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Book Recommendations
Hundreds of great books for Nursery to Year 7
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Wishlists
Create lists of books for your class or school library
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Free resources
Use our teaching sequences and booklists
Find out about the very best children’s books with Corebooks
Corebooks helps primary schools choose the very best children's literature for their school or classroom libraries. This site contains a comprehensive selection of high quality texts for children from ages three to eleven and a selection of free teaching sequences. Use the ready-created booklists or create your own wishlists in the knowledge that you are selecting from the best books to engage, enthral and excite children.
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All Core Books
Teaching Sequences
Use our Free Teaching Sequences
Our teaching sequences guide planning and provide the best teaching approaches to explore texts in depth, enhancing reading comprehension and providing meaningful contexts and purposes for writing.
Wishlist
Create or view a wishlist
Create personalised lists of your favourite books. Once created, your lists are saved in your profile and can be downloaded or printed. You can even send a list to a bookseller to purchase the books for your school.
Core Book of the Week
Red and the City
This modern take on the story of Red Riding Hood is a recent addition to our core booklist. Find more versions of and varinants on the traditional tale in our booklist A Rash of Red Riding Hoods.
Reading Collections
Foundation
This collection is particularly supportive in helping children to tune into the rhythms and patterns of language and introduce quality engaging texts, as they begin their journey into reading.
Key Stage 1
As children become more confident, independent readers this collection showcases a range of high quality picture books and longer reads which support their progress and engagement.
Key Stage 2
The books in this collection both support those children who are still developing reading skills, as well as introducing a range of texts that develop higher order thinking skills and reading stamina.
Upcoming Training
Early Phonological Awareness through Rhyme and Song with Steve Grocott
Thursday, 23 May 2019 - 10:00am
Developing Historical Enquiry through Quality Fiction - World War II
Wednesday, 5 June 2019 - 1:30pm
Phonics in a Rich Reading Curriculum
Monday, 10 June 2019 - 10:00am
The Power of Pictures conference
Friday, 14 June 2019 - 10:00am
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Monday, 17 June 2019 - 10:00am