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Beneath the Waves: Two Ghost Stories: Band 18/Pearl


Collins Big Cat

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No. of pages 80

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Great for age 6-11 years

Two touching, ghostly tales by Harriet Goodwin and Leon Rosselson. In the first, Joe, struggling to come to terms with his mother's death, finds himself drawn into a spooky legend that lies deep beneath the water. In the second, Billy's encounter with a strange girl in a beautiful garden helps to reveal a long forgotten secret.

* Pearl/Band 18 books offer fluent readers a complex, substantial text with challenging themes to facilitate sustained comprehension, bridging the gap between a reading programme and longer chapter books.

* Text type: A mystery story.

* Curriculum links: Citizenship: Moving on.

This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

 

This book features in the following series: Collins Big Cat, Pearl Series .

This book is aimed at children in primary school. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. 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 80 pages in this book. This book was published 2012 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years. Leon Rosselson was a well-known folk singer-songwriter. His first book for children was Rosa's Singing Grandfather for Puffin, which was shortlisted for the Carnegie medal, a first for a younger fiction title. Timothy Knapman studied at Oxford University and has written plays, opera libretti and children's books. His books include the successful Mungo series and have been translated into 12 languages and are read on the BBC's CBeebies Bedtime Stories Jimothy Oliver is a UK-based illustrator who produces commissioned work for clients worldwide. He has worked as a freelance illustrator since 1995, and his distinctive drawing style and exuberant use of colour are perfect for children's picture books. In his spare time Jimothy paints, draws and teaches illustration. Harriet Goodwin read medieval English at Oxford University before training as a professional singer. She sang and toured with a number of acclaimed ensembles, and now lives in Staffordshire with her family.

This book is in the following series:

Pearl Series

Collins Big Cat
The Collins Big Cat series is a fully structured reading scheme with both fiction and non fiction titles. The series was designed to build speaking and listening as well as reading skills. Every book contains a unique reader response activity plus reading tips including suggested comprehension activities and curriculum links.

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