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Jupiter Willams
Rebecca Berry finds that S I Martin's novel about a wealthy young African in early nineteenth century London provides scope for a cross-curricular study focussing on themes of society, class, racism and religion. London 1800, Jupiter is young, black, living at the African Academy in Clapham with other boys from wealthy Sierra Leonean families. His life is a mixture of privilege a ...
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Gideon the Cutpurse
Bridget Carrington finds that Gideon the Cutpurse is a a rich source for learning about eighteenthcentury London. This extensive guide provides teaching suggestions for exploring Gideon's world and the characters that populat it. An encounter with an anti-gravity machine catapults Peter Schock and Kate Dyer back to the 18th century and sets in motion a calamitous chain of events ...
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Journey to the River Sea
Kathryn Saeb-Parsy recommends Eva Ibbotson's Journey to the River Sea as a choice for a class novel. Cross-curricular teaching suggestions include a focus on the Amazonian Rainforest and exploration of difference and identity. It is 1910 - Maia, orphaned at 13, travels from England to start a new life with distant relatives in Manaus, hundreds of miles up the Ama ...
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Jacky Daydream
Jacky Daydream is Jacqueline Wilson's autobiography. The downloadable notes offer suggestions for group reading activities. Everybody knows Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson's best-loved character. But what do they know about Jacqueline herself? In this fascinating book, discover: how Jacky played with paper dolls like April in "Dustbin Baby"; how she ...
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Aesop's Fables
This 24 page reading guide and set of teachers' notes provides suggestions for creative teaching ideas in literacy and art, based on Helen Ward's Aesop's Fables and The Cockerel and the Fox. A good resource for teachers planning work on fables. Helen Ward’s beautiful version of Aesop’s Fables features 12 fables and the accompanying CD (paperback version) is narra ...
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The Time Travelling Cat and the Tudor Treasure
Bridget Carrington offers suggestions for book-based cross-curricular study in this set of teachers' notes for The Time Travelling Cat and the Tudor Treasure by Julia Jarman, Ka, the time-travelling cat, has disappeared, leaving just one clue - a word on Topher's computer screen: R*iche mou*nt. When Topher discovers that 'Richemount' ...
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Vampirates: Tide of Terror
These book notes for Justin Somper's Vampirates: Tide of Terror, can be used to support group reading. Connor Tempest may only be fourteen, but he's taken to the life of a pirate like a duck to water. But his loyalties are divided between his shipmates and his sister. Grace Tempest isn't finding the pirate life so appealing. She cannot shake the feeling that all is not well ...
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Benny and Omar
Benny and Omar is one of Eoin Colfer's pre-Artemis Fowl books. This teaching guide for upper KS2 provides useful material for teaching about culture, diversity and identity. A hilarious book in which a young sporting fanatic is forced to leave his beloved Wexford, home of all his heroes, and move with his family to Tunisia! How will he su ...
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Dragon Rider
These teaching notes for Dragon Rider by popular fantasyw riter, Cornelia Funke, would support group reading for fluent and experienced readers or provide suggestions for discussing a whole class novel. Most suited to years 4 - 6. A dragon. A boy. A journey. Firedrake, a brave young dragon, his loyal brownie friend Sorrel and a lonely boy called Ben are united ...
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Inkheart
These teachers' notes for popular fantasy writer Cornelia Funke's Inkheart would support group reading or teaching a class novel. Most suited to years 5 and 6. Meggie loves books. So does her father, Mo, a bookbinder, although he has never read aloud to her since her mother mysteriously disappeared. They live quietly until the night a stranger knocks at their do ...
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