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The truth is that for those who dare to be different school and growing up can be hell. Truth & Dare is a collection of edgy, quirky stories that revolve around a funny, nerdy cast of characters who struggle to fit in . . . or struggle not to. They will appeal to the inner geek of anyone caught up in attempts to navigate the labyrinthine teen caste system. Written in authentic teen voices, they speak to fans of the movies Juno and Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist and the TV series The Gilmore Girls. Witty and smart, these are short stories from the point of view of funny, though not always cool or popular guys and girls, who are dealing with all the pressures of growing up - school, friends, music, relationships, parents, and just plain fitting in (or not).Contributors:Jennifer Finney Boylan is author of eleven books, five of which are YA books. Sarah Rees Brennan is author of The Demon's Lexicon, which was one of Kirkus' Best Books, ALA's Top Ten Best Books and a Best British Fantasy book. Cecil Castellucci author of Rose Sees Red and a picture book Grandma's Gloves. Emma Donoghue author of Booker-shortlisted Room.AM Homes is the winner of the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Orange) for her novel May We Be Forgiven. She is also the author of, This Book Will Save Your Life, Music For Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers, and Jack.Jennifer R. Hubbard author of the contemporary YA novel The Secret Year, published in 2010.Heidi R. Kling is the author of the Penguin Young Readers YA novel Sea, a story of hope after tragedy set in the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami.Michael Lowenthal is the author of the novels Charity Girl, Avoidance, and The Same EmbraceSaundra Mitchell author of Shadowed Summer and The Vespertine.Luisa Plaja author of the teen novels-Split by a Kiss, Swapped by a Kiss and Extreme Kissing.Matthue Roth author of Never Mind the Goldbergs, his first novel, a coming-of-age taleSherry Shahan has written over 30 books, including Purple Daze. Shelley Stoehr author of four award-winning novels for Young Adults, including the still popular, award-winning, Crosses. Ellen Wittlinger had her first teen novel, Lombardo's Law,published in 1993. Jill Wolfson author of award-winning novels for young people including What I Call Life; Home, and Other Big, Fat Lies; and Cold Hands, and Warm Heart.Also includes: Courtney Gillette, Jennifer Knight, Gary Soto, and Sara Wilkinson

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Interest ages: 4-7 Level: KS1 Subject: reading In this non-decodable, fiction Reading Corner book, when the school hall leaks, Jay suggests putting on a play to raise money to save the school from closure. But Mr Slime wants to build a hotel on the site so he steals the costumes! Jay and Sniffer chase him to the park where he falls into the pond. The school performs the play in the park. Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools A Bug Club Reading Corner book designed for reading for pleasure Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children aged 4-7 This title is part of Pearson's Bug Club, a reading programme used in over 3500 schools. Reading Corner books are designed to help children to develop a love of reading through reading for pleasure. For more Bug Club books and learn at home resources, search for Bug Club.

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Level 1 of a 6 levelled new course that includes rich international content to teach reading comprehension, writing and speaking and listening skills to first and second language learners. Each Anthology chapter is divided into thematic chapters of either fiction, non-fiction or poetry from around the world. The Anthology should be used alongside our write-in Student Activity Book which provides activities to develop reading comprehension, writing and speaking and listening skills, linked to the reading texts in this Anthology. An accompanying Teacher Resource Book provides step-by-step guidance on delivering effective lessons and assessing pupils progress to ensure core skills are taught in a consistent way.

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When the school hall leaks, Jay suggests putting on a play to raise money to save the school from closure. But Mr Slime wants to build a hotel on the site so he steals the costumes! Jay and Sniffer chase him to the park where he falls into the pond. The school performs the play in the park. Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 5-6 (Year 1) Book band: Blue C Phonics phase: 5

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Reema Trotter's Uncle 'Globe' is no ordinary uncle - he has lots of exciting adventures! What's more, he often needs Reema's help. This time he's discovered buried treasure. Reema must explore a world of warriors, weapons and skeletons to help him solve the mystery of the treasure's owner. Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 8-9 (Year 4) Book band: Grey A Phonics phase: N/A

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When a hole appears in the school roof the children decide to have a bike race to raise money for the repairs. On the morning of the race they discover that their bikes have disappeared. Jay and Sniffer follow some tyre tracks to a rubbish tip. They catch the thief and recover the bikes. Back at school the race is on! Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 5-6 (Year 1) Book band: Blue A Phonics phase: 5

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Make a real connection with history as you explore the past by meeting all sorts of characters. Find out how different people in different time periods lived their lives and what they may have thought about the world.

