Learning Levels (Book Bands)

The Pops Reading Scheme has been designed with the following unique features to ensure every child can be successful, whatever their reading ability. This design fosters achievement through success and praise in differently abled children.

  • Word Cards (Flash Cards) support each book allowing a child to match one or more words as they appear in the text and in highlighted boxes at the bottom of every page.
  • Lotto, sentence completion and reading comprehension games at the back of the book provide fun reinforcement of vocabulary learnt.
  • Finding ‘Boo’ the hidden elephant in every illustration offers success whatever a child’s reading ability.
  • Each book focuses on a particular vocabulary group of everyday language, such as food, clothes, body, colour etc
Reader Reading Age (Years) England, Wales and Northern Ireland Scotland Republic of Ireland
Red Elephant Series Pack 1 5 Foundation Stage P1 Junior Infants
Red Elephant Series Pack 2 5 KS1 P1 Junior Infants
Red Elephant Series Pack 3 5-6 KS1 P1 Senior Infants
Red Elephant Series Pack 4 5-6 KS1 P1 Senior Infants
Blue Elephant Series Pack 1 5-6 KS1 P2 First Class
Blue Elephant Series Pack 2 5-6 KS1 P2 First Class
Blue Elephant Series Pack 3 5-6 KS1 P2 Second Class
Blue Elephant Series Pack 4 5-6 KS1 P2/P3 Second Class

The Red Elephant Series
The books in this series have simple storylines with large clear print laid out in a predictable format. The illustrations provide excellent support to the text. Some direct speech is also used to model good spoken language.

The Blue Elephant Series Books
This series reuses over 80% of the vocabulary encountered in the Red Elephant Series to consolidate and to revise. The books in this series extend the format of the Red Series with more variation in sentence structure, and more events in each story. More direct speech is used in this series to model good spoken language.