Read & Respond Interactive: The Hodgeheg by Celia Warren (author) and Ann Kronheimer (illustrator) (UK edition)

Raise literacy and attainment by bringing a favourite children’s book to life in your classroom. This CD-ROM is packed with time-saving resources to help you teach The Hodgeheg.

Multimedia activities for whiteboards

Writing frames

Image banks and audio/video clips

Interactive text extracts to annotate

Author interviews and biography

The Read & Respond series takes growing readers into the heart of popular children’s books which inspire a love of reading. It uses group discussion, thinking games, creative writing and craft activities to engage every child with timeless stories.

This CD-ROM is ideal for use with our Read & Respond resource books or as a stand-alone product.

Product Details

Series

Read & Respond Interactive

ISBN

9781407112466

Publisher

Scholastic

Date published

June 1st, 2009

Condition

New

UK edition

Author/Illustrator

Celia Warren

Celia Warren wears two hats: on the one hand she is a published children’s poet, and on the other she is an experienced teacher and writer of teaching material for children. She writes regularly for ‘Child Education’ and she was Series Editor for ‘Writing Workshops: Poetry KS1’.

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.

Read & Respond Interactive

Do the Key Stage 2 CD-ROMs come with animation?

Our Key Stage 2 CD-ROMs have audio in place of the animation that we have on the KS1 books. The audio content is more in line with the 7-11 age range.