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Readerful Rise

Independent Reading Books for Older Struggling Readers

Readerful is for every child, including those older pupils who need to secure their phonics knowledge, improve their fluency and develop comprehension tools.

Our collection of Readerful Rise titles provides 7 to 11 year old readers with the opportunity to choose motivating, high-engagement books from the Readerful independent library alongside their peers.

What goes into a Readerful Rise book?

  • Readerful Rise books are high engagement, low reading level books to get struggling readers motivated
  • Age-appropriate in terms of themes and design, and the books are chunky to look like what everyone else in the class is reading
  • Character mini-series from the Readerful Library link in with Rise, so that struggling readers can read about the same characters as their peers
  • For Oxford Reading Levels 3-6, books include fiction and non-fiction with two-books-in-one. Once readers reach Oxford Reading Levels 7-11 every book includes a short ‘read aloud’ text to help support reading fluency
  • The books all have accessible design and include in-book support aimed at the reader including built-in phonics, comprehension and vocabulary support designed to be accessible and appealing to readers
  • All Readerful Rise titles are fully decodable
  • Readerful Rise has been tested by struggling readers to ensure that these are best-in-class books

Rise & Phonics

Readerful Rise books follow the phonics progression of Essential Letters & Sounds (ELS). They can be used following any systematic synthetic phonics programme.