Working out good reading material for your English students can be a daunting task. Do you stick to approved texts, matched to whatever teaching system is used at school, no matter the flaws? Do you go for classics stories that will drag in anyone who starts reading them? Do you aim low or high for your students, who might have been let down in the past? Do you classify some books 'for girls', and others 'for boys'? It's tricky. However, here's a selection of books that might hit the mark, although they might aim a little high, given my own precociousness at school.
Key Stage 2 Lower
'Mary Poppins' by Dorothy L. Travers
'The Story Of Dr Dolittle' by Hugh Lofting
The 'Secret 7' stories by Enid Blyton
The 'Engine' stories by Rev. W. Audry
'Winnie The Pooh' by A. A. Milne
Key Stage 2 Higher
'The Magician's Nephew' by C. S. Lewis
'Five Children And It' by E. Nesbit
Key Stage 3
'The Hound Of The Baskervilles' by Arthur Conan Doyle
'Pawn Of Prophecy' by David Eddings
'The Last Dragonslayer' by Jasper Fforde
'Amazon Adventure' by Willard Price
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