Bikers!

by David Williams, John Foster (Editor)

Collins Soundbites is a revolutionary series of readers for 11-14 year olds with poor literacy skills. Bikers! has a reading age of 6-7 and around 30 words per page. The play desribes how Dan gives into pressure from the gang to ride a motorbike will the police find them in time to prevent tragedy This pack contains six copies of Bikers.Soundbites is a graded series of readers aimed at reluctant readers in Key Stage 3, with accompanying teaching resources.Soundbites has three progressive stages of readers. Bikers! is a stage 1 title with a reading age 6-7) and around 30 words per page. Six different level 1 books are available in a pack (000323083X).The book includes a gripping playscript, as well as information about motorbikes.Specialised, difficult or technical vocabulary is explained on the page, plus a one-page glossary at the end.The topics covered address the KS3 English and PSHE curricula.Photocopiable teaching resources, containing a range of literacy-boosting activities, are available in the Soundbites Bumper Pack (ISBN 0 00 323086 4) or individually (0007116926).

Paperback

First published April 20, 2000

About the author

In order, I am a family man, an English northerner, and a freelance writer for more years than I care to remember, first as a playwright, mainly for BBC radio and a variety of education publishers, latterly as a novelist and short story writer. More recently, I have become a games inventor. My company, Creating Games, has licensed over a dozen titles in both English and foreign language editions.

2025 sees the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the world's first public railway. As part of the celebrations, my novel 'Mr Stephenson's Regret' is wearing new clothes in a Stephenson 200 Anniversary edition, and I have written a full-length stage play, 'Geordie' which is to be premiered by Cliffe Theatre in Stockton in the autumn of 2025