Read Write Inc Comprehension Handbook

Read Write Inc. Comprehension: Handbook

Read Write Inc. Comprehension is the next step in developing children's composition and writing skills once they have become confident readers. Children work through 30 weekly modules, specially written to link reading and writing activities to carefully levelled texts. This clear and detailed handbook provides full support and guidance on implementing the scheme in the classroom, including suggested timetables. Blueprint lesson plans are included for teaching the activities which provide practice in reading, writing and spelling, and consolidate the pupils' knowledge through comprehension and guided composition. Suggested routes through the modules, and synopses of all the associated texts are also included.

Since Dad Left

The Time of the Lion

A magical tale of the special bond between father and son recounts how young Joseph, living in the African Savannah, comes to love a lion living nearby and how he learns to both love and trust his father. At night while his village sleeps, young Joseph hears a lion's roar thunderclap across the wide East African Savannah. Joseph's father tells him that it is not the right time to go and meet the lion, but when Joseph sees the lion racing towards him, his great head streaming with gold and his paws as big as drums, a special friendship begins. Every noontime Joseph visits the lion's den. He sleeps beside the lion, meets the lioness, and plays with the young cubs. Then one day, traders come looking for lion cubs and an anxious fear awakens in Joseph: he suspects that his father has betrayed the lions. This beautiful father/son tale explores an unusual friendship and a child's rite of passage. The Time of the Lion creates a metaphor for the magic of childhood, a time when fantasy is reality, and lions are our friends. The beautiful artwork is the perfect compliment to this tale, capturing the power and mystery of the African Savannah.