Teacher's Guide: Web Starter Anthology - Rainbows, Roots, and Magic Shoots

by Mal Peet, Elspeth Graham

Web Anthologies The extracts in this anthology cover the full range of text requirements for Year 2, as described in the National Literacy Strategy: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, stories by significant children's writers, traditional stories, recounts, institutional texts, etc. The texts are also linked by theme ot enable a comparison across the ranges. The Teacher's Guide: BLSuggests how to introduce extracts, their range and their themes BLGives ideas for Shared, Guided and Independent work BLClearly lists the NLS objectives met in each extract BLProvides cross-reference between each component

112 pages, Paperback

First published June 13, 2002

About the author

Mal Peet grew up in North Norfolk, and studied English and American Studies at the University of Warwick. Later he moved to southwest England and worked at a variety of jobs before turning full-time to writing and illustrating in the early 1990s. With his wife, Elspeth Graham, he had written and illustrated many educational picture books for young children, and his cartoons have appeared in a number of magazines.