Words, Language & Grammar, Schools & Teaching 

Wolf Hill is an exciting series from Roderick Hunt and Alex Brychta, creators of the Oxford Reading Tree. It is designed to provide an easy, supportive and sustained read for those pupils who need to gain confidence and motivation in their reading. The stories will appeal to reluctant readers aged approximately 7-11 and deal with the real-world adventures of a group of friends who live and attend school in an area called Wolf Hill. The children experience lively, amusing adventures and the stories also deal with issues about friendship, school and life in a modern urban environment. The books are designed to look like popular novels for older children with a spine and chapters, boosting confidence and interest of those who may have been stuck on reading scheme books aimed at younger children and appealing to the most image-conscious pupils. This book is also available as part of a mixed pack of 6 different books or a class pack of 36 books. The top level of this exciting series from Roderick Hunt and Alex Brychta provides an easy, supportive and sustained read for those pupils who still need to gain confidence and stamina in their reading. The stories will appeal to reluctant readers with a chronological age of 11. They deal with the real-world adventures of a group of friends who live and attend a school in an area called Wolf Hill. The children experience thrilling and amusing adventures, and the stories also deal with issues of friendship, school, and life in a modern urban environment. The Teacher's Guide provides a wide range of photocopiable activity work sheets which can be used to teach Word, Text, and Sentence Level Work in Year 6 (P7/8). It includes comprehension, scanning, language and grammar work, discussion, different kinds of writing and creative work. Level 5 will appeal to children with an interest level of around 11 years, but with a readability level of around a year to one year and a half lower. - from Amzon