BUG CLUB – serie

This book is about boys and girls who go to a ballet school. It describes the 5 basic positions and emphasises the hard work, dedication and strength needed to be a ballet dancer. Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 5-6 (Year 1) Book band: Blue A Phonics phase: 5

This book describes how we can re-grow our hair and nails when they are cut off. But some creatures can re-grow tails, antlers and even arms and legs! Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 5-6 (Year 1) Book band: Blue A Phonics phase: 5

This book tells us about some of the biggest reptiles in the world. It describes what the reptiles look like, what they like and what they hate doing!

Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 5-6 (Year 1) Book band: Blue B Phonics phase: 5

 

This book tells us about plants that eat insects. Most insects use plants for their food, but some plants trap insects and use them for food. And one plant even eats frogs!

Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 5-6 (Year 1) Book band: Blue B Phonics phase: 5

 

This book has two parts, it begins with a report text which introduces guitars, then there is an instructional text which explains how to make a tissue-box guitar.

Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 5-6 (Year 1) Book band: Blue C Phonics phase: 5

 

This report text gives a clear introduction to fossils: what they are, where they are found, how they are made and what we can learn from them. A short quiz is provided at the end.

Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 6-7 (Year 2) Book band: Gold A Phonics phase: N/A

 

This book takes the reader on a journey around planet Earth and explains the Earth's position in its solar system. Questions are posed and answered by a helpful alien tour guide.

Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 6-7 (Year 2) Book band: Lime A Phonics phase: 6

 

This book explores space - the race to get man into space, as well as details about what it is like to live and work in space.

Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 6-7 (Year 2) Book band: Gold B Phonics phase: 6

 

Join Robbie and Ella as they share some of their favourite fun science experiments. If you follow their instructions you could do them too!

Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 6-7 (Year 2) Book band: Gold A Phonics phase: N/A

 

This book explores the underwater world. Come with nature photographer Helen as she takes underwater pictures of a wide variety of sea-life. Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 5-6 (Year 1) Book band: Green A Phonics phase: 5

This book explores what makes us laugh and shares some funny facts about laughter as well as some jokes!

Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 5-6 (Year 1) Book band: Green A Phonics phase: 5

 

This book tells you all about creepy crawlies. You can find them in your garden and home and on you too! Test what you have learnt in the Creepy Crawly Quiz. Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 5-6 (Year 1) Book band: Green B Phonics phase: 5

This book introduces a typical day in the working life of a vet. It focuses on the link between the vet's appointment times and the medical help she gives her sick or hurt animal patients. Also, the vet offers helpful advice to the animals' owners.

Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 5-6 (Year 1) Book band: Green B Phonics phase: 5

 

This report text has the format of a question and answer session. It gives information about which bones are in the body and how you can keep them healthy.

Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 5-6 (Year 1) Book band: Green C Phonics phase: 5

 

Gran's house is too small for all her stuff. She wonders if her grandson Tom would like some of her things. Gran and Tom write each other a series of emails. Gran offers Tom lots of old things. Tom replies that he would like some of them. Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 5-6 (Year 1) Book band: Green C Phonics phase: 5

In clear, engaging photographs this book shows all the fun that a girl and her mum have during a day at the beach. There is plenty to talk about in the photos, including sun safety and a range of beach activities.

Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 8-9 (Year 4) Book band: Grey B Phonics phase: N/A

 

This non-chronological report compares the planet's largest animals and covers three time periods: the time of dinosaurs, the time of early mammals and the present day. The reader is challenged to guess the biggest animal ever to have lived - which is finally revealed to be the blue whale.

Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 6-7 (Year 2) Book band: Lime A Phonics phase: 6

 

This book explains how animals have been trained to rescue people who are in danger and, in some cases, how they have helped to save human lives. It focuses, in particular, on the bravery of a homing pigeon in World War 1.

Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 6-7 (Year 2) Book band: Gold B Phonics phase: 6

 

Poptropica is a virtual world where you can explore, meet friends, play games, and win medallions. This book is a guide to the whole world of Poptropica which will make you a bit of an expert and give you a couple of secret tips too!

Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 6-7 (Year 2) Book band: Lime A Phonics phase: 6

 

This book shows some of the different gymnastic activities that children can learn. Photographs and text illustrate some of the techniques used on the bar, on the mat and on the rings. Specific numbered instructions are given on how to do a forward roll and there is a short quiz at the end.

Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 6-7 (Year 2) Book band: Orange A Phonics phase: 5

 

This book explains the process of planting and growing strawberries over a period of six weeks. It is written in the form of a weekly diary.

Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 6-7 (Year 2) Book band: Orange A Phonics phase: 5

 

With Tessa, a nature photographer, as our guide, this book explores how the animal kingdom uses colour. It has sections on using colour to avoid being eaten, to hide and to find a mate.

Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 6-7 (Year 2) Book band: Orange B Phonics phase: 5

 

This book shows festivals from around the world. It focuses on fun with racing cheeses, throwing tomatoes and playing in mud!

Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 6-7 (Year 2) Book band: Orange B Phonics phase: 5

 

This book covers a range of animals and describes the different movements they make.

Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 4-5 (Reception) Book band: Pink A Phonics phase: 2

 

This book is about different types of construction machinery and the jobs they do. It features a digger, a bulldozer, a roller and some trucks.

Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 4-5 (Reception) Book band: Pink A Phonics phase: 5

 

This book gives instructions for growing a sunflower. Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 4-5 (Reception) Book band: Red C Phonics phase: 4

This title is part of Pearson’s Bug Club - the first whole-school reading programme that joins books and an online reading world to teach today’s children to read. In this book: Let’s have fun at the fun park! This title is suitable for ages 4-5 (Pink level)

Find out about mummies: how and why they were preserved and what things the ancient Egyptian Pharaohs took with them into the afterlife.

Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 6-7 (Year 2) Book band: Purple A Phonics phase: 6

 

 

This title is part of Pearson’s Bug Club - the first whole-school reading programme that joins books and an online reading world to teach today’s children to read. In this book: This report text introduces creatures from the Star Wars films as if they were real, explaining the habits and alliances of each of them. This title is suitable for ages 6-7 (Purple level)