Author Description

<p><i>Genre Range</i> for ages 5-11:</p> <ul> <li>Provides exciting and engaging texts from all the fiction genres children need to experience and understand.</li> <li>Offers rich opportunities for speaking and listening through playscripts and poetry ranging from classics to contemporary.</li> <li>Provides easily manageable drama for study and performance in the classroom and an introduction to Shakespeare in Key Stage 2.</li> <li>Especially motivates and supports reluctant readers through accessible, visual genres such as comic strips and Access texts for ages 9-11.</li> <li>Provides varied models for writing for comparison, discussion and practice with letters and diaries providing particularly supportive examples of written communication.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Accessible Teaching Notes and Activity sheets ensure teachers, teaching assistants and parents are all able to contribute to teaching and learning.</li> </ul>