Oxford Reading Tree: Stage 10+: TreeTops Time Chronicles: Strange Box


Book Description

Biff, Chip, Kipper and friends have grown up and their true destiny is about to be revealed...Can they stop the evil Virans from destroying history as we know it?




Oxford Reading Tree: TreeTops Time Chronicles Evaluation Pack


Book Description

1 of each of the following titles at Stage 10+: The Strange Box, Beyond the Door, The Jewel in the Hub, The Matrix Mission, The Power of the Cell, The TimeWeb 1 of each of the following titles at Stage 11+: Time Runners, Tyler: His Story, A Jack and Three Queens, Mission Victory, The Enigma Plot, The Thief Who Stole Nothing




Strange Box


Book Description

Biff, Chip, Kipper and friends are older now and their true destiny is about to be revealed. Join them as they embark on the mission of a lifetime! In Book 1, The Strange Box, the children find an old box in Chip's bedroom. A strange man tries to take it away from them at the school fair, but Mr Mortlock (who is not quite the school caretaker the children thought they knew!) zaps the strange man away. Together, they all run through a mysterious doorway that appears on the horizon...Time Chronicles is a series of fun and accessible chapter books perfect for moving your child on from picture books to longer stories. Each book in the series is a thrilling story in its own right, as the children fight to save the world from the evil Virans. The books are carefully levelled to boost the confidence of the child, whilst also introducing more vibrant and interesting vocabulary. They are perfect for keeping the attention of all children with fast paced action, lots of authentic historical facts and cool gadgets!Set in a real historical time with characters from the past, these books are packed full of extras including questions, historical fact files, character information, photos, artwork and glossaries. Support for parents is also included. Time Chronicles are part of Read with Biff, Chip & Kipper -the UK's most popular home reading series.







Home Education


Book Description

Home Education consists of six lectures by Charlotte Mason about the raising and educating of young children (up to the age of nine), for parents and teachers. She encourages us to spend a lot of time outdoors, immersed in nature, handling natural objects, and collecting experiences on which to base the rest of their education. She discusses the use of training in good habits such as attention, thinking, imagining, remembering, performing tasks with perfect execution, obedience, and truthfulness, to replace undesirable tendencies in children (and the adults that they grow into). She details how lessons in various school subjects can be done using her approach. She concludes with remarks about the Will, the Conscience, and the Divine Life in the Child. Charlotte Mason was a late nineteenth-century British educator whose ideas were far ahead of her time. She believed that children are born persons worthy of respect, rather than blank slates, and that it was better to feed their growing minds with living literature and vital ideas and knowledge, rather than dry facts and knowledge filtered and pre-digested by the teacher. Her method of education, still used by some private schools and many homeschooling families, is gentle and flexible, especially with younger children, and includes first-hand exposure to great and noble ideas through books in each school subject, conveying wonder and arousing curiosity, and through reflection upon great art, music, and poetry; nature observation as the primary means of early science teaching; use of manipulatives and real-life application to understand mathematical concepts and learning to reason, rather than rote memorization and working endless sums; and an emphasis on character and on cultivating and maintaining good personal habits. Schooling is teacher-directed, not child-led, but school time should be short enough to allow students free time to play and to pursue their own worthy interests such as handicrafts. Traditional Charlotte Mason schooling is firmly based on Christianity, although the method is also used successfully by secular families and families of other religions.




Jane Eyre


Book Description

Initially published under the pseudonym Currer Bell in 1847, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyreerupted onto the English literary scene, immediately winning the devotion of many of the world's most renowned writers, including William Makepeace Thackeray, who declared it a work "of great genius." Widely regarded as a revolutionary novel, Brontë's masterpiece introduced the world to a radical new type of heroine, one whose defiant virtue and moral courage departed sharply from the more acquiescent and malleable female characters of the day. Passionate, dramatic, and surprisingly modern, Jane Eyre endures as one of the world's most beloved novels.




Oxford Reading Tree TreeTops Time Chronicles: Level 13: Stranger At The Gates


Book Description

Biff and Chip are caught up in a battle between Vikings and Saxons in Stranger at the Gates. King Alfred the Great wants peace, but there's a Viran who will do anything to stop him... TreeTops Time Chronicles are a series of fast-paced adventures through time featuring real historical events and characters.




Lord of the Flies


Book Description

A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. As the boys' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are transformed into something more primitive, and their behaviour starts to take on a murderous, savage significance. First published in 1954, Lord of the Flies is one of the most celebrated and widely read of modern classics. Now fully revised and updated, this educational edition includes chapter summaries, comprehension questions, discussion points, classroom activities, a biographical profile of Golding, historical context relevant to the novel and an essay on Lord of the Flies by William Golding entitled 'Fable'. Aimed at Key Stage 3 and 4 students, it also includes a section on literary theory for advanced or A-level students. The educational edition encourages original and independent thinking while guiding the student through the text - ideal for use in the classroom and at home.




Read with Biff, Chip and Kipper Time Chronicles: First Chapter Books: The Strange Box


Book Description

Biff, Chip, Kipper and friends are older now and their true destiny is about to be revealed. Join them as they embark on the mission of a lifetime! In Book 1, The Strange Box, the children find an old box in Chip's bedroom. A strange man tries to take it away from them at the school fair, but Mr Mortlock (who is not quite the school caretaker the children thought they knew!) zaps the strange man away. Together, they all run through a mysterious doorway that appears on the horizon... Time Chronicles is a series of fun and accessible chapter books perfect for moving your child on from picture books to longer stories. Each book in the series is a thrilling story in its own right, as the children fight to save the world from the evil Virans. The books are carefully levelled to boost the confidence of the child, whilst also introducing more vibrant and interesting vocabulary. They are perfect for keeping the attention of all children with fast paced action, lots of authentic historical facts and cool g




Read with Biff, Chip and Kipper Time Chronicles: First Chapter Books: Beyond the Door


Book Description

Biff, Chip, Kipper and friends are older now and their true destiny is about to be revealed. Join them as they embark on the mission of a lifetime! In Book 2, Beyond the Door, the children are on the other side of the magical doorway, inside the Time Vault. Mr Mortlock, the Time Guardian, explains their new mission to save the world from the evil Virans. The children must find the pieces of an ancient time travel machine, the TimeWeb, which are hidden in history. They must be quick to find them before the Virans do! Time Chronicles is a series of fun and accessible chapter books perfect for moving your child on from picture books to longer stories. Each book in the series is a thrilling story in its own right, as the children fight to save the world from the evil Virans. The books are carefully levelled to boost the confidence of the child, whilst also introducing more vibrant and interesting vocabulary. They are perfect for keeping the attention of all children with fast paced action, lots of aut