11-Plus Reading List
At Succeed 11-Plus Mocks we believe that children should be encouraged and praised for reading books of their choice. However, when your child is preparing for their 11-Plus entrance examinations they need to prepare for the sort of language they will face in the comprehension papers. Reading a variety of books will help them with this challenge.
Reading old and modern children’s classics will help your child develop their comprehension skills and expand their vocabulary, which is essential for the Verbal Reasoning tests. Reading good writing will also help improve your child’s writing style as they will be able identify the use of literary devices e.g. similes and personification etc. in sentences and be able to use these techniques in their own writing. Reading helps improve grammar and spelling too!
The following is intended to be a guide to books suitable for children in years 4, 5 and 6. It covers a range of genres. Some of the texts will be more difficult to read than others, so care should be taken when choosing a book that your child might enjoy. Reading should not be regarded as homework or a chore, but seen as something pleasurable. If your child is not enjoying the book they are reading then reading extracts from the book and discussing the story with your child is a valuable exercise too.
The books that are more challenging and should be read in with an adult are marked with an asterix. For more 11-plus advice and help – please click here.
Happy Reading!
YEAR 4 READING LIST
Berlie Doherty
Street Child
Lynne Reid Banks
The Indian in the Cupboard
Penelope Lively
A Stitch in Time
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
Roger McGough (Edited by)
The Ring of Words (An Anthology of Poetry for Children
Clive King
Stig of the Dump
J.M. Barrie
Peter Pan
Kenneth Graham
The Wind in The Willows
Michelle Paver
Wolf Brother (the whole series)
Michael Morpurgo
The Butterfly Lion
Eva Ibbotson
Journey to the River Sea
The Secret of Platform 13
Dodie Smith
The Hundred and One Dalmations
E. Nesbit
Five Children and It
Anna Sewell
Black Beauty
Kenneth Graham
The Wind in The Willows
Michelle Paver
Wolf Brother (the whole series)
YEAR 5 and 6 READING LIST (the books marked with an * indicate that these are books which due to their content and subject matter are better read with an adult.)
Robert Louis Stevenson
Kidnapped
Treasure Island
H.G. Wells
The War of the Worlds *
E. Nesbit
The Railway Children
Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden
The Little Princess
C.S. Lewis
The Magician’s Nephew
The Lion the Witch and The Wardrobe
Phillippa Pearce
Tom’s Midnight Garden
Michelle Magorian
Goodnight, Mister Tom *
Michael Morpurgo
Private Peaceful *
Lucy Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables
Louise Sachar
Holes *
J.R.R Tolkien
The Hobbit
David Almond
Skellig
Philip Pullman
Northern Lights
Ian Serraillier
The Silver Sword*
Richard Adams
Watership Down
T.H. White
The Sword in the Stone
Michelle Paver
Wolf Brother (the whole series)
Louisa May Alcott
Little Women
Erin Hunter
Warrior Cats
Jack London
White Fang *
Call of the Wild *
Joan Aitkin
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Rudyard Kipling
The Jungle Book
Lewis Carroll
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Paul Gallico
Jennie
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