Oxford Reading Tree: Stage 8: More Magpies Workbooks: Evil Genie Roderick Hunt
In this volume, the children pit their wits against the genie from the lamp. Magpies Workbooks provide valuable reading and language support for the Magpies Storybooks at Stages 8 and 9. The range of activities to accompany each storybook encourages children to look more closely at the stories, to focus on comprehension, aspects of language and grammar; develop greater rhyme awareness; sequencing skills and alphabet knowledge and creative writing. There is a progression within the stage and from stages 8 to 9.