The Wild Water collection of texts provides children with the perfect foundation for practising the 10 comprehension strategies in Project X Comprehension Express. There are 9 texts in the collection covering highly-engaging fiction and non-fiction. Each text is carefully levelled to be accessible to every child - including those just behind age-related expectations. This collection of texts is part of Project X Comprehension Express. It is a whole-class teaching programme specially built to help children in Years 4-6 (P5-P7) master comprehension and excel in the new National Reading Test. It includes Handbooks, Workbooks, Expert Tip flashcards and an Expert Tip poster. Online teaching resources and best practice films are available on www.oxfordowl.co.uk to ensure its easy implementation.

 

 

This book features in the following series: Project X, Project X Comprehension Express .

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published in 2017 by Oxford University Press .

Alex Paterson is a British illustrator living in Shakespeare's town of Stratford-Upon-Avon. (Shakespeare loved a good joke). Alex has illustrated over seventy books including Treasure Island, Oliver Twist and The Faraway Tree. In previous lives he was an army officer and a Jungle leader. Di Hatchett is an expert in early intervention in literacy and mathematics and in the leadership of inclusion. Di's extensive career in primary education has included 12 years as a head teacher, a long spell as a Senior Director with the Primary National Strategy and, more recently, as Director of The Every Child a Chance Trust, developing the Every Child a Reader and Every Child Counts programmes. Di's field of expertise is the development of high quality approaches to intervention for children who struggle with the development of core skills in literacy and/or mathematics. Marilyn Joyce is an expert in systematic synthetic phonics and early literacy development. Marilyn has spent many years teaching in London schools and advising on literacy in local authorities. Marilyn was also part of the team that wrote the 'Letters and Sounds' phonics programme under the leadership of Sir Jim Rose, and was Senior Director of the Communication, Language and Literacy Development team in the National Strategies. Tamsyn Murray is the author of the Completely Cassidy and Stunt Bunny series, as well as teen novel Instructions for a Second-hand Heart. Ciaran Murtagh is an author and writer for children's television. Greg Foot is a science presenter on TV, online, on the radio and at live events. He's recently been recognized as one of the leading science communicators in the UK and named an engagement fellow for the Wellcome Trust - a multimillion-pound charity that supports biomedical science and engagement. Euan Cook is an illustrator living and working in London. Although he has drawn for books and magazines published around the world, Either Way is his first full-length graphic novel.