Interest Age: 6 to 14
Reading Age: 5 to 7
2008
ISBN: 9781841679624A successful phonics-based high interest age, low reading age reading programme combining fiction & non-fiction titles, all on football related topics. Goal! is ideal for children who are struggling to develop the basics of reading and who need structured, systematic synthetic phonics-based reading books with a higher-interest age.
- 48 fiction and non-fiction titles, covering a wide variety of football-related topics and stories
- Popular, achievable reads
- Includes books written by leading professional football players (both male and female)
- Fully compatible with any synthetic phonics teaching programme. The books can be used individually or as a reading scheme, either on their own or in conjunction with other schemes
- Highly effective, structured approach for reluctant readers
- Proven results in motivating those readers who have never got to grips with conventional reading schemes
Goal! has also been developed to support dyslexic readers. Dyslexia friendly features:
- Full colour throughout, with no white space anywhere
- All text is on a solid colour background (red, green, black, etc.) reducing glare
- Clear separation between text and image
- Dyslexia-friendly font used throughout
- Some books include speech bubbles - in which case the text is on a coloured background.
- Left justified (not fully justified) text, giving regular spacing between letters/words.
The Goal! programme follows the UK Government's Letters and Sounds phonics scheme and offers structured progression over five levels:
- Level 1 of Goal follows Letters and Sounds Phase 1 (no words)
- Level 2 follows Letters and Sounds Phase 2
- Level 3 follows Letters and Sounds Phase 3
- Level 4 follows Letters and Sounds Phase 4
- Level 5 follows Letters and Sounds Phase 5
- Teachers manual covers all 5 levels of progression.
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