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Inspire a love of reading with stories that are written from a child''s perspective and will encourage children to discover the world around them. With audio and activities, Peapod Readers are the perfect start to a child''s journey into learning English.

In The Thing in the Cupboard and Message in an X-bot, Tiger is scared when he meets a strange little robot in the dark, but the mystery thickens when Max and Ant fix the Thing and it plays them a holographic message - find out more in this two part adventure. Also in this cluster find out howone young boy catches a deadly snake in The Deadly Boomslang. And find out more about how television works and how animals communicate in the two non fiction books, What''s on the Box? and Let''s Play and Other Things Animals Say.Each book comes with notes for parents that highlight tricky words or concepts in the books, prompt questions and suggest a range of follow-up activities. The Communication Guided Reading Notes provide step-by-step guided reading support for each book in the Communication cluster, together withguidance about comprehension, assessment for learning and vocabulary enrichment. Hands-on follow-up activities and cross-curricular links are also provided for each book.

Bug Club is a core literacy program providing innovative texts with great content to engage children, it addresses the needs of today''s and tomorrow''s students and teachers.

Project X Origins is a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school. This pack contains 1 set of guided reading notes and 30 reading books, 6 of each of: The Thing in the Cupboard, Message in an X-bot, What''s on the Box?, The Deadly Boomslang, Let''s Play - and other things animals say.

Novels from top authors and illustrators with the variety children need to develop a love of reading! TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality stories enabling children to explore and develop their own reading tastes and interests. It contains stories from a variety of genres including humour, sci-fi, adventure, mystery and historical fiction. These exciting stories are ideal for introducing children to a wide selection of authors and illustrators. There is huge variety to ensure every reader finds books they will enjoy and can read. Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with children''s reading development also available at a href=http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/"www.oxfordowl.co.uk/a. The books are finely levelled, making it easy to match every child to the right book. This pack contains 36 books, six of each of: The Squink, Bigboots the Spider, The Boss Dog of Blossom Street, Oh, Otto!, The Cowboy Next Door, Walrus Joins In."

How did we first try to get to the Moon? What were the first creatures in space? And why do footprints never disappear on the Moon? Find out all about space travel and Moon landings in this simple non-fiction report accompanied by amazing photographs.

These exciting new TreeTops Myths and Legends are guaranteed to appeal to all your junior readers - whatever their cultural background, gender or enthusiasms. These are the oldest and most enduring stories in the world, retold by leading contemporary children''s authors to bring out all of theaction, drama, humour and depth of the original stories in a way that makes them as exciting and meaningful today as ever.The strand is comprised of 24 books, telling a total of around 65 traditional stories from around the world. All of the stories are fully illustrated with stunning, vibrant images. The stories are carefully levelled, making them accessible to the average 7-11 year old reader. A thought-provokingletter from the author explains something about the background of the stories and the process of writing or retelling them. The letter also encourages the reader to make links between stories in a collection - prompting a fascinating investigation of the similarities and differences between storiesthat have evolved from different cultures around the world.Free teaching notes with each pack offer suggestions on how to develop higher order comprehension and writing skills. They also provide short introductions to many of the stories and discussion points to promote meaningful speaking and listening, and reflective reading. The stories are ideal formaking strong links to other areas of curriculum.

Building on the core fiction range in Treetops - quality fiction by top authors, with supporting full colour illustrations. Each of the six titles is supported by parental notes on the inside back cover, and is covered with full teaching support in the handy pick up ''n'' go set of teachingnotes that accompanies the six books.

Designed to fit the National Curriculum, the English 5-14 Guidelines in Scotland and the Northern Ireland Guidelines for English, this is part of the Longman Book Project. The project aims to enable teachers throughout the primary school to teach: language; fiction; and non-fiction. The project also offers practical guidance and in-built record keeping and assessment. It is carefully structured, enabling all teachers throughout the primary school to teach reading and language with success and understanding.

