■ The Literacy Box 1

Target comprehension strategies

• High-interest reading material in a wide variety of genres, incorporating both fiction and nonfiction.
• Topics that link into key curricular themes in science, geography and history.
• Practice of comprehension strategies using questions pitched at the literal, inferential and applied levels.

Focus on vocabulary and word study

• Vocabulary and word study questions specifically linked into the reading piece.
• Constant repetition of question types to ensure continuous practice.
• Suggestions for additional speaking and listening, reading, writing and cross-curricular activities relating to each card and topic contained in a comprehensive teaching guide.
• Creates independent readers and promotes spelling, punctuation and grammar skills through text-based activities.

Engage in station teaching and group work strategies

• Reading cards that are colour-coded according to reading level and difficulty.
• Cards can be used in mixed-ability or same ability groupings within the classroom.
• Independent correcting scheme to encourage children to correct their own work, freeing up teacher's time to work with selected groups in the classroom.
• 'Something extra' section at the end of the cards to encourage writing and further reading responses.

Flexible use within the classroom

• reading in similar ability groups
• group learning
• independent pupil work

What’s in the box?

• Teachers Guide containing 200+ pages of teaching suggestions and photocopiable activities.
• 75 × four-page literacy cards
  • Page 1 – reading piece
  • Page 2 – comprehension practice
  • Page 3 – word study activities
  • Page 4 – grammar and punctuation questions
• 75 × answer cards