Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right level

Join the experts on their field trip and discover how the rocks, fossils and soils are a vital part of our planet.

• Topaz/Band 13 books offer longer and more demanding reads for children to investigate and evaluate.
• Text type – An information book.
• The book is organised into short chapters to help children practise the skills of locating and identifying important information.
• The glossary and index on pages 30 and 31 can be used to develop children's information retrieval skills further.
• Curriculum links – Science – Rocks; Geography – Natural resources