Oxford Literacy Web: Fiction: Variety: Starter Stage Pack B: The Decorating

by KateDavies (Illustrator), Alison Hawes (Author), Alison Hawes (Author), KateDavies (Illustrator), KeithGaines (Series Editor)

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  Paperback
  1999

  $4.27

  The Oxford Literacy Web is an exciting new literacy programme designed to guide schools successfully through the primary years. Fitting the requirements of the National Literacy Strategy, National Curriculum in England and Wales, English Language 5-14 in Scotland, and Common Curriculum in Northern Ireland, the Oxford Literacy Web guides pupils through the core skills associated with learning to read and write with a diverse range of literary styles within the genres of fiction, non-fiction, rhymes, language, and poetry. The Fiction strand: there can be no better way to learn to read than through the Duck Green School and Variety story strands. Exciting stories, hilarious events, and dynamic illustrations combine to ensure diversity and enjoyment. Variety stories extend children's experience of different styles of fiction. They reinforce vocabulary but include a more challenging element to push upward toward the next level. Starter Stage Pack B contains six amusing stories with minimal text. The Helpful Henry cluster by Alison Hawes has a familiar domestic setting to which children can easily relate. The illustrations by Kate Davies are full of detail to promote discussion. The Fred and the Animals books are all about the mischievous animals in a wildlife park and their long-suffering keeper. The books are available in both standard and 'big book' format.

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  Paperback
  2001

  $13.53

  These are the titles for the OLW fiction strand for upper Key Stage 2, (Y5 and Y6) designed to fit the National Literacy Strategy. Year 5 contains: The Treasure in the Mud by Gillian Cross - an historical story set in Victorian Britain; The River Runs to the End of Time by Frances Usher - a story about friendships during the English civil war; How Did the World Begin? by Rosalind Kerven - creation myths from around the world; The Legend of King Arthur by Mick Gowar - a retelling of part of this famous legend; Lennox and the Casa Montego Smugglers by Errol Lloyd - Lennox and his grandfather discover a smuggling ring while on holiday in Jamaica; and Cloud Forest by Mark Leyland - children in Equador lay a ghost to rest.