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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459166203321

Autore

Leicester Mal.

Titolo

Adventure stories for reading, learning, and literacy : cross-curricular resources for the primary school / / Mal Leicester and Roger Twelvetrees ; illustrations by Apsley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-136-95308-6

1-136-95309-4

1-282-65626-0

9786612656262

0-203-84911-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (129 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Apsley

TwelvetreesRoger

Disciplina

379.2/4

Soggetti

Reading (Elementary)

Reading

Literacy programs

Literature - Study and teaching (Elementary)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 We have a problem: An adventure in space; CHAPTER 2 The Long Swim: A river adventure; CHAPTER 3 The beautiful game; CHAPTER 4 Terror in the tunnel; CHAPTER 5 The evil ghost of Castle Chameleon; CHAPTER 6 Percy's big adventure; CHAPTER 7 Brave Grace Darling: An adventure at sea; CHAPTER 8 Boy racer

Sommario/riassunto

Adventure Stories for Reading, Learning and Literacy takes a unique approach to cross-curricular teaching in the primary classroom. Providing eight original adventure stories, the authors build up a suite of resources and activities for teachers to use in the classroom, providing cross curricular links in line with the PNS framework, to literacy, science, PE, design and technology, numeracy, geography and



history. Though the stories will interest both girls and boys, they take special care to appeal to boys, who are known to achieve less highly than girls in reading and writing, an