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Product DescriptionIn this cluster Cat builds a home for Ted in A Home for Ted. Ant's hamster, Pickles, goes missing in Hamster on the Run. In The New Home, Meg finds a new home with a difference. Also in this cluster, find out more about what we do our homes and what otters do in their homes in the two nonfiction titles In the Home and Otters at Home.Each book comes with notes for parents that highlight tricky words or concepts in the books, prompt questions and suggest a range of follow-up activities. The My Home Guided Reading Notes provide step-by-step guided reading support for each book in the My Home cluster, together with guidance aboutcomprehension, assessment for learning and vocabulary enrichment. Hands-on follow-up activities and cross-curricular links are also provided for each book.About the AuthorJan and Sara were already friends when they discovered they both wanted to write children's books and that it was much more fun to do it together. In between the cups of tea and gossip they have managed to produce over eighty stories. As well as working for OUP they have written many otherstories for primary school children of different ages and abilities. These are wide-ranging and include stories about ghosts, football, ghosts playing football, a Tudor girl detective, dinosaurs and an old lady who goes back to school at the age of 109!