An informational text about winter, the coldest season of the year, this book ties in with the UK Key Stage 1 National Curriculum. Winter is a book-banded reading book for early readers, carefully levelled at Blue Book Band for guided reading. Illustrated throughout with beautiful photographs, this 227-word non-fiction book is suitable for ages 5 - 6. Winter featues a longer, less structured text with a more flexible vocabulary. There is variation in sentence patterns and content, little repetition, and longer language patterns. It has a full range of punctuation. Winter is part of Ransom Reading Stars, a structured programme for children learning to read. The series has fifteen levels: four phonics levels and eleven book band levels (Pink through to Lime).

 

This book features in the following series: Ransom Reading Stars, Reading Stars .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 1. KS1 covers school years 1 and 2, and ages 5-7 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.

This book was published 2015 by Ransom Publishing .

Anne Rooney has written many fiction and non-fiction books for children.