Frog Goes on Holiday

Genre Range for ages 5-11:

• Provides exciting and engaging texts from all the fiction genres children need to experience and understand.
• Offers rich opportunities for speaking and listening through playscripts and poetry ranging from classics to contemporary.
• Provides easily manageable drama for study and performance in the classroom and an introduction to Shakespeare in Key Stage 2.
• Especially motivates and supports reluctant readers through accessible, visual genres such as comic strips and Access texts for ages 9-11.
• Provides varied models for writing for comparison, discussion and practice with letters and diaries providing particularly supportive examples of written communication.
• Simple integration of assessment for learning into class teaching is provided in the Teaching Notes which ensure children's reading and writing skills progress at word, sentence and text level.
• Accessible Teaching Notes and Activity sheets ensure teachers, teaching assistants and parents are all able to contribute to teaching and learning.