Tom Watt – författare

Big Cat for Little Wandle Fluency has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It consists of a range of chapter books with increasing word counts across 10 fluency levels aimed at children in Year 2 and 3. Each book builds reading confidence, stamina and speed and nurtures a love for reading.Fluency 3 books have a word count of 3840 words with an expected reading rate of 80 words per minute.Everyone knows about the famous players in a football team, but what about the team behind the team? Come behind the scenes to meet the people who work hard to make sure that the team play at their best.

Little Wandle Code ensures effective reading intervention in early KS3. It is an all-in-one, fully resourced phonics intervention and assessment programme, accompanied by 10 age-appropriate fully decodable anthologies and 3 workbooks, to support students who are not meeting age-related expectations when they begin secondary school. Going for Gold and Other Stories is the sixth anthology for the Complete the Code pathway. It is designed for students who may have gaps in their phonic knowledge which might be masked by coping strategies.The fully decodable anthology includes 4 texts for Units 12 and 13 in Complete the Code.The anthologies enable students to practise the code, broaden their vocabulary, develop comprehension, improve fluency, and motivate independent reading.Designed to look like the books their peers are reading, the anthologies include: A variety of content: fiction and non-fiction, featuring a wide range of text types, genres, and well-known authorsLevelled practice: stories with varied word counts, length and complexity to provide sufficient practice, flexibility and choiceAppealing visuals: a range of illustration and photographic styles to motivate and engage KS3 readers.The anthologies are fully integrated within the Code programme and are supported by teacher and text notes available from the Little Wandle Code subscription.

Come with us on a journey through time to discover the moments that made football. Each chapter in this book is about a match that helped make football popular - from the first FA Cup final in 1872, to England's Lionesses winning the European final in 2022! Football is the world's most popular game. When people who love football aren't actually playing, they're often watching games and talking about it! Maybe once you've read The Big Match, you might want to share your own football stories. After all, everybody is a part of the game!The Big Match: Moments That Made Football is part of the Reading Planet Cosmos range of books from Hodder Education. Cosmos provides a vibrant collection of fiction and non-fiction books that will widen children's reading horizons. Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and questions to support reading at home and develop comprehension skills. Reading age: 8-9 years.

Big match writing from the best in the game...Billy's telling tall stories about his "famous" grandfather, Raphael suspects his coach of murder, Tom and Jerry surprise a talent scout and Katy gets picked to play for England. It's all going on at Shelby Town! A collection of short stories and poems about football, by a fantastic line-up of children's authors, football writers and players.

Big match writing from the best in the game...Billy's telling tall stories about his "famous" grandfather, Raphael suspects his coach of murder, Tom and Jerry surprise a talent scout and Katy gets picked to play for England. It's all going on at Shelby Town! A collection of short stories and poems about football, by a fantastic line-up of children's authors, football writers and players.

Age range 9 to 12It's not easy being captain of the Jags - especially when your team-mates are also your best mates! Everybody notices when the goalie gets it wrong. But it's not just the Jags who make mistakes... What could be better for encouraging reluctant boy readers than a series of football fiction by footie enthusiast, writer and radio presenter Tom Watt?

Age range 9 to 12 When is a goalie not a goalie? When his Jags mates help him to get out of goal, of course!

What could be better for encouraging reluctant readers than a series of football fiction. With an amusing and slightly irreverent style that children will love the short bite-sized chapters telling the story of the ups and downs of a junior football team will encourage even the most reluctant readers.