What Does This Website Offer?
The 500 books website is unique in providing opportunities to
link teaching core reading skills, that everyone is agreed that
children must master (for example, synthetic phonics skills) with
real books. The guidance offered on using the website, and skill
matching, is also distinctive since it is based on research that is
derived from psychological theory. Thus, those using the website
can be confident that they can develop children’s essential
phonic and sight word decoding skills through the best available
children’s literature. They can also feel reassured that children
will have more than enough opportunities to apply their
emerging skills to books that will give stimulate, entertain and
help them to develop a love of reading.
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