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Pearl\/Band 18 books offer fluent readers a complex, substantial text with challenging themes to facilitate sustained comprehension, bridging the gap between a reading programme and longer chapter books.             Text type: Fiction from our literary heritage             Curriculum links: English: fiction from the literary heritage\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"COLLINS EDUCATIONAL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43578979188797,"sku":"9780008179564","price":16.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9780008179564_1e889aee-6ccc-44d6-80bc-c9f7f9417a40.jpg?v=1789215456"},{"product_id":"everest-ice-climbers-9780008208875","title":"Everest Ice Climbers","description":"\u003cp\u003eBuild your child's reading confidence at home with books at the right level           Join an expedition climbing Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. From Base Camp to the summit, find out what to wear, what to take with you and how to survive!                Emerald\/Band 15 books provide a widening range of genres including science fiction and biography, prompting more ways to respond to texts. Text type - An information book. The book is organised into short chapters to help children practise the skills of locating and identifying important information. The glossary and index can be used to develop children's information retrieval skills further. 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The Handbooks provide support in demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding vocabulary.             Discover how maps have evolved and changed over time as our own understanding of the world has developed. This information book was written by Karen Wallace.             Blue\/Band 4 books offer longer, repeated patterns with sequential events and integrated literary and natural language.             This book focuses on adjacent consonants with long vowel phonemes.             Pages 14 and 15 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall.             Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.             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Turquoise\/Band 7 offers literary language and extended descriptions, with longer sentences and a wide range of unfamiliar and challenging vocabulary. Illustrations provide a lower level of support.             The focus sounds in this book are: \/n\/ kn, gn \/m\/ mb \/sh\/ ci, ti, si, ssi \/s\/ c, ce, sc \/c\/ qu(e) \/zh\/ s             Pages 22 and 23 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall.             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