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Primary EYFS, KS1 & KS2 Reading Schemes of Work 

The reading schemes below include those which support whole-class and carousel guided reading. We also list schemes of work for writing, spelling and grammar.as well as dedicated reading intervention programmes. You an also access our list of primary reading materials.

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Pathways to Read

Pathways to Read

The Literacy Company

Pathways to Read is a programme designed to equip pupils from Year 1 onwards with key skills to move through the reading process towards becoming competent and fluent readers. The units provide progressive development of reading skills that follow our mastery approach. Pathways to Read units are linked to high-quality texts and provide clear and detailed lesson plans that ensure engaging and purposeful reading lessons. Each unit of work is expected to last a half-term, and there are 6 whole-class reading sessions provided per unit.


Pathways to Read incorporates a variety of activities and tasks at every level, allowing pupils to enhance their vocabulary, make predictions, retrieve information and respond effectively using their mastery keys.

The units can be used as a standalone programme or thematically alongside our award-winning Pathways to Write programme to encourage a whole-school curriculum approach with the opportunity for topics to link across all year groups.


For Years 1 - 6

Features

  • Detailed whole class reading plans for each unit with clear and supportive PowerPoints for each whole class reading session to ease teachers’ workload

  • Progressive development of reading comprehension skills following a mastery approach

  • Introductory training materials and a progression document to support mixed-age classes

  • Ability to create a bespoke package from over 50 units based on inspiring and creative texts that links creatively to the wider curriculum when combined with our Pathways to Write product

  • Reading assessment grids


Pathways to Read provides three categories of skills developed each half-term:

  • Ongoing skills: Linked to text choices and achieved through a selection of teaching activities

  • Core skills: Prediction, vocabulary development and retrieval

  • Mastery Skills: 2-3 objectives are focused on for pupils to master over the course of the half-term


Staff Training & Support

The Literacy Company offer a range of training and support delivered face to face (distance dependent), online or via downloadable training modules.

We have a range of Pathways Literacy programmes supporting writing, intervention, spelling and poetry. Find out more here.


Cost

Pathways to Read Full Package Y1-Y6 - £1675+VAT

Pathways to Read Y2-Y6 - £1575+VAT

Single Year Group Y2-Y6 (Y1 only) - £325.00+VAT (£150.00+VAT)

We offer discounts on full packages to small schools to ensure that Pathways to Read is accessible and affordable for all schools. Please get in touch to enquire about this.


Please note that this is a one-time purchase and not a subscription model. The supporting texts are available at up to 30% off from our partners at Peters, visit our page on their website here.


Click here to read about the impact that Pathways to Read has had in schools.


If you have any questions, please contact us at pathways@theliteracycompany.co.uk Â· 01244 445050 · Visit Website


Ready Steady Read Together

Ready Steady Read Together

Literacy Counts

(formerly known as Ready Steady Comprehension or Steps to Read)


Ready Steady Read Together is a high-quality shared reading resource for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. It supports the explicit teaching of reading skills through carefully structured, evidence-informed units. Each unit centres around a high-quality text and  provides fully planned daily reading lessons that enable children to deepen comprehension, develop fluency and build vocabulary. This digitised programme helps schools to establish a consistent, whole-class approach to reading. It includes digital teaching  slides, step-by-step lesson guidance and carefully chosen extracts from fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Reading skills and strategies are taught explicitly and revisited regularly to ensure deep understanding and long-term retention.


Ready Steady Read Together is designed to align with the statutory curriculum for reading, while offering meaningful links to the wider curriculum.

For Years 2 – 6

Features

  • Whole-class Shared Reading plans for daily teaching

  • Easy-to-follow digital lesson slides and teaching guides

  • Focus on comprehension, fluency and vocabulary development

  • Carefully chosen fiction, non-fiction and poetry extracts

  • Built-in reading skills progression

  • Apply Activities to support retrieval and written responses


Cost

Ready Steady Read Together is available as a digital annual membership. This includes access to all units, interactive teaching slides, lesson plans and CPD content. For a one-form entry school, the first-year membership cost  is £595. Sample content and bespoke costings for larger schools or MATs are available upon request. Visit Ready  Steady Read Together to find out more. Please note: Vehicle Texts are not included in the price of the scheme.


Staff Training & Support

There is essential training to ensure successful implementation. This ensures all your practitioners and leadership team are confident and secure in delivering reading lessons that improve outcomes for your children. The essential training includes 4-Part  Launch Modules, a Leadership Consultancy Day and a Professional Development Meeting. We also offer Additional Consultancy Support Days to ensure long-term, sustainable impact. These may include Book Looks, Learning Walks and tailored school support, all delivered by Literacy Counts’ expert team.


Please contact hello@literacycounts.co.uk for more information or to discuss your school’s requirements · Visit Website · Free Sample · Free Info Webinar

Collins Big Cat

Collins Big Cat

Collins

Collins Big Cat is the leading whole-school primary reading scheme providing complete support from phonics to fluency. With a rich variety of text types, from graphic novels to poetry, instruction texts to biographies, there’s over 1,500 fiction and non-fiction books by leading authors and illustrators to excite and inspire every child.


Big Cat books are perfect for independent, guided and whole-class reading. The books are designed to appeal to different age groups, reading levels and interests, ensuring a diverse selection that encourages children to read for pleasure often and widely.


Browse our full catalogue here.

