Kathryn is a children's author from Wells, Somerset. She has written over 25 books for children of all ages. When They Fight, was voted a notable social studies book by the US Libraries Association, Here Comes the Crocodile, was shortlisted for both the Nottingham and Sheffield Children's Book Awards and Ruby's School Walk was one of the finalists in the Boston Globe Readaloud Book Award. Kathryn is a regular performer at the Edinburgh, Bath & Cheltenham festivals and has presented at many other events.
Interest Age:
13
Reading Age:
4
Category:
Literacy
Strand:
Reading
The Second World War in 1939 meant that everyone in Britain helped out. The ATA girls flew planes. This is their story. Awesome ATAs is a book-banded reading book for developing readers, carefully levelled at Blue Book Band for guided reading. Illustrated throughout with beautiful photographs, this non-fiction title is suitable for struggling teen and adult readers. Awesome ATAs features a longer, less structured text with a more flexible vocabulary. There is variation in sentence patterns and content, little repetition, and longer language patterns. It has a full range of punctuation. Awesome ATAs is part of Ransom's Neutron Stars, a structured reading programme for teens and adults learning the basics of reading. The series offers progression through ten levels of reading, four phonics and six coloured book bands. More information on the structure of the scheme can be found here.