Reading Schemes for KS1
Publishers offer a range of reading schemes suitable for children in key stage 1 (school years 1 and 2). This includes book bands from Blue to Lime and phonic phases 4–6 including DfE validated systematic synthetic phonics teaching and learning resources from leading publishers. If you choose to order your books from Pandora, they will be supplied fitted with FREE protective jackets, making them durable, long-lasting, and ready for use in the classroom.
Banded from Gold to Lime+ (Oxford Levels 9–12), All Stars books provide confident readers in Key Stage 1 with age-appropriate, challenging storylines in a chapter book format.
Bug Club Phonics books are an ideal resource to capture the imagination of readers and instil a love of reading from an early age.
Bug Club Independent, from leading educational publisher Pearson, is one of the most popular schemes in schools today with children, teachers and parents alike.
Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters & Sounds
Ensure a secure start to every child’s reading journey in reception and year 1 with fully decodable fiction and non-fiction books expertly aligned to the 2007 Letters and Sounds progression.
Big Cat books are carefully levelled, easy to manage and accessible for all, meaning that every child can build reading fluency and stamina at a pace that suits them.
From PhonicBooks®, the Dandelion Launchers and Readers series offer a carefully guided phonics journey for beginning readers.
Engage Literacy, for guided and independent reading, features fiction and non-fiction books, organised by book band and reading recovery level.
Developed by the Knowledge Schools Trust with the aim of getting all children to read well, quickly.
Explore with Biff, Chip & Kipper
This unique series of decodable reading books will take your children on a journey of discovery as they read across both fiction and non-fiction.
A rigorous, easy-to-use synthetic phonics teaching programme featuring the well-loved Biff, Chip, Kipper and Floppy characters.
Hero Academy is an inspirational reading series designed to motivate young readers and turn them into reading superheroes!
Oxford Reading Tree inFact comprises distinctive non-fiction books designed to inspire, inform and intrigue young children.
These little books are specially designed for children to practise blending sounds together to make words.
Books and resources to support every child to learn to read using a leading systematic synthetic phonics programme.
With a carefully designed progression across 10 levels, these books will help ease the transition from learning phonics to becoming independent readers.
Mixed Scheme Boxes are an easy way to stock your classrooms with reading books of exceptional quality from highly regarded publishers.
Handpicked from the vast range of Oxford Reading Tree series, these are an ideal resource to keep track of pupils’ reading progress.
Project X CODE is a phonics intervention programme for children in year 2+. The setting, characters and ongoing adventure have been carefully designed to appeal to today’s children.
Read Write Inc. Phonics is a rigorous, dynamic and DfE validated teaching programme with colourful books to support all stages of phonic learning.
Blast off to the Reading Planet and embed essential early reading skills that spark a lifelong love of reading.
Fully decodable, synthetic phonics readers aligned to Letters and Sounds phases 1 to 5.
Red Squirrel Phonics is a series of decodable readers from Raintree, packed with real stories using words that children can read.
Inspire and motivate children with a reading scheme that reflects today’s young readers.
Phonically decodable yet emotionally powerful stories to draw children in, making them think, laugh, get cross, nervous, and enjoy the anticipation of a great story.
Timeless stories from around the world with clear phonic progression. Written and illustrated by international authors and artists, these stories are perfect for any child anywhere.
Phonically decodable books that enhance vocabulary too! Children will learn new words while developing their decoding skills, fluency, and comprehension.
