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Prim-Ed Publishing Mental Maths: Book 5
New Wave Mental Maths workbooks will sit comfortably with your mathematics programme. Day-to-day activities cover all mathematic strands and are developmental throughout each book and the series. It is written to provide comprehensive coverage of mental maths concepts in the Irish mathematics curriculum. It covers opportunities for consolidation of mathematical concepts to develop and maintain speed of recall. It offers opportunities for reinforcement of ongoing mathematical concepts. You can introduce, practise and understand a range of mathematical vocabulary. It includes sequential development of mathematical concepts and vocabulary. You can develop and reinforce problem-solving strategies. Features: a structured daily mental maths programme for the whole academic year; pictorial, graphic and written representation of problems; simple weekly pupil and teacher assessment (1st and 2nd Class books); an inbuilt review and assessment programme (3rd - 6th Class books); wide curriculum coverage that aids identification of 'problem' areas of maths, to help planning and assessment; clear two-colour presentation throughout. It provides record pages. It covers all mathematics strands and strand units applicable to mental activities. It includes pages of useful 'maths facts'. It offers weekly testing/review for books 3-6. It covers developmental books that provide ideal opportunity for differentiation, with pupils working on a level appropriate to their ability rather than age. It offers a comprehensive teachers guide.
£11.36
Prim-Ed Publishing Perplexors Logic Word Problems Numeracy
Maths perplexors are deductive logic puzzles. They are specifically designed to challenge and extend mainstream or more able maths pupils. It is strongly recommended that the teacher models the process of deductive reasoning once or twice with the pupils, if necessary, before allowing them to work independently (or in pairs or small groups).
£16.50
Prim-Ed Publishing The English Workbook: Book A
£17.35
Prim-Ed Publishing Comprehension for Independent Readers Middle: Literal - Inferential - Evaluative
Comprehension for independent readers - Middle offers a range of writing genres and activities to develop theskills required for comprehension.The aim is to provide pupils with the opportunity to work independently to extract information from different textsand to demonstrate the different levels of comprehension: literal, inferential and evaluative.Most units in the book focus on the literal, inferential and evaluative comprehension of a particular text type or theuse of a specific figure of speech. Appreciation of the latter is necessary for the inferential and evaluative levels ofcomprehension.A number of units are puzzle-based and focus on the understanding of vocabulary and the skill of scanning as well asextracting information from text types such as time lines.
£19.12
Prim-Ed Publishing Grammar Minutes Book 1: Book 1
Grammar Minutes is an exciting six book series that will help your pupils apply and extend their grammar skills, step by step, over one hundred minutes. Whats more, as they challenge themselves, as they apply their knowledge and understanding of the features of the English language, they will have fun Grammar minutes provides the opportunity to let pupils practise their grammar skills and enhance their overall grammar proficiency across a variety of areas. These include sentence structure, use of capital letters and punctuation, and understanding of common nouns, proper nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, synonyms, antonyms and many more elements of language. It features 100 pupils pages, each with 10 classroom tested problems. It covers all elements of grammar, including punctuation, parts of speech, sentence structure, compound words and contractions. It offers practice in speed of recall of knowledge and understanding of the features of the English language. It is ideal as a starter activity in a timed speed test format to begin each English lesson; or, alternatively, can be used as a revision or daily homework activity. It provides the teacher with immediate feedback of pupils understanding of grammar. It provides answers.
£20.88
Prim-Ed Publishing Loop Card Games - Maths Lower: Lower primary
Follow Me Loop Card Games Maths is a series of three books designed to reinforce basic mathematical skills using auditory discrimination as the major focus. Using interactive game cards, pupils work in small groups or as a whole class to complete a chain of questions and answers. Each pupil maintains involvement in the game by using the supporting active listening enrichment copymaster, designed to track the progress of the game. Skills addressed by the skills in these books include: Lower; more/less, doubles, place value, money, addition, subtraction, multiplication, word problems, algebra, patterns, time, measurement and data; Middle; place value, fractions, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, doubles, money, algebra, patterns, equations, time, measurement, shape, space, probability and data; Upper; terminology, multiples, rounding, factors, fractions, decimals, percentages, ratios, integers, multiplication, division, roots, algebra, patterns, measurement, circles, shape, space, coordinates, probability and data. Each book contains simple to prepare activities, blank pro formas (to produce your own games) and clear and concise answer pages.
