Contents
Introduction
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Using this series
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Teaching notes
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BOOK 1
The Green Cross Code Department for Transport
Games glossary Kirk Bizley
The baby o‰ the ‰amily Wendy Cope
Invasion Jeremy Strong
Octocure Alison Chisholm
Odd girls John Coldwell
Teeth University of Manchester
Pelican Celia Warren
Jorvi‡ Vi‡ing Centre, Coppergate Gill Matthews
City sounds heard a‰ter dar‡ Wes Magee
On the Yellow Bric‡ Road Adapted from L. Frank Baum
House on ‰ire! Dylan Thomas
The story o‰ Helen Keller Celia Warren
Rebecca Hilaire Belloc
Steam train stories E. Nesbit
A great storm in Scotland Dick King-Smith
Tom ‰inds happiness Abridged from Charles Kingsley
The mil‡maid and her pail Based on a fable by Aesop
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BOOK 2
London goes wild Observer
How to ma‡e a wormery Glasgow City Council
Why? Charles Causley
Dogs are good ‰or you! Daily Telegraph
The ‘ration-boo‡’ Olympics Adapted from National Archives material
Robin Hood Patricia Leitch
The veiled lady Adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle
Battered by hurricane winds Celia Warren
The thrill o‰ wartime wor‡ Madge S. Smith
Arthur’s sister turned to stone Geraldine McCaughrean
Overheard on a saltmarsh Harold Monro
The arrival o‰ a rugged seaman Robert Louis Stevenson
The scarecrow Walter de la Mare
Holy horrors Abridged from National Trust Magazine
De Valerie Bloom
Alice meets the Cheshire cat Abridged from Lewis Carroll
The ‰ox repaid in his own coin Based on a tale by Geoffrey Chaucer
Digging Edward Thomas
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Schofield & Sims Key Stage 2 Comprehension Teacher’s Guide
Teaching notes Book 1
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BOOK 3
Jac‡y Daydream remembers Jacqueline Wilson
Seal saves drowning dog Daily Telegraph
You are old, Father William Lewis Carroll
Welsh hero Simon Weston Abridged from two sources (see text)
Matilda joins Crunchem Hall Roald Dahl
Rats Robert Browning
Mischievous Tom Mark Twain
Sixteen steps to the ice-house Gina Douthwaite
Sea ‰ever John Masefield
The hippogri‰‰’s tus‡ Anthony Buckeridge
Keepsa‡e Mill Robert Louis Stevenson
Bilbo the hobbit meets Smaug J. R. R. Tolkien
The woman o‰ water Adrian Mitchell
Respected relative Robert Louis Stevenson
Toad learns a lesson? Kenneth Grahame
How music made peace Based on a Roman myth
Pyramus and Thisbe William Shakespeare
Laws a‰‰ecting women Emmeline Pankhurst
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BOOK 4
The roo‡s’ parliament Alison Brackenbury
Tudor wedding Alison Prince
The way through the woods Rudyard Kipling
Chocolate Roald Dahl
Two owls Edward Thomas, John Agard
Mammoth ‰ind Guardian
Poems that entertain John Agard, Edward Lear, Judith Nicholls,
Peggy Poole, Dave Calder
Child employment Abridged from www.direct.gov.uk
To the cuc‡oo William Wordsworth
The magic o‰ shells Abridged from National Trust Magazine
Our toilsome journey Robert Louis Stevenson
Diogenes and the Cynics Celia Warren
Welcoming Grace Thomas Hardy
Scott o‰ the Antarctic Celia Warren
Scott’s last letter Robert Scott
Carried with a mighty ‰orce Daniel Defoe
Victorian Christmas Charles Dickens
From ‰ather to son William Shakespeare
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Group record sheets
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Cross-curricular content charts
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Primary Framework for literacy: comprehension objectives
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