Info Trail for ages 5-11: Enthuses all readers with attention-grabbing titles, engaging humour and inventive topics to inspire excellence and enjoyment in learning. Provides broad and rich cross-curricular content linked to History, Geography and Science with many matches to National Curriculum and QCA topics. Provides excellent models for writing with coverage of all NLS non-fiction text types pupils need to experience and understand. Especially motivates and supports reluctant readers through supportive illustrations and Access texts for ages 9-11. Promotes valuable awareness of community and citizenship through many titles based around community, environment and health. Simple integration of assessment for learning into class teaching is provided in the Teaching Notes which ensure children's reading and writing skills progress at word, sentence and text level. Accessible Teaching Notes and Activity sheets ensure teachers, teaching assistants and parents are all able to contribute to teaching and learning.
