Series:

LITERACY LAND

436 total works

Cover of How to have a Green Day Info Trail Competent Book 6
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.

 

 

Cover of In The Hen House Story Street Beginner Stage Step 2 Storybook 18
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.

Cover of LILA:IT:Independent Access:Pedal Power:Lands End to John O'Groats Info Trail Independent Access
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.

Cover of Streetwise The Secret of Monks Island
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.

Cover of Streetwise Stranded!
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.

Cover of Story-time with Mick Story Street Emergent stage step 4 Storybook 33
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.

Cover of Story Street Fluent Step 11: Taming Tessa Large Book Format
"Story Street for ages 4-7:" *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.

Cover of Collectors, The Genre Competent stage Plays Book 1
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.

Cover of Spock the Donkey Story Street Emergent stage step 4 Storybook 29
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.

Cover of The Missing Shoes Part 1 Story Street Emergent stage step 4 Storybook 31
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.

Cover of LILA:IT:Independent Plus:Inside the Mind of Susan Greenfield - Brain Scientist Info Trail Independent Plus
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.

Cover of Genre Range: Begginner Readers: Whole Class Teaching Anthology Book 1
Comprising three strands ("Story Street", "Genre Range" and "Info Trail") "Literacy Land" was written to match the genre and text types specified by the NLS and contains both fiction and non-fiction. This whole-class teaching anthology is designed for shared reading. Featuring the "Story Street" characters, "Genre Range" presents a captivating range of genres to expand pupils' reading experiences - plays, letters and diaries, comics, traditional tales and poetry. The texts are written or selected to match the reading ability of infants and there is clear progression in both language level and conceptual difficulty. They are designed to provide a strong basis for children's own writing across different genres and are suitable for use alongside any literary resources. The letters and diaries are a variety of personal communications providing examples of writing which are very close to children's immediate experiences and are ideal models for their own writing development. A selection of serious and comic plays provide opportunities for group readings and performance, with the appropriate number of characters for group work.
The plays develop the characters and situations in "Story Street". In the poetry books, children are introduced to different poetic forms through rhymes, songs, riddles, tongue twisters, humorous verse and story poems, among others. The comics, which feature the animals from "Story Street", are ideal for developing visual literacy and for reinforcing children's grasp of basic plot structures through a format that children love. The traditional tales are well-loved fairy tales, folk tales and fables re-told in a straightforward way at a very simple level.

Cover of Genre Range: Teaching Notes & Activity Sheets Y1-2/P2-3
*The Year 1 Fiction Pack contains:- a large format Resource Book, the relevant Teacher's Book, one Acetate Overlay Sheet and a clip to hold the acetate in place - all supplied in a plastic hanging bag. *Covers all NLS writing composition objectives for fiction and non-fiction. *Each Resource Book has 18-20 units of work covering one full year's requirements in a Big Book Format. *Complements the NLS Grammar for Writing and Developing Early Writing Guidance. *Saves planning time with detailed lesson notes for each shared writing session on teacher demonstration, teacher scribing and supported composition. *Examples of completed tasks to help you carry out shared writing sessions. *Teacher's Books contain notes for each unit of work with detailed advice on how to run a shared writing session. They also include mini scripts and examples of completed activities plus, all the texts and frames from the Writing Resource Books as copymasters for follow-up independent work.

Cover of Streetwise The Monkey's Tale
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.

Cover of Streetwise Burglars, Ducks and Kissing Frogs Standard
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.

Cover of Streetwise The Elephant, The Hare and The Black Cobra Standard
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.

Cover of Come and Visit the Moon! Info Trail Emergent Stage Non-Fiction Book 22
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.

Cover of Literacy Land: Genre Range: Year 2/P3 Easy Order Pack
Comprising three strands ("Story Street", "Genre Range" and "Info Trail") "Literacy Land" was written to match the genre and text types specified by the NLS and contains both fiction and non-fiction. This pack contains six copies of all the pupil's books in Emergent Stage. Featuring the "Story Street" characters, "Genre Range" presents a captivating range of genres to expand pupils' reading experiences - plays, letters and diaries, comics, traditional tales and poetry. The texts are written or selected to match the reading ability of infants and there is clear progression in both language level and conceptual difficulty. They are designed to provide a strong basis for children's own writing across different genres and are suitable for use alongside any literary resources. The letters and diaries are a variety of personal communications providing examples of writing which are very close to children's immediate experiences and are ideal models for their own writing development. A selection of serious and comic plays provide opportunities for group readings and performance, with the appropriate number of characters for group work.
The plays develop the characters and situations in "Story Street". In the poetry books, children are introduced to different poetic forms through rhymes, songs, riddles, tongue twisters, humorous verse and story poems, among others. The comics, which feature the animals from "Story Street", are ideal for developing visual literacy and for reinforcing children's grasp of basic plot structures through a format that children love. The traditional tales are well-loved fairy tales, folk tales and fables re-told in a straightforward way at a very simple level.

Cover of LILA:IT:Independent Plus:Turn That Light Out! Home Life in World War II Info Trail Independent Plus
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.

Cover of Don't Bite the Bottom of Your Ice-Cream Cone! Info Trail Beginner Stage Non-Fiction Book 11
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.