Read & Respond

Overview

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

  • Build a whole-school literacy programme based on the best children’s books
  • 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

Finally, you can also buy the original children’s books that form the basis for the series in multipacks of 6 or 30 copies – perfect for group reading.

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In this series

  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Read & Respond: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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  • Aliens Love Underpants Read & Respond: Aliens Love Underpants
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  • Artemis Fowl Read & Respond: Artemis Fowl
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  • Black Beauty Read & Respond: Black Beauty
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  • Boy, Tales of Childhood (Digital Download Edition) Read & Respond: Boy, Tales of Childhood (Digital Download Edition)
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  • Brightstorm: A Sky-Ship Adventure Read & Respond: Brightstorm: A Sky-Ship Adventure
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  • Can You See Me? Read & Respond: Can You See Me?
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  • Carrie's War Read & Respond: Carrie's War
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  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Read & Respond: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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  • Charlotte's Web Read & Respond: Charlotte's Web
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  • Cliffhanger (Digital Download Edition) Read & Respond: Cliffhanger (Digital Download Edition)
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  • Danny the Champion of the World Read & Respond: Danny the Champion of the World
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  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid Read & Respond: Diary of a Wimpy Kid
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  • Ellie and the Cat Read & Respond: Ellie and the Cat
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  • Fantastic Mr Fox (Digital Download Edition) Read & Respond: Fantastic Mr Fox (Digital Download Edition)
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  • Flat Stanley Read & Respond: Flat Stanley
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  • Funnybones (Digital Download Edition) Read & Respond: Funnybones (Digital Download Edition)
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  • George's Marvellous Medicine Read & Respond: George's Marvellous Medicine
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  • Handa's Surprise Read & Respond: Handa's Surprise
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  • Hetty Feather Read & Respond: Hetty Feather
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  • How to Train Your Dragon Read & Respond: How to Train Your Dragon
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  • James and the Giant Peach (Digital Download Edition) Read & Respond: James and the Giant Peach (Digital Download Edition)
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  • Jasper's Beanstalk Read & Respond: Jasper's Beanstalk
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  • Journey to Jo'burg Read & Respond: Journey to Jo'burg
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  • Journey to the River Sea Read & Respond: Journey to the River Sea
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  • Katie Morag and the Two Grandmothers (Digital Download Edition) Read & Respond: Katie Morag and the Two Grandmothers (Digital Download Edition)
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  • Kensuke's Kingdom Read & Respond: Kensuke's Kingdom
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  • Letters from the Lighthouse Read & Respond: Letters from the Lighthouse
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  • Look Up! Read & Respond: Look Up!
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  • Matilda (Digital Download Edition) Read & Respond: Matilda (Digital Download Edition)
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  • Millions Read & Respond: Millions
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  • Oliver's Vegetables Read & Respond: Oliver's Vegetables
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  • One Dog and His Boy Read & Respond: One Dog and His Boy
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  • Owl Babies Read & Respond: Owl Babies
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  • Peace at Last (Digital Download Edition) Read & Respond: Peace at Last (Digital Download Edition)
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  • Pig Heart Boy (Digital Download Edition) Read & Respond: Pig Heart Boy (Digital Download Edition)
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  • Planet Omar: Accidental Trouble Magnet Read & Respond: Planet Omar: Accidental Trouble Magnet
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  • Poppy Field Read & Respond: Poppy Field
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  • Private Peaceful (Digital Download Edition) Read & Respond: Private Peaceful (Digital Download Edition)
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  • Room on the Broom Read & Respond: Room on the Broom
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  • Rosie's Walk (Digital Download Edition) Read & Respond: Rosie's Walk (Digital Download Edition)
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  • Silence is Not An Option: Find Your Voice and Be Your Best Self Read & Respond: Silence is Not An Option: Find Your Voice and Be Your Best Self
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  • Six Dinner Sid (Digital Download Edition) Read & Respond: Six Dinner Sid (Digital Download Edition)
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  • Stig of the Dump Read & Respond: Stig of the Dump
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  • Stormbreaker Read & Respond: Stormbreaker
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  • Street Child Read & Respond: Street Child
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  • Superworm Read & Respond: Superworm
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  • The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents Read & Respond: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
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  • The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips (Digital Download Edition) Read & Respond: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips (Digital Download Edition)
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  • The BFG Read & Respond: The BFG
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  • The Boy at the Back of the Class Read & Respond: The Boy at the Back of the Class
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  • The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Read & Respond: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
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  • The Butterfly Lion (Digital Download Edition) Read & Respond: The Butterfly Lion (Digital Download Edition)
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  • The Demon Headmaster (Digital Download Edition) Read & Respond: The Demon Headmaster (Digital Download Edition)
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  • The Diary of a Killer Cat (Digital Download Edition) Read & Respond: The Diary of a Killer Cat (Digital Download Edition)
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  • The Enormous Crocodile (Digital Download Edition) Read & Respond: The Enormous Crocodile (Digital Download Edition)
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  • The Girl Who Stole an Elephant Read & Respond: The Girl Who Stole an Elephant
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  • The Goldfish Boy Read & Respond: The Goldfish Boy
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  • The Highway Rat Read & Respond: The Highway Rat
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  • The Hodgeheg Read & Respond: The Hodgeheg
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  • The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog (Digital Download Edition) Read & Respond: The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog (Digital Download Edition)
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  • The Iron Man Read & Respond: The Iron Man
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  • The Jungle Book Read & Respond: The Jungle Book
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  • The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch Read & Respond: The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch
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  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Digital Download Edition) Read & Respond: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Digital Download Edition)
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  • The Midnight Fox (Digital Download Edition) Read & Respond: The Midnight Fox (Digital Download Edition)
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  • The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark Read & Respond: The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark
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  • The Proudest Blue Read & Respond: The Proudest Blue
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  • The Railway Children (Digital Download Edition) Read & Respond: The Railway Children (Digital Download Edition)
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  • The Secret Garden Read & Respond: The Secret Garden
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  • The Sheep-Pig (Digital Download Edition) Read & Respond: The Sheep-Pig (Digital Download Edition)
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  • The Smeds and the Smoos Read & Respond: The Smeds and the Smoos
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  • The Snail and the Whale (Digital Download Edition) Read & Respond: The Snail and the Whale (Digital Download Edition)
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  • The Suitcase Kid (Digital Download Edition) Read & Respond: The Suitcase Kid (Digital Download Edition)
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  • The Twits Read & Respond: The Twits
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  • The Wind in the Willows Read & Respond: The Wind in the Willows
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  • The Witches (Digital Download Edition) Read & Respond: The Witches (Digital Download Edition)
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  • The Wolf Wilder Read & Respond: The Wolf Wilder
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  • The Wreck of the Zanzibar Read & Respond: The Wreck of the Zanzibar
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  • Tom's Midnight Garden Read & Respond: Tom's Midnight Garden
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  • Varjak Paw Read & Respond: Varjak Paw
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  • War Horse Read & Respond: War Horse
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  • We're Going on a Bear Hunt Read & Respond: We're Going on a Bear Hunt
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  • We Sang Across the Sea Read & Respond: We Sang Across the Sea
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  • Why the Whales Came Read & Respond: Why the Whales Came
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  • Windrush Child Read & Respond: Windrush Child
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  • Winnie the Witch Read & Respond: Winnie the Witch
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  • Wonder Read & Respond: Wonder
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Authors

