Adventure Stories for Reading, Learning and Literacy

Adventure Stories for Reading, Learning and Literacy
Author: Mal Leicester
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2010-07-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136953086

Adventure Stories for Reading, Learning and Literacy takes a unique approach to cross-curricular teaching in the primary classroom. Providing eight original adventure stories, the authors build up a suite of resources and activities for teachers to use in the classroom, providing cross curricular links in line with the PNS framework, to literacy, science, PE, design and technology, numeracy, geography and history. Though the stories will interest both girls and boys, they take special care to appeal to boys, who are known to achieve less highly than girls in reading and writing, and include themes such as: cars football ghosts and ghouls heroic deeds space and aliens. Each story is linked explicitly to moral and social values, and can be used to reinforce citizenship, PHSE and SEAL initiatives in primary schools. With photocopiable resources for each story, this book offers instant ideas which can be implemented easily in teacher’s plans and in the classroom and assembly, and will appeal to all busy teachers, NQTs and teachers in training.

Easy Read Adventure Stories - Sight Words for Kids

Easy Read Adventure Stories - Sight Words for Kids
Author: Baby Professor
Publisher: Speedy Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2017-02-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1541908546

This book will take your kids to various adventures without costing you money, time and effort. Your children should be able to identify letters and read whole words in relation to the objects they represent. This educational book is made to improve your kids’ reading skills while they travel and have some fun on every page. Get a copy today.

The Treasure of Pirate Frank

The Treasure of Pirate Frank
Author: Mal Peet
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2018
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0763696447

A boy and his dog set sail in search of treasure, braving stormy seas, snowy mountains, and other challenging obstacles, before finally reaching the end of their quest: the treasure of Pirate Frank.

Adventure Stories

Adventure Stories
Author: Penny King
Publisher: Pavilion Children's Books
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2000
Genre: Adventure stories
ISBN: 9781841382432

Intended for the literacy hour, this book aims to teach children how to plan, draft and write imaginative adventure stories. It shows them how to shape stories, using descriptive words, action and a good ending and can be used with the smaller version for class use.

The Adventures of the Plott Family: A Decodable Stories Collection

The Adventures of the Plott Family: A Decodable Stories Collection
Author: Heather Vidal
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 103
Release: 2024-04-23
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 164604634X

Improve confidence in reading for struggling readers and children with dyslexia with this decodable chapter book collection filled with fun and exciting adventures; featuring six separate stories all in one big book! Follow the Plott family on a series of fun and exciting adventures in this series of chaptered stories perfect for independent reading practice or shared reading. For Ash and Mel, two 10-year-old twin girls, there is always fun to be had in their small town of Longbranch. Whether they are on a camping trip with their parents or scaring their mischievous little brother, Calvin, the twins are always up to something. Follow them as they travel, learn new things, and take on challenges together. This engaging collection contains six decodable stories for building reading fluency, stamina and comprehension. This phonics-first text is written for students who have mastered sounding out words with short vowels, closed syllables, and blends. It is written with principles based in the science of reading by two educators who have made teaching students with dyslexia their passion. The six stories are written in a format specifically designed to foster a love of reading, even in reluctant readers, and include adventures such as: A Trip to the Spring The Big Catfish The Camping Trip And more!

Learning to Read

Learning to Read
Author: Faith Sheptoski-Forbush
Publisher:
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2020-11-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781734018608

Learning to Read: Fairy Tale Adventures Study Guide is designed for children, homeschoolers, or ESL learners who will improve their reading skills with easy-to-follow activities for each story. They will achieve improved literacy with the prediction, vocabulary, comprehension, main idea, explicit and implicit reasoning exercises. The extension activity will spark your child's creativity. Get started now to become a better reader today!"Thanks to the Learning to Read book series, my niece and nephew are improving their reading skills with engaging stories they really enjoy!" - DiannaThis study guide is intended to be used with the companion reader, Learning to Read: Fairy Tale Adventures. Together they will build your child's reading skills. ABOUT THE AUTHORFaith Sheptoski-Forbush is a veteran school teacher, reading specialist, and blog writer with a master's degree in reading. Faith, together with her family, enjoys animals, wholesome entertainment, travel, and outdoor recreation.Faith is a published author of two other books in her Learning to Read series.For free educational resources, follow us on Facebook and Twitter, or visit us a ChristiansForever.com. ISBN 978-1-7340186-08 (print)ISBN 978-1-7340186-15 (ebook)ISBN 978-1-7340186-08 (print)

