Who lives in a shell? Who lives in a nest? Who shares our land? A book about animals and people, where they live and the land on which they live together. These topics are valuable points of discussion for the teacher in the classroom. Stars of Africa is an exciting reading series for learners from Grade R to Grade 7. The series contains a wonderful selection for Foundation Phase learners to build their confidence as readers, widen their knowledge as learners and increase their reading pleasure.

• There are two types of books in the series:
• Stories: The stories are beautifully illustrated in full colour, set in urban and rural envrionments in countries all over Africa, and include titles to appeal to every child.
• Info (Information) Books. The info books introduce concepts and content from all learning areas and are illustrated in full colour to stimulate reading and learning.

• The books are divided into four levels:
• Starting - for Grades R and 1
• Practising - for Grades 2 and 3
• Improving - for Grades 4 and 5
• Independence - for Grades 6 and 7

• Within each level, the books have been graded further for difficulty into three sub-levels: A, B and C.

• For learners in Grades R-3, Stars of Africa has:
• books with no text, and beautiful illustrations
• books with very simple, repeated text
• Big Books, for teachers to use with a whole class
• stories and information books
• books with simple captions
• books with photographs
• counting books and alphabet books
• a book with rhymes, poems and song
• books about life and growing up in Africa
• books that provide knowledge of and encourage a love for the environment
• a dictionary activity book
• a book that deals with the experience of AIDS
• a book that celebrates children's rights
• a personal dictionary Activity Book that learners can use to compile their own word list for each letter of the alphabet.

A light-hearted look at the dominance of television in children's lives, as Njeri goes in search of her lost younger brother Jeff. This vook reinforces the value of reading for pleasure. Did you know that the 17th May is World Telecommunication Day?

In this classic poem, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow takes Paul Revere, the Boston silversmith who was an active patriot during the American Revolution, and makes him an example of the quintessential hero who galvanizes the people in times of crisis. In the poem, Revere plans to receive a signal telling him whether the British will be attacking by land or by sea and then rides this horse through several small Massachusetts towns alerting the local patriots to prepare for what will be the first battle of the American Revolution. The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere was originally published as "The Landlord's Tale," part of the longer poem Tales from a Wayside Inn.

Exam Board: IB Level: MYP Subject: English First Teaching: September 2016 First Exam: June 2017 Develop your skills to become an inquiring learner; ensure you navigate the MYP framework with confidence using a concept-driven and assessment-focused approach to Language and Literature presented in global contexts. - Develop conceptual understanding with key MYP concepts and related concepts at the heart of each chapter. - Learn by asking questions with a statement of inquiry in each chapter. - Prepare for every aspect of assessment using support and tasks designed by experienced educators. - Understand how to extend your learning through research projects and interdisciplinary opportunities.

The Cambridge Student Guide to King Lear provides explanatory notes and guidance to help form the basis for the understanding of the play. It is part of a new series aimed at students from 16 years upwards in schools and colleges throughout the English-speaking world. Background information provides support and prompts inquiry for advanced level study by drawing out issues and themes related to the text. The content of each book in the series follows the pattern of an introduction; detailed running commentary on the text; insight into historical, social and cultural contexts; analysis of the language; an overview of critical approaches and different interpretations; essay-writing tips and lists of recommended resources.

This The Tempest Complete Play contains the full text of all five acts, with helpful annotations explaining all the tricky bits in plain English. It includes scene overviews and a context section, so that students can keep track of the plot, characters and historical details. Plus, there is lots of practice, with questions and activities at the end of every scene. We've also added Knowledge Organiser pages, which lay all the essentials out in one handy place, and audio extracts, which let students hear key scenes performed, just as Shakespeare intended.

Our well established and popular series which helps all your students to understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays, has been improved even further.

Love is in the air...The duke is in love with Olivia, who's in love with his manservant, Cesario. The trouble is, Cesario is really a woman in disguise - and she's in love with the duke! Will the course of true love ever run smooth?

The Smart-Kids Read! series is designed and created by teachers and reading specialists to help children learn to read confidently and enjoy reading. The series is perfect for children who are starting to recognise words. All the books include notes for parents, a wordlist and activities to enhance comprehension skills. Kids will have such fun, they won't even know they're learning!Smart-Kids Read! Level 4 is for children who are ready to read longer paragraphs. At this level, children rely less on the illustrations to read the text, but the pictures add interest and provide support. The stories are more complex than at previous levels and build on and extend reading vocabulary. Once a child recognises sentences, they are ready to follow the adventures of the loveable Smart-Kids characters in Level 4.

"The Royal Hunt of the Sun" recreates the story of Francisco Pizarro's conquest of the Inca empire in Peru, with a group of only 167 men, in 1532. The play is an incisive and visually dazzling exposition of colonization in which cultural and religious clashes, driven by the promise of immense wealth, lead to betrayal, death and destruction. It is also a deeply moving exploration of personal honour and frailty as the ageing peasant from Trujillo, Pizarro, encounters the Sovereign Inca and Sun God, Atahuallpa. The combination of the historical and the personal gives rise to a play of enduring pleasure and interest. As Nicole Ridgway, the editor, indicates, Shaffer's play raises questions about literature and culture that are of continuing relevance to contemporary society. This new edition encourages students to experience the theatrical and thematic richness of the play and to grapple meaningfully with its issues by providing extensive support in the form of a comprehensive introduction and user-friendly annotations.; Designed to meet the needs of South African students, this edition is invaluable for students and teachers as it offers a stimulating and enjoyable approach to studying a dramatic text.

Get your learners reading! Spot On readers contain delightful South African stories, a variety of interesting characters and beautiful illustrations to get learners excited about reading. Spot On readers are developed by a team of language specialists and teachers. The readers use sight words, phonics and high frequency words to ensure that learners quickly and easily gain the reading skills required in Grade 1.

All eight titles are available as Big Books for shared reading as well as small books for independent reading. Spot On readers are the latest addition to Heinemann's best-selling Spot On series, which is approved by the Department of Education. Spot On readers are available from Grades 1-3 in Afrikaans, English, IsiXhosa, IsiZulu, Sepedi and Setswana.

Following the success of Classic Fairytales: retold for the stage which has seen productions of the plays performed internationally, the volume features another three sparkling adaptations of best-loved tales for family audiences.

These sixteen stories by new and internationally-known writers reveal a rich diversity of story telling.

They offer a variety of forms, settings, contexts, characters, themes and language in stories that are both accessible and challenging.

Authors include: R.K. Narayan, Beverley Naidoo, Mildred D Taylor, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Anita Desai.

This unabridged, unexpurgated edition has been prepared in the belief that the student can reach a clear understanding of the play only through a close and careful reading of the text. To this end, the commentary facing each page of text has been designed so that, while providing semantic glosses and suggesting a critical interpretation of the play, it is not fully comprehensible without a prior reading of the text to which it refers. Teachers and students should bear in mind that there are almost as many divergent interpretation so each play as there are critics of the play, and that they need therefore have no qualms about departing from the reading offered in this edition.