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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.ReviewThomas read the book with a smile on his face. He really enjoyed every page...[Thomas] was confident reading this book and liked the subject matter. 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 vocabularyAbout the AuthorChris Powling was born in London where he still lives with his wife, Jan. They have two daughters. He has been a head teacher and a lecturer in English and has contributed to Radio 4. He has had very many children's books published, too numerous to list, including the Harry series for A andC Black and two non-fiction books about Roald Dahl's life, and won the Smarties prize for "The Conker as Hard as a Diamond".