Oxford Literacy Web: Fiction: Year 5 Fiction: The River Runs to the End of Time

by Frances Usher (Author)

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  2001

  $7.19

  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 includes titles: The Treasure in the Mud by Gillian Cross is an historical story set in Victorian Britain; The River Runs to the End of Time by Frances Usher is a story about friendships during the English civil war; How Did the World Begin? by Rosalind Kerven is about creation myths from around the world; The Legend of King Arthur by Mick Gowar is a retelling of part of this famous legend; Lennox and the Casa Montego Smugglers by Errol Lloyd talks about Lennox and his grandfather who discover a smuggling ring while on holiday in Jamaica; and Cloud Forest by Mark Leyland talks about children in Equador who lay a ghost to rest.

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  Paperback
  2000

  $127.78

  In the Variety Stage 9 books, Elisabeth Beresford describes adventures on Riduna Island in Pirate Gold , Tommy in Trouble , and Tessa on TV . Riduna is normally a quiet little island, but on three occasions, there is a big story to tell. Joan Aiken retells folk tales of a wise girl who wins herself a king, a young man who finds himself a useful servant, and a very kind girl who finds herself in trouble, but has her kindness repaid. Variety books support and extend the reading skills acquired from reading Duck Green School Stories . They are divided into consolidation stories ( Pirate Gold , Tommy in Trouble , Tessa on TV ) and extension stories ( The Wise Girl , Serve Me , Stefan , and Helena and the Wild Man ).