High-interest, lower ability resource for KS2-3. Designed to provide high-interest books for lower level readers aged 6 to 12+ years. Excellent for Guided Reading. Ideal for struggling readers and writers. Can be used in small-group teaching, and also for independent teaching. Benefits English as a Second Language (ESL) readers, and offers excellent cross-curricular coverage. Each of the Wildcats titles is an anthology wth a variety of genre and text-types in each: from fantasy to fable, poem to personal narrative and non-fiction. Size: 15.5cm wide x 21cm tall. Published 2001. 32 pages.

 

This book is part of a book series called Wildcats .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 2. KS2 covers school years 4, 5 and 6, and ages 8-11 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. This book is aimed at children in primary school. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.

This book was published 2001 by Lands End Publishing Ltd. .

Sandy McKay is a New Zealand born author who began writing stories when her children were little to encourage them to read. Her first novel Recycled (Longacre Press) won the New Zealand Post Children's Book Award for Junior Fiction in 2002. She has since had three other titles appear on the Notable list for the same award: My Dad, the All Black, 2002; Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, 2005; Losing It, 2008. Mr Tripp Smells a Rat is Sandy's first title with Walker Books. Sandy lives in Dunedin with her husband and her three children. Ruth Paul is an award-winning author and illustrator from New Zealand. She draws on everyday life for inspiration and ideas, and is particularly interested in how people get on together. Ruth calls herself an "old-fashioned" illustrator, working in hands-on media such as acrylic, pastels and pencils, using Photoshop to do last-minute work on scans where required. Her title The King's Bubbles won the Children's Choice Award, New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards, 2008; and the Children's Book Design Award, Book Publishers Association of New Zealand Design Awards, 2008. Ruth lives in the country in a straw-bale house powered by its own remote electricity system, with her husband and two young sons.