It is Princess Lolly's 89th birthday and she is holding a banquet. For her birthday the cook has made the most magnificent jelly. However the jelly refuses to wobble! All the different guests try different ways of making it wobble but the jelly is stubborn; it doesn t want to be eaten. Finally the smallest guest comes up with an idea to put ice cream with the jelly. Suddenly the jelly begins shivering and quaking, then finally it wobbles.

Boost literacy and develop close reading skills with finely-levelled short texts suitable for KS1 and KS2 pupils. Each box includes 40 themed reading cards with six copies of each and a teacher's guide. * Develop deep comprehension skills with close reading * Challenging non-fiction topics for children to explore and explain * Motivate the whole class with snappy, fast reads and high-interest topics * Build writing skills with 'Write about Reading' tasks * Ideal for group reading sessions and independent reading Each Teacher's Guide covers 40 group reading sessions including discussion topics and independent writing tasks. The Teacher's Guide contains for each of the texts: overviews for the teacher, focus questions to help prepare the children for the first reading, detailed questions about the text features and content to help the teacher guide pupils back to the text for the second reading, Discussion questions that encourage re-reading, summarising and synthesising and Writing Tasks that require re-reading and higher order thinking skills. All of which help develop close reading skills (Close reading describes the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of text. Research links the close reading of text to significant gains in reading).

Boost literacy and develop close reading skills with finely-levelled short texts suitable for KS1 and KS2 pupils. Each box includes 40 themed reading cards with six copies of each and a teacher's guide. * Develop deep comprehension skills with close reading * Challenging non-fiction topics for children to explore and explain * Motivate the whole class with snappy, fast reads and high-interest topics * Build writing skills with 'Write about Reading' tasks * Ideal for group reading sessions and independent reading Each Teacher's Guide covers 40 group reading sessions including discussion topics and independent writing tasks. The Teacher's Guide contains for each of the texts: overviews for the teacher, focus questions to help prepare the children for the first reading, detailed questions about the text features and content to help the teacher guide pupils back to the text for the second reading, Discussion questions that encourage re-reading, summarising and synthesising and Writing Tasks that require re-reading and higher order thinking skills. All of which help develop close reading skills (Close reading describes the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of text. Research links the close reading of text to significant gains in reading).

This book is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with UCL Institute of Education (IOE) Homing Pigeons is a non-fiction text reporting on the amazing skill and history of homing pigeons. The simple sentence structure offers readers the opportunity for an independent reading experience with the support of the illustrations. Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills. This early non-fiction text is accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity. Each book has been carefully graded so that it can be matched to a child's reading ability, encouraging reading for pleasure.

Lexy wants to be just like her mother - she wants magical powers! In order to get magical powers, Lexy must reach the top of Mount Olympus. But it's a dangerous journey. Will Lexy make it to the top?