The most common thing a teacher said to us in 2026 was some version of: the books are lovely, but I have twenty-eight children on four different reading levels and one planning afternoon a week. A beautiful book that costs a teacher three hours of preparation does not get read twice.
So we wrote the three hours. Every series in the catalogue now comes with an educator and parent implementation toolkit — a full academic year built around that series, sequenced by assessed reading level rather than by the number printed on the cover.
Each title is a three-week unit, three sessions a week. Twelve titles is thirty-six weeks, which is a school year with room to breathe in it. The unit shape is the same every time, so by the third book the class already knows the rhythm:
Scheme of work for the full year, a curriculum mapping grid with one tab per framework, a progression framework, assessment rubrics and a tracker, unit lesson cards, a slide deck, printable worksheets, discussion prompt cards, a display pack, and three home-learning documents for families.
The frameworks are England’s National Curriculum and EYFS, the UAE Ministry of Education and KHDA expectations, US Common Core ELA, and IB PYP. A school picks its column and ignores the rest.
Every unit names the quoted ayah or hadith in the book as a line the teacher reads aloud. In our catalogue that scripture deliberately sits above the reading level of the prose around it. Naming it as shared reading turns what would otherwise be a levelling problem into a classroom routine — and gives the class a moment that belongs to the adult in the room.
It is not a phonics scheme, and the mapping grid says so on its first tab. Our reading level is publisher-developed, and we never describe it as validated — the reading levels page sets out exactly what it is and how it maps to schemes you already use.
Published 20 August 2026 in Schools. Questions? Get in touch.
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