50 LITERACY HOURS FOR MORE-ABLE LEARNERS provides 50 stand-alone activities for stretching the more able children in the class. Games and other fun activities are used to help motivate these children who can easily become bored.

• Activities cover the trickier areas of the National Literacy Strategy: word roots, idioms, reading for inference, discussing the theme of a novel
• Easy-to-use material that can be slotted into existing literacy plans
• activities to challenge and motivate more able children
• photocopiables acitivites that can be passed straight to a teaching assistant
• extracts for a higher reading age

Written by Gillian Howell, Carol Matchett