Literacy Land Series

Dear Grandpa Genre Fluent stage letter Book 1

by Jenny Alexander, Christine Hall, and Martin Coles

Published 1 October 2001

Genre Range for ages 5-11: * Provides exciting and engaging texts from all the fiction genres children need to experience and understand.* Offers rich opportunities for speaking and listening through playscripts and poetry ranging from classics to contemporary.* Provides easily manageable drama for study and performance in the classroom and an introduction to Shakespeare in Key Stage 2.* Especially motivates and supports reluctant readers through accessible, visual genres such as comic strips and Access texts for ages 9-11.* Provides varied models for writing for comparison, discussion and practice with letters and diaries providing particularly supportive examples of written communication.* Simple integration of assessment for learning into class teaching is provided in the Teaching Notes which ensure children's reading and writing skills progress at word, sentence and text level.* Accessible Teaching Notes and Activity sheets ensure teachers, teaching assistants and parents are all able to contribute to teaching and learning.

Goose Chase, The Story Street Beginner Stage Step 1 Storybook 6

by Jeremy Strong, Martin Coles, and Christine Hall

Published 24 January 2000

Story Street for ages 4-7: * Ensures children progress at the right pace with supportive, gradual porgression through carefully graded steps. * Provides engaging humour and lively fiction plots provided by top authors and illistrators enhance excellence and enjoyment in teaching and learning. * Includes varied fiction styles are introduced through fantasy, cliff-hanger, adventure and novelty format titles to motivate and maintain attention. * Promotes valuable awareness of community and citizenship as Story Street is modelled round a contemporary multi-cultural community and many titles are ideal for teaching citizenship and PSHE including issues that range from conversation to bullying. * Specific assessment activities to help teachers monitor children's reading progress and simple integration of assessment for learning throughout Story Street Teacher's Notes ensure children's reading and writing skills progress at word, sentence and text level. * Accessible Teaching Notes and Activity sheets ensure teachers, teaching assistants and parents are all able to contribute to teaching and learning with simple integration of assessment and learning.
* Covers ICT and literacy with vibrant talking books, author video clips and activities on CDROM for ages 5-7.

Streetwise Mr Darwin and the Ape Boy

by Christine Hall, Linda Newbery, and Martin Coles

Published 15 March 2004

Streetwise for ages 7-11: *Guarantees children have thrilling, entertaining and absorbing texts written by exceptional authors such as Jeremy Strong, Linda Newberry and Jean Ure. *Engages readers in themed short story collections specially designed for guided reading which include one classic story and two new stories. *Encourages children to develop personal preferences by reading a wide range of texts in different themes. *Supports development of reading stamina through novels which gradually increase in length for independant reading. *Explicitly suggests speaking and listening and drama opportunities for every novel and short story in the Teaching Notes to imaginatively extended teaching. *Encourages and supports reluctant readers through Access versions of every short story collection and one novel per literary theme. *Simple integration of assessment for learning in class teaching and lesson planning throughout the Teaching Notes.

Streetwise The Guess, the Curse and the Message: Supernatural Short Stories Standard

by Christine Hall, Jenny Alexander, Dick King-Smith, Pratima Mitchell, and Martin Coles

Published 15 March 2004

Step Pack 10 Year 4

by Jenny Alexander, Christine Hall, Martin Coles, Jeremy Strong, and Kaye Umansky

Published 28 September 2001

*Ensures children progress at the right pace with supportive, gradual progression through carefully graded steps. *Provides engaging humour and lively fiction plots provided by top authors and illustrators enhance excellence and enjoyment in teaching and learning. *Includes varied fiction styles are introduced through fantasy, cliff-hanger, adventure and novelty format titles to motivate and maintain attention. *Promotes valuable awareness of community and citizenship as Story Street is modelled round a contemporary multi-cultural community and many titles are ideal for teaching citizenship and PSHE including issues that range from conservation to bullying. *Specific assessment activities to help teachers monitor children's reading progress and simple integration of assessment for learning throughout Story Street Teacher's Notes ensure children's reading and writing skills progress at word, sentence and text level. *Accessible Teaching Notes and Activity sheets ensure teachers, teaching assistants and parents are all able to contribute to teaching and learning with simple integration of assessment for learning.
*Covers ICT and literacy with vibrant talking books, author video clips and activities on CDROM for ages 5-7.

Think about it! Info Trail Competent Book 15

by Jenny Alexander, Christine Hall, and Martin Coles

Published 18 April 2001

Info Trail for ages 5-11: *Enthuses all readers with attention-grabbing titles, engaging humour and inventive topics to inspire excellence and enjoyment in learning.*Provides broad and rich cross-curricular content linked to History, Geography and Science with many matches to National Curriculum and QCA topics.*Provides excellent models for writing with coverage of all NLS non-fiction text types pupils need to experience and understand.*Especially motivates and supports reluctant readers through supportive illustrations and Access texts for ages 9-11.*Promotes valuable awareness of community and citizenship through many titles based around community, environment and health. *Simple integration of assessment for learning into class teaching is provided in the Teaching Notes which ensure children's reading and writing skills progress at word, sentence and text level. *Accessible Teaching Notes and Activity sheets ensure teachers, teaching assistants and parents are all able to contribute to teaching and learning.