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Learn With Peppa
Learn With Peppa

Learn with Peppa provides a wide range of reading, activity, novelty and board books for little learners. From phonics and handwriting to counting and emotional development, the series introduces inquisitive minds to key early learning topics and first skills.

Let Peppa support your little ones on their early learning adventure in Learn with Peppa!

Key Words

Key Words with Peter and Jane is a tried and tested series that teaches children to read on sight using the ‘look and say’ method. Founded in education research, the scheme gradually introduces high-frequency key words, which are repeated throughout the series to build confidence and fluency. There are 12 levels in total, each with 3 books, intended for children aged 4+.

Read It Yourself

For over forty-five years, the best-selling Read It Yourself series has helped children practise and improve their reading skills. Now with a fresh new look and updated content, these brand-new editions offer a huge range of themes and stories for all readers. Five graded levels span Reception – Year 2 teaching in the UK Key Stage 1 curriculum: from Beginner Reader where children are consolidating their first phonics skills, to Fluent Reader where children are beginning to read longer stories by themselves. Each book uses a small number of frequently repeated words to steadily build reading confidence and fluency.

Designed to be read independently at home or used in a guided reading session at school. All titles include comprehension questions or puzzles, guidance notes, and book band and Lexile measurements.

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Actiphons

Actiphons is an energetic phonics series for children who are learning to read. These lively stories practise 70 letter sounds, each with its own fun character and action, to help children become confident, fluent readers.

Every book contains simple activities and tips, as well as a unique code which unlocks a collection of free online resources, including a song, audiobook and animation for each story.

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Learn with Ladybird

From writing their first letter to solving their first maths problem, Learn with Ladybird activity books are full of educational games and fun activities to help children develop key skills for school.

Learn with Ladybird is based on the UK EYFS and KS1 curriculum. The books support your child’s school learning by giving them a fun way to practise their skills, consolidate their knowledge, or challenge themselves to tackle something new.

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Ladybird Grammar Workbooks

Ladybird Grammar Workbooks and Dictionary help language learners aged 4+ to understand and practise the basics of English grammar, and to build their vocabulary. These essential books are carefully graded and mapped against the CEFR framework from Pre-A1 to A2+, and help children prepare for Cambridge English Young Learners exams.

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Do You Know?

Do You Know? is a series of levelled non-fiction books featuring video content, project work and critical-thinking activities designed to motivate and engage young learners. Covering a range of STEM topics, Do You Know? takes an enquiry-based approach, developing children’s language, communication and investigation skills with engaging, photographically led content.

Recommended for children aged 5+, there are four levels progressing from CEFR level Pre-A1 to level A2. Each reader is accompanied by online audio, video and comprehension activities, and suggestions for project work.

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First Words with Peppa

First Words with Peppa is a levelled reading series of Peppa Pig stories for children who are learning to read. The series is based on the Dolch Sight Words list – the 220 most common words found in children’s English-language reading material. Each Storybook introduces around ten Sight Words. These words are repeated regularly throughout the story. It is through this repetition that children become familiar with the words and begin to recognise them. Any words in the story that aren’t Sight Words, character names or important nouns, are phonically decodable so that children can use their phonics knowledge to read them.

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Ladybird Readers

Ladybird Readers are ELT graded readers featuring traditional tales, non-fiction and favourite characters to engage and inspire English language learners. Recommended for children aged 3–11, the eight levels of Ladybird Readers follow the CEFR framework from Pre-A1 to A2+, and include activities that develop key skills and provide preparation for the Cambridge English Young Learners exams.

Resources for Parents

Learning English

Explore articles, activities and tips to help your child learn English.

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This series is ideal for Learning English and Learning Phonics

Resources for Teachers

Learning English

Resources to help inspire a life-long love of reading in children learning English as a foreign language

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This series is ideal for Learning English and Learning Phonics

From the blog

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Learn to read with Peter and Jane!
Learn to read with Peter and Jane!
Sun Oct 15

Key Words with Peter and Jane is a classic Ladybird series, which was first published in 1964. It has taught generations of children to read all around the world. Sixty years on, a new generation of children can learn to read with Peter and Jane!

Melissa Mackey
Editorial Manager, Ladybird Education
Practical tips for Handwriting with the help of Peppa Pig
Practical tips for Handwriting with the help of Peppa Pig
Mon May 15

Learn about the handwriting process and explore some practical tips for Handwriting with the help of Peppa Pig.

Learning from the Everyday . . .
Learning from the Everyday . . .
Tue Feb 28

The ‘Learn with Peppa’ series of books provide a fantastic resource and starting point for young children to explore vital concepts in learning. But it is also equally important that this is supplemented by real everyday experiences.

Learn with Peppa Pig: Phonics Fun!
Learn with Peppa Pig: Phonics Fun!
Tue Jan 24

Peppa Pig has brought fun into children’s lives for nearly 20 years, through the TV shows and in so many other ways. But now there’s a new way children can have fun with Peppa and her friends – and learn phonics at the same time.

Catherine Baker
Educational Publishing Consultant
Top tips for practising reading, writing and number skills at home
Top tips for practising reading, writing and number skills at home
Tue Aug 23

There are many fun ways to support your child’s learning and build on the work they’re doing at school or nursery! Let’s look at some easy and effective activities that you can do at home to boost your child’s reading, writing and number skills.

Catherine Baker
Educational Publishing Consultant
Summer Home Learning Resources for Parents
Summer Home Learning Resources for Parents
Wed Aug 3

Sometimes you need a helping hand to get little ones on their reading journey. This range of guides, videos and activities will help entertain whilst also developing their literacy skills.

Resources for Parents

Learning to read

This range of guides, videos and activities will entertain young learners while also helping them learn to read.

Good places to start:
This series is ideal for Learning English and Learning Phonics

Resources for Teachers

Learning to read

Download Teacher’s Resources including lesson plans, classroom activities, posters, assessment tests and much more!

Series to explore:
This series is ideal for Learning English and Learning Phonics

Five levels of stories to take children from first phonics to reading fluency

Perfect for learning at home or in the classroom

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