The Living Planet
A new series of anthologies to get students reading!
Out of Print
This collection explores life on earth and our place within it. It celebrates the diversity of our environment, and reflects on how our planet is changing and what we can do to protect it. The texts include a range of non-fiction and fiction extracts, short stories and poetry, and are arranged in four themed sections: Wild things, Water worlds, Nature’s power and Future planet. The collection include texts by David Attenborough, Sujata Bhatt, John Clare, Susan Cooper, Roger Deakin and Michael Morpurgo.
Features
- A wide variety of high quality texts encourages all students to read more, and helps to develop key reading skills.
- Each anthology covers the whole of Key Stage 3 enabling teachers to use the books with a range of groups of different ages and abilities.
- Emphasis on complete short stories and whole non-fiction texts to help students build 'reading stamina'; encourage wider reading for pleasure; and provide the opportunity for analysis and evaluation at whole-text level.
- Each anthology includes photographs and specially comissioned illustrations to engage students' interest as well as providing valuable stimulus or contextual material.
- A wide variety of lively activities (including speaking and listening) are included for individual, pair, group and whole class work.
- All activities are integrated with the texts to enable easy use in class.
- Activities include opportunities for comparing a range of texts to develop a key higher-order reading skill, and provides invaluable preparation for the Year 9 SATs.
- Multimedia support materials include editable, differentiated worksheets for all texts enabling teachers to tailor the materials to suit the precise needs of their class.
- Multimedia support materials include colour photographs and audio clips - for use with computer or an interactive whiteboard - to bring texts to life and provide valuable stimulus and contextual material.
- A great value price of £5.95 per anthology and £49.50 per CD-ROM makes this an affordable resource.
Table of Contents
- 1. Wild things: My Life with the Chimpanzees, Jane Goodall
- Maninagar Days, Sujata Bhatt
- Kite, Melvin Burgess: The Play of Kes, Barry Hines and Allan Stronach
- The Fish, Elizabeth Bishop
- The Sudden Knowledge of Moles, Mike Gould
- The Wild Side of Town, Chris Packham
- Snakes, A.K. Ramanujan
- Life in Cold Blood, David Attenborough
- Fantastic Mr Fox, Tim Adams
- Activities
- 2. Water worlds: Gone to Sea, Michael Morpurgo
- Daughter of the Sea, Berlie Doherty
- The Fringe of the Sea, by A.L. Hendriks
- For River, Helen Hubbard
- Sea Timeless Song, Grace Nichols
- The Highest Tide, Jim Lynch
- Waterlog, Roger Deakin
- 3. Nature's power: Dust Storm, Karen Hesse
- Hurricane Gold, Charlie Higson
- To Build a Fire, Jack London
- Wind, Ted Hughes
- The Hail Storm in June 1831, John Clare
- The Letters of Pliny the Younger, Pliny the Younger
- Nature Cure, Richard Mabey
- Activities
- 4. Future planet: Green Boy, Susan Cooper
- Floodland, Marcus Sedgwick
- Two poems, Jamie McKendrick
- Classic Combo, David Heatley
- The Urban Farmer, Kate Burt
- The Rough Guide to Climate Change, Robert Henson
- How Many Light Bulbs Does It Take to Change a Planet?, Tony Juniper
- The Final Straw, Simon Armitage
- The Forgotten Enemy, Arthur C.Clarke
- Activities
- Notes on authors.
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