Otis and Will Discover the Deep

Otis and Will Discover the Deep
Author: Barb Rosenstock
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 53
Release: 2018-06-05
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0316393797

The suspenseful, little-known true story of two determined pioneers who made the first dive into the deep ocean. On June 6, 1930, engineer Otis Barton and explorer Will Beebe dove into the ocean inside a hollow metal ball of their own invention called the Bathysphere. They knew dozens of things might go wrong. A tiny leak could shoot pressurized water straight through the men like bullets! A single spark could cause their oxygen tanks to explode! No one had ever dived lower than a few hundred feet...and come back. But Otis and Will were determined to become the first people to see what the deep ocean looks like. This suspenseful story from acclaimed author Barb Rosenstock with mesmerizing watercolors by award-winning artist Katherine Roy will put you right in the middle of the spine-tingling, record-setting journey down, down into the deep.

The Last Grand Adventure

The Last Grand Adventure
Author: Rebecca Behrens
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2018-03-20
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1481496948

Twelve-year-old Bea finds herself on a unique road trip with her grandmother, as they search for her grandmother’s long-lost sister—the legendary Amelia Earhart—in this charming novel from the author of When Audrey Met Alice and Summer of Lost and Found. It’s 1967 and twelve-year-old Bea is in need of some adventure. Her mother is off in San Francisco, while her father has just gotten remarried in Los Angeles. Bea has gained a younger stepsister, and she’s not thrilled about her blended family. So when her ailing grandmother, Pidge, moves to an Orange County senior-living community and asks if Bea would spend the summer helping her get settled, Bea is happy for any excuse to get away. But it turns out, her grandmother isn’t interested in settling in. What she really wants is to hop a train back to Atchison, Kansas—where she thinks she’ll be reunited with her long-missing sister: Amelia Earhart. And she wants Bea to be her sidekick on this secret trip. At first, Bea thinks her grandmother’s plan is a little crazy. But Pidge has thirty years of letters written in “Meelie’s” unmistakable voice, all promising to reunite. This might be the adventure Bea needs… With letters in hand, Bea and Pidge set off on their quest to find Amelia. But getting halfway across the country proves to be more of an adventure than either of them bargained for. And their search for Amelia leads to some surprising truths about their family—and each other.

An Island Secret

An Island Secret
Author: Susan Aguilo
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2018-04-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9781987648577

Mom's bedtime story takes Alex, his cousin Victoria, and Elmo (his best friend and dog) on an expedition down the Nile River as they try to outrun a mummy in an action-packed adventure filled with wonder and discovery. This new series of children's books have Mom's bedtime stories take Alex, his cousin Victoria and Elmo (his best friend and dog) on amazing adventures around the world. The stories are action packed with the promise of adventure, mystery, extreme sports and vehicles, monsters, ancient ruins, and discoveries of a lifetime! If this doesn't seem amazing enough, imagine it also has an educational component encouraging further learning and discussions. Making learning fun! Did You Know? Fact or Fiction page at the end of each book encourages history, social studies, and geographical learning. Reading comprehension questions, vocabulary, word searches, reading journals & story writing exercises are all accessible on the website. Creating fun filled tools for teachers and educators.

Wed Wabbit

Wed Wabbit
Author: Lissa Evans
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2018-02-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1338185284

A ten-year-old girl is transported to a world ruled by a toy bunny in this hilarious adventure perfect for fans of Chris Grabenstein and Lemony Snicket. Your name is Fidge and you’re nearly eleven. You’ve been hurled into a strange world. You have three companions: two are unbelievably weird and the third is your awful cousin, Graham. You must solve a series of nearly impossible clues. You need to deal with a cruel stuffed animal dictator and three thousand Wimbley Woos (yes, you read that sentence correctly). And the whole situation—the whole, entire thing—is your fault. Wed Wabbit is an adventure about friendship, danger, and the terror of never being able to get back home again. And it’s funny. It’s seriously funny. Praise for Wed Wabbit “This well-crafted journey of self-realization amuses at every turn.” —Publishers Weekly “Properly funny . . . Deceptively wise.” —The Guardian (UK)