Pandora: The instant no.1 Sunday Times bestseller

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The table below displays each book band level and their equivalent reading age. Most children will work through the levels during the year, so for example, in most schools, a reception child, working at expected levels would end the year on yellow. When a highly anticipated Greek pithos is delivered to the shop, Dora wonders why her Uncles behaviour is so suspicious and wants to find out the mystery for herself. Dora enlists the help of Edward Lawrence, a bookbinder looking for acceptance into the Society of Antiquities, for help on information of the pithos. Dora sees the pithos as a chance to escape her life and restore her parents shop to its former glory. Pandora was such an all consuming read. I loved how it brought Georgian England together with Greek mythology. The result was a stunning story, with clever characters, ones to really invest in and some to revile. Children progress through the banded colours as they gain confidence, and because of the breadth of choice available in each colour band, they should be able to find books that appeal to them at each stage. This allows teachers to provide the opportunity for children to read for pleasure even at an early stage in their reading journey. Many schools will offer decodable phonics books in the early stages and move onto book bands when children's reading is more fluent. Ongoing reading assessments will establish which level children are reading at and whether they need to move up to the next level to maintain the right level of challenge. She also captured the class system and the different varied characters of London in a realistic way- you could easily imagine the setting and the people.

To try and find answers and stop her uncle, Dora befriends Edward, a book binder who wants to become a full-time antiquarian scholar. We regularly review our levelling alongside the leading educational publishers to ensure that we are selecting books at the right text level. We consider a variety of elements including the vocabulary, sentence structure, the density of the text and narrative style. We also consider the knowledge that the reader is assumed to have, the emotional maturity needed to fully engage with the text and the complexity of the story as these features will impact fluency. When levelling books that have not been written to a prescribed level it is very difficult to work to a list of criteria but by careful comparison with scheme books and other ‘real’ books that have been levelled by educational publishers and by examining the texts alongside each other, it is possible to assess whether a text represents a good fit for a level or a step up or down in text level. All books are matched perfectly to the Little Wandle progression and support all the Letters and Sounds phases. As for Edward, his story is fairly moving in places and he comes across as shy and unassuming. He is caring and kind-hearted, although he does become a bit too over-protective of Dora as his feelings for her grow. If you were instead hoping for Edward to be involved in a romance with his friend and benefactor Cornelius - as is heavily implied at the start - then you will be left disappointed. But when they discover the secrets about the case, Dora’s entire life turns upside down. Anything she knows about her life, her past, her family is questionable! It seems like some things should be buried forever!an interesting premise for a story! greek mythology retellings have been sooo overdone lately, so it was quite refreshing to read something thats inspired by a myth, but set in a completely different historical context. add in the mystery and suspicious characters and you have a strong formula for an engaging story. THIS BOOK IS GOING TO BE BRILLIANT. I've had an opportunity to read an exclusive extract and I'm so thankful for that because it may be one of my favourite books of 2022. Everything seems perfect here - the writing is outstandingly beautiful and descriptive, you can really FEEL the atmosphere and the tension that's coming. I cannot wait to read the full version, I already miss the characters. The only reason I'm not giving it 5 stars is that I don't want to be disappointed later on and lower my rating because of that. But, MARK THIS NOVEL AS YOUR TBR! You won't regret it for sure! What she was not expecting was the number of revelations and questions that the pithos and its discovery brings up. Created by Hephaestus and released into the world of men to bring both misery and hope, Pandora is a figure whose name conjures an expectation of mythic drama; but Susan Stokes-Chapman’s bestselling debut novel only hints gently at those possibilities. Her Pandora is a young woman living in an attic above her uncle’s shop of fake antiquities in 18th-century London, training herself to become a designer of fine jewellery. Even though I went into this novel hopeful, I have to confess that I didn’t have very high expectations. I have a serious weakness for anything inspired by Greek mythology, but I also can’t seem to help but judge said inspired stories a bit harshly, as well. And I’m just starting to get into historical fiction, which has always been a very hit-or-miss genre for me. But Pandora was recommended for fans of The Essex Serpent, which made me even more hopeful. My expectations were not only met, but exceeded. I can’t definitely see why it was compared to Sarah Perry’s work, and I can’t wait to get a physical copy to shelf next to The Essex Serpent. While not quite as philosophically profound, Pandora definitely scratched the same itch.

Fast forward and books bands these days are the most common system used by schools and by educational publishers of reading books, thus giving teachers a means of assessing children’s progress in reading in the absence of National Curriculum levels since 2014. As a result of the move away from NC levels, the book bands originally outlined by the UK Reading Recovery National Network and its authors for KS1 only, have extended to meet demands by a great many schools for further levels including up to the end of KS2. Thus providing an opportunity for assessment and progression right through the primary years. Pandora è stata decisamente una bella sorpresa, è una lettura molto scorrevole con una prosa elegante e mai sopra le righe. That is just one example of how the writing is simply outstanding. The author's prose is a delight to behold, as sentences are weaved together with such beautiful refinement and lyricism, including lots of similes and personification. It is this more than anything that makes you want to keep reading, and for a debut author that is seriously impressive. This is a story set in Georgian era London, where the discovery of a mysterious ancient Greek Vase sets in motion conspiracies and revelations. Dora Blake is an aspiring jewellery artist and an orphan, she live together with her uncle and they run an antiquities shop. When a mysterious Greek vase is delivered, Dora is intrigues by her uncle suspicious behavior and enlists the help of Edward Lawrence, a young antuarian scholar to find out the story about this mysterious vase

I also love books with a central female character who doesn’t bow down to men & stays focused on bettering herself against the odds, especially in a time when women were expected to do as they were told! Again, Pandora lives up to my expectations in this regard. I was hugely invested in Dora’s story & was intrigued to discover the truth behind her uncle’s underhand dealings.