Read & Respond Interactive: Holes by Jillian Powell (author), Mark Brierley (illustrator), and Robin Edmonds (illustrator) (UK edition)

Comprehensive teachers’ notes pull together the digital texts into coherent lesson plans.
Interactive writing frames included to structure writing tasks.
Interactive text extracts on CD-ROM to annotate with your class.
Cross-curricular photos and videos to put the story in context.
Author interviews and biography.
Interactive whiteboard activities.

Product Details

Series

Read & Respond Interactive

ISBN

9781407102092

Publisher

Scholastic

Date published

February 2nd, 2009

Condition

New

UK edition

Author/Illustrator

Jillian Powell

Jillian Powell is experienced in teaching and in writing for all age ranges and key stages of the National Curriculum from Early years through Key Stage 4. She has written both fiction and non-fiction for reading schemes as well as the trade (eg Ginn, Heinemann, Longman, Watts). She is the author of Writing Guides: Adventure Stories (9-11).

Structure

Read & Respond

To get started with Read & Respond all you need to do is:

Choose a children’s book, from Owl Babies to Kensuke’s Kingdom, to study with your class
Order the corresponding Read & Respond Teacher Resource Book
Add a Read & Respond Interactive CD-ROM to really get your lessons buzzing!

Read & Respond Teacher Resource Titles

In-depth analysis of each book to get the whole class thinking about the story—and expressing their thoughts aloud and in writing. Within each Teacher Resource Book you’ll find:

Background information
Detailed chapter notes
Plot, character and setting activities
Shared reading section, with three extracts to read as a class
‘Talk about it’ section to get the children discussing feelings and ideas around the book
‘Get writing’ activities to help children structure and express their views about the book
Assessment activities*

Read & Respond Interactive

These multimedia CD-ROMs can be used as standalone products, or to expand upon the corresponding Read & Respond teacher’s book. Read & Respond Interactive is ideal for exploring cross-curricular themes and for inspiring reluctant readers.

Each CD-ROM contains:

Teaching notes, including lesson plans, differentiation, cross-curricular links and editable notes
An author interview or biography
Audio clips
Text extracts
Cross-curricular photos and video clips to help put the story into context
A word bank – linked to the text extracts – containing audio and text definitions
A selection of interactive whiteboard activities.

Children’s Books

We can supply each children’s title covered by the Read & Respond series as a pack of 6 or 30 books, or as a single purchase.

FAQs

Read & Respond Interactive

What are the minimum system requirements for the Read & Respond Interactive CDs?

You will need a PC or Mac with a 4x speed CD-ROM drive and 128MB RAM; Recommended minimum processor speed 450Mhz.; Windows 98/2000/XP or Mac OSX 10.2 or later; 16bit sound card and graphics card.