| Publication |
Great Britain, Oxford University Press, 1997.
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| Description |
80pYellow Spine
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| Series |
Skills and Practice
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| Summary/Abstract |
Accompanies the Comprehension to 14 Student book (Accession Number: 006680) that will help the students to develop the essential comprehension skills they need to become more confident readers.
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| Contents |
Introduction
FICTION
Bella's Den - By Berlie Doherty
The Banana Tree - James Berry
Complete Short Story
She - By Rosa Guy
Legends
Grendel the Monster - By Eleanor Farjeon
The Death of King Arthur - By Sir Thomas Malory
Science Fiction
The House Began to Die - By Ray Bradbury
The War of the Worlds - By H.G. Wells
Horror
Nule - By Jan Mark
The Body Snatcher - By Robert Louis Stevenson
Ghost Story
Rosalie - By Robery Westall
The Knock at the Mirror Gate - By Franz Kafka
Crime
The Clinging Woman - By Ruth Rendell
The Engineer's Thumb - By Arthur Conan Doyle
DRAMA
Reading and Responding to Drama Texts
TV Sketch
Health Expert - By Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders
Monologue
Going Home Time - By Joyce Grenfell
TV Screenplay
Last Bus to Woodstock - By Michael Wilcox
Stage Play
Carwash - By Louis Phillips
Pygmalion - By Bernard Shaw
POETRY
Reading and Responding to Poetry
Slow Reader - By Vicki Feaver
The Way Through The Woods - By Rudyard Kipling
The Sweet Brew at Chitakale - By Jack Mapanje
Poetry Comparison 1
Rainforest - By Judith Wright
The Fish Are All Sick - By Anne Stevenson
I Remember, I Remember - By Thomas Hood
The North Ship - By Philip Larkin
Day Trip - By Carole Satyamurti
Dark August - By Derek Walcott
Flood - By Olga Benjamin
Poetry Comparison 2
A Sofa in the Forties - By Seamus Heaney
Mossbawn - By Seamus Heaney
Poetry Comparison 3
Baby Song - By Thom Gunn
Prayer Before Birth - Louis MacNeice
NON-FICTION
Reading and Responding to Non-Fiction Texts
Newspaper Report
'I Killed the Loch Ness Monster' - By Weekly World News
Playing Hopscotch Can Make Children 'Brainy' - By Yorkshire Evening Press
Crime-Hit US City Clears Its Streets of Children - By Guardian
Autobiography
Pig Ignorant - By Nicholas Fisk
And When did You Last See Your Father - By Blake Morrsion
The Opening of the Liverpool to Manchester Railway - By Frances Ann Kemble
Autobiography Comparison
Julia - By Julia Strachey
An Encounter - By Mulk Rak Anand
Travel Writing
On Sledge and Horseback to Outcast Siberian Lepers - By Kate Marsden
Letters Comparison
My Father, My Son - By Fergal Keane
Letter
To Daniel Maclise, 12 March 1841 - By Charles Dickens
Holiday Brochure Comparison
Wonderwest World - By Butlins
Central Highlands - By Shearings
Speeches
The Future Doesn't Belong to the Fainthearted - By Peggy Noonan
Your God is Not Our God - By Chief Seattle
Advertisments Comparison
'Before They're Roasted' - By RSPCA
'Test Your Powers...' - By Help the Aged
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| Standard Number |
0198314418 Pb.
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