These materials are designed to support the work of teachers who plan to use ‘The Meerkat Wars’ by H.S. Toshack as a whole-class literacy resource. "One of three delightful adventure stories set in Africa… Illustrated brilliantly… reminiscent of 'The Jungle Book'. Older children will find them a perfect read." Books Monthly May 2011 A selection of other reviews of the Paka Mdogo series: http://www.litworks.com/downloads/review_selection.pdf The resources take the form of questions linked to each of the book's pages, and additional whole-book tasks. The activities are aligned with the KS2 Literacy Strategies, and presented in tabular form so that teachers can easily match them to class needs. Free schools inspection copies (ebook format, readable on computer) of the paperback edition of the book are available at http://www.litworks.com/ebook_inspection_copies_request_form.php

This 13-page resource is a set of short writing tasks, and formal essay questions in the style of A Level, AP and IB examinations. The initial tasks focus student attention on significant aspects of each chapter and build up a full understanding of what Fitzgerald is trying to achieve, how he is trying to achieve it, and how successful he has been. The chapter-based questions can, additionally, be used as a basis for class discussion, and the essay topics as an invaluable tool for pre-examination revision and rehearsal. At a time-saving level, teachers will be relieved of the need to develop their own units of study for the work, and to seek out relevant questions from past examinations. ‘These prompts are a terrific tool for generating class discussions, creating short answer exams, or longer essay assignments. I have purchased a number of them and am impressed with each one’ (from the LitWorks.com Commendations page).

This is a sample chapter from 'The Gradual Elephant' by H. S. Toshack, together with its Strategies-based literacy tasks. It is designed to be used as a stand-alone resource (children don’t need to have read the book), demonstrating how the reading of a novel in class can be supplemented, and the experience deepened for children, by the use of carefully-constructed and challenging questions taking readers further into the text, on a page-by-page and then a whole-chapter basis. Review selection of the Paka Mdogo series: http://www.litworks.com/downloads/review_selection.pdf Free schools inspection copies (ebook format, readable on computer) of the paperback edition of the book are available at http://www.litworks.com/ebook_inspection_copies_request_form.php

This 17-page resource consists of a set of text-based writing tasks, and formal essay questions in the style of AP and IB examinations. The initial tasks focus student attention on significant aspects of each scene, and build up a full understanding of what Miller is trying to achieve, how he is trying to achieve it, and how successful he has been. Overall, the resource helps students develop a whole range of reading and critical skills and provides practice in writing coherent responses to probing questions on works of literature. The text-based questions can, additionally, be used as a basis for class discussion, and the essay topics as an invaluable tool for pre-examination revision and rehearsal. At a time-saving level, teachers will be relieved of the need to develop their own units of work for the play, and to seek out relevant questions from past examinations. The resource effectively supports the Common Core State Standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1-6 and CC.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11.12.1-6.

This 17-page resource consists of a set of chapter-based writing tasks, and formal essay questions in the style of AP and IB examinations. The initial tasks focus student attention on significant aspects of each chapter, and build up a full understanding of what Conrad is trying to achieve, how he is trying to achieve it, and how successful he has been. Overall, the resource helps students develop a whole range of reading and critical skills and provides practice in writing coherent responses to probing questions on works of literature. The chapter-based questions can, additionally, be used as a basis for class discussion, and the essay topics as an invaluable tool for pre-examination revision and rehearsal. At a time-saving level, teachers will be relieved of the need to develop their own units of work for the novel, and to seek out relevant questions from past examinations. The resource effectively supports the Common Core State Standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1-6 and CC.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11.12.1-6.

This 13-page resource consists of a set of chapter-based writing tasks, and formal essay questions in the style of AP and IB examinations. The initial tasks focus student attention on significant aspects of each chapter, and build up a full understanding of what Mary Shelley is trying to achieve, how she is trying to achieve it, and how successful she has been. Overall, the resource helps students develop a whole range of reading and critical skills and provides practice in writing coherent responses to probing questions on works of literature. The chapter-based questions can, additionally, be used as a basis for class discussion, and the essay topics as an invaluable tool for pre-examination revision and rehearsal. At a time-saving level, teachers will be relieved of the need to develop their own units of work for the novel, and to seek out relevant questions from past examinations. The resource effectively supports the Common Core State Standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1-6 and CC.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11

This 14-page resource consists of a set of text-based writing tasks, and formal essay questions in the style of AP and IB examinations. The initial tasks focus student attention on significant aspects of each scene, and build up a full understanding of what Ibsen is trying to achieve, how he is trying to achieve it, and how successful he has been. Overall, the resource helps students develop a whole range of reading and critical skills and provides practice in writing coherent responses to probing questions on works of literature. The text-based questions can, additionally, be used as a basis for class discussion, and the essay topics as an invaluable tool for pre-examination revision and rehearsal. At a time-saving level, teachers will be relieved of the need to develop their own units of work for the play, and to seek out relevant questions from past examinations. The resource effectively supports the Common Core State Standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1-6 and CC.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11.12.1-6.

