Collins Soundbites is a revolutionary series of readers for 11-14 year olds with poor literacy skills. The Turning Point has a reading age of 8-9 and around 40 words per page. It tells a powerful multicultural story of gangs and goes on to introduce students to some basic PSHE concepts. This pack contains six copies.Soundbites is a graded series of readers aimed at reluctant readers in Key Stage 3, with accompanying teaching resources.Soundbites has three progressive stages of readers. The Turning Point is a stage 3 title with a reading age of 8-9 and around 40 words per page. Six different level 1 books are available in a pack (0003230856).The book includes a tense story about gangs, as well as basic English concepts.A variety of text types are used, such as autobiographies, biographies, journals, diaries, letters (personal and formal), travel writing, leaflets, reports, reviews, adverts, newspaper/magazine articles, tables.Specialised, difficult or technical vocabulary is explained on the page, plus a one-page glossary at the end.The topics covered address the KS3 English and PHSE curricula.Photocopiable teaching resources, containing a range of literacy-boosting activities, are available in the Soundbites Bumper Pack (ISBN 0 00 323086 4) or individually (0007116926).