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Special Educational Needs

Category SENRising Stars is proud of its Special Educational Needs portfolio of books and software. Everything within it caters for pupils and students who find it difficult to concentrate, to master the skills needed to progress, and lack confidence in certain areas.

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Many of our resources have been developed in association with nasen, the National Association for Special Educational Needs.

  • Phoenix offers students the chance to learn and master their times tables in a new way. By using visual-spatial material, students, and those who suffer with dyslexia, have found it easy to learn and more importantly, to remember their times tables.
  • Double Club Maths and English books have been developed to help both reluctant leaners at Key Stage 2 and students who struggle at Key Stage 3 with these important subjects. Using a football team as a focus, the English and Maths reading material and activities centre around football-specific situations. Ideal to motivate boys!
  • Our readers span Key Stages 1 to 3. Each series' content has been written with a particular age group in mind, with age-appropriate text for struggling readers and themes relating to that specific age group.

Special Educational Needs Highlights

The Matt Merton Mysteries

Graphic novel-style science-fiction books for struggling readers.

The Matt Merton Mysteries

Interact

A dynamic series of issues-based plays to motivate reluctant readers.

Interact

Dangerous Games

Reading books meet graphic novels in this new range of fiction for reluctant readers.

Dangerous Games

Book of the month

 Young Heroes: Saying No to Nick

9781846808104
Price: From £5.99

Testimonials

I spent several lessons with two of my lowest ability reading sets using the Rising Stars plays and was absolutely blown away by their response! They organised themselves into groups without intervention, chose parts independently and then ALL (every student in the class!) took parts to read – without argument, resistance or distraction – and were even laughing along with the stories. ...

Laura Simonson, Manchester Academy

As a pupil support teacher in secondary I have found the Dockside books and resources very useful in assisting reluctant readers to help achieve their potential. The books are colourful and help the pupils think about language and how to use it ...

Scott Davidson, Learning Support Teacher