Scoular Anderson

Our international primary reading series will help your learners become confident, independent readers. An ideal way to add to your reading collection, our Strand Packs include every title within your chosen level. Explore the range of exciting fiction and non-fiction at Explorers Strand including Skyscrapers, Dolphins in the Wild, A Tale of Two Sinbads and Journey to Callisto. Books in the Explorers Strand are for learners who are reading a wide range of fiction and non-fiction with a good degree of accuracy and reasonable reading pace. Readers at this Strand will be able to discuss their preferences and read critically, considering the author's effectiveness.

Our international primary reading series will help your learners become confident, independent readers. An ideal way to add to your reading collection, our Strand Packs include every title within your chosen level. Explore the range of exciting fiction and non-fiction at Voyagers Strand including Tamerlane and the Boy, The White Elephant, Meltdown and Movie World. Books in the Voyagers Strand are for learners experienced in reading a range of genres. Learners will be able to discuss how language is used and how vocabulary causes reactions in the reader. Fiction titles include chapters to reflect sustained reading. Shorter books have deeper inferential meaning needing more advanced comprehension skills.

Our international primary reading series will help your learners become confident, independent readers. An ideal way to add to your reading collection, our Strand Packs include every title within your chosen level. Explore the range of exciting fiction, non-fiction and poetry at Wayfarers Strand including You and Me, Timbuktu, Who is the Greatest? and The Digger. Books in the Wayfarers Strand are for learners who can read a range of texts accurately and fluently. They require learners to read beyond what is on the page, inferring characters' feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions. There is more emphasis on understanding through reading and less use of illustrations to show meaning.

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Our international primary reading series will help your learners become confident, independent readers. This non-fiction title traces the development of man – from the first, most simple tools, to modern day computers. Pathfinders titles are for learners whose reading is accurate, fast and fluent. They will need to decode and read unfamiliar words. Contains full teaching support including learning outcomes, curriculum links and follow-up activities.

Our international primary reading series will help your learners become confident, independent readers. People have used many ways to travel on water. Find out how. Purple Band non-fiction titles provide more in-depth information and technical vocabulary than in previous bands. Contains full teaching support including learning outcomes, curriculum links and follow-up activities.

Our international primary reading series will help your learners become confident, independent readers. Buildings are all around us. Find out about some amazing buildings and how they were made. White Band non-fiction titles use different genre styles across one text and a range of non-fiction text features. Contains full teaching support including learning outcomes, curriculum links and follow-up activities

When the bin men find Dotty the Dinosaur, they put her up on the front of their truck. There she meets three other Bin Bears, called Posh, Threadbare and Dusty. The Bin Bears have lots of fun together. But Dotty doesn't really want to be a bin truck mascot. She'd rather be safely tucked up at home...An entertaining story from a very popular author/illustrator.

When the pirate captain stumbles across a treasure map all the crew are very pleased. All pirates like loot Unless that is it's an old pirate boot.

Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right level So you want to be a Victorian? From dirty streets and factories, to watching Punch and Judy shows and riding the stagecoach – find out the real facts of Victorian living in this humerous non-fiction guide. Diamond/Band 17 books offer more complex, underlying themes to give opportunities for children to understand causes and points of view.Text type: An information bookCurriculum links: HistoryThis book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right level So you want to be an Anglo-Saxon? Find out how to do it in just a few stages. From fighting the Vikings and praying to gods, to making books from animal skin – all is revealed in this fun non-fiction guide by Scoular Anderson. Topaz/Band 13 books offer longer and more demanding reads for children to investigate and evaluate.An information book.Curriculum Links; History: Why have people invaded and settled in Britain in the past: An Anglo Saxon Case StudyThis book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right level Find out how to become an Ancient Egyptian in just a few stages with this fact-filled book from popular author and illustrator Scoular Anderson. From living off the land and cooking Egyptian food, to building inspiring pyramids and making mummies – all is revealed in this fun non-fiction guide. Copper/Band 12 books provide more complex plots and longer chapters that develop reading stamina.An information bookCurriculum Links: History: What can we find out about ancient Egypt from what has survived?This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

