PM Writing is a complete teaching, learning, and assessment resource that places an emphasis on the development of the writing process in the early years of school. PM Writing provides explicit and systematic instruction in writing, incorporating shared, guided and independent writing, and independent reading. Through the PM Writing components, students are gradually introduced to […]

The 26 PM Alphabet Starters books provide an in-depth understanding about the letters of the alphabet and the sounds they represent. Each book contains five or seven words that begin with the same letter, allowing students to concentrate on one letter sound at a time. The words are supported by clear photographs to aid understanding. […]

The PM Library: Sapphire books provide a selection of topics for discussion. Ideal for small-group teaching, the chapter books explore themes such as friendship, bullying, adjusting to a new school, as well as fantasy and historical fiction. The non-fiction texts at this level focus on travel, discovery, and exploration throughout the world. They offer a […]

PM Library: Ruby chapter books offer a range of content, characters, discussion topics, narratives and points of view. They explore issues such as bullying, natural disasters and astronomy. The PM Plus Ruby level non-fiction titles focus on the changing environment, while the PM Library Ruby non-fiction titles explore student-centred sport. These titles are linked to […]

PM Library: Emerald books provide a selection of stories featuring a range of content, characters, issues for discussion, narrative structures and points of view. They were specifically written with the needs of small-group teaching in mind, and cover a range of topics that give plenty of scope for group discussion in guided reading. Topics include […]

At PM Library: Silver level, students are expected to have a deeper, inferential understanding of the texts they read. The stories concern real-life problems, reflecting the relative maturity of these students. Sentences with two or three clauses and several verbs become more common at this level. Visually confusing elisions, such as we’re, are introduced, and […]

In PM Library: Gold level, sentences are more complicated and are of an average length of ten words. To complete this level successfully, students need to apply reading strategies such as breaking long words down into syllables and recognizing word onsets. The Gold level consolidates young readers’ recognition of common suffixes, such as -ful, and […]

The PM Library: Purple level books feature a range of different activities and sports that attract children at this age. Readers will practice skills such as the ability to break spoken and written words into syllables, respond to digraphs and blends, decode grapho-phonic cues, identify silent letters, notice common prefixes, and read common suffixes. Students […]

At PM Library: Turquoise level, many of the books involve experiences of excitement and fear. This level also develops readers’ understanding of particular topics, such as kindness and bullying. The Turquoise level secures students’ recognition of many irregular high-frequency words that were introduced in the Green and Orange levels, including believe and through. This level […]

At PM Library: Orange level, new high-frequency words continue to be introduced at a gentle rate. Three-syllable words are introduced, along with opportunities for teaching students how to break difficult words down into smaller parts or syllables. At this stage, readers become aware of story structure, and are able to discuss it and become inspired […]

By the PM Library: Green level, students should recognize familiar suffixes, such as -ing, -ed and -er, and clusters of letters in the words they meet in reading, for example, -ill in still, will and hill. Students should be familiar with approximately 250 high-frequency words by the end of PM Green.

PM Library: Blue books feature recurring characters, family events, and school situations. Students should be familiar with approximately 160 high-frequency words by the end of the Blue level.