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Hero Academy

A decorative image of some hero characters from the Hero Academy books

Turn your students into reading superheroes

Project X Hero Academy is a series designed to motivate young readers and turn them into reading superheroes. Hero Academy is composed of 78 fiction books that are fully decodable and matched to the Letters and Sounds phonics sequence.

The fine phonic progression ensures that all children can access the series as they embed their whole-class phonic teaching.

 

A decorative image of some of the book covers from the Hero Academy series

Exciting student books

The student books are fully decodable and designed to motivate all students to become reading superheroes. This exciting series is finely levelled, features engaging superhero and villain characters and includes guided reading notes for every title. Each story can be used independently, one-to-one or in guided reading sessions.

Hero Academy is fully decodable with a fine phonic progression in line with the Letters and Sounds phonics sequence. This supportive phonics framework ensures the series is accessible to all students.

  • An image showing a hero character profile page in a Hero Academy book. The character shown is Nish, nicknamed Nimbus.

    Hero profiles

    Hero profiles feature at the start of each story so readers can identify which characters will appear in the story and the special power they use against the villains.
  • This image shows a villian character profile from a Hero Academy book. It shows the character and facts about it, including its hobbies, likes and dislikes.

    Villain profiles

    Villain profiles provide background information on the series villains including their appearance, catchphrase, hobby, likes, dislikes and a warning about their villainous powers
  • This image shows a story map from a Hero Academy book. The map shows images from the book with arrows pointing to the next image, indicating what happened next in the story.

    Story maps

    Retell pages help students develop comprehension skills such as determining importance, visualising, and monitoring comprehension.

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