The streets of London in 1786 were not a safe place for orphan children, Eliza and Tom, when they ran away from their cruel master. Another orphan, Jack, helped them find food and shelter. Then Tom found a purse bulging with coins and their troubles got much worse.

• Provides a comprehensive series where literacy skills are developed sequentially through explicit teaching.
• Emphasises reading for learning and poses issues that affect children today.
• Provides a scaffold for children to understand and investigate those issues.
• Connects student learning to the real world and encourages them to contemplate what's happening in their daily lives.
• Integrated enquiry units support an enquiry-based learning approach.

Blueprints is a series that provides a variety of graded texts to meet the different learning levels within your classroom.

With a colourful and eye-catching design, students are provided with a firm scaffold of learning experiences to support discovery learning, and the development of higher order thinking skills.

The streamlined approach teaches literacy along with other learning areas, one unit per term. The fiction and non-fiction topic books explore concepts introduced in the Big Ideas Book in greater depth. Interactive activities on the CD within each unit extend learning beyond the texts.