Publisher's Synopsis
"Fast Forward" is a ten-unit programme of activities designed to boost the literacy skills of Level 3 attainers up to Level 4. The short activity strands which run through each unit are not only classroom-based but involve purposeful games and challenges. Each unit includes the strands: word builder; detective reader; language workshop; challenge; sentence builder; and writing workshop. Together these seek to provide an incremental development of skills in spelling, vocabulary, writing and reading for Level 4.;This text book is designed for the pupils to fill in - writing in it, highlighting, annotating, drawing or colouring - to create a record of their achievement and develop a sense of ownership of their project. They record their discoveries about words and language rules.;Each "Fast Forward" text book is packaged together with a free reading book "Stacks of Stories", a Library Association Anthology of stories about reading. This includes stories by Gillian Cross, Margaret Mahy, Adele Geras and Terence Blacker, and illustrations by Quentin Blake, Shirley Hughes and Jan Ormerod.