An easy-to-use resource for teaching essential reading skills to the whole class using an interactive whiteboard. This anthology contains 2 poems and 1 non-chronological report, including instructions, based on a theme of festivals.

 

This book features in the following series: I Read, I-Read .

. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.

There are 40 pages in this book. This book was published 2007 by Cambridge University Press .

Debjani Chatterjee was born in India and came to Britain at nineteen. She attended seven schools and four universities, worked in the steel industry, education and community relations, and is now a full-time writer. She chairs the National Association of Writers in Education, contributes to the Poetry Society's poetryclass website and is a founder member of The Bengali Women's Support Group. The author of thirty-five books, Debjani has been called 'a voice of rare originality' (David Morley) and 'a poet full of wit and charm' (Andrew Motion). Her poetry has won major prizes. After a highly successful career in teaching and school management, Ann Webley now combines writing - from NLS units to articles in the TES - with working with colleagues in a consultative capacity in the field of literacy teaching. She has worked for national bodies and advised at local and national level. Anita Ganeri is an award-winning author of children's books, specializing in geography. Pie Corbett is a freelance writer and poet. He was worked as an English Inspector in Gloucestershire, as an OFSTED Inspector, and has run training nationally for the NLS.

This book has the following chapters: Birds of a feather, Debjani Chatterjee; Carnival, Valerie Bloom; Celebrate!, Anita Ganeri.