For Years Reception - Year 6

Features


Staff Training & Support

Our local sales consultants are happy to discuss any questions and put together a quote that suits your school’s needs and budget. Our friendly Customer Services team is also on hand to help and includes a dedicated Digital Support Team, who can assist with any queries about our online resources or ebooks. You can reach them at collins.co.uk/contact.


Cost

Books start from just £4.75. The easiest and best value way to Big Cat is our banded sets, which come with a built-in 20% discount. You can also target specific areas of the curriculum with our cross-curricular collections – save 20% when you buy every book in a collection.


Go to collins.co.uk/BigCat to find out more · Visit website · Read Catalogue · Testimonials · education@harpercollins.co.uk · 01484 668 148 


Badger Learning Enjoy Guided Reading

Badger Learning Enjoy Guided Reading

Badger Learning

Years 1 - 6

One-off Purchase


Badger Learning’s best-selling Enjoy Guided Reading series of teacher books and accompanying sets of ‘real’ reading books is highly regarded and over the years has become a go-to resource for busy teachers.


Bug Club

Bug Club

Pearson

Years EYFS - 6

Subscription or One-off Purchase


Pearson's Bug Club eBook Library supports all children to develop a lifelong love of reading. With resources for Independent, Guided, and Shared Reading, as well as Reading for Pleasure, we have all you need to support every child’s journey to reading enjoyment and fluency.


Cambridge Reading Adventures

Cambridge Reading Adventures

Cambridge University Press

Years Reception - 6

One-off Purchase


Learners can explore space, sail with pirate queens and travel back to the Ice Age with Cambridge Reading Adventure's diverse range of fiction and non-fiction. We've developed the series with experts at the UCL Institute of Education's International Literacy Centre to provide structured progression through book bands, helping learners become confident, independent readers


Comprehension & Guided Reading

Comprehension & Guided Reading

Headstart Primary

Years 1 - 6

One-off Purchase


Each year group includes: Book 1 (containing the reading texts and activities) and Book 2 (containing the comprehension question book and the comprehension answer book).


Engage Literacy

Engage Literacy

Raintree

Years Reception - 6

One-off Purchase


Engage Literacy is an award-winning programme perfect for guided, independent and shared reading. With more than 380 fiction and non-fiction books available, organised by level and by book band, it can be easily implemented as a whole school programme, or to top up existing reading resources.


FREDsTeaching Whole-Class Reading

FREDsTeaching Whole-Class Reading

FREDsTeaching

Years 1 - 6

Subscription


High you will find a huge range of high quality reading resources for KS1 and KS2 which will revolutionise the way you teach reading and accelerate the progress your pupils make. 


Lion Learning Pathways Reading

Lion Learning Pathways Reading

Lion Academy Trust

Years 1 - 6

Subscription


Our approach to Reading is to provide systematic coverage to support assessment, through a structured approach that supports exemplification and moderation - and a consistency of teaching across all settings and abilities.


Oxford Reading Buddy

Oxford Reading Buddy

Oxford University Press

Years Reception - 6

Subscription


Transform reading and comprehension in your school with Oxford Reading Buddy.


Oxford Reading Tree

Oxford Reading Tree

Oxford University Press

Years Reception - 6

One-off Purchase


Oxford Reading Tree is a trusted collection of engaging fiction and non-fiction books for young readers. Our extensive reading collection provides a variety of writing styles, genres, and artwork, and has taught over 30 million children how to read and to love to read.


Power of Reading

Power of Reading

CLPE

Years Reception - 6

Subscription


The Power of Reading is CLPE’s proven professional development programme that supports your primary school to evolve a high quality literacy curriculum which develops reading comprehension and writing composition, and fosters a whole school love of reading and writing.


Project X

Project X

Oxford University Press

Years 1 - 6

One-off Purchase


Project X reading and writing resources are tailored to capture every child's interest, giving them the best possible chance of success at Primary school and beyond.


Reading Planet

Reading Planet

Rising Stars

Years Reception - 6

One-off Purchase


Inspire and motivate children with the only scheme that reflects today’s young readers


Reading Plus

Reading Plus

Reading Solutions

Years 3 - 6

Subscription


Reading Solutions UK is the home of Reading Plus – the online reading development programme that engages pupils and makes it easy to evidence impact. Improve reading speed and fluency, increase vocabulary – and accelerate reading comprehension.


Rhino Readers

Rhino Readers

Twinkl

Years EYFS - 6

Subscription


Our whole-school reading scheme. Help children love reading and set firm foundations for their entire learning journeys with books they don’t want to put down.ur whole-school reading scheme. Help children love reading and set firm foundations for their entire learning journeys with books they don’t want to put down.


The Fluency Factory

The Fluency Factory

Manic Street Teachers

Years 2 - 6

Annual Subscription


The Fluency Factory resource is a comprehensive whole class reading fluency scheme for schools. The resource provides teachers with the tools and skills needed to teach whole class reading fluency consistently from Year 2 to Year 6. With a focus on repeated reading, echo/choral reading and reader's theatre, the scheme offers daily sessions and short-burst texts to improve children's reading speed, improve accuracy and develop prosody.


Evidence-informed lesson structures and supporting materials ensures that all children can develop fluency whilst using progressively more challenging fiction, non-fiction and poetry texts.


TreeTops

TreeTops

Oxford University Press

Years 1 - 6

One-off Purchase


Ensure your children make measurable progress and get them reading for pleasure with the most finely levelled and liveliest junior reading programme.


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