Welcome to Reading Works
The book covers below are only some of the books available on this website.
Please click on the covers and/or follow the links below the images to find categories and more titles.
- What Am I? – Naming objects in colour groups to expand vocabulary and develop left to right eye movement.
- Oral Language in Action Series – For Pre-Schoolers and Pre-Readers.
- Also see more early childhood resources in MUSIC (below).
- Loud Phonics Series – 15 books – basic alphabet sounds; CVC (e.g. a, ba, bat); includes y as a vowel; matching readers; plus teaching manual.
- Teach Yourself to Read Series – books 1 to 6 (Bouncy Vowels; Consonants in Rhyme; Is this a cot or a cat? …)
- Reading Works Series: Vowels
– 30 sounds for the 6 single-letter vowels. Includes y as a vowel and the schwa.
Graded stages 1, 2 and 3. How to teach example click here. - Reading Works Series: Consonants
– 30 sounds of the 21 single consonant letters.
Graded stages 1, 2 and 3. How to teach example click here. - Reading Works Series: Blends
– 41 blends graded; includes sentence examples. - Reading Works Series – Digraphs
– 56 examples of letters that have a new sound when placed together. - Reading Works Series: The Schwa
What on earth is a schwa? This book is essential for understanding the most commonly misunderstood sound in English. Word lists and sentence examples. - My Book of Charts – off the wall and on the desk – summarises the Reading Works series books 1 to 8.
- Vintage Pictures and Rhymes – the gifted artists and poets of the past have delighted children for generations.
- Time to Rhyme – a comprehensive phonemic is brought to life in this book.
- Pocketful of Nursery Rhymes – the recognition of rhyming words is an essential part of any pre-reading and pre-writing literacy programme.
- Loud Poems for Noisy Kids – s wide variety of energetic poems to delight children of all ages.
- Slick Limericks – 35 limericks in all, each one new in content but written in the traditional limerick style.
- Toad – a vocabulary-rich poem written for readers and listeners who love descriptions that are highly visual and a bit gory!
- The Impossible Poem – suitable for one, two or three performers and whole-class discussions.
- Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby – traditional story every child loves. Suitable for the whole class in groups of three or four.
- The Elephant’s Child – Rudyard Kipling story, dramatised by Ellie Hallett. This is an essential story to know.
- The Great Cake Mix Tragedy – perfect for Assembly
- Captain – going on a cruise told in rhyme by the Captain; includes glossary of nautical terms; entertaining illustrations.
- Storm! – a story poem – includes a video with sound track.
- Ten Pretty Butterflies – a counting rhyme. Visualisation, observation, engagement and some puzzles as well.
- Three Little Pigs in rollicking rhyme. Perfect for memorisation and performance.
- Shared Reading Read-Out-Loud Stories – 18 titles; favourite children’s stories that can be read row-by-row by partners and small groups, or as a story told by the teacher.
- Teach Yourself to Read Series – books 7, 8 and 9 (Is this about kick or cake?; The other day I hurt my leg …)
- Loud Phonics Readers – books 7 and 10 to 14 and part of Loud Phonics CVC Series (see Phonics above)
- What am I? – Naming objects in colour groups to expand vocabulary and develop left to right eye movement.
- Oral Language in Action Books 1, 2 and 3 (Pre-Schoolers; Beginner Readers; Budding Actors).
- How to Draw the Sun – social conversation with a partner; learning cooperation; sharing ideas; pleasure of friendship.
- Drama – Shared Reading Read-Out-Loud Plays – 18 favourite children’s stories brought to life and formatted in rows for take-it-in-turn reading for partners and small groups. Everyone has equal reading time.
- Scripted Plays – The Story of Pandora; The Riddle of the Sphinx
- The World’s Toughest Tongue Twister – this book is a mouth-moving, tongue-twisting enunciation workout so listeners will understand WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT!
- Read in Rows – Three Billy Goats Gruff; Henny Penny; King Midas and the Golden Touch (advanced vocabulary).
- Forwards and Backwards (e.g. was saw) – 3 graded spelling books – very child appealing.
- Wonder Words – word families; creating improvised sentences about favourite words
- Reading Works Series: Silent Letters – 200+ in this unique collection; word lists and sentence examples, fully illustrated.
- Reading Works Series: Contractions – 70 examples with more advanced sentences, fully illustrated.
- Reading Works Series: Uncountables – 195 plural nouns without s on the end; word examples and advanced sentences, fully illustrated.
- Reading Works Series: Homophones (180) and Heteronyms (40+) – word samples with sentence examples, fully illustrated.
- Reading Works Series: A to Z Letters – their sounds and silences; set out in lists, fully illustrated.
- Reading Works Series: IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) – Every sound in English, its IPA symbol and representative words (6 examples for each); a unique collection, fully illustrated.
- Mighty Mouth Movers – The vowel sounds of language reign supreme in this book. (bike beak back buck bake book … )
Unique word study of explicit spelling, meaning, vocabulary and creative thinking. A year of lessons in each book. Highly appealing illustrations prompt oral language discussions.
Two versions with Teaching Manuals.
Encourages clarity of speech – hence the Mighty Mouth Movers name!
- Alphabet Swing! – New version of the alphabet song; actions and clear letter names. Easy to play piano score by Ellie Hallett.
- Pocketful of Nursery Rhymes Song Book – traditional rhymes with piano arrangements by Ellie Hallett.
- Pocketful of Nursery Rhymes – spoken rhymes; feeling the beat.
- It’s Time to Sing! – 20 original songs combining music, actions and oral language. Student Song Book-Reader and Teaching Manual.
- Best Ever Read Music by Drawing – instant note recognition.
- How to Draw the Sun – 2 versions