Series Editor: Sue Palmer Non-fiction Editor: Bobbie Neate Longman Book Project non-fiction for ages 4-11: *Motivates a wide range of reading abilities with differentiated text in every book to support struggling readers and extend confident readers *Encourages successful learning of information retrieval skills through clear and consistent page layouts and supportive photography *Develops non-fiction reading and writing skills through National Curriculum and QCA linked cross-curricular subjects *Provides guidance on monitoring progress and assessment for Key Stage 1 and 2 in the Teacher''s Books and Copymaster Books

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This structured, whole-school grammar solution covers the main NLS sentence objectives. It links grammar to writing, and has flexible, differentiated resources for use alongside any literacy programme. Grammar is introduced through games and activities, each focusing on one grammatical theme.

Designed to fit the National Curriculum, the English 5-14 Guidelines in Scotland and the Northern Ireland Guidelines for English, this is part of the Longman Book Project. The project aims to enable teachers throughout the primary school to teach: language; fiction; and non-fiction. The project also offers practical guidance and in-built record keeping and assessment. It is carefully structured, enabling all teachers throughout the primary school to teach reading and language with success and understanding. the first two, and these are divided into four stages: 4-7 years; 7-9 years; 9-10 years; and 10-12 years. The titles within the stages in fiction are: reading aloud, read on; new reader; independent reader; literature and culture - respectively. The respective language topics are: phonetics, handwriting and spelling; handwriting, spelling and grammer; presentation, spelling and grammer; and presentation, spelling and grammer. The final area covered is non-fiction, which is organized into two stages: 4-9 years - introducing reading for information; and 7-12 years - developing reading for information. organized to support children''s early reading development; large format books for reading aloud as well as books for the younger children to read for themselves; and myths and legends for older children. spelling that aims to link the teaching of phonics for initial reading to basic handwriting skills, and later to the teaching of spelling; and it has its own story-context and teaches through games, songs, puppetry and other fun activities. In Language 2, 3 and 4, for the middle and upper primary years, the project offers three packs providing a language scheme covering: handwriting, spelling, grammar, presentation, punctuation and assessment. initiating or supplementing topic work; large format starter books for the early years; and a range of different types of information books such as encyclopaedia, atlas, cookbook. cassettes, software, posters and assessment materials are also offered as part of the package.

Rat-a-tat-tat is a Channel Four schools TV series, used by 25 per cent of primary schools in the UK. Channel Four commissioned Oxford University Press to produce three fill-in phonics workbooks, to offer a progression of phonics teaching linked to the NLS framework, based on the picture books used in the series. The workbooks therefore offer picture-book pages on the left-hand page, and phonics exercises on the right-hand page, progressing in difficulty through the 3 years of KS1.

Five little white mice go to school. Includes full-color illustrations. Picture Book: 24 pages.

Stage 8 introduces six more exciting stories from Duck Green School, including three more Treasure Chest stories. In "Dinosaur Danger" Grandma Lalloo tells Buzz about the dinosaur with a sore paw; Jo discovers how a princess is rescued from a lighthouse in "The Flying Tea Tray"; and Poppy meets a star-struck troll in "The Trolls'' Hat". Meanwhile, disaster is imminent when the photographer comes to Duck Green School in "Watch the Birdie"; Mike and Spike foil a robbery at an art gallery in"The Spooky Eyes"; and Lollipop Lil displays magical powers in "The Summer Fair".

The Oxford Literacy Web is an exciting new literacy programme designed to guide schools successfully through the primary years. Fitting the requirements of the National Literacy Strategy, National Curriculum in England and Wales, English Language 5-14 in Scotland, and Common Curriculum in Northern Ireland, the Oxford Literacy Web guides pupils through the core skills associated with learning to read and write with a diverse range of literary styles within the genres of fiction, non-fiction, rhymes, language, and poetry. The "Fiction" strand: there can be no better way to learn to read than through the Duck Green School and Variety story strands. Exciting stories, hilarious events, and dynamic illustrations combine to ensure diversity and enjoyment. In the Duck Green School stories, early school experiences are brought to life through a cast of lovable characters. Children can enjoy their own `soap opera'' while learning specific vocabulary in context. In the Stage 1Duck Green Stories, the reception class children find out more about life at Duck Green School, rescue an injured baby bird, and attend a Bonfire Night fireworks party. The books are available in both standard and `big book'' format.