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IB Primary Years Programme (PYP) Readers

Inspire a lifelong love of reading with this specially curated IB PYP Readers Collection, designed to enrich literacy and inquiry across the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme. Each set features an ideal balance of fiction and nonfiction books, aligned with PYP transdisciplinary themes and leveled for progressive reading development.

Each collection includes 30 beautifully illustrated paperback books, providing teachers with a rich variety of texts to engage every type of learner.

Why Educators Love PYP Readers

• Aligned with PYP Themes: Collections are organized by reading level and transdisciplinary theme to seamlessly integrate into your IB PYP curriculum.

• Develop Critical Thinking: Support key IB learner profile attributes by helping students think critically, communicate, and reflect through a wide range of engaging texts.

• Fiction + Nonfiction Balance: Encourage curiosity with diverse genres, beautiful illustrations, and captivating photography that motivate every learner.

• Build Core Reading Skills: Strengthen comprehension, inference, and deduction with comprehensive teacher guidance and assessment support.

• Flexible Formats: Available in both print and eBook formats, allowing for a smooth transition between school and home learning.

Teacher’s Handbook Included

Each collection comes with a Teacher’s Handbook offering practical guidance on how to make the most of your readers in a PYP classroom. Inside you’ll find:

• Strategies for selecting the right book for each student

• Inquiry-based pre-reading activities to spark curiosity

• Post-reading ideas for discussion and reflection

• Assessment tools to track reading growth

Perfect For

• IB World Schools implementing the Primary Years Programme

• Teachers seeking inquiry-driven literacy resources

• Classrooms aiming to build reading confidence and comprehension

Early readers
Art in the Woods
Colour Bears
Dance to the Beat
Dinosaur Rock
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Hector and the Cello
How to make Pop-Up Cards
Super Sculptures
The Owl and the Pussycat
This is Me!

Intermediate readers
And Now Nobody Likes Me
How to Draw Cartoons
I Never Know How Poems Start
Imagine a Garden
Inside the Puppet Theatre
The Porridge Pincher
The Ravens' Call
The Storyteller of Ketu
Tiger's Tale
Twinkle, Twinkle, Firefly
We See a Cloud

Advanced readers
Aladdin and the Genies
Big Feelings
Going Offline
I Am Awesome
The Lost Gardens
The Signalman
Treasure Box
What Are You Looking At?
Write to Feel Right