Build essential comprehension strategies

Access supportive teaching resources

Apply skills to broader literacy activities

Unlock student potential with NovaStar's comprehensive reading series. Develop essential comprehension skills through targeted strategies, guided by teacher support, fostering a love for reading.

Supports explicit teaching practices for targeted literacy outcomes

Provides clear learning objectives and success criteria

Demonstrates and scaffolds complex literacy skills

Empower teachers with explicit strategies and resources for scaffolding complex literacy skills. Confidently guide students towards reading success. Use texts in lessons focusing on Novel Studies, as Mentor Texts or for Building Background Knowledge.

Use Inside Front Cover notes to guide lessons and teach key comprehension skills

Access Quick-Start Guides to facilitate building bespoke lessons for Novel Studies units, or using NovaStar as Mentor Texts or for Building Background Knowledge

Adapt lessons to meet diverse classroom needs using the customisable lesson plan template

 14 free NovaStar Lesson Plan exemplars to save teachers time, offering flexible mini-lessons across Background Knowledge, Fluency, Comprehension, Vocabulary, etc, providing specific activities

The full range of NovaStar teacher support resources can be downloaded here.

Explore a range of fiction and non-fiction texts

Inspire young readers with exciting storylines

Engage in literacy activities within and beyond the text

NovaStar titles engage and maintain student interest through diverse characters and storylines, captivating narratives and artwork, and contemporary and knowledge-rich non-fiction texts.

Build knowledge across a variety of topics

Develop reading comprehension skills

Broaden students' real-world connections

Ignite curiosity and foster knowledge-building with NovaStar's diverse collection of fiction and non-fiction titles. Engage students as they connect existing knowledge with new information, expanding their understanding.