Young Explorers 1 Lazy Lenny

• Stories have been written using high-frequency words plus story-specific words which are clarified by illustrations, where possible

• High-frequency words have been taken from the UK National Literacy Strategy and correlated with the Ladybird Key Words list and the words most commonly used by L1 children in their own writing

• Phonetically-regular words are included in a meaningful and contextualised way

• Each Reader contains one complete story with some of the characters reappearing at higher levels, providing a sense of continuity and familiarity to the reader

• Contains a word list and language structure section at the back of the book