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Books with author Jillian Powell

  • Hattie the Dancing Hippo

    Jillian Powell

    Paperback (ReadZone Books, April 1, 2016)
    Hattie is a hippo with one thing on her mind—learning to dance. She's eager to learn, but what dance can she do? Maybe poor Hattie was never meant to be a dancer.
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  • Hodder Cambridge Primary English: Work Book Stage 5

    Jillian Powell

    Paperback (Hodder Education, April 24, 2015)
    Endorsed by Cambridge International ExaminationsThe Cambridge Primary English course that is mindful of learners where English is not their first language. This Workbook has been designed for either homework or extension activities after the relevant pages in the Student's Book are completed.- Build on what has taken place in the lesson- Challenges students to develop their learning further- Ideal for homework or extension activitiesHodder Cambridge Primary English aids preparation for the Progression tests and Primary Checkpoint test and offers full coverage of the Cambridge Primary English curriculum frameworks for Stages 1-6. There is a Student's Book, Workbook and a Teacher's Pack available for each stage
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  • Download: Predators

    Jillian Powell

    eBook (Rising Stars UK Ltd, May 31, 2007)
    Download is a series of books for older pupils with a low reading ability. This series of readers uses extreme sports, fast cars and popular culture as a theme to turn reluctant and less able teenagers back to reading.
  • Hard Times: Growing Up in the Victorian Age

    Jillian Powell

    Paperback (Collins Educational, Sept. 1, 2008)
    Imagine you were a child in Victorian times. What was your day like? What did you wear, eat and play with? Did you go to school, or out to work? Find out what life was like for children in this enthralling non-fiction book.• Diamond/Band 17 books offer more complex, underlying themes to give opportunities for children to understand causes and points of view.• A timeline on pages 54 and 55 help children to recap the main events of the Victorian era.• Text type: A non-chronological report• This book is paired with Moving Out a fiction story set in the past about a family in post-World-War-Two London deciding whether to move out to a New Town.• Curriculum links: History: What was it like for children living in Victorian Britain.• This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader
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  • Everyone Eats Rice

    Jillian Powell

    Library Binding (Heinemann/Raintree, Jan. 1, 1997)
    Provides information on the cultivation, consumption, nutritional value, and varieties of rice, as well as several recipes.
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  • Looking at Italy

    Jillian Powell

    Library Binding (Gareth Stevens Pub Learning library, Jan. 12, 2007)
    Introduces Italy, including the geography, people, education, rural and urban life, housing, food, work, and amusements, and provides other information about the country.
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  • Mysteries of the Supernatural

    Jillian Powell

    Paperback (Copper Beech, March 14, 1996)
    Explores numerous mysterious places and powers, UFOs and aliens, ghosts and the spirit world, mysterious creatures and people, and mysteries solved and unsolved.
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  • Growing up in Wartime

    Jillian Powell

    Paperback (Collins Educational, Jan. 1, 2012)
    Find out what life was like for the children growing up during World War II. With photographs straight from the archives of the Imperial War Museum, Jillian Powell looks at rationing, schooling and evacuation and how the daily lives of children were affected by the war.• Collins Big Cat Progress builds confidence, helping struggling pupils not only to read, but to love reading• Dual-banded books provide age-appropriate interest level material matched with a lower reading ability level• Every book is levelled by reading expert Cliff Moon to ensure precise, systematic, measurable progression to help close the ability gap• The books use a range of reading strategies: phonic, graphic, syntactic and contextual to build confident, accurate, fluent readers• Designed to build speaking and listening skills, as well as reading skills, the books are highly visual and include incredible illustrations and photographs• Every book has a Key Stage 2 look-and-feel to engage older pupils and avoid stigmatisation• Topics are relevant for children in years 3-6 and connected to the curriculum and framework objectives for these years to support inclusion• Progress titles contain a Reader Response page to encourage the pupil to respond to and recall what they have read. This offers an ideal opportunity to check comprehension• Ideas for Reading, written by primary literacy expert Gill Howell are included in the back of every book to help you support the reading needs of each child• This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader
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  • Looking at India

    Jillian Powell

    Paperback (Gareth Stevens Pub Learning library, Jan. 12, 2007)
    Brief overview of India's people, geography and culture.
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  • From Chick to Chicken

    Jillian Powell

    Library Binding (Heinemann/Raintree, Sept. 1, 2001)
    Looks at how a chick begins its life as an egg and the changes that occur as it becomes a chicken.
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  • Rubbish Ghost

    Jillian Powell

    eBook (Badger Learning, Jan. 9, 2013)
    The Full Flight series of reading books are for children and young adults aged 8 to 14 and over who are struggling to read. Each book has been carefully written for those with a reading age of approximately 7 to 8, but are packed full of adventure and brilliant illustrations to really grab the reader interest.Josh and Saffi work in an old Manor that is threatened with closure due to lack of business. They decide to hire a ghost. What could possibly go wrong?
  • There's A Boy in the Girl's Bathroom: teaching activities for guided and shared reading, writing, speaking, listening and more!

    Jillian Powell

    Paperback (Scholastic, June 7, 2010)
    A new title from the best-selling _Read & Respond_ series. * Differentiation advice and assessment guidance. * Plot, character and setting, speaking and listening activities. * Guided reading notes and texts for shared reading. * Extended writing projects.