Being new in school is tough for Amir. But bringing his football into school changes everything. Football Friends is a book-banded reading book for developing readers, carefully levelled at Yellow Book Band for guided reading. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this 189-word fiction story is suitable for ages 9-13.
Football Friends features a short, structured text with accessible vocabulary, has more variation in sentence structure with some repetition in patterns. Punctuation includes comma, full stops, exclamation and question marks, and direct speech.
Football Friends is part of Ransom Reading Stars Plus, a structured programme for students learning to read. The series has ten levels: four phonics levels and six book band levels (Pink through to Orange).
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Author Elizabeth Dale has written short stories for magazines all over the world. She has had over twenty books for children published, including My Secret Alien (an Egmont Green Banana). Elizabeth lives in West Sussex.
Illustrator Vicki Gausden studied for a BA (Hons) Illustration at Edinburgh College of Art, graduating in 2005 and being awarded a Mast
