Busy teachers need a complete solution to teaching the literacy hour in year 2. This themed pack provides the answer. It should help children to improve their writing through speaking and listening, drama, and role-play. This pack contains material for half a term of literacy hour activities, and together with the other packs in the series provides a year long integrated program. The pack includes: a large resource book, with stimulus material such as lively color illustrations, model texts, poems, and non-fiction material linked to each theme; an A4 teacher's book including medium and short term plans linked to detailed lesson plans. These cover fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, photocopy masters, and all the back-up information that teachers and assistant need to plan creative literacy sessions.

This book is part of a book series called Ready, Steady, Write .

. This reading book uses the phonics method. This approach concentrates on teaching children how to map between sounds and spellings, allowing them to decode written words into their constituent sounds. Phonics skill thus involves being able to split the written word 'cat' into the phonemes /k/, /a/, /t/, and to map from letter 'c' to phoneme /k/, from letter 'a' to phoneme /ae/ and from letter 't' to phoneme /t/. Decoding skill is useful when reading unfamiliar words which use regular spelling sequences.

There are 88 pages in this book. This book was published 2005 by Taylor & Francis Ltd .

Gill Matthews is a literacy consultant and writer, and has been series editor for several major literary programmes (including Literacy World and Rigby Dimensions) and series consultant for publishers including Scholastic, Hodder & Stoughton, Franklin Watts and Evans. She was heavily involved in the development of the non-fiction element of the National Literacy Strategy for teachers, and is a leading advocate for the need for non-fiction in literacy teaching.

This book has the following chapters: Six units each providing material for a half term of literacy hours. This material includes: 1. a big book containing stimulus material such as text examples, extracts for shared reading, writing modules, illustrations and photos; 2. teacher's noteswith consolidation activities.