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Reading cards to boost fluency and comprehensionHelp your children to build their fluency and comprehension skillswhile accessing short texts suitable for Ages 7+ matched totheir reading ability. Using these cards and accompanying teacher'sguide, you can help children begin to develop the essential skillsto become a reader for life. Short Reads provides children with texts matched to theirreading ability to dive deeper into. They read, re-read, discussand respond in writing about topics, helping them to developwider comprehension skills using close reading. This box contains a teacher's guide and 40 non-fiction cards (sixcopies of each) covering: Reading Levels 19 to 24 | Lexile levels410L - 600L | Colour Bands: Purple, Gold & Silver/White. Challenging high-interest topics for children to explore andexplainMotivate the whole class with snappy, fast reads and high-interesttopicsDevelop comprehension skills with close reading Build writing skills with 'Write about Reading' tasksIdeal for group reading sessions  The Teacher's Guide covers 40 group reading sessions includingdiscussion topics and independent writing tasks. This includes: a teacher's reference panel about the card;focus questions to help prepare the children for the first reading;detailed questions about the text features;content to help the teacher guide pupils back to the text forthe second reading;discussion questions that encourage re-reading, summarising andsynthesising;writing tasks that require re-reading and higher order thinkingskills. All of which help develop close reading skills.  What is close reading?Close Reading (sometimes called Repeated Reading) describes thecareful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of text. Researchlinks the close reading of text to significant gains in reading.The careful study of a short text passage helps build a deep,critical understanding of the text. Children learn to comprehendtext, analyse, synthesise and critically examine information.  SERIES INFORMATIONShort Reads are deliberately short to focus children onpurposeful reading, re-reading and responding. Children learn aboutthe topic through rich vocabulary development and deep comprehension.Each box contains six copies of 40 different reading cardsand a teacher's guide.Non-fiction text types covered:Description; Explanation; Procedure; Report; Discussion. Fictiongenres covered: Humour; Poetry; Fantasy; Mystery; Greek Myths.

Meredith Grey, Olivia Benson, and Benjamin Buttonare much more than footnotes in the story of Taylor Swift’slife. They’re in her music videos and ads, they’reon magazine covers with her and all over her social media, andthey even travel with her when she goes on tour. With adorable, full-colour art, Karma Is a Cat is thefirst book to feature their inspawring stories.Discover the facts behind the fur and find all kinds of hiddenmessages in this purrfect read for Taylor Swift fans andcat lovers of all ages! • Fun facts about their breeds and personalities•Adorable illustrations of events in their lives• Andso much meowre!

You're standing at the bottom of a rock face. Rock climbing is a massive challenge for your body and mind. Can you make it to the top? Welcome to The Xtreme World of Billy Kool. Ages 8+.

Lots of Formula One drivers started out kart racing. You feel the need...the need for speed. Can you handle the corners? Welcome to The Xtreme World of Billy Kool. Ages 8+.

Scenario: You're about to jump out of a plane. Yeah, right. You're trying to remember your lines, but all you're thinking about is what will happen if the parachute doesn't open. Welcome to the xtreme world of Billy Kool. Age 7+

Henry Lawson's the Bush Undertaker, the Drover's Wife, the Loaded Dog and the Union Buries Its Dead are remembered not simply as his most popular stories, but as cornerstones of his literary reputation. this fine collections brings together these and twenty more of Lawson's stories, as well as three chapters of his unfinished autobiography. the stories form six natural sequences, each with a common theme or character. the book begins with stories set in the bush. these are followed by stories centered on the characters of Steelman and Smith, Mitchell, Dave Regan and Joe Wilson. the collection ends with the dominating figure of Lawson's most lovable character, the Giraffe. In each of these stories the central characters emerge as a vivid expansion of some aspects of Lawson's own personality.

