Nelson Family - The completely integrated approach to teaching

Each Pupil Book provides an exciting, fully illustrated range of the latest action, classic text, poetry, drama and non-fiction text types, chosen to appeal to every pupil. Each unit is divided into three sections – ‘Teach’, ‘Talk’ and ‘Write’ – to fully support every pupil’s learning.

• Engage your pupils with a range of group discussion and role play activities.
• Support the acquisition of vital comprehension skills with both oral and written activities.
• Support children’s reading comprehension assessment targets.

• Meet the needs of children of all abilities with suitable learning and assessment opportunities.
• Provides effective teaching guidance of key comprehension skills.

Each Teacher’s Resource Book provides unit by unit planning, including plenary and answer guidance, as well as assessment sheets and links to the ICT, to provide full support and guidance for teaching the key comprehension skills.

• Maximise learning guidance using the Pupil Book extracts and activities.
• Support struggling readers with the assessment snapshots to assess key skills.

• Fit seamlessly with your planning using the clear objectives linked to the renewed Literacy Framework, Assessing Pupil Progress and Scottish Curriculum for Excellence.

Each interactive CD-ROM features an exciting range of multi-media tools including multi-layered texts from the range of fiction and non-fiction genres, illustrations, sound effects, voice-overs and animations to help you deliver engaging comprehension lessons.

• Engage children with a multi-media approach using sound and animation to suit different learning styles.
• Support and assess struggling readers’ thinking comprehension skills with visual snapshots.

• Enables effective assessment for learning and targets key assessment focuses for success in Primary.
• Supports group discussion and role play activities with a range of ICT activities which reinforce key comprehension skills.