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Interest ages: 4-7 Level: KS1 Subject: reading In this non-decodable, fiction Reading Corner book, the children decide to have a bike race to raise money for the repairs to the hole in the school roof. On the morning of the race they discover that their bikes have disappeared. Jay and Sniffer follow some tyre tracks to a rubbish tip. They catch the thief and recover the bikes. Back at school the race is on! Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools A Bug Club Reading Corner book designed for reading for pleasure Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children aged 4-7 This title is part of Pearson's Bug Club, a reading programme used in over 3500 schools. Reading Corner books are designed to help children to develop a love of reading through reading for pleasure. For more Bug Club books and learn at home resources, search for Bug Club.

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Level 1 of a 6 levelled course specifically designer for the international classroom. This write-in book includes carefully levelled activities linked to develop reading comprehension, writing and speaking and listening skills. The activities are linked to the Student Anthology chapters of fiction, non-fiction and poetry from around the world to develop core language and literacy skills. An accompanying Teacher Resource Book provides step-by-step guidance on delivering effective lessons and assessing pupils progress to ensure core skills are taught in a consistent way.

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Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that together provide a consistent and highly effective approach to teaching phonics. Discover the prehistoric world of dinosaurs in this non-fiction book, written by Liz Miles. Pages 22 and 23 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall. Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.

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Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. The 7+ books are designed for children aged 7+ who need more practice to acquire phonics skills. They have age-appropriate content, more mature images, and are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 3–5. Discover what animals, insects and birds exist in the different layers of an Amazon rainforest tree – from the forest floor, to the emergent layer – in this photographic non-fiction book. Blue/Band 4 books offer longer, repeated patterns with sequential events and integrated literary and natural language. The focus sounds in this book are: /ch/ /sh/ /th/ /ng/ /ai/ /ee/, and adjacent consonants. Pages 22 and 23 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall. Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.

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Disaster strikes the school when a huge tree falls, making a terrible mess. Jay has the idea of raising money to fix the playground by holding a cake sale. But Mr Slime has a cunning plan to ruin the sale by putting green goo on the cakes. Sniffer discovers him and attacks Mr Slime so that he falls into the green goo. Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 5-6 (Year 1) Book band: Blue B Phonics phase: 5

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Project X Hero Academy is a fully decodable and finely levelled reading series set in a school for superheroes, designed to captivate and motivate all young readers and turn them into reading superheroes. Slink's Snack is in Red Book Band, Oxford Level 2, and supports Letters and Sounds Phase 3. In this story, Slink, the school cat, goes to the kitchen in the middle of the night to make himself a snack, but gets a shock from Miss Baker, the dinner lady! Each book can be used for independent reading, but also contains inside cover notes that include help on developing vocabulary and prompt questions that can be used for guided reading and one-to-one sessions. Full guided reading notes are provided in the corresponding handbook. There are also a range of follow-up activities to support reading for pleasure.

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Learn about three different farmers who live around the world. Using the world's largest known database of writing for and by children, our experts have defined 300 ambitious words to help children succeed at school. We've combined these with fully-decodable books that help you match your phonics teaching and practice, while inspiring and engaging your young readers. Specially developed to enhance children's vocabulary alongside their decoding skills, these books are perfect for sharing.

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The Level 6 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. Stories, More Stories A and More Stories B involve familiar situations and a variety of fantasy settings through the magic key adventures. Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with childrens reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk. Contains one copy of the six titles at Oxford Reading Level 6.

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The Level 6 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. Stories, More Stories A and More Stories B involve familiar situations and a variety of fantasy settings through the magic key adventures. This pack includes one copy of each of the following titles: Land of the Dinosaurs, In the Garden, Kipper and the Giant, The Outing, Robin Hood, and The Treasure Chest. Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with childrens reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.

