The Rapid programme is the ultimate solution to support you in your work with children who find reading difficult. It provides:

• finely-levelled readers that contain engaging fiction, non-fiction, play scripts and poems
• motivating software for reading practice
• benchmark assessment texts to monitor children's reading progress
• guidance and teaching support, within the readers and this Teaching Guide

The Teaching and Assessment Guide helps you to:

• get started with the different components of the Rapid programme
• support your struggling readers in both one-on-one reading sessions and Guided Reading sessions
• provide follow-up work to each Rapid text
• embed assessment when using Rapid, including a new written assessment section