Supporting the National Year of Reading 2026
PM is the most finely-levelled reading programme in the UK, with a proven approach to developing successful readers.
Downloadable resources
Research and understanding
PM Reading: Teacher’s notes & student activities
Select the relevant link below to download a Zip folder of teacher’s notes and accompanying student activities for every book in a particular level.
| Colour band | Level | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magenta | Wordless texts | |||
| Magenta | 1 | 1 – 2 | 2 | 2 – 3 |
| Red | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 – 6 |
| Yellow | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 – 9 |
| Blue | 9 | 10 | 11 | 11 – 12 |
| Green | 12 | 13 | 14 | 14 – 15 |
| Orange | 15 | 16 | 16 – 17 | |
| Turquoise | 17 | 18 | 18 – 19 | |
| Purple | 19 | 20 | 20 – 21 | |
| Gold | 21 | 22 | 22 – 23 | |
| Silver | 23 | 24 | 24 – 25 | |
| Emerald | 25 | 25 – 26 | 26 | |
| Ruby | 27 | 27 – 28 | 28 | |
| Sapphire | 29 | 29 – 30 | 30 | Post-30 |
PM Guided Reading Cards: Teacher’s notes & answers
Select the relevant link below to download a PDF of teacher’s notes or answers for every book in a particular level.
PM Storybooks: Activity sheets
These free activity sheets link directly to specific PM Storybook titles. They have been divided by colour band.
Downloadable bookmarks
PM Writing: Hear from the authors
PM Writing authors Debbie Croft and Annie Facchinetti discuss how the new edition of PM Writing helps teachers create successful writers in their classroom [11min 30s].
Keys to the PM
‘Keys to the PMs’ offers an in-depth look at the meticulous levelling behind the PM books and an overview of children’s literacy development at each PM level.
- Key to the PMs: Magenta
- Key to the PMs: Red-Green
- Key to the PMs: Orange-Silver
- Key to the PMs: Emerald-Sapphire
© Key to the PMs Beverley Randell, Nelson Australia. Reproduced with the permission of Cengage Learning Australia.
PM Reading and the National Curriculum
Read how PM Reading can help you to deliver some of the key aims of the Primary National Curriculum.
Download the guideImplementing guided reading in the classroom
Guided reading is a research-informed approach to reading instruction.
Used by literacy educators in classrooms, it is a key component of a balanced and comprehensive literacy strategy. Guided reading is designed to support the reading development of students in all years of primary school.
Find out how to implement Guided Reading in your classroom, download our free booklet.