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The Level 5 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. Stories, More Stories A, More Stories B and More Stories C take the children from familiar, predictable events at home and school into the less certain realms of fantasy through the magic key adventures. Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with childrens reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk. Contains one copy of each of the six titles at Oxford Reading Level 5.

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Art is all around us! It's in the streets, on walls, in parks and sometimes even floating above our heads! In this book you will discover ... A car that looks like it has crashed through a wall! Huge faces that appear magically on trees ... A street artist with a secret identity ... and much, much more. You may also pick up some exciting new art and street performance skills along the way! Art on the Streets is part of the Reading Planet range of books for Stars (Lime) to Supernova (Red+) band. Children aged 7-11 will love reading the exciting collection of fiction and non-fiction written by top authors. Inspire them to keep reading through gripping stories and fascinating information books packed with rich language and stunning artwork. Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and questions to support reading at home and develop comprehension skills.Reading age: 8-9 years

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Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers. The 7+ books are designed for children aged 7+ who need more practice to acquire phonics skills. Travel back in time to ancient Rome and see what life was like in this city. From homes and sanitation through to gladiators, learn about the city that became the centre of the Roman Empire. What do you think is the most interesting part of life in Rome?

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Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that together provide a consistent and highly effective approach to teaching phonics. In many ways, the North and South Poles couldn't be further apart. Discover what makes them different in this photographic non-fiction book. Pages 22 and 23 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall. Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.

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Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. The 7+ books are designed for children aged 7+ who need more practice to acquire phonics skills. They have age-appropriate content, more mature images, and are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 3–5. Learn all about amazing spiders and how they attack, attract, catch and eat their prey, from tunnel spinning spiders and net-casting spiders to the biggest Goliath spider – and how they evade attack too! Green/Band 5 books offer early readers patterned language and varied characters. The focus sounds in this book are: /ai/ ay, a-e, ey /ee/ ie, ea /igh/ i-e, i. Pages 30 and 31 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall. Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.

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Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1–6 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding vocabulary. How high can you go? From playground swings to firefighters and hang gliders, discover all the different ways people like to reach for the sky. Red B/Band 2B books offer simple but varied text with familiar objects and actions, combined with simple story development and a satisfying conclusion. The focus sounds in this book are: /ai/ /ee/ /igh/ /oa/ /oo/ /oo/ /ar/ /ur/ /ow/ /ear/ /air/ /er/ Pages 14 and 15 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall. Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.

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Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right level This book will show you how to be a landscape detective! The way we use the land around us has changed a lot over the centuries, and it’s still changing today. Visit Colchester in Essex and Portree on the Isle of Skye to find out how! Emerald/Band 15 books provide a widening range of genres including science fiction and biography, prompting more ways to respond to texts. Text type: An information book Curriculum links: Geography

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Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that together provide a consistent and highly effective approach to teaching phonics. Climbing comes in many different forms. From parkour competitions to turbine engineers, learn all about how, why and where people climb as you immerse yourself in this fascinating world. Maybe you could try it out on a climbing wall?

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Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Book banded for guided and independent reading, there are reading notes in the back, comprehensive teaching and assessment support and ebooks available. The Great Fire of London spread faster than anyone could stop it. What caused the fire? Why did it spread? Discover the facts and read eyewitness accounts to work out the answers to these questions. Lime Plus/Band 11+ books provide challenging plots and vocabulary as well as opportunities to practise inference, prediction and reading stamina. Pages 46 and 47 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall. Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities. Liz Miles’ interest in London began with family day-trips to tourist hotspots like the British Museum and the Tower of London. Later, inspired by Charles Dickens’ classics and Samuel Pepys’ diary, she began to research more about life in London’s past, and soon discovered countless mysteries and fascinating, unanswered questions.

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Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1–6 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding vocabulary. Discover the prehistoric world of dinosaurs in this non-fiction book, written by Liz Miles. Blue/Band 4 offers longer, repeated patterns with sequential events and integrated literary and natural language. Non-fiction uses signs, labels and diagrams. The focus sounds in this book are: Adjacent consonants with long vowel phonemes Pages 22 and 23 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall. Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.

