Reading Champion: The Big Sandcastle

<p><b>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)</b></p><p>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 ... </p><p>Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills.</p><p>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).</p>