Literacy takes off with Flying Colours...

• Starters
• Fiction
• Non-fiction
• Benchmark Kit
• Online
• Teachers' Resources

Flying Colours is a complete literacy program for the first three years of primary school. It focuses on the crucial components of teaching literacy: written language, oral language, visual literacy and technology.

KEY FEATURES

• broadly levelled texts to extend children's literacy learning
• both fiction and non-fiction texts
• a range of text types
• high-interest stories
• texts thematically liked to key learning areas
• a varitey of visual support to reinforce meaning of the texts
• online interactive books to provide additional reading experiences and reinforce comprehension of texts

Flying Colours presents a broadly levelled range of text types to help children learn how to write their own texts and know when it is appropriate to write texts in a particular way. These proven classroom favourites present a variety of high-interest themes that are linked to the curriculum.

The visual components of Flying Colours communicate and reinforce the meaning of each text. A range of illustration styles is presented, and a close text–picture match for each story is ensured.

Flying Colours stories expose children to a broad range of experiences. Interest levels are matched to those of the reader to ensure they become fully engaged with the texts. The series presents a variety of high-interest themes that are linked to the curriculum and are proven classroom favourites.

Flying Colours presents a range of text types to help children learn how to write their own texts and know when it is appropriate to write texts in a particular way. The highly visual Flying Colours non-fiction books provide teachers with an excellent resource for the explicity teaching of text types in reading and writing.

The Flying Colours Benchmark Kit includes 20 benchmark books, a prepared reading record for each text and an assessment record pro forma.