Goal! Series

A 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.