Stephen Rickard & Stephen Rickard 
Planting My Garden 

This book will show you how to grow flowers and all kinds of plants in your garden. Planting My Garden is a book-banded reading book for developing readers, carefully levelled at Red Book Band for guided reading. Illustrated throughout with beautiful photographs, this 325-word non-fiction title is suitable for struggling teen and adult readers. Planting My Garden features a short, highly-structured text with limited vocabulary, slightly longer, predictable texts, short and clear sentences, and simple story development. It has clear text, appropriate fonts and obvious spacing. Planting My Garden is part of Ransom’s Neutron Stars, a structured reading programme for teens and adults learning the basics of reading. The series offers progression through ten levels of reading, four phonics and six coloured book bands. More information on the structure of the scheme can be found here.