Engage your seriously struggling and reluctant teen readers with Barrington Stoke's SEN short fiction. Bench has been specially designed for teen readers with a very low reading age of 6 and is fully illustrated throughout.
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- 2022
- 2022
Engage your seriously struggling and reluctant teen readers with Barrington Stoke's SEN short fiction. Date with Danger has been specially designed for teen readers with a very low reading age of 6 and is fully illustrated throughout.
- 2022
An incredibly moving story of hope and redemption.
- 2016
Suitable for young people who may need counselling and psychotherapy, this title aims: to demystify counselling and psychotherapy so that it is more appealing to young people; to destigmatise emotional and mental health problems so that young people are better able to accept help; and, to encourage them to embark upon their own healing journeys.
- 2016
Graphic Lives: Lexi
- 52 pages
- 2 hours of reading
Following the traumatic break-up of her parents' marriage, Lexi feels excluded and unloved. Unable to cope with her emotions, she self-harms, cutting herself with a scalpel. When her boyfriend splits up with her the self-harm intensifies until Lexi's sister persuades her to see Steph, the school counsellor.
- 2016
Sixteen year-olds Ava and Jade are obsessed with food, calories, and staying thin. Pleased with the many compliments they receive they push themselves into anorexia. Only when Jade is admitted to hospital does Ava return to therapy, where she begins to understand the causes of her anorexic tendencies.
- 2016
Sixteen year-olds Ava and Jade are obsessed with food, calories, and staying thin. Pleased with the many compliments they receive they push themselves into anorexia. Only when Jade is admitted to hospital does Ava return to therapy, where she begins to understand the causes of her anorexic tendencies.
- 2012
Based upon a scenario in which Ben is called to the 'Forest of Feelings' by Rusalka, its guardian, this volume explores Ben's responses to situations that help him to explore the whole range of feelings. Teacher's notes are included to help professionals understand how children really feel.
- 2003
Reading Comprehension
- 64 pages
- 3 hours of reading
A lively new series that puts a collection of stimulating and entertaining reading comprehension exercises at your fingertips. Multiple-choice questions are followed by open-ended activities requiring either an imaginative or reflective response or independent research. The passages are illustrated and encompass a wide range of genres including: - fiction - poetry - dialogue - letters - charts & tables - recipes - news reports - Book One (1-85503-362-3) features a press report of a UFO sighting and a letter of complaint: exercises designed for children in Year 3. Book Two (1-85503-363-1) features fascinating and varied topics designed for children in year 4. * Supporting the National Literacy Strategy at Key Stage 2, the photocopiable exercises in each book are grouped and graded within four main skill areas: Getting the main idea - Making inferences - Noting and recalling details - Using context clues - * With teacher's notes and separate answer pages for easy checking, this series shows the way to develop and hone crucial comprehension skills.