£23.51
Prim-Ed Publishing India -upper: A Cross Curricular Theme: Upper
India: A Cross Curricular Theme is a series of three books that present opportunities for pupils to discover some natural, physical, cultural, economic and political aspects about this fascinating and extremely diverse Asian country and its people. The books in this series give selected information about both modern and ancient India and use a wide variety of activities across many learning areas. Features: nine sections; Geography; History; Symbols; Modern India; Religions, Customs and celebrations; Landmarks; Folk tales and legends; The arts, and Famous people; a wide range of pupil information and activity pages; comprehensive teachers notes pages; detailed background and teacher information; suggested additional activities; cross curricular pupil activity pages; activity objectives; answers where necessary; and, curriculum links.
£20.88
Prim-Ed Publishing Thinking Skills - Middle Primary: A Cross-curricular Approach
This title features a super three book photocopiable series to help pupils understand and practise the six thinking skills of Blooms revised taxonomy. It includes six interesting pupil activities per thinking skill covering the six main curriculum areas of English, maths, science, geography, health/values and the arts. Each pupil activity has accompanying teachers notes, including objective, background information, answers, additional activities and curriculum links. It offers comprehensive additional teacher information, including skill definitions, ideas for developing and assessing each skill, explanation of Blooms revised taxonomy, graphic organisers, references for further reading and suggestions for additional topic based thinking challenges.
£20.88
Prim-Ed Publishing Teaching Values Toolkit: The Six Kinds of Best Values Education Programme: Bk. A
Teaching Values Toolkit is a series of five comprehensive books designed to provide a collection of practical resources to enable teachers to teach values education in the classroom. Based on 'The six kinds of best' concept by David Koutsoukis, the books contain a series of activities to make learning values education fun. They are suitable for a variety of pupil learning styles and intelligences. Features: comprehensive teachers notes about values in schools; an explanation of and suggestions for using the book; curriculum links; reward certificates relevant to each section; self reflection checklists; title pages for each of the six sections; detailed overview pages providing concept development and extension; comprehensive teachers notes (discussion points or worksheet information) compiled in a two page spread; graphic organiser suggestions; jokes; answers where appropriate; a wide selection of pupil pages; includes digital version on accompanying CD.
£20.88
Prim-Ed Publishing Thinking Skills - Lower Primary: A Cross-curricular Approach
This title features a super three book photocopiable series to help pupils understand and practise the six thinking skills of Blooms revised taxonomy. It includes six interesting pupil activities per thinking skill covering the six main curriculum areas of English, maths, science, geography, health/values and the arts. Each pupil activity has accompanying teachers notes, including objective, background information, answers, additional activities and curriculum links. It offers comprehensive additional teacher information, including skill definitions, ideas for developing and assessing each skill, explanation of Blooms revised taxonomy, graphic organisers, references for further reading and suggestions for additional topic based thinking challenges.
£20.88
Prim-Ed Publishing Primary Comprehension: Fiction and Nonfiction Texts: Bk. E
This title features a comprehensive whole school photocopiable comprehension series. It is an excellent seven book photocopiable series for the entire primary age range. It offers comprehension activities that require children to read a variety of genres, including legends, fables, science fiction, adventure, poetry, biographies, journals and reports. It includes three levels of questions, literal, deductive and evaluative, provided for each comprehension text. It covers opportunities to practise a selection of comprehension strategies, including prediction, summarising, comparing and determining importance. Each comprehension activity has accompanying teachers notes which include answers and extension activities involving texts written in the same genre. It offers detailed introductory notes that include information on question types, comprehension strategies, shared and guided reading, genre definitions and curriculum links.
