Monday, 27 July 2009

High Interest, lower level readers - Second Thoughts by John Parker

Jeff’s bored, he’s slacked off with both his parents and the idea of taking his father’s new sports car for a spin is a bit too tempting. So tempting that, of course, it gets him into unforeseen difficulty.

We get asked a lot for books for older students who are reading at a low level. While there are a few out there, more are very welcome.

Second Thoughts
is one of the Go For It series from Gilt Edge Publishing. This series aims to provide "high-interest, lower level reading material for struggling or disinterested year 7, 8 and 9 readers". The series also includes non-fiction titles such as Creative Music Maker which not only outlines the facts of digital home recording but also profiles well-known music acts.

Reviewed by Beth



1 comments:

tarnya said...

Thank you for this suggestion. One of my sons did not read well until 11 years. All reading was hard work for him so finding books at his level that would reward his labour sufficiently was difficult. I read to him a great deal and he enjoyed audio books so now at 12 years he reads :-)