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Blurb - The fun and discovery starts as soon as Alexandria and Sarah arrive at Paradise Island. What would usually be a relaxing holiday on a tropical island turns into an exciting adventure. Sarah thinks because Alexandria’s mum is in a wheelchair their holiday will be quite boring. How wrong is she? The island activities, a mystery code, digging for pirate treasure, clues and discovery make for a surprising holiday and Sarah discovers some things she didn’t know before she went away with Alexandria’s family.
Discovery at Paradise Island - 2nd Edition is a children's adventure storybook written for audiences aged seven to twelve years. The story gives children a chance to learn and discover about disability. This book aims to develop children’s literacy, numeracy and social intelligence, while at the same time making it exciting and fun to read. It integrates into the school SOSE syllabus and also critical literacies and numeracy with the code breaking work. It has teacher and parent directed activities included and engagement questions at the end of each chapter to encourage children to think about what they have read and apply it to their own lives. This book has also been designed to appeal to adult readers who may have problems with literacy as well as ESL or migrant learners. There is an ebook version available as a PDF File as well. The ISBN of this version is 978-0-9581610-7-7. It is available for only $9.99. This can be read by ipads and ipods and kindle readers. All you have to do is order below via paypal and register your email addres and I will send you the file that you open in ibooks. It's that easy.
There are focus questions at the end of each chapter and at the end of the book there are many parent and teacher activities and extra questions that explore the book and issues of physical disability and its impact on the family. These can be used as conversation starters or to generate deeper level thinking about the story and the issues raised within it. Teachers can develop the themes from this book and explore the impact of disability awareness on their own class. The book also includes code breaking and numeracy so these can be developed further as rich tasks in the classroom or even at home. The book links into the SOSE syllabus especially the Culture and Identity strand, as well as critical literacy and numeracy. It also is a much needed resource in the area of disability awareness. The engagement questions at the end of each chapter encourage children to think about the issues they are reading about and to apply them to their own lives. At the conclusion of the book it has a section containing teacher and parent directed activities. These can be used to develop a unit of work or activities based around the book and the themes contained within it. Sharon Boyce is available to come to your school to participate in author visits and also disability awareness sessions. Sharon is a registered teacher and is trained to work across all year levels. Sharon won the Disability Action Week Award for Individuals for this book.
Click here to go straight to our resource shop to order this book. Discovery at Paradise Island by Sharon Boyce - $19.95 Double CD Audio Book - $24.95 PDF Ebook File - $9.99 DAISY Format File - POA For orders of 20 books or more (class sets), Discovery at Paradise Island is available at $14.95 per copy. Other combinations of books and cd sets POA |
ISBN - 978-0-9581610-6-0
An audio book double CD set and DAISY format file is also now available as well. This will support literacy development for all and can really aid in classroom presentation through listening posts set up through ipods and electronic white boards. It will also help to support people with vision problems as well as dyslexia and reading perceptual issues.