Web Antholgoies offer a wide selection of extracts and complete pieces in many different genres, spanning fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. The full range of text types offered is perfect for reading and writing at KS2/P4-7. The range of authors is equally broad, from classic poets and authors to modern children's favourites, and from Shakespeare to today's journalists. There is an anthology available to corresponds to each year of upper primary school (7-11 year olds). The Teacher's Guides give detailed information and teaching notes for each extract, with lots of ideas for shared reading and writing and group work, backed up by photocopy masters.

 

This is book 1 in Oxford Literacy Web .

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.

There are 144 pages in this book. This book was published 2000 by Oxford University Press .

Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham live in Devon, in a house not too far from the sea. Elspeth writes in a room on the ground floor while Mal writes in the attic. Sometimes they meet in the middle to write books like this one. It is Elspeth who finds the seeds the stories grow from. One of the world's leading children's book creators, Michael Foreman has won numerous awards, including the Kate Greenaway Medal, the Kurt Maschler Award and the Bologna Graphics Prize. Mal Peet is the author of the acclaimed young adult novels, Tamar, winner of the 2005 Carnegie Medal, and The Penalty, sequel to Keeper. He lives in Devon with his family.