Dear Parents,
We have prepared the following lists of recommended reading books as well as useful websites for children who are currently not in school. These include age-appropriate books for your child’s year group as well as websites with further activities and information in Literacy, Maths and Foundation subjects.
As mentioned previously, in the event of school closing please be assured that Home Learning packs will be made available with specific daily activities for each child.
The following list contains stories to appeal to children aged 5 and 6. These recommendations include a range of titles to cover all ability ranges.
Fiction
| That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown by Cressida Cowell and Neal Layton |
| Numenia and the Hurricane by Fiona Halliday |
| I Can Only Draw Worms by Will Mabbit |
| I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen |
| Goodnight Everyone by Chris Haughton |
| You Can’t Take An Elephant on a Bus by Patricia Cleveland-Peck |
| We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen |
| The Bad Tempered Ladybird by Eric Carle |
| Funnybones by Allan Ahlberg |
| The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson |
| A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond |
| A Lion in the Meadow by Margaret Mahy |
| Cops and Robbers by Allan Ahlberg |
| The Emperor of Absurdia by Chris Riddell |
| There are Cats in This Book by Viviane Schwarz |
| Mister Magnolia by Quentin Blake |
| Katie Morag’s Island Stories by Mairi Hedderwick |
| Avocado Baby by John Burningham |
| Dogger by Shirley Hughes |
| The Dark by Lemony Snicket |
| How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth by Michelle Robinson |
| You Choose! By Pippa Goodhart |
Non-Fiction
| 100 Things to Know About Science – Usborne |
| Lots: The Diversity of Life on Earth – Nicola Davies and Emily Sutton |
| A Street Through Time – Steve Noon |
| Little Kids First Big Book of Why – National Geographic |
| What a Waste: Rubbish, Recycling and Protecting our Planet |
| See Inside Your Body – Usborne |
| The Usborne Children’s Picture Atlas |
Websites to support Phonics and Reading
www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/?
www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds
Websites to support Literacy
www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/
Websites to support Maths
Websites to support Foundation Subjects
www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/primary
The website ‘twinkl’ is offering a month’s free access for Parents with the code UKTWINKLHELPS
Don’t forget to visit the class pages on our website for additional suggestions.