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Transform your literacy outcomes and engage your whole school in reading. Inspire and delight your children with contemporary, diverse and engaging textsthat will spark a lifelong love of reading for pleasure. Get the most out of best-loved children's books with our bestselling Read & Respondseries - the perfect way to explore favourite stories in your classroom. This resource book brings you a wealth of inspiring activities, discussion ideas and guided reading notes based on George's Marvellous Medicineby Roald Dahl. Stimulating content mapped to curriculum objectives Grammar, punctuation and spelling section Shared reading and whole-class guided reading section including non-fiction extracts Time-saving lesson plans, activities and assessments Huge variety of speaking, listening and creative activities. Our Read & Respondseries now has a dedicated online space containing: Curriculum and teaching overviews with recommendations on books to read for pleasure Classic small-group guided reading notes and resources Teaching reading resources such as ideas for vocabulary and fluency Access to the additional content referenced in the teacher's book. Including media resources and interactive activities (this content was previously available via a CD-ROM, it is an installable desktop program for Windows). Read & Respondhelps you build a whole-school literacy programme based on timeless children's stories, chosen to inspire reading for pleasure. Fun-filled activities help children to fully engage with each story, encouraging a love of reading and building a range of skills. Underpinned by a wealth of research the teacher's guides provide activities with a strong focus on all of the 'big five' plus oracy and reading for pleasure, as well as concentration on grammar, punctuation & spelling a