Why Not Read...
The Great Atlantic Air Race
'beautifully illustrated ... a treasure trove of information about the early days of flight'
Connaught Tribune and Galway City Tribune
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Discovery Challenge
Some children come to reading fluency later than others. Pandas and Flyers have proved successful,
both in motivating children to read and in teaching literacy skills, particularly to children in the
Senior end of Primary school. They are useful for children of all ages in receipt of Resource
and Learning Support teaching.
Discovery Challenge provides specialised activity sheets based on these books.
The sheets are fun and challenging, and encourage independent research by children.
Developed by primary school resource teachers.
'Children deserve, need and should have access to, real books that support them on their way to
becoming able and independent readers. Some of the best of such books are to be found in the O'Brien
Panda and Flyer books.'
Finian O'Shea, Lecturer in Education, Church of Ireland College of Education, Dublin
To view and print these resources, you will need a PDF file reader, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is
available free from Adobe.
 Purple Flag; For readers aged 5+ (includes Pandas)
Fergus Lyons
 Yellow Flag: For readers aged 6+ (includes Flyers)
Eoin Colfer
OisÃn McGann
Conor McHale
Frank Murphy
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The Big Fight
Discovery Challenge: ancient placenames, where they occur throughout Ireland, and what they mean!
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Joe O'Brien
Select activity sheets and teaching ideas for a different agegroup
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