Product reviews for The College Collection Set 1 – for reluctant readers

-‹Reading schemes for older students are a mixed bag, if truth be told. Getting the right balance of accessible language and genuinely appealing storylines can be tricky - but with this collection it looks like -˜Georgina Jonas' (a collaboration between a teacher and a former head) might well have nailed it. The first five books introduce us to each of the main characters around which the series centres. The sixth, longer story sees them thrown together at college for a project that takes them on a surprising and challenging adventure. With a reading age of 9-13, and interest age of 11+, the carefully constructed narratives reinforce high frequency words and core phonics, making them a superb bridge between base level schemes and longer, more complex texts; besides being thoroughly engaging reads in their own right.