Start Reading is a new series of highly enjoyable books for beginning readers at KS1. They have been carefully graded to correspond to the Book Bands now widely used in schools. This enables readers to be sure that they choose books that match their own ability. There is very careful and gentle graduation from Band to Band. The books can be shared with an adult or read independently. They promote the enjoyment of reading through reading real, satisfying stories with a beginning, a middle and an end. Rosie's Rides is at Book Band 3 in the Start Reading series. Rosie is going on all sorts of Rides, rollercoaster rides, pony rides, jeep rides and train rides. All have their adventures.

 

This book features in the following series: Rosie's Rides, Start Reading-Rosies R .

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 aimed at children in primary school. This book is at Book Band Yellow. Books at this level present children with new vocabulary. The amount of words per page has slightly increased, with one new word for every twenty familiar words. Non-fiction titles at this level build on children's interests and encourage discussion around high-quality photographs. Yellow banded books are usually around 15 pages long, with either 1 or 2 sentences per page. Pupil Targets: (i) retell a story from memory, (ii) read a book without pointing at the words, unless they get stuck, (iii) blend phonemes together to understand a word, e. g. d-o-g, (iv) use punctuation, such as speech marks and question marks, (v) notice and correct some of their mistakes, (vi) sometimes, they can work out what is going to happen next in a story. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. This reading scheme has multiple levels.

There are 24 pages in this book. This book was published 2009 by Hachette Children's Group .

Jillian Powell is an experienced writer of children's fiction and non-fiction.