Wolf Hill is an exciting series from Roderick Hunt and Alex Brychta, creators of the Oxford Reading Tree, designed to provide an easy, supportive and sustained read for those pupils who need to gain confidence and motivation in their reading. The stories will appeal to reluctant readers aged approximately 7-11 and deal with the real-world adventures of a group of friends who live and attend school in an area called Wolf Hill. The books are designed to look like popular novels for older children with a spine and chapters, boosting confidence and interest of those who may have been stuck on reading scheme books aimed at younger children. The Teacher's Guide provides a wide range of photocopiable activity work sheets which can be used to teach Word, Text, and Sentence Level Work in Year 6 (P7/8). It includes comprehension, scanning, language and grammar work, discussion, different kinds of writing and creative work.

 

This book is part of a book series called Wolf Hill .

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

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 1999 by Oxford University Press .

Roderick Hunt started out as a teacher, but began writing for children in 1970. He collaborated with Alex Brychta on a series of children books for the Oxford Reading Tree which had an animated spin-off, The Magic Key series. Roderick and Alex won the prestigious Outstanding Achievement Award at the Education Resources Awards 2009. Now he says, "On my income tax form I put down my profession as storyteller. It never fails to raise an eyebrow. " He lives in London.