Transform your literacy outcomes and engage your whole school in reading. Inspire and delight your children with contemporary, diverse and engaging texts that will spark a lifelong love of reading for pleasure.

Get the most out of best-loved children's books with our bestselling
  Read & Respond series - the perfect way to explore
  favourite stories in your classroom. This resource book brings you
  a wealth of inspiring activities, discussion ideas and guided reading
  notes based on Planet Omar: Accidental Trouble Magnet
  by Zanib Mian.

Stimulating content mapped to curriculum objectives

Grammar, punctuation and spelling section

  Shared reading and whole-class guided reading section including
  non-fiction extracts

  Time-saving lesson plans, activities and assessments

  Huge variety of speaking, listening and creative activities.




  Our Read & Respond series now has a dedicated online space
  containing:

Curriculum and teaching overviews with recommendations on books to read for pleasure

Classic small-group guided reading notes and resources

  Teaching reading resources such as ideas for vocabulary and fluency




  Read & Respond helps you build a whole-school literacy
  programme based on timeless children's stories, chosen to inspire
  reading for pleasure. Fun-filled activities help children to fully
  engage with each story, encouraging a love of reading and building
  a range of skills.




  Underpinned by a wealth of research the teacher's guides provide
  activities with a strong focus on all of the 'big five' plus
  oracy and reading for pleasure, as well as concentration on grammar,
  punctuation & spelling and writing

  Foster reading for pleasure with stories from acclaimed and award-winning
  authors

  Prepare with confidence with essential teacher's books and supportive
  resources

  Save hours of preparation time with ready-to-use print and digital
  resources

  Boost guided reading in every year group with detailed teachers
  notes.



  PRAISE FOR READ & RESPOND


  'The resources are wonderful. I like the fact that it has a
  mix of fiction and non-fiction activities ... and how material can
  link to other areas of the curriculum, not just literacy.'
  Miss North, teacher


  'Reading for enjoyment and writing for enjoyment are two of
  the most powerful ways of getting children interested in books.
  Read & Respond provides exactly this.' Michael Morpurgo, author



  '[Read and Respond] makes it easy to explore texts fully and
  ensure that the children want to keep on reading more.' Chris
  Flanagan, Primary teacher.