Louise Carruthers

Louise Carruthers is the author of 50 Literacy Lessons for Less Able Learners. She has also contributed to ‘Activities for including children with behavioural difficulties’. She is an experienced primary teacher currently teaching in a school for children with moderate learning difficulties.

Sylvia Clements

Sylvia Clements is a classroom teacher.

Pam Dowson

Pam Dowson is a retired primary school teacher and PGCE tutor in Primary English. Pam is currently an independent literacy consultant who now writes.

Jean Evans

Jean Evans is an early years consultant and nursery inspector. For many years she ran her own nursery school and she has also been head of an LEA nursery unit/Early Years co-ordinator. She is the author of Themes on Display: All About Me, Themes on Display Festivals, Skills for Early Years Constructing and Making, Skills for Early Years Social Skills and Early Years Around the Year Personal, Social and Emotional Development. She is a regular contributor to Early Years Activity Bank and Nursery Education magazine.

Gillian Howell

Qualified as a teacher in 1971. 3 children, break from work to bring them up. Returned to teaching in 1985. Joined Educational Publishing 1991-2000. Reading and Language consultant for Heinemann, Ginn and Rigby 1997-2000. Freelance writer from 2000.

Eileen Jones

Eileen Jones is an experienced educational writer and literacy specialist . She has over 20 years’ teaching experience.

Chris Lutrario

Chris Lutrario is a former class teacher and advisory teacher. Since 1991 he has worked as a freelance author with credentials that include working for NLS, QCA and NFER. He has been published by Ginn and Collins.

Janet Perry

Janet Perry teaches Year 1 at a Warwickshire primary school. She is the author of Read & Respond Six Dinner Sid, and contributed to Poetry Workshop Key Stage 1 / Levels A-B. Freelance literacy co-ordinator.

Jillian Powell

Jillian Powell is experienced in teaching and in writing for all age ranges and key stages of the National Curriculum from Early years through Key Stage 4. She has written both fiction and non-fiction for reading schemes as well as the trade (eg Ginn, Heinemann, Longman, Watts). She is the author of Writing Guides: Adventure Stories (9-11).

Charlotte Raby

Charlotte Raby is a Lecturer in Initial Teacher Training and a writer specialising in literacy. She is also co-founder of Reading Fairy.

Huw Thomas

Huw Thomas is headteacher of a Sheffield primary school. He is the series editor of Scholastic Literacy Centres and Writing Guides. His previous publications include Writing Guides: Scary Stories 7-9 and Pocket Guides: Understanding Texts.

Rob Walton

BA (Hons)Creative Arts. Worked in children’s theatre, stand-up comedy, street theatre, running drama workshops etc. PGCE followed by 8 years teaching in both KS1 and KS2. Subject Leader for PSHCE and Pastoral Care at inner city primary school in Newcastle Upon Tyne. Co-authored ‘Ready to Go: Citizenship KS1’ and ‘Ready to Go: Citizenship KS2’for Scholastic. Author of numerous articles about thinking skills, PSHCE etc for both Junior Education and Junior Focus. Currently studying for MA in creative writing at Newcastle University.

Celia Warren

Celia Warren wears two hats: on the one hand she is a published children’s poet, and on the other she is an experienced teacher and writer of teaching material for children. She writes regularly for ‘Child Education’ and she was Series Editor for ‘Writing Workshops: Poetry KS1’.

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