 6.

The primary aim of Steps to Read is to teach reading comprehensions skills and strategies explicitly.

For Years 1 - 6

Features

• Daily Shared Reading lesson plans for 4 – 5 weeks per half term

• Fiction, Non-Fiction and Poetry extracts

• Explicit teaching of Comprehension Skills and Strategies

• Daily Vocabulary work

• Daily fluency work

• Anchor Questions

• Apply Activities

• Decodable & Common Exception Words (Year 1)

• Common Exception Words (Year 2)

• They also enable schools to draw upon the wider curriculum, which supports schools to build rich curriculums.

Staff Training & Support

We provide a wealth of consultancy support to ensure the impact of this resource is maximised. This incorporates support for online resources, phone conferences, webinars and inset days.

In-school support is available for modelled sessions, environmental audits, leadership support and helping schools establish systems for monitoring and evaluation.

Cost

The cost of this resource is £60 for each comprehensive 90+ page document that provides a half term planning for schools. There are six units per year group with a bundle price of £350 for the full reading curriculum per year group. NB Vehicle Texts are not included in the price of the scheme.

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Build up positive attitudes to reading, and engage children in the classroom and at home with Bug Club!

Bug Club Independent is an impactful independent reading solution that encourages readers to read at home with 164 fully decodable titles from our Bug Club Phonics programme. There are also more than 460 print books, comics, and graphic novels alongside an online reading world. Research with UCL looking at raising attainment shows that after 18 months, pupils using Bug Club were 11 months ahead of their expected reading age. It includes teaching tools to help you with planning, assessing, and monitoring progress to ensure all children are reading at a level that is right for them and making progress.

For Years 1 - 6

Features 

• Over 400 finely leveled, beautiful ebooks and print books with familiar, lovable characters.

• 164 fully decodable readers to help children embed their phonics learning at home.

• Over 460 wonderful book titles across a wide range of genres including fiction, non-fiction, plays, and poetry.

• Inside cover notes in each book to help you and your children’s parents know how to deepen understanding.

• An online reading world to strengthen home school links and engage your pupils.

• Teacher tools help with planning and assessment workload – allocate books at the touch of a button, track their progress and assess their depth of understanding at a glance.

Staff Training & Support

Bug Club Independent includes teaching tools to help you with planning, assessing, and monitoring progress to ensure all children are reading at a level that is right for them and making progress. Schools can book a half-day professional development course through Zoom for £500. Inside cover notes in each book help you and your children’s parents know how to deepen understanding. Teachers, and in particular NQTs, find the materials easy to follow and supportive of their workload.

Cost

Whether you're looking to see what we can offer your school or multi-academy trust, or you're interested in how our latest online tools can be useful for your department, your local Pearson consultants can help you make the right curriculum and resource decisions.

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