Reading Champion: The Big Sandcastle

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).