This resource is designed for use by teachers planning to use the WordSmith Literacy Units for KS2, built as they are around the highly acclaimed animal adventure story ‘Paka Mdogo’ by H.S. Toshack (available as TES premium resources). The whole series of three books (‘Paka Mdogo’, ‘The Gradual Elephant’ and ‘The Meerkat Wars’) and their accompanying teaching and learning materials is appropriate across a wide KS2 ability range, and is available in print editions at http://www.ypdbooks.com/93_h-s-toshack.

This resource is designed for use by teachers planning to adopt the animal adventure story ‘The Meerkat Wars’ by H.S. Toshack as a whole-class (or small group) teaching text. It can be used instead of, or alongside, the free, full and detailed set of literacy resources available at litworks.com/childrens.php (and elsewhere on TES Connect). The series of three books (‘Paka Mdogo’, ‘The Gradual Elephant’ and ‘The Meerkat Wars’) and their accompanying teaching and learning materials are suitable across a wide KS2 ability range.

This resource is designed for use by teachers planning to adopt the animal adventure story ‘The Gradual Elephant’ by H.S. Toshack as a whole-class (or small group) teaching text. It can be used instead of, or alongside, the free, full and detailed set of literacy resources available at litworks.com/childrens.php (and elsewhere on TES Connect). The series of three books (‘Paka Mdogo’, ‘The Gradual Elephant’ and ‘The Meerkat Wars’) and their accompanying teaching and learning materials are suitable across a wide KS2 ability range.

This 13-page resource consists of a set of chapter-based writing tasks, and formal essay questions in the style of AP and IB examinations. The initial tasks focus student attention on significant aspects of each chapter, and build up a full understanding of what Achebe is trying to achieve, how he is trying to achieve it, and how successful he has been. Overall, the resource helps students develop a whole range of reading and critical skills and provides practice in writing coherent responses to probing questions on works of literature. The chapter-based questions can, additionally, be used as a basis for class discussion, and the essay topics as an invaluable tool for pre-examination revision and rehearsal. At a time-saving level, teachers will be relieved of the need to develop their own units of work for the text, and to seek out relevant questions from past examinations. The resource effectively supports the Common Core State Standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1-6 and CC.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11.12.1-6.

This 17-page resource consists of a set of chapter-based writing tasks, and formal essay questions in the style of AP and IB examinations. The initial tasks focus student attention on significant aspects of each chapter, and build up a full understanding of what Orwell is trying to achieve, how he is trying to achieve it, and how successful he has been. Overall, the resource helps students develop a whole range of reading and critical skills and provides practice in writing coherent responses to probing questions on works of literature. The chapter-based questions can, additionally, be used as a basis for class discussion, and the essay topics as an invaluable tool for pre-examination revision and rehearsal. At a time-saving level, teachers will be relieved of the need to develop their own units of work for the text, and to seek out relevant questions from past examinations. The resource effectively supports the Common Core State Standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1-6 and CC.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11.12.1-6.

This is a set of short writing tasks, and formal essay questions in the style of AP and IB examinations. The initial tasks focus student attention on significant aspects of the text, and build up a full understanding of what Miller is trying to achieve, how he is trying to achieve it, and how successful he has been. The text-based questions can, additionally, be used as a basis for class discussion, and the essay topics as an invaluable tool for pre-examination revision and rehearsal. At a time-saving level, teachers will be relieved of the need to develop their own units of study for the play, and to seek out relevant questions from past examinations. The resource effectively promotes the Common Core State Standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1-6 and CC.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11.12.1-6.

This is a set of short writing tasks, and formal essay questions in the style of AP and IB examinations. The initial tasks focus student attention on significant aspects of the text, and build up a full understanding of what Miller is trying to achieve, how he is trying to achieve it, and how successful he has been. The text-based questions can, additionally, be used as a basis for class discussion, and the essay topics as an invaluable tool for pre-examination revision and rehearsal. At a time-saving level, teachers will be relieved of the need to develop their own units of study for the play, and to seek out relevant questions from past examinations. The resource effectively promotes the Common Core State Standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1-6 and CC.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11.12.1-6.

