What's in Bug Club?
Books that children would choose themselves
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Bug Club's fantastic range of fiction and non-fiction stories feature a huge cast of exciting characters that really motivate kids to want to pick up a book and learn to read it. These specially written books are finely-levelled to help your children master the small steps they need to develop their reading skills.
All readers are also available as eBooks in Bug Club's online reading world, where children can read the eBook on-screen, take fun quizzes to check their comprehension and earn Bug Points they can convert into real rewards.
Preview samples from across the whole of Bug Club|
Bug Club’s online reading world - at school and at home
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Bug Club's online reading world will transform your children's reading experiences. It's what makes Bug Club different, exciting and gripping for today's computer-confident children. Each child has their own personalised homepage, where they'll find their personal set of eBooks, complete with interactive quizzes to help them earn Bug Points which they can spend on certificates, games and outfits for their avatars. Bug Club's online reading world allows teachers to build up a really comprehensive picture of each child's reading ability and progress, both at school and at home.
Take a look at Pete’s Peculiar Pet Shop (Teacher’s fiction eBook)|
Phonics Bug – a firm, fun foundation in Phonics
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Bug Club begins with Phonics Bug teaching software and decodable readers, to help you teach the basics of reading and give your children a flying start. With Phonics Bug at your side, teaching phonics is easy. The whole-class teaching software gives you everything you need for front-of-class teaching and the 100% decodable readers, interactive games and fun activity sheets consolidate children’s learning and provide plenty of opportunities for active participation.
Try Kit’s Kip (Student Phonics eBook)|
Bug Club Planning & Assessment guides
A Planning & Assessment Guide for each year of Bug Club includes comprehensive lesson plans, guided reading notes for every title and running records to help you and your Teaching Assistants with group sessions.
There are plenty of ideas for speaking, listening and 
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With additional teaching support available via Bug Club's online reading world, and huge range of activity sheets and Guided Reading Cards for each title, Bug Club's teaching support is simply unbeatable.
From Guided Reading Card for Shaun the Sheep: Too Many Jobs, Bug Club fiction reader
Bug Club parent support
Bug Club is like an enormous virtual book bag for children, teachers and parents too. There's lots of support throughout the programme to help parents provide the vital encouragement children need to continue their reading journey at home as well as at school.
|Each Bug Club reader contains brilliant support for parents, with plenty of jargon-free parent notes, independent reading tips and quick games to play with their children as they read their Bug Club books at home.
Parent notes from The Pirate and the Potter Family, Bug Club fiction reader
Bug Club's online reading world is great for parents too.
From their child's personalised Bug Club homepage, parents can understand where their child is they are in terms of their reading ability and find out what they can do to help them, such as hearing their child read aloud, listening together to the eBook narration, or simply sharing in their delight as they complete the online quizzes and earn more Bug Points.
From Parent's Help screen, Bug Club eBooks
To find out how to use Bug Club in your classroom, contact your local representative|.