An outstanding literary achievement, meticulously researched and deeply felt, this portrait of the earliest days of the European settlement of Australia remains unrivalled. the year 1788: the very beginning of European settlement. these were times of hardship, cruelty and danger. Above all, they were times of conflict between the Aborigines and the white settlers. Eleanor Dark brings alive those bitter years with moments of tenderness and conciliation amid the brutality and hostility. the cast of characters includes figures historical and fictional, black and white, convict and settler. All the while, beneath the veneer of British civilisation, lies the baffling presence of Australia, the 'timeless land'. the Storm of time and No Barrier complete the timeless Land trilogy.

A powerful novel about race that's become a classic of Australian literature. A tough, uncompromising novel about the difficult love between a white man and a black woman. Coonardoo is the moving story of a young Aboriginal woman trained from childhood to be the housekeeper at Wytaliba station and, as such, destined to look after its owner, Hugh Watt. the love between Coonardoo and Hugh, which so shocked its readers when the book was first published in 1929, is never acknowledged and so, degraded and twisted in on itself, destroys not only Coonardoo, but also a community which was once peaceful. this frank and daring novel set on the edge of the desert still raises difficult questions about the history of contact between black and white, and its representation in Australian writing.

Book two of The Timeless Land trilogy, The Storm of Time continues Eleanor Dark's sweeping saga of colonial Sydney under governors Hunter, King and Bligh. Sydney Cove, 1799, and three years since Governor Phillip departed. Against a background of continuing convict settlement, hunger, rebellion and the terrifying force of a barely understood land, the saga of Ellen Prentice and the Mannion family continues. Stephen Mannion marries the lovely Conor Moore and brings her back for Ellen to serve. Johnny Prentice goes bush - and re-emerges for one last confrontation with his old master.

Still considered one of Australia's funniest books ever, Here's Luck is Lennie Lower's most inspired lunacy. A wild and uproarious masterpiece set in Sydney during the early depression years, it follows the hilarious exploits of its hero and narrator, Jack Gudgeon. Deserted by his long-suffering wife and gorgon-like sister-in-law, Gudgeon and his dreamy, disaster-prone teenage son, Stanley, manage to stumble into a never-ending series of adventures and catastrophes from which they invariably emerge with monumental hangovers. they are joined by a wonderful assortment of eccentric characters, who always materialize to enliven the parties that Gudgeon and son hold in their increasingly derelict home. Originally published during the Great Depression, Here's Luck was essential reading for those needing cheering up and Lower's genuine style - a blend of realism, absurdity, satire and wit - has rendered his work timeless. 'It remains pre-eminently Australia's funniest book, as ageless as Pickwick or tom Sawyer , a work of 'weird genius', as one reviewer put it, written by a "Chaplin" of words' - Cyril Pearl 'Gloriously disreputable; mercilessly funny' - Richard Glover

What a place it was, that dark little house that was two rooms up and two down... I don't remember to this day where we all slept, though there was a funeral now and then to thin us out. This is the powerful story of two hard-driven men – one a celebrated English novelist, the other a successful Irish entrepreneur – and of their sons, in whom are invested all their fathers' hopes and ambitions. Oliver Essex and Rory O'Riorden grow up as friends, but in the years after the Great War their fathers' lofty plans have unexpected consequences.

William Gerhardie's first comic novel tells the story of a young Englishman who returns to St Petersburg where he was raised and falls in love with the daughter of a highly eccentric and dysfunctional family – a relationship which is played out with the armies of the Russian Revolution marching outside the parlour window. Part British romantic comedy, part Russian social realism, with Gerhardie's trademark large cast of wonderfully realised and highly memorable characters, this funny and poignant novel is the tale of persistance in love and hope in the face of what should be insurmountably difficult circumstances.

Coming back was worse, much worse, than Martin Stone had anticipated. Martin Stone returns to the city from which his family was driven in 1938. He has concealed his destination from his father, and hopes to win some form of restitution for the depressed old man living in exile in London. THE LOST EUROPEANS portrays a tense, ruined yet flourishing Berlin where nothing is quite what it seems.