Look to Read

Learners can choose one of the original 16 stories about the adventures of a young boy, Pip. Words of the story will be displayed on the screen, and can be read aloud by touching, looking, pressing the switch or moving the mouse over the words. Reading the whole sentence will cause a fun animation to bring the scene to life.

Activities

Every story comes with four activities to help consolidate learning. Like the stories, these activities will gradually become more complex to match the difficulty of the story being read.

Story library

Look to Read starts with simple short stories and progresses to longer more complex stories. Each book gradually builds on the sounds and words that have already been introduced, so that learners can become more confident with every book they read.

A set of activities for each story further support the learner to explore and practice different sounds. They can start to spell words, and complete reading comprehension activities that help them show their understanding of the story.

Every story has a communication grid, to support children in talking about the book. These are filled with core vocabulary and other key words from the stories.

Support for early communication

Symbolised chat grids are available with every story in Look to Read. Each grid combines commonly used core words (e.g. more, stop, like) with key words from the story. They are always available, so readers can talk about the stories as they read them.