Best Selling Books by Rosalind Kerven

Built for Guided Reading at Key Stage 2

A major reading scheme for the teaching of reading and the development of literacy throughout the primary years. Ingrid and Kjartan live in the troubled Viking Age: danger is everywhere and no stranger can be trusted. So what should they do when a foreigner comes knocking at their door, begging for help? The law-makers are hunting him down as an evil criminal, but he insists he is innocent. As they struggle to discover the truth, the two children are swept up into a terrifying adventure and a desperate race against time. Sorcery and Gold is one of eleven books that make up Extended Reading Level B, for children in Year 6/Primary 7. This phase of Cambridge Reading has an increased provision of extended narratives and aims to develop children''s knowledge about language, its vocabulary, forms, structures and styles. This book''s Viking setting means it can be read in conjunction with the KS2 History syllabus.

Bold, colourful readers with kid-friendly characters and subjects they''d choose for themselves.

The story is set in a larger-than-life Viking world, where Bjarni the pigboy and Astrid, the landowner''s daughter have a budding romance and no future until a massive and mysterious figure looms out of the mist. He says he is Astrid''s uncle and suggests that Bjarni should try making his fortune as a pirate. But it isn''t giving too much away to reveal that this is Grim Gruesome himself and he soon has both children firmly under his spell. He is an unredeemable monster, who just hates children, for no apparent reason, but hasn''t allowed for how resisitant these two are.

Built for Guided Reading at Key Stage 2

A quest for treasure inside a haunted troll-mound, a boy condemned as an outlaw and banished to the wilderness and a cruel trick that lands two young girls in mortal danger, Grim Gruesome''s cunning knows no bounds! There are lots of surprises and emotional challenges in this adventure.

Introduces some of the beliefs and customs of Muslims, particularly those connected with the Great Festival of Id al-Fitr, or Bairam.

Built for Guided Reading at Key Stage 2.

The Oxford Literacy Web is an exciting new literacy programme designed toguide schools successfully through the primary years. Fitting the requirementsof 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 withlearning to read and write with a diverse range of literary styles within thegenres of fiction, non-fiction, rhymes, language, and poetry.The "Fiction" strand: there can be no better way to learn to read than throughthe Duck Green School and Variety story strands. Exciting stories, hilariousevents, and dynamic illustrations combine to ensure diversity and enjoyment. Inthe Duck Green School stories, early school experiences are brought to lifethrough a cast of lovable characters. Children can enjoy their own ''soap opera''while learning specific vocabulary in context.Stage 4 of Duck Green Stories reinforces earlier sight vocabulary andintroduces 20 new key words. We also meet the children in Miss Ross''s class,including Poppy''s brothers, Mike and Spike, and Leela Lalloo, whose grandparentsown The Treasure Chest. The books are available in both standard and ''big book''format.

This title is part of Bug Club, the first whole-school reading programme that joins books with an online reading world to teach today''s children to read. This title is suitable for ages 7-8 (Brown level).

Discover the ancient secrets of magic and enchantment. Meet genies, fairies and dragon-kings. Learn about spells and shape-changing, wishes, charms, and magic travel. Read how jewels fall from the sky, a man is bewitched and a boy turns into a whale.

In the Court of the Jade Emperor Pack of 6 contains 6 copies of the Extended Reading B book In the Court of the Jade Emperor.

Novel for children set in Lapland.

Nobody goes inside the old, beautiful forest, until one day Janna squeezes under a fence and enters an eerie place. . .

Coyote Girl playscript is a traditional tale that has been retold by popular children''s author Rosalind Kerven. It is one of six playscripts from the Cambridge Reading Range of Genres Strand for children in Key Stage 1/Primary 2 and 3. This guided group reading pack of six comes with free teacher notes containing general guidance on using the play together with more specific teaching points and follow-up activities, allowing children to practice reading, speaking and listening skills. There are six characters in this play, and the order in which the characters are listed on the page reflects the contribution they make. A Big Book is available for shared reading and to introduce children to the play format. The Coyote Girl playscript is an adaptation of an existing Cambridge Reading storybook which gives children the opportunity to reinforce their reading of the original text.

This Big Book version of the play Coyote Girl is ideal for shared reading with 6 7 year olds.

Thirteen tales from a variety of ethnic sources featuring animals important to those cultures.

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. Variety stories extend children''s experience of different styles of fiction. They reinforce vocabulary but include a more challening element to push upward toward the next level.