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Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right level Carl Linnaeus was one of the most important and influential scientists who ever lived. He invented a system for naming and classifying living things, which is still in use today, and went on scientific expeditions to remote parts of the world. Discover Linnaeus’s adventurous life and how his work has inspired scientists ever since. Pearl/Band 18 books offer fluent readers a complex, substantial text with challenging themes to facilitate sustained comprehension, bridging the gap between a reading programme and longer chapter books. Text type – An information book. The book is organised into short chapters to help children practise the skills of locating and identifying important information. The glossary and index can be used to develop children's information retrieval skills further.

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Mary Anning is one of the greatest fossil hunters who ever lived. Even as a young girl, she discovered fossilised bones of ancient creatures that people didn't even know existed, and was the first to work out their significance. In spite of a very limited education and opportunities, she became one of the most important people in the study of prehistoric animals. Learn about her inspiring life and the astonishing discoveries she made. Mary Anning: Fossil Hunter is part of the Reading Planet Cosmos range of books from Hodder Education. Cosmos provides a vibrant collection of fiction and non-fiction books that will widen children's reading horizons. Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and questions to support reading at home and develop comprehension skills. Reading age: 7-8 years

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These new Set 6A (Blue) Storybooks are designed to give children extra practice, and to develop their fluency and vocabulary further before moving on from the Read Write Inc. Phonics programme. The books are matched to the phonic progression of the existing Storybooks and provide extra practice for children learning the Set 2 and 3 sounds. They include a range of engaging stories such as fairy tales, myths and legends and familiar settings. Activities at the start help children to practise the sounds and words from the story and questions at the end of the story help to develop children's comprehension. Detailed lesson plans are provided on Read Write Inc. Phonics Online. The books are part of the Read Write Inc. Phonics programme, developed by Ruth Miskin. The programme is designed to create fluent readers, confident speakers and willing writers. It includes Handbooks, Sounds Cards, Word Cards, Storybooks, Non-fiction, Writing books and an Online resource. Read Write Inc. is fully supported by comprehensive professional development from Ruth Miskin Training.

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Project X Hero Academy is a fully decodable and finely levelled reading series set in a school for superheroes, designed to captivate and motivate all young readers and turn them into reading superheroes. Zoom Food is in Yellow Book Band, Oxford Level 3, and supports Letters and Sounds Phase 3. In this story, Mrs Butterworth, the cook, makes Jin some 'zoom food', but Jin eats more than he should. He flies all the way into space and back, and then can't stop! Who will save Jin from crashing back down to the ground? Each book can be used for independent reading, but also contains inside cover notes that include help on developing vocabulary and prompt questions that can be used for guided reading and one-to-one sessions. Full guided reading notes are provided in the corresponding handbook. There are also a range of follow-up activities to support reading for pleasure.

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Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1–6 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding vocabulary. Hop into the world of frogs and toads! From the largest to the smallest, discover what fantastic abilities they have in this photographic information book written by Liz Miles. Blue/Band 4 offers longer, repeated patterns with sequential events and integrated literary and natural language. Non-fiction uses signs, labels and diagrams. This book focuses on adjacent consonants with long vowel phonemes. Pages 14 and 15 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall. Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.

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Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers. The 7+ books are designed for children aged 7+ who need more practice to acquire phonics skills. There is an incredible world of patterns and structures in the details of things, you just have to look carefully and zoom in to find them! From shells to wings, get close and have a good look. You can even grab your camera and join the exploration!

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Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that together provide a consistent and highly effective approach to teaching phonics. Things look very different from above! Take a trip around the world in this exciting non-fiction book and explore the patterns that appear when you look down. Can you recognise any patterns from ground-level? Which one do you like best?

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Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1–6 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding vocabulary. In many ways, the North and South Poles couldn't be further apart. Discover what makes them different in this photographic non-fiction book. Turquoise/Band 7 offers literary language and extended descriptions, with longer sentences and a wide range of unfamiliar terms. The focus sounds in this book are: /n/ gn, kn /m/ mb /r/ wr /s/ c, sc, ce /sh/ ti, si, ci /zh/ s Pages 22 and 23 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall. Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.

