Nelson Comprehension provides a simple and effective course for the teaching of key comprehension skills. Units cover all genres of texts - including fiction, poetry, playscripts, instructions and biography - with plenty of practice, repetition and assessment built in. Differentiated questions and resource sheets as well as assessment materials help ensure that all children are on track. This …
'Human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.' On a dark, silvery moonlit night, Sophie is snatched from her bed by a giant. Luckily it is the Big Friendly Giant, the BFG, who only eats snozzcumbers and glugs frobscottle. But there are other giants in Giant Country. Fifty foot brutes who gallop far and wide every night to find human beans to e…
In Boy, Roald Dahl recounts his days as a child growing up in England. From his years as a prankster at boarding school to his envious position as a chocolate tester for Cadbury's, Roald Dahl's boyhood was as full of excitement and the unexpected as are his world-famous, best-selling books. Packed with anecdotes—some funny, some painful, all interesting—this is a book that's sure to please.
Features topics such as environmental issues, historical facts, and culture.
Each book comes with notes for parents which highlight talking points and prompt questions. The Teaching Notes for each book provide curriculum-linked reading activities, references to comprehension and language skills strategies together with correlatations to QCA reading focuses. Cross--curricular links and activities are also provided for each book.
Favourite stories are retold in a lively natural language to help children to develop the confidence to read alone.
Follow Fairy Breeze as she flies through the preparations for a royal fairy wedding and learns that hard work leads to magical rewards. 3-D pages allow readers to peek through windows and open doors to explore three layers of charming illustrations. Sparkly glitter on the cover and the conclusion of the story enhances children's excitement and enjoyment of reading. One morning, Fairy Breeze wak…
Peek inside the pop-up windows! Young Paulo Costa is desperate to make it into the junior soccer squad, but when the day of the trials finally arrives, not everything goes according to plan...You can gaze through bustling crowds and lift a manhole cover to discover the unexpected turn of events that gives football-mad Paulo an incredible day to remember! Three-dimensional layered pages enable y…
How exciting! The ballet class is going to stage a production of The Nutcracker. Meet the students the eager Josh, the perfectly presented Pia, the untidy Bella, the nervous Emmie and their hard-working teacher, Mrs Sonatine, as they get ready. They all want to do their best. Josh cannot wait: he loves to perform and always dances well when an audience is watching. Pia wants to be a snowflake, …