Literacy Time PLUS Ages 7 to 9: Literacy Time PLUS Ages 7 to 9 January 2009

h3>Years 3 and 4, JANUARY 2009

The latest issue of LITERACY TIME PLUS on a PIRATES theme includes:

• Old Scuttlebutt’s Treasure Island – Follow the instructions, crack the code and find the hidden treasure on this illustrated map
• Captain Scallop is Scuppered – A hilarious playscript to read aloud or perform.
• Pirate Handbook – Find out all you need to know about pirates in this interactive virtual information book.
• Poem: Percy the Pirate – Humorous poem with a strong rhyming pattern about a pirate with a deadly weapon – a pair of very smelly feet!
• Pirate stories – Peter Riley explores the dangerous, swashbuckling lives of six (in)famous pirates from the ‘Golden Age’ of piracy.
• Paul Cookson Poetry Workshop Part 2 – Part 2 of our Poetry Workshop series. In these films, Paul participates in a question-and-answer session with children before explaining how he writes his poems and gets his ideas.

These are accompanied by a 24-page magazine which includes: * Teachers’ Notes and photocopiable worksheets * Teachers’ planning charts * Book news, offers and events * Feature article – Great Reads for World Book Day

New Literacy Objectives – Teaching links to the new Primary Framework for Literacy are all mapped out for you.

Free Downloadable Pages – All the photocopiable pages and objectives charts can be downloaded, as well as great extra material such as Author profiles.

Scottish and Northern Ireland literacy objectives are featured as online planning charts.

Next issue March 2009 (published in March):

• Resources on a ‘Riddles’ theme – Stories by Taffy Thomas MBE – The Star Apple and audio and text versions of The Stanhope Fairies
• Unravel the riddles – Five different riddle poems to solve, complete with interactive clues and sound effects.
• Tommy and the Elves – Story by Jess Smith – Tommy is desperately thirsty, but has to answer three mysterious questions or the magical won’t allow him to drink from the river
• Persuasive texts – Four persuasive texts with an environmental theme