Reading Champion: The Big Sandcastle: Independent Reading Blue 4

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This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE)

In this story, Dan is at the beach and wants to make a really big sandcastle. He soon realises he will need a lot of help ...

Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills.

Fantastic stories are accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity. Each book has been carefully graded so that it can be matched to a child's reading ability, encouraging reading for pleasure. This book is suitable for children aged 4+ reading at book band blue 4. (Book bands are a levelling system widely used in schools to track a child's reading progression).

Damian Harvey

Damian Harvey (Author)

Damian Harvey lives in North Wales with his lovely wife, Vicky. He has three wonderful daughters, one brilliant boy and a cat called Polly. He has written more than 130 books for primary school aged children and is busy writing more. When he isn't writing, Damian loves visiting schools, libraries, bookshops, festivals and anywhere that will have him, where he shares stories, talks about writing and gets people excited about books and reading. You can find out more about Damian by visiting http://www.damianharvey.co.uk and follow him on Twitter @damianjharvey

Tom Heard (Illustrator)

Tom Heard is an illustrator based in Devon, UK. After failing miserably with his ambition of playing professional football, (he didn't even make the school team!) Tom decided to pursue his passion of picture making. Since graduating from Plymouth University in 2012 he has worked on a variety of fiction and educational projects. Tom can often be found plugged into his computer, working away on his next project or reading a good book.

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