The Reading Planet Guide to Reading supports parents to read at home with their child. This handy guide explains Phonics and book banding, and includes tips on how to develop comprehension skills and what to write in a reading record.

A young child imagines going off to Kindergarten as a journey to another planet.

Amy dreams of having a pet, but her parents aren't at all keen. One day she finds a large and unusual egg with an amazing new pet inside - a baby dragon! When the dragon grows too big to hide under her bed, Dad insists it's time to take the dragon home to its family ... Find out what happens next in this magical story. Amy Wants a Pet is part of the Galaxy range of books from Rising Stars Reading Planet. Galaxy provides captivating fiction and non-fiction for Pink A to White band. The rich collection of highly decodable books immerses children in a range of cross-curricular topics and genres. Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and activities to support reading at home as well as comprehension questions to check understanding. Reading age: 5-6 years

The Reading Planet Reading Record provides an easy way for children to track and record their reading journey across the year. It contains over 30 pages to record children's reading activity as well as highlighting common exception words and providing tips for parents on what to look out for when reading with their child.

Ruby and Charlie have invented an amazing machine for a school competition. The machine can do incredible things, but does it cause too much chaos for them to win the prize? Find out in this amusing comic-strip story! (Letter-sounds featured: /k/ /sh/ ch /j/ ge dge /uh/ o) The Chaos Machine is part of the Rocket Phonics teaching and learning programme from Reading Planet. Rocket Phonics ensures that every child achieves phonics success. This fully-decodable Target Practice reading book provides focused practice of a small group of letter-sounds. The book also includes useful notes and activities to support reading in school and at home as well as comprehension questions to check understanding. Reading age: 5-6/Year 1

Meet the Titan children - the sons and daughters of Zeus, the king of the gods. They're happily going about their business of being Greek gods and goddesses in training, until Athena finds their Uncle Hades skulking in the room of Forbidden Scrolls ... and makes a shocking discovery. Grandfather Cronos has persuaded kind-hearted Hades to release him from jail so that he can take over the world. The Titan children know the only way they can prevent Zeus from going to war with his own father is to stop Cronos themselves. It's going to take all of their combined skills and imagination to thwart each of Cronos' cunning plans. Be alert, Titans - it's time to save the world! Class of the Titans: The Cyclops Rebellion is part of the Reading Planet range of books for Stars (Lime) to Supernova (Red+) band. Children aged 7-11 will be inspired to love reading through the gripping stories and fascinating information books created by top authors. Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and questions to support reading at home and develop comprehension skills. Reading age: 9-10 years