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Anna and Dad take their dog, Tim, to the beach. Will Tim stay out of trouble? Using the world's largest known database of writing for and by children, our experts have defined 300 ambitious words to help children succeed at school. We've combined these with fully-decodable books that help you match your phonics teaching and practice, while inspiring and engaging your young readers. Specially developed to enhance children's vocabulary alongside their decoding skills, these books are perfect for sharing.

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Project X Origins is a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school. This exciting Graphic Texts pack includes action-packed stories, fascinating non-fiction, carefully selected poetry and comprehensive guided reading support to meet the needs of children at every stage of their reading development. Each book contains inside cover notes with advice on supporting older children with their reading, ideas for follow-up activities and higher-level comprehension questions. Project X Origins guided reading notes offer step-by-step teaching support for each book with guidance about comprehension, vocabulary, fluency, spelling, punctuation, grammar and writing. Each set of notes has in-built assessment and is fully correlated to all UK curricula. This pack contains 1 set of guided reading notes and 4 reading books, 1 each of: Time Stealer, The Jungle Book, If and other poems, Great Inventors.

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Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that together provide a consistent and highly effective approach to teaching phonics. In 1889 the journalist Nellie Bly, inspired by the new Jules Verne book Around the World in 80 Days decided to see if she could beat the timings in the book. Discover all that she encountered along the way in this inspiring true story. Pages 22 and 23 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall. Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.

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The Level 5 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. Stories, More Stories A, More Stories B and More Stories C take the children from familiar, predictable events at home and school into the less certain realms of fantasy through the magic key adventures. Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with childrens reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk. Contains one copy of each of the six titles at Oxford Reading Level 5.

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Dive down into the ocean in a submarine. Journey into an underwater world and meet the creatures who live there, from the huge orca that swims near the surface, to the weird eel that lurks in the deep. Oxford Reading Tree inFact is a compelling non-fiction series that aims to engage children in reading for pleasure as powerfully as fiction does. The series includes 36 titles which are all phonically decodable, with some high-interest topic words to develop vocabulary and impart knowledge. The imaginative approach and variety of intriguing topics mean there are books to interest every child. The books are carefully levelled, making it easy to match every reader to the right book.

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Ho is given a golden paintbrush in return for his kindness to an old man. Magic things begin to happen when Ho starts to paint ... This charming story written by Liz Miles and beautifully illustrated by Meilo So will capture your child's imagination! It has been sensitively rewritten to enable your child to read it with confidence whilst capturing the magic of the original tale. There are useful tips for parents and an engaging story map inside the book to help you and your child retell the story together. The Oxford Reading Tree Traditional Tales series includes 40 of the best known stories from all over the world, which have been passed down for generations. They are a perfect introduction to different cultures, traditions and morals. All the stories are carefully levelled to Oxford Reading Tree levels and matched to the phonics progression in Letters and Sounds enabling your children to read the stories independently. Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with childrens reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.

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In 1889 the journalist Nellie Bly, inspired by the new Jules Verne book Around the World in 80 Days decided to see if she could beat the timings in the book. Discover all that she encountered along the way in this inspiring true story. In 1889 the journalist Nellie Bly, inspired by the new Jules Verne book Around the World in 80 Days decided to see if she could beat the timings in the book. Discover all that she encountered along the way in this inspiring true story. Orange/Band 6 books offer varied text and characters, with action sustained over several pages. The focus sounds in this book are: /f/ ph /w/ wh /ee/ e-e, e, y /igh/ y /ch/ tch /j/ g, ge, dge /l/ le /z/ se /sh/ ch /ai/ a Pages 22 and 23 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall. Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover. This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

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Big Cat for Little Wandle Fluency has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It consists of a range of chapter books with increasing word counts across 10 fluency levels aimed at children in Year 2 and 3. Each book builds reading confidence, stamina and speed and nurtures a love for reading. Fluency 3 books have a word count of 3840 words with an expected reading rate of 80 words per minute. The secret lives of humble rocks may hold more exciting and amazing stories than you might think. From being born in fire, to being blasted to Earth from space! Three very different rocks tell their own stories about how they were born and their incredible journeys.

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