The Developing Fiction Skills and Developing Non-Fiction Skills pupil books explore a wide range of texts using parallel themes. Each book contains twelve units offering four units per term. The parallel themes common to both the Fiction and Non-Fiction strands allow for comparison, an exploration of the same theme in different text types and effectively integrates the teaching of non-fiction.

 

This book features in the following series: Developing Fiction Skills, Nelson English .

There are 104 pages in this book. This book was published 2000 by Oxford University Press .

Versioned by the UK for Wendy Wren, co-author of Nelson English New Edition and Nelson Grammer John Jackman is one of Collins' leading authors for Primary literacy. A former primary schoolteacher, he is an established, successful author of English language resources. Among his other publications for Collins are Collins Focus on Writing and Collins Focus on Grammar and Punctuation (consultant).

This book has the following chapters: Part 1 Wartime: The Silver Sword; homophones and homonyms; roots, prefixes and suffixes; word classes; capital letter and punctuation; the story teller. Part 2 Shipwrecks: "Robinson Crusoe"; our changing language; prefixes; active sentences; connectives and conjunctions; first person. Part 3 The Victorians: "Hard Times"; origin of words; difficult words; simple and compound sentences; commas; playscripts. Part 4 Travellers' tales: "The Listeners"; our changing language; unstressed vowels; active and passive; colons and semi-colons; poetry. Part 5 Mysteries: "The Mystery of the Mary Celeste"; idioms; spelling by analogy; "is", "are", "was" and "were"; avoiding repetition; mystery stories. Part 6 Alien visitors?: "Creatures From Outer Space"; using a thesaurus; syllables; "helper verbs"; writing a summary; science fiction. Part 7 The unexplained: "The Ghost of Thomas Kempe"; our changing language; roots, prefixes and suffixes; active and passive; direct speech; ghost stories. Part 8 Safety first: "George"; proverbs and idioms; mnemonics; verbs; adjective clauses; humerous poems. Part 9 Ancient Greece: "The Wooden Horse"; anagrams; unstressed vowels; simple verb tenses; adverb clauses; a reading journal. Part 10 Cliffs: "The Coming of the Iron man"; word games; unstressed letters; idiom origins; practising punctuation; book reviews. Part 11 Buried treasure: "The Legend of Alderley"; word games; intrusive vowels; personal and impersonal writing; using semi-colons; extended stories. Part 12 Cats: "Cat Tales"; puns; words within words; word classes; passive sentences; writing styles.