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Letters and Sounds Phase 1
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What sounds can you hear? 9 780008 251277
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Red B Band 2B
r a C k n i P Pink Boat,
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ISBN 978-0-00-825147-5
9 780008 251475
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Letters and Sounds Phase 3
Phonemes covered: /ar/ /ow/ /oa/ /oo/ /oo/ /ure/ /ur/ /oi/ /air/ /ee/
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Will Ella join in with Kit and Tom? A fiction story
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Red A Band 2A
In the Fish T nk
Letters and Sounds Phase 3
Phonemes covered: j, x, y, z, sh, nk
In the Fish T nk
Set up a fish tank. Browse the complete Collins catalogue at
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9 780008 251420
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A non-fiction book
Alison H wes
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Red B Band 2B
Letters and Sounds Phase 3
Phonemes covered: /ee/ /igh/ /oo/ /or/ /ur/ /air/ /ure/ /er/
Can Lee and Nick shoot a hoop? Browse the complete Collins catalogue at
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9 780008 230227
A story
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She shoots in the air.
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Blue Band 4
Athletics
Letters and Sounds Phase 4
Phonemes covered: Adjacent consonants with long vowel phonemes
Athletics is a sport with lots of events. Browse the complete Collins catalogue at
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ISBN 978-0-00-825163-5
9 780008 251635
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An information book
Athletics Andy Seed 1/29/19 11:47 AM
Sprinting Sprinters run in a quick burst of speed.
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At the start, they power off from the starting block.
starting block
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Marathon In a marathon, competitors train hard to run much further.
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Copper Band 12
Tara Binns
Tara Binns
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h- flying Pilot g i H TARA BINNS HIGH-FLYING PILOT
When thunder and lightning strike, can new pilot Tara Binns beat the storm and y everyone to safety? Browse the complete Collins catalogue at
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An adventure story
Lisa Rajan
Alessia Trunfio 18/10/2018 12:05
It was over the island ahead, exactly where they were supposed to land. She could see that buildings were torn down and roads were flooded. This was very worrying. The storm was strong enough to rip up trees and blow houses down. What would it do to a plane with a new pilot at the controls? Tara needed help. She asked Ayesha and Ortez, “What should I do?� 9
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The Wall
Vivian French weaves two magical stories from far-off lands. Selim-Hassan the Seventh tells of a teenager who is determined NOT to follow in his father’s footsteps … that is until he meets his great-great-great-great-grandfather! Whilst in The Wall, a young nomadic girl determines to return her grandmother to the land of her birth … across the Great Wall of China.
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Two stories from other cultures
SELIM-HASSAN THE SEVENTH AND THE WALL
Selim-Hassan Selim-Hassan the Seventh and
Selim-Hassan Selim-Hassan the Seventh and The Wall
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Why didn’t I ask Grandmother Pearl the questions that filled my head? All the questions about the wall? I did, sometimes ... but she never answered. She was old – very old. I think perhaps she was my mother’s grandmother, or maybe even older, and her mind floated free like the clouds in the sky. When my mother died she looked after me, but even then she sometimes thought I was one of her own daughters ... all of whom had died long ago. I was sorry that she never answered my questions, but I listened open-mouthed when she told me her stories – wonderful stories of strange places, and a strange people who lived a different life from us.
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“They do not move from place to place,” Grandmother Pearl told me. “They have houses. The houses are made of wood, and of stone. The people who are rich live with many beautiful things. Their clothes are made of the softest silk. The silk shimmers and shines. It is embroidered with butterflies and flowers and wonderful birds. There are little whispering rivers. Gardens with snow-white and rose-pink petalled trees. The old ...” and here Grandmother Pearl would sometimes give a little sideways glance at my father “... are treated with veneration. They sit and talk, or play music. Some look at the words of poetry painted on to sheets of thin parchment.”
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Walter Tull: Footballer, Soldier, Hero
Walter Tuelr,lH:ero Walter Tull was the son of a carpenter and the grandson of a slave. Born in England and raised in a children’s home, Walter became a footballing star and a First World War hero. Find out about his extraordinary life and how he conquered
WALTER TULL: FOOTBALLER, SOLDIER, HERO
Footballer, Soldi
the prejudice he faced because of the colour of his skin. Browse the complete Collins catalogue at
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9 780007 336371
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A biography
Dan Lyndon Roger Wade Walker
Going pro
Tottenham Hotspur badge Tottenham Hotspur was in the First Division, and crowds of over 15,000 people watched
Clapton reached the London Senior Cup final and then
the team’s games – more than
the London County Amateur Cup final. Walter was
five times bigger than the crowds
described in The Football Star as “Clapton’s catch of
Clapton played in front of at
the season” and talent scouts from professional teams
the Old Spotted Dog ground
came to watch him play. Tottenham Hotspur, then
in Upton Lane. Walter was the first
the richest team in London, invited Walter for a trial and
black footballer to play for Tottenham and only the third
he played in their reserve team, scoring twice in a friendly
black man to play professional football in the UK.
against Clapton Orient. This was enough to impress the manager at Tottenham Hotspur, who offered Walter a contract. As he’d finished his apprenticeship as a printer, he was free to play football professionally. Walter earned a £10 signing-on fee and was paid £4 a week, the maximum wage for a footballer at that time. Tottenham Hotspur football ground in 1910
He followed in the footsteps of Andrew Watson, who played for Queen’s Park in 1875, and Arthur Wharton, goalkeeper for Rotherham United in 1889 and for Sheffield United in 1894.
Walter in his Tottenham Hotspur kit
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Going pro
Tottenham Hotspur badge Tottenham Hotspur was in the First Division, and crowds of over 15,000 people watched
Clapton reached the London Senior Cup final and then
the team’s games – more than
the London County Amateur Cup final. Walter was
five times bigger than the crowds
described in The Football Star as “Clapton’s catch of
Clapton played in front of at
the season” and talent scouts from professional teams
the Old Spotted Dog ground
came to watch him play. Tottenham Hotspur, then
in Upton Lane. Walter was the first
the richest team in London, invited Walter for a trial and
black footballer to play for Tottenham and only the third
he played in their reserve team, scoring twice in a friendly
black man to play professional football in the UK.
against Clapton Orient. This was enough to impress the manager at Tottenham Hotspur, who offered Walter a contract. As he’d finished his apprenticeship as a printer, he was free to play football professionally. Walter earned a £10 signing-on fee and was paid £4 a week, the maximum wage for a footballer at that time. Tottenham Hotspur football ground in 1910
He followed in the footsteps of Andrew Watson, who played for Queen’s Park in 1875, and Arthur Wharton, goalkeeper for Rotherham United in 1889 and for Sheffield United in 1894.
Walter in his Tottenham Hotspur kit
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Having lost my right foot in a boating accident when I was 16, it looked like I would never realise my ambition to be a top sportsperson. But then I got a prosthetic leg and discovered that I could still run and I had a talent for long jump. I became determined to compete in the Paralympics.
AGAINST THE ODDS
Against the Odds
Against the Odds
Stef Reid Philip Bannister
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ISBN 978-0-00-753015-1
An autobiography 9 780007 530151
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I still had to compete in the 200 metres a few days later, so we went back to the Village and recouped. I was really nervous about the 200 metres, because we’d had some problems with my prosthesis when running around the corner and I didn’t have the fitness behind me that I needed, so it was hard going into a race knowing I wasn’t at my prime. But my coach said he didn’t care what happened in the race as long as I went for it, which I did and it was incredible fun. I ended up coming fourth with another PB, so again I was really proud and it was a great way to end my Paralympics. the 200 metres heats
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