Literacy Time PLUS Ages 7 to 9: Literacy Time PLUS Ages 7 to 9 July 2008

Years 3 and 4, JULY 2008

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

• Television News Broadcast – A television news report on a fictional diamond theft
• Newspaper Report – A newspaper article covering the diamond theft story of the broadcast
• The Boneyard Rap – Comical rap-style audio poem by Wes Magee, complete with chorus and actions
• Diamonds and Toads – Margaret Nash retells Perrault’s classic story
• Anthony Horowitz extract – From Horowitz’s Diamond Brothers series, an extract from ‘I Know What You Did Last Wednesday’
• Bubblegum Pop – The background to this popular music genre

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 – Andrew Thraves previous a new reading classification scheme – Lexile measures.

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 September 2008 (published in September):

• Horrid Henry: Hero or villain? – A multimedia character study pack focusing on this popular character
• Performance Poetry – A filmed whole-school performance by Paul Cookson – part 1 in a three-part series of poetry workshops
• Survival in the Cold – An instruction poster telling how our bodies react to extreme conditions
• Du Sani and the Land Otter People – A traditional tale from the Tlingit people of Alaska told by Brett Dillingham