Fantails are a collection of book-banded books. They have carefully controlled levels according to a students reading age. Each collection of books is set at foundation, emergent, early or fluency levels and can be used alongside other popular reading schemes.The pink banded books are for children just starting to read. Children on the pink band will be getting used to reading from left to right and matching spoken words to written words. Books within this band will have short, simple and predictable text, repetitive sentence structures including high frequency words and a large print size with clear spaces between words. Illustrations will help provide full and direct support for the text. Includes 8 books at each band, 16 pages. Both fiction and non-fiction strands are available.