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• Bookshare Web Reader - A customized reading tool for Bookshare members offering all the features of DAISY with a single click of the "Read Now" link.
• DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System) - A digital book file format. DAISY books from Bookshare are DAISY 3.0 text files that work with just about every type of access technology that reads text. Books that contain images will have the download option of ‘DAISY Text with Images’.
• BRF (Braille Refreshable Format) - Digital Braille for use with refreshable Braille devices and Braille embossers.
• MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3) - Provides audio only with no text. These books are created with a text-to-speech engine and spoken by Kendra, a high quality synthetic voice from Ivona. Any device that supports MP3 playback is compatible.
• DAISY Audio - Similar to the DAISY option above; however, this option uses MP3 files created with our text-to-speech engine that utilizes Ivonas Kendra voice. This format will work with Daisy Audio compatible players such as Victor Reader Stream and Read2Go.
• EPUB - A standard e-book format that can be read on many tools, such as iBooks, Readium or others.
• Word - Accessible Word output, which can be unzipped and opened in any tool that allows .docx files

Frankenstein (Oxford Playscripts) (PDF)

An engaging classroom playscript. Frankenstein is the famous story of a young man who thinks he can change the world by making better human beings. Instead he creates a living monster with a mind of its own. New, innovative activities specifically tailored to support the KS3 Framework for Teaching English and help students to fulfil the Framework objectives. Activities include work on Speaking and Listening, close text analysis, and the structure of playscripts, and act as a springboard for personal writing.

Re-discovering Medieval Realms: Britain 1066-1500 (PDF)

Re-Discovering the Past is SHP's ideal series for mixed-ability teaching in Key Stage 3, combining clear author text, accessible but worthwhile activities and clear lines of enquiry. About the series Through this series you can ensure your teaching of National Curriculum History is totally accessible, interesting and worthwhile.

Re-discovering the Twentieth Century World: a World Study After 1900 (PDF)

Re-Discovering the Twentieth Century World provides an accessible textbook for the studying the revised History National Curriculum theme: 'Challenges for Britain, Europe and the wider world 1901-the present day'. It covers four key topics: The First World War (causes and life on the Western Front), The rise of the dictators and the causes of the Second World War, The Second World War (overview and depth) and The Cold War Era (including the Cuban crisis, the Berlin Wall and Gandhi).nbsp;

Peace and War: pupil book (PDF)

The Y9 book from the best selling Schools History Project course for Key Stage 3. In a single volume it covers two core units: Britain 1750-1900 and the Twentieth Century World.

Peace and War: pupil book (PDF)

The Y9 book from the best selling Schools History Project course for Key Stage 3. In a single volume it covers two core units: Britain 1750-1900 and the Twentieth Century World.

Grammar to 14 (3rd edition) (PDF)

'Grammar to 14' features a comprehensive overview of all aspects of grammar, spelling and punctuation in the National Curriculum for English syllabus and the Key Stage 3 tests.

Oxford Reading Tree, Treetops Classics, Stage 16 A: Wuthering Heights (PDF)

These children's classics have been sensitively adapted to enrich your junior pupils' reading. They are part of a structured reading programme for juniors from Oxford Reading Tree, Levels 9-16. They have masses of boy and girl appeal and will introduce your readers to significant authors from the past - a key part of the Literacy Strategy.Each book features two author biographies - one for the original author and one for the TreeTops author. In addition each book includes comprehension questions and teaching notes to help draw out and practice difficult comprehension strategies such as inference, empathy and deduction. There are also notes to help with historical and social context and any challenging vocabulary, ensuring the books are easily accessible.Help with childrens reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.This book is also available as part of a mixed pack of 6 different books or a class pack of 36 books of the same ORT level.

Indians of North America: student book (PDF)

Focusing on the North American Indians, this is one of a history series, modular in structure, which offers teachers the flexibility to design their own scheme of work at Key Stage 3 of the National Curriculum. Each book covers all the core study units and also a wide range of optional units, and aims to be visually stimulating as well as offering activities which develop both skills and understanding. An extensive selection of primary and secondary sources is provided.

KS3 Maths Progress: Confidence, Fluency, Problem-solving, Progression (PDF) (Maths Progress 2014)

Highly motivating differentiated Student Books develop confidence, fluency and problem-solving, supporting progression.

