Episode 5 - How to make GCSE English set texts more accessible for students

School Reading List podcast hosted by Tom Tolkien

Season 1: Episode 5

For transcripts, links to all the books featured, resources, show notes and contact details, click here: https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/podcasts/series-1-episode-5 

Part 1
Book post

• The Burpee Bears: A Christmas Adventure by Joe Wicks
• Scattered Showers by Rainbow Rowell
• Snail Trail by Ziggy Hanaor
• A Cat Called Waverley by Debi Gliori
• Duck's Backyard by Ulrich Hub
• Dear Grandpa by Kate Simpson
• I Hear you, Ocean by Kallie George
• Eco Girl by Ken Wilson-Max
• Epic Animal Journeys by Ed J Brown
• The Girl Who Became a Tree by Joseph Coelho
• Kind by Jess McGeachin
• When Poems Fall From The Sky by Zaro Weil

Rundown - top 30 children's and YA books to buy in November 2022

• Journeys in Creative Telling Tales by Rudi Haig
• Luminous by Julia Kuo
• The Red Red Dragon by Lynne Reid Banks
• Paradise Sands by Levi Pinfold
• Explorers at Stardust City by Alex Bell
• The Girl of Ink & Stars by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
• Where Björn Belongs by Samuel Langley-Swain
• Terry's Crew by Terry Crew & Cory Thomas
• Once Upon a Hillside by Angela McAllister
• Captain Underpants Double Crunchy Book o'Fun by Dav Pilkey
• I'm (Almost) Never Bored (I'm Not Very) by Anna Milbourne
• Supertato: Presents Jack and the Beanstalk by Sue Hendra
• Snail Trail by Ziggy Hanaor
• One and Everything by Sam Winston
• Balloon to the Moon by Becky Davies
• Tasting Light by A. R. Capetta
• Murder at Snowfall by Fleur Hitchcock
• The Moon by Dr. Sanlyn Buxner
• Night Train to the Stars by Kenji Miyazawa
• Secrets of a Christmas Elf by Ben Miller
• Fury of The Vikings by Dominic Sandbrook
• Epic Animal Journeys by Ed J Brown
• Roar! I’m a Dinosaur by Merrilll Rainey
• If You Were a City by Kyo Maclear
• Official Minecraft Redstone Handbook
• The Real Dada Mother Goose by Jon Scieszka
• Wearing My Mother's Heart by Sophia Thakur
• You Are a Champion Action Planner by Marcus Rashford
• Self-Portrait with Nothing by Aimee Pokwatka
• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost

November 2022 books of the month

• Fiction:   Once Upon a Hillside by Angela McAllister
• Nonfiction:  Nomads: Life on the Move by Kinchoi Lam
• Picture book: GOTCHA! by Clotilde Perrin

Part 2
Great Christmas book presents - our rundown

New book pitches: The Art Family by Sue Truslet; Lao and Chen: Master your Art by Bráulio Pitra; The Silly Adventures of Twighead Larson by John Dredge

Part 3
How to make GCSE set texts accessible. (See: https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/reading-lists-for-ks4-school-pupils/graphic-novel-versions-of-gcse-english-texts/)

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