Literacy Time PLUS Ages 5 to 7: Literacy Time PLUS Ages 5 to 7 September 2009

Years 1 and 2, SEPTEMBER 2009

The latest issue of LITERACY TIME PLUS on the theme of PETS includes:

• Famous pets – Find out about a menagerie of special pets and the different reasons they are famous.
• The Dog That Made A Wedding – Rosalind Kerven retells this traditional story from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• Walking the Dog – A funny poem by Brian Moses about a mischievous mutt going for a walk.
• How to look after a pet – Three interactive games on a pets theme – a vocabulary, sentence and instructions sequencing game.
• Tops and Tails – Improve your pupils’ sentence writing using this interactive cats and dogs game.
• Owl’s story – Literacy Time PLUS Writer-in-residence, Antony Lishak, follows up the Baby Bear comes home story in July’s issue from another character’s point of view.

These are accompanied by a 28-page magazine which includes: * Teachers’ Notes and photocopiable worksheets * Teachers’ planning charts * 10 of the best literacy resources * Two feature articles – Doodles and Poodles, talking to author illustrator Emily Gravett about her work PLUSm is for me exciting phonic resources from Helen Bromley.

Next issue November 2009 (published in November):

• Texts and resources on a Great Events theme – Including a play, great events timeline, recounts and a Great Fire of London game.
• Interactive resources – Great events interactive timeling and slideshow PLUSI was there… interactive recount resource
• Planet 51 – A film narrative based on the new animated movie Planet 51
• The Frogs’ Story – A new story from Literacy Time PLUS Writer-in-residence, Antony Lishak