Ready to Ride Level 3-5

In Ready to Ride, a young girl and her father prepare for a bike ride by ensuring their safety gear and equipment are ready. The book uses familiar routines to highlight the importance of personal safety and responsibility. Through simple sentence structures, vivid photographs, and illustrations of bike parts, early readers learn how to check tyres, brakes, and helmets before setting off. The text is packed with supportive phonics features, including blends (e.g. œbr-) and digraphs (e.g. œch), as well as vowel sounds (œoo and œee) and silent œe in words like safe. Word endings such as œ-ed support the development of past tense understanding. This book encourages children to think about how they can keep themselves safe during everyday activities and builds early literacy through labelled images and key safety vocabulary. It also aligns with broader themes in the anchor text Taking Care of Yourself, reinforcing health and safety awareness in young learners.

Educational Benefits:

• Promotes self-care and safety awareness in familiar daily routines.
• Develops phonics and decoding skills through targeted sound patterns and blends.
• Strengthens understanding of past tense through use of œ-ed word endings.
• Enhances reading fluency and vocabulary with high-frequency and safety-related words.

Classroom Ideas:

• Have students create a personal safety checklist for biking or walking to school.
• Role-play bike safety scenarios to practise safe decision-making.
• Use labelled diagrams to identify parts of a bike and create posters.
• Pair with outdoor learning activities like safe walking routes or bike practice sessions.

Safety & Information:

• Suitable for ages 4+
• Book dimensions: 20cm x 15cm; 8 pages
• No small parts; safety messages suitable for supervised classroom discussions