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.


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.



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.







*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.