Have you ever wondered how things are created? Find out all about inventors and their amazing inventions in this non-fiction information book, written and illustrated by Scoular Anderson. Green/Band 5 books offer early readers patterned language and varied charactersText type: An information book.A timeline of all the inventors and their inventions on pages 14 and 15 help children to recap when different things were invented and provides a wealth of speaking and listening opportunities.Additional retrieval devices such as a glossary and index can be evaluated for their usefulness as children develop critical reading skills.Curriculum links: Design and Technology: Winding up

Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right level So you want to be a Roman? Here is everything you need to know – in 20 easy stages. From the battle ground to building roads – find out the REAL facts to Roman living in this humorous information book from Scoular Anderson. Ruby/Band 14 books give increasing opportunities for children to develop their skills of inference and deduction.Text type: An information book.A gallery of the things the Romans did that changed the way we live on pages 46-47 enables children to recap the main features left over from Roman times.Additional information retrieval devices such as a glossary and index can be evaluated for their usefulness as children develop critical reading skills.Curriculum links: History: Whay have people invaded and settled in Britain in the past – a Roman case study.This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right level A quirky insight into how to live like an Ancient Greek – in twenty-five easy stages. Sapphire/Band 16 books books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.Text type: An information book.Curriculum links: History: Who were the Ancient Greeks; How do we use Ancient Greek ideas today?This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

Here is everything you need to know about being a knight, from from being a young page to being knighted. This humorous non-fiction book explains all the tasks, training, outfits and privileges that came with the job. Gold/Band 9 fiction books offer developing readers literary language and stories with distinctive characters.Text type – An information book.There is a contents page (on page 1), listing the "10 easy stages", plus an illustrated glossary and index on pages 22 and 23.Curriculum links – History: Knowledge and understanding of events, people and changes in the past.This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

Two magical books in one about the naughty, fun-loving little wizard. In ‘Dragon Danger’, a big, bad dragon is coming to attack Wizard Cottage, and only Odds-and-Ends, Freddy Frogpurse's little house dragon, stands between the angry fire-breather and all of Freddy's magic potions. How are they going to stop it? In ‘Grasshopper Glue’, Freddy Frogpurse receives a parcel in the post from Great uncle Sneezer. It contains a jar that says "Do Not Open". Surely it can't hurt to take one little peek…? Inside is a very angry girl wizard called Jakaranda, sent on a mission to rescue the Wand of Wikslug from the evil Wizard Beetleboot.

Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right level Have you ever wanted to be a Tudor? Here’s how to do it – in just twenty easy stages. Find out all about the Tudor monarchs, homes, food and much more in this funny historical non-fiction book. Ruby/Band 14 books give increasing opportunities for children to develop their skills of inference and deduction.Text type – An information book.Reader/Response page with summary pictures to be used as a stimulus for further speaking, listening and writing opportunities.Additional information retrieval devices such as a glossary, index and monarch information summary pages can be evaluated for their usefulness as children develop critical reading skills.This title is paired with an adventure story, Stowaway! set in Tudor times about a young boy who travels around the world with Sir Francis Drake.Curriculum links – History: What were the differences between the lives of rich and poor people in Tudor times?This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right level If you want to be a Viking, this book tells you everything that you need to know from how to milk a cow, to how to choose a sword! This information book is carefully organised into short chapters to help children practise the skills of locating and identifying important information. Copper/Band 12 books provide more complex plots and longer chapters that develop reading stamina.Text type – An information book.The book is organised into short chapters to help children practise the skills of locating and identifying important information.The glossary and index on pages 30 and 31 can be used to develop children's information retrieval skills further.Curriculum links – History: A Viking case study.This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

Second in a charming new series for younger readers about a naughty young wizard and his dragon, Odds-and-Ends. When a Very Important Gentleman comes to visit, Freddy pretends he’s Uncle Sneezer. Little does he know that he may have just talked himself into a lot of trouble…