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Collins Soundbites is a revolutionary series of readers for 11-14 year olds with poor literacy skills. On the Set of a Soap has a reading age of 8-9 and around 40 words per page. The book identifies features of soaps and describes how soaps are made. This pack contains six copies.Soundbites is a graded series of readers aimed at reluctant readers in Key Stage 3, with accompanying teaching resources.Soundbites has three progressive stages of readers. On the Set of a Soap is a stage 3 title with a reading age of 8-9 and around 40 words per page. Six different level 1 books are available in a pack (0003230856).The book includes narrative-style text about making a soap opera, as well as basic English/Media concepts.A variety of text types are used, such as autobiographies, biographies, journals, diaries, letters (personal and formal), travel writing, leaflets, reports, reviews, adverts, newspaper/magazine articles, tables.Specialised, difficult or technical vocabulary is explained on the page, plus a one-page glossary at the end.The topics covered address the KS3 English/Media curricula.Photocopiable teaching resources, containing a range of literacy-boosting activities, are available in the Soundbites Bumper Pack (ISBN 0 00 323086 4) or individually (0007116926).