PYP AGENTS: YEAR 1 READERS

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“Promoting self-direction and inquiry, these highly-engaging, internationally-focused readers capture the imagination of PYP students all over the world.” 

30 PYP books for the transdisciplinary themes

30 x colourful, engaging titles designed for IB Primary Year's Programme Year 1 children. Five books are available for each transdisciplinary theme – increasing in complexity from 'green' to 'turquoise' bands (Institute of Education)

High-interest independent and guided reading

High-interest books for both independent and guided reading. Containing accessible text, additional content for discussion, and humour, these books go beyond the traditional, levelled reader. 

Directly supports the IB PYP units of inquiry

A wide range of exciting topics that directly support PYP units of inquiry. From making ice cream to being a good friend, from dinosaur detectives to wild weather, PYP Agents develops both content knowledge and comprehension. 

Key features

  • Mapped to reading book bands – with the colour shown clearly around the logo on the front cover. 
  • Three reading levels per transdisciplinary theme to help build confidence throughout PYP Year 1.
  • Closely supports the transdisciplinary themes and matched to the PYP key concepts.
  • Helps students to make connections between the books and their own experiences (text-to-self connections) and international-mindedness.
  • Uses humour to promote engagement – an essential component of learning. 
  • Designed to build students’ decoding and visualization skills.
  • Develops content knowledge and comprehension.
  • Supports reading and engagement.

Free teaching frameworks!

Free teaching frameworks provided for each book. Inspirational lesson ideas, PYP learner profile explorations, multiple central ideas, inquiry questions, page-by-page learning sequence ideas and modelled/shared/guiding reading opportunities provided for each book. 

Transdisciplinary Theme: Who We Are

Let's Celebrate Birthdays

A Funny Feeling Inside

Good Friends

Festivals of Light

Eating the Rainbow

Transdisciplinary Theme: Where We Are in Place and Time

Land of Ice and Snow

The Rainforest is my Home

Talking Through Time

Life in a Castle

Dinosaur Detective

Transdisciplinary Theme: How We Express Ourselves

Painting Portraits

The Magic of Music

True Colours

Fantastic Fairy Tales

Dots and Spots

Transdisciplinary Theme: How the World Works

Is the Moon Made of Cheese?

Making Ice Cream

Tiny Seed to Towering Tree

Wild Weather

Amazing Amphibians

Transdisciplinary Theme: How We Organise Ourselves

A Surprise Gift

Money

Unusual Schools Around the World

Giants in the Sky

Fighting Fire

Transdisciplinary Theme: Sharing the Planet

Ready to Recycle

Zookeepers

Wiggly Worms

Food Chains

Endangered Animals