Being new in school is tough for Amir. But bringing his football into school changes everything. Football Friends is a book-banded reading book for developing readers, carefully levelled at Yellow Book Band for guided reading. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this 189-word fiction story is suitable for ages 9-13. Football Friends features a short, structured text with accessible vocabulary, has more variation in sentence structure with some repetition in patterns. Punctuation includes comma, full stops, exclamation and question marks, and direct speech. Football Friends is part of Ransom Reading Stars Plus, a structured programme for students learning to read. The series has ten levels: four phonics levels and six book band levels (Pink through to Orange).

 

 

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

. This book has been specially written for struggling readers. This book has been specially written for reluctant readers.

There are 16 pages in this book. This book was published in 2019 by Ransom Publishing .

ELIZABETH DALE studied physics and worked for many years in the health service. After her three daughters were born, she was re-introduced to children's books. Elizabeth lives in rural West Sussex. She has had over 1600 stories (teenage and adult) published all over the world, and has children's books published for Bloomsbury, Egmont, Andersen, Simon and Schuster and others.