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Product DescriptionTrackers matches the quality of any mainstream resource and gives struggling readers the motivation and interest to want to read. Trackers also teaches and practises more of the key reading skills than any other SEN course, e.g. high frequency words, phonics, syntax and semantics, whilstcomplementing and extending the Additional Literacy Support (DFES) and Further Literacy Support (DFES) initiatives. The teaching support, high quality PCMs in the Teacher's Guides to Guided Reading Booklets, has been written for the range of adults who work with struggling readers. Trackers Varietyfiction enables the struggling reader to read the same authors as their peers whilst broadening their reading experience. Other Trackers strands, available for all Trackers levels, are: Non-fiction, Space School Stories, Space School Stories software.Review[Avalanche]:[The children] like the story because it was excitingThe dialogue and tension in the story lend themselves very well to developing expression when reading[The Hole]:[the child] felt that he really wanted to visit the hole and see what it was like- to explore the areaThe pictures helped to make the whole book more real - to the extent that [the child] wished to be part of itAbout the AuthorRobert Swindells is a prestigious and prolific children's writer and is the winner of many awards including the Carnegie Medal for his novel Stone Cold. Alan Gibbons is the winner of the Blue Peter Book Award 2000 for The Shadow of the Minotaur and was short listed for the Carnegie medal. KateRuttle is the series Editor for Quest, e-Quest, Read-at Home series and Writers Workshop (due to be published 2006) She has also published assessment tracking resource and a handwriting course for CUP. She has been the series editor for the whole of the Trackers series. She is a practising primaryteacher (Advanced skills teacher for literacy) and she contributes regularly to education journals.