This 13-page resource is a set of short writing tasks, and formal essay questions in the style of A Level, AP and IB examinations. The initial tasks focus student attention on significant aspects of each chapter, and build up a full understanding of what Maya Angelou is trying to achieve, how she is trying to achieve it, and how successful she has been. The chapter-based questions can, additionally, be used as a basis for class discussion, and the essay topics as an invaluable tool for pre-examination revision and rehearsal. At a time-saving level, teachers will be relieved of the need to develop their own units of study for the work, and to seek out relevant questions from past examinations. ‘These prompts are a terrific tool for generating class discussions, creating short answer exams, or longer essay assignments. I have purchased a number of them and am impressed with each one’ (from the LitWorks.com Commendations page).

This 259-page Workbook Edition of ‘Persuasion’ is built around a full copy of the novel, and together with the other versions of the resource available at LitWorks.com offers access to the text in a variety of ways. Principally, it is a page-by-page reading guide, drawing students’ attention, by means of illuminating comments and challenging questions, to significant details in the narrative. It suggests a structured way of approaching the novel, using the highly effective SCASI (Setting, Character, Action, Style and Ideas) framework. It also carries a series of essay prompts in the style of external examinations (AP, IB and GCE A Level) which encourage students to take a wider view of the novel and relate it to basic literary and critical concepts. The resource effectively supports the Common Core State Standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1-6 and CC.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11.12.1-6.

This 16-page resource is a set of short writing tasks, and formal essay questions in the style of A Level, AP and IB examinations. The initial tasks focus student attention on significant aspects of each chapter and build up a full understanding of what Jane Austen is trying to achieve, how she is trying to achieve it, and how successful she has been. The chapter-based questions can, additionally, be used as a basis for class discussion, and the essay topics as an invaluable tool for pre-examination revision and rehearsal. At a time-saving level, teachers will be relieved of the need to develop their own units of study for the work, and to seek out relevant questions from past examinations. ‘These prompts are a terrific tool for generating class discussions, creating short answer exams, or longer essay assignments. I have purchased a number of them and am impressed with each one’ (from the LitWorks.com Commendations page).

This 25-page resource is a set of short writing tasks, and formal essay questions in the style of A Level, AP and IB examinations. The initial tasks focus student attention on significant aspects of the text, and build up a full understanding of what Miller is trying to achieve, how he is trying to achieve it, and how successful he has been. The text-based questions can, additionally, be used as a basis for class discussion, and the essay topics as an invaluable tool for pre-examination revision and rehearsal. At a time-saving level, teachers will be relieved of the need to develop their own units of study for the play, and to seek out relevant questions from past examinations. ‘These prompts are a terrific tool for generating class discussions, creating short answer exams, or longer essay assignments. I have purchased a number of them and am impressed with each one’ (from the LitWorks.com Commendations page).

This 14-page resource is a set of short writing tasks, and formal essay questions in the style of A Level, AP and IB examinations. The initial tasks focus student attention on significant aspects of each chapter and build up a full understanding of what Margaret Atwood is trying to achieve, how she is trying to achieve it, and how successful she has been. The chapter-based questions can, additionally, be used as a basis for class discussion, and the essay topics as an invaluable tool for pre-examination revision and rehearsal. At a time-saving level, teachers will be relieved of the need to develop their own units of study for the work, and to seek out relevant questions from past examinations. ‘These prompts are a terrific tool for generating class discussions, creating short answer exams, or longer essay assignments. I have purchased a number of them and am impressed with each one’ (from the LitWorks.com Commendations page).

This is a sample chapter from 'The Meerkat Wars&' by H. S. Toshack, together with its Strategies-based literacy tasks. It is designed to be used as a stand-alone resource (children don’t need to have read the book), demonstrating how the reading of a novel in class can be supplemented, and the experience deepened for children, by the use of carefully-constructed and challenging questions taking readers further into the text, on a page-by-page and then a whole-chapter basis. A selection of reviews of the Paka Mdogo series: http://www.litworks.com/downloads/review_selection.pdf Free schools inspection copies (ebook format, readable on computer) of the paperback edition of the book are available at http://www.litworks.com/ebook_inspection_copies_request_form.php