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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[Billy the Hero]: Ben loved the story, he found it funny and was very keen to tell everyone else about it.[Cat's Tail]: I liked the book too and cannot find anything that I would like to change.About the AuthorAlan Brown writes for children and for teachers. Stephen Elboz was awarded the Smarties Young Judges' Prize for his first published novel, The House of Rats http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-275229-4. And has since written many more books including the 'Kit Stixby' series of books Handful ofMagic http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-275134-4, A Land Without Magic http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-275199-9, A Wild Kind of Magic http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-275265-0 and An Ocean of Magic http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-275343-6 Kate Ruttle is the series Editor for Quest, e-Quest, Read-at Homeseries 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 primary teacher (Advanced skills teacher for literacy) and shecontributes regularly to education journals.