Feather Boy (PDF)

Essential Modern Classics are relaunched in gorgeous new covers bringing these timeless story to a new generation. Robert is a boy who can do anything - or so old Edith Sorrel at the nursing home tells him. Robert doesn't think so, knowing as he does that he is the school geek.But something compels him to do what Edith asks - to visit old Chance House, where a boy once fell to his death from the top floor flat, to confront his fears and find some answers.

Religions to InspiRE for KS3: Sikhism Pupils Book (INSP Ser.)

Geek Girl, Book 1: Geek Girl (PDF)

My name is Harriet Manners, and I am a geek. Harriet Manners knows that a cat has 32 muscles in each ear, a jiffy lasts 1/100th of a second, and the average person laughs 15 times per day. She knows that bats always turn left when exiting a cave and that peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. But she doesn't know why nobody at school seems to like her. So when Harriet is spotted by a top model agent, she grabs the chance to reinvent herself.

Geek Girl, Book 4: All That Glitters (PDF)

My name is Harriet Manners, and I have always been a geek. The fourth book in the award-winning GEEK GIRL series.

Picture Perfect (Geek Girl, Book 3) (PDF)

My name is Harriet Manners, and I'll always be a geek. It's the hilarious third book in the bestselling award-winning GEEK GIRL series!

She Wolf

A young Viking girl is swept by a storm on to a desolate English beach. Cruelly orphaned there, Ylva becomes set on revenge, tracking a killer through dangerous hinterland. She wants only the favour of the Norse gods and the comfort of her stories. But when a stranger decides to protect Ylva – seeming to understand her where others cannot – Ylva must decide if her own legend will end in vengeance or forgiveness.

National 4 and 5 Hospitality: Course Notes (PDF)

The National 4 and 5 Hospitality Course Notes help map your route through the CfE programme and provide comprehensive and authoritative guidance. Course Notes give a practical, supportive approach to help deliver the new curriculum and offer an appropriate blend of sound teaching and learning with exam and assessment guidance.

Underground To Canada

Taken away from her mother by a ruthless slave trader, all Julilly has left is the dream of freedom. Every day that she spends huddled in the slave traders wagon travelling south or working on the brutal new plantation, she thinks about the land where it is possible to be free, a land she and her friend Liza may reach someday. So when workers from the Underground Railroad offer to help the two girls escape, they are ready. But the slave catchers and their dogs will soon be after them

Maths Frameworking: Year 7, Pupil Book 1 (1st edition) (PDF)

Maths Frameworking is a fully differentiated resource for Key Stage 3 Mathematics. Providing full support for the Framework for Teaching Mathematics, Maths Frameworking ensures complete success in the National Tests. nbsp;</p

Maths Frameworking: Year 7, Pupil Book 2 (1st edition) (PDF)

Maths Frameworking is a fully differentiated resource for Key Stage 3 Mathematics. Providing full support for the Framework for Teaching Mathematics, Maths Frameworking ensures complete success in the National Tests. nbsp;</p

Maths Frameworking: Year 7, Pupil Book 3 (1st edition) (PDF)

Maths Frameworking is a fully differentiated resource for Key Stage 3 Mathematics. Providing full support for the Framework for Teaching Mathematics, Maths Frameworking ensures complete success in the National Tests. nbsp;</p

Maths Frameworking: Year 8, Pupil Book 2 (1st edition) (PDF)

Maths Frameworking is a fully differentiated resource for Key Stage 3 Mathematics. Providing full support for the Framework for Teaching Mathematics, Maths Frameworking ensures complete success in the National Tests. nbsp;</p

Maths Frameworking: Year 8, Pupil Book 3 (1st edition) (PDF)

Maths Frameworking is a fully differentiated resource for Key Stage 3 Mathematics. Providing full support for the Framework for Teaching Mathematics, Maths Frameworking ensures complete success in the National Tests. nbsp;</p

New Maths Frameworking: Year 7, Pupil Book 3 (2nd edition) (PDF)

Aimed at effectively delivering the 2008 framework, the Pupil Books are packed with functional maths questions and spreads and ensure progression by providing differentiated material for each level.

New Maths Frameworking: Year 9, Pupil Book 2 (PDF)

Aimed at effectively delivering the 2008 framework, the Pupil Books are packed with functional maths questions and spreads and ensure progression by providing differentiated material for each level.

Collins Maths Frameworking: Pupil Book 3.2 (PDF)

Ensure progress at the right pace with Pupil Book 3.2, the middle tier for the third year of teaching KS3. With fluency, mathematical reasoning and problem solving integrated throughout you can be confident you're covering the main aims of the new curriculum and preparing students for revised GCSEs ahead.