- Three clear levels of differentiation throughout ensure you provide the right work for every child - Stimulating activities, role plays and group work including comprehension, speaking and listening, and writing will get your pupils thinking, talking and writing - Lots of ideas for planning and writing stories, articles and poems - Top children's authors will grab your pupils' attention and ensure they love reading

Teacher's guide accompanied by: Pupil Book 3 Homework Book 3.

Primary-grade teachers face an important challenge: teaching children how to read while enabling them to build good habits so they fall in love with reading. Many teachers find the independent reading workshop to be the component of reading instruction that meets this challenge because it makes it possible to teach the reading skills and strategies children need and guides them toward independence, intention, and joy as readers. In Growing Readers, Kathy Collins helps teachers plan for independent reading workshops in their own classrooms. She describes the structure of the independent reading workshop and other components of a balanced literacy program that work together to ensure young students grow into strong, well-rounded readers. Kathy outlines a sequence of possible units of study for a yearlong curriculum. Chapters are devoted to the individual units of study and include a sample curriculum as well as examples of mini-lessons and reading conferences. There are also four "Getting Ready" sections that suggest some behind-the-scenes work teachers can do to prepare for the units. Topics explored in these units include:print and comprehension strategies;reading in genres such as poetry and nonfiction;connecting in-school reading and out-of-school reading;developing the strategies and habits of lifelong readers. A series of planning sheets and management tips are presented throughout to help ensure smooth implementation. We want our students to learn to read, and we want them to love to read. To do this we need to lay a foundation on which children build rich and purposeful reading lives that extend beyond the school day. The ideas found in Growing Readers create the kind of primary classrooms where that happens.

Written by teachers for teachers to perfectly support the renewed framework, Collins Primary Literacy is a whole school language program that builds key reading, writing, speaking and listening skills through structured creative work. It provides practical teaching ideas and clear assessment for every unit, so that you can focus on teaching. With fiction, non-fiction and poetry by best children's authors for your class to read and explore, Collins Primary Literacy provides engaging activities matched to the Renewed Framework that will save you time and give you lots of ideas. Each unit is built around three distinct phases - Engage, Explore and Create - during which children move through a learning pathway that develops key literacy skills. Active learning is at the heart of Collins Primary Literacy, with an emphasis on speaking, listening and drama work. Children are encouraged to work reflectively, with built-in opportunities for paired work and critical thinking. Opportunities for assessment are threaded throughout the teaching sequence, with further support given in the form of progress sheets for assessing writing.

Collins Primary Literacy Pupil Book 6 features fiction from Anthony Horowitz and Lemony Snicket, poetry from Ted Hughes, and exciting non-fiction from Roald Dahl and more. Pupil Book 6 covers a wide variety of text types and topics, and provides engaging activities to help you deliver the objectives of the renewed Framework.

Collins Primary Literacy Big Book 2A features engaging fiction, non-fiction and poetry in large format to use with your whole class or smaller groups. Top texts and stimulating illustrations from well-known children's authors and illustrators have been carefully selected to get your class thinking, talking and writing.

Written by teachers for teachers to perfectly support the renewed framework, 'Collins Primary Literacy' is a whole school language program that builds key reading, writing, speaking and listening skills through structured creative work. It provides teaching ideas and clear assessment for every unit, so that you can focus on teaching.