Forests on Fire Reader Pack Stage 2 - Collins Soundbites Author:Anne Gatti "Collins Soundbites" is a series of readers for Key Stage 3 students with poor literacy skills. It contains three levels of graded, progressive readers, on cross-curricular topics that are particularly suitable for boys. The series supports progress units for Year 7. Each mixed pack contains six different readers at each of the three stages (sta... more »ge 1: reading age 6-7; stage 2: age 7-8; stage 3: age 8-9). Two thirds of each book is 'narrative' style text. One third of each book covers information, using a variety of text types such as autobiographies, biographies, journals, diaries, letters (personal and formal), travel writing, leaflets, reports, reviews, adverts, newspaper/magazine articles, tables. Specialized, difficult or technical vocabulary is explained on the page, witrh a one-page glossary at the end. The topics covered address the KS3 curriculum in different areas.« less