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Product DescriptionTrackers matches the quality of any mainstream resource and gives struggling readers the motivation and interest to want to read. Trackers also teaches and practises more of the key reading skills than any other SEN course, e.g. high frequency words, phonics, syntax and semantics, whilstcomplementing and extending the Additional Literacy Support (DFES) and Further Literacy Support (DFES) initiatives. The teaching support, high quality PCMs in the Teacher's Guides to Guided Reading Booklets, has been written for the range of adults who work with struggling readers. Trackers Varietyfiction enables the struggling reader to read the same authors as their peers whilst broadening their reading experience. Other Trackers strands, available for all Trackers levels, are: Non-fiction, Space School Stories, Space School Stories software.Review[Up to you, Sam]:Thomas read the book with a smile on his face. He really enjoyed every page...[Thomas] was confident reading this book and like the subject matte. As he walked back to his chair he said 'that was fun'. Just what I needed to hear from a child who really struggles with reading.Illustrations are colourful and attractive to childrenImaginative use of high frequency vocabulary[Stop That Ball]:Super Illustrations which allowed further discussionGood choice of subject - will appeal to both girls and boysAbout the AuthorAlan Macdonald has written many books for children as well as for television and radio. An avid football fan his most well-known book is Marks Dream Team. Chris Powling is the author of more than sixty books, both fiction and non-fiction. His best-known titles include THE MUSTANG MACHINE andTHE PHANTOM CARWASH (a runner-up for the Smarties Prize). Kate Ruttle is the series Editor for Quest, e-Quest, Read-at Home series and Writers Workshop (due to be published 2006) She has also published assessment tracking resource and a handwriting course for CUP. She has been the series editor forthe whole of the Trackers series. She is a practising primary teacher (Advanced skills teacher for literacy) and she contributes regularly to education journals.