Focus on Literature Ages 8 – 10

The perfect companion to help you accelerate literacy standards in your classroom. It contains eight units of work. Each unit provides a scaffold for the reading of a popular children’s novel or picture book.

Every unit includes:
? literary techniques and grammar
? ideas for display
? developing prior knowledge
? enriching the reading experience
? connecting to other Learning Areas
? taking it further
? 8 photocopiable worksheets.

Also included is a theme and topic index, so that you can connect and integrate the children’s books across the curriculum.

Contents
How to get the most out of Focus on Literature
Literature in the classroom
Teaching the units of work
Theme and topic index
BLM 1 – Merit Certificates
Goblin in the Rainforest by Victor Kelleher
Home by Narelle Oliver
The Shaggy Gully Times by Jackie French
The Naming of Tishkin Silk by Glenda Millard
Nim’s Island by Wendy Orr
Selby’s Shemozzle by Duncan Ball
Left Shoe and the Foundling by Annie O’Dowd
Treasure Fever! by Andy Griffiths