Students at St Patrick's Primary School Stawell are enjoying new books thanks to a community grant from Stawell Harness Racing Club.
The ‘decodable’ readers are specially designed to allow students to practise their decoding skills.
School principal Chris McAloon said the books were made up of words that students could decode and a small number of high frequency, irregular words that students had been taught.
“By allowing students to apply their letter-sound knowledge and blending skills to read words in connected text, decodable readers can greatly assist students to improve their reading accuracy and fluency,” he said.