Year 4: Stories with Historical Settings

Accompanying the specially-commissioned White Wolves fiction range, which has been written in consultation with the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education, each of these books contains five literacy lesson plans and five photocopiable activities for each of the three graded story books in the Year 3 and 4 strands. The activities are designed for guided reading sessions in schools, in which each class is divided into groups of children with a comparable level of reading experience. The teacher spends time helping each group to negotiate a book specially chosen to match their experience level, and also sets the children literacy activities which they can work through by themselves. Guided reading helps children develop strategies for reading which enable them to become independent readers.

Karina Law was a primary school teacher and literacy co-ordianator. She left teaching to go into publishing, where she was an editor at HarperCollins. She now works as a freelance writer and has written numerous Teacher's Resources with a focus on literacy.