An easy-to-use resource for teaching essential reading skills to the whole class using an interactive whiteboard. This book accompanies the i-read 6 CD-ROM. It can be used alongside the CD-ROM for group and independent reading away from the interactive whiteboard. Series Editor Pie Corbett has specially commissioned whole non-fiction texts for i-read from a host of popular authors, to ensure a vibrant read. The collection includes biographical texts, as well as offering the opportunity to revisit a range of genres in both a revision unit and a mystery unit, which offers evidence in the form of various non-fiction texts.

 

This book features in the following series: I Read, I-Read .

. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.

There are 72 pages in this book. This book was published 2006 by Cambridge University Press .

Pie Corbett is a freelance writer and poet. He was worked as an English Inspector in Gloucestershire, as an OFSTED Inspector, and has run training nationally for the NLS.

This book has the following chapters: Biography by Chris Buckton: Extract from Evelyn Glennie's Autobiography; Letter from Sandra Buchan to the founder of the Beethoven Fund for Deaf Children; Evelyn Glennie - a short biography; Diary - 1983; Amazing Evelyn; Reviews; Extract from an essay on hearing; different text types about one person; Non-fiction revision by Ann Webley: Everest - 1953; How a space rocket works; Getting water out of damp sand; The rainforests should be left alone; Should the rainforests be left alone?; Life on board a ship in the 16th century; Explore the deep - from Aquarius; Letters; Texts about exploration; School trips; Robbery at Rookwood by Ann Webley and Pie Corbett: Zoraxx leaflet; Alex Chamberlain's diary; Extracts from the transcripts of police interviews; The Chamberlains' house; The Chamberlain case; Text messages; Rookwood weekly chronicle; E-mails; Evidence summary - Rookwood CID; All is revealed!