£20.88
Prim-Ed Publishing Primary Comprehension: Fiction and Nonfiction Texts: Bk. F
This title features a comprehensive whole school photocopiable comprehension series. It is an excellent seven book photocopiable series for the entire primary age range. It offers comprehension activities that require children to read a variety of genres, including legends, fables, science fiction, adventure, poetry, biographies, journals and reports. It includes three levels of questions, literal, deductive and evaluative, provided for each comprehension text. It covers opportunities to practise a selection of comprehension strategies, including prediction, summarising, comparing and determining importance. Each comprehension activity has accompanying teachers notes which include answers and extension activities involving texts written in the same genre. It offers detailed introductory notes that include information on question types, comprehension strategies, shared and guided reading, genre definitions and curriculum links.
£20.88
Prim-Ed Publishing Primary PSHE Book D: Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education for a Happy and Healthy Life
Primary PSHE Book D/Year 3 is the first book in a seven-book series written to support teachers with their planning and designing of a PSHE programme of education for their pupils and locality. Primary PSHE has a variety of photocopiable activities, covering a wide range of PSHE topics. Each unit of work contains a teachers page, in lesson plan format, and a variety of supporting activity pages. The aim of the activities is to help and encourage pupils to lead happy and healthy lives. This comprehensive teacher resource is divided into 20 units which provide a variety of activities for a PSHE programme of education. Each unit contains a teachers page and three supporting pages. Three supporting pages follow each teachers page. The supporting pages vary in content and purpose. Some may be pupil worksheets; others may be teacher resources such as stories, games, cards, scenarios or templates that teachers can use to implement the lesson, complete other lessons or provide differentiation within the lesson.
£20.88
Prim-Ed Publishing Problemsolving Strategies and Skills
The Problem-solving Strategies and Skills maths cards provide a wide variety of motivating and high-interest problem-solving activities. There are three boxes for each of the six year groups.
£16.15
Prim-Ed Publishing Speaking and Listening: Lower Primary
This book is a comprehensive photocopiable series, covering a range of speaking and listening topics. It features contemporary and fun activities that children will love. Each speaking and listening topic consists of one page of teacher's notes and two pages of copymasters. It provides detailed teachers notes that include activity objective, summary of activities, background information, list of things to prepare before the lesson, suggestions on how to teach the lesson, answers (where applicable) and additional/extension activities.
£20.88
Prim-Ed Publishing Teaching Writing Strategies
Teaching Writing Strategies uses modelling, guided and independent practice to teach pupils strategies they can use to improve the clarity, correctness and richness of their writing. The focus is on sentences, their structure, punctuation and word choices and on developing editing and proofreading skills and their habitual use. Teaching Writing Strategies is a series of six books with the explicit, overarching aim of teaching the skills and strategies required to improve the clarity, correctness and richness of children’s writing. Within the series, children are taught to recognise, choose and use specific strategies. The focus is on the process, rather than on practising, in this instance, specific text types. To this end, priority is given to improving writing at the sentence level. There is a strong hands-on emphasis; that is, there is an expectation that the children will write to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding. Unlike many other writing activity books, the desired outcome is to have the children structuring correct, enriched sentences to more clearly convey ideas and information. The ultimate goal is for them to produce clear, precise writing for a specific purpose and to understand that proofreading and editing is an integral part of the writing process. Each of the 16 units has a page of assessment activities and an assessment writing topic. These should be worked on independently and will: (a) give the teacher a record of individual understanding and achievement; and (b) highlight common points of weakness, which may require further assistance. Teacher recording sheets, a pupil proofreading checklist and a pupil self-evaluation sheet are provided.
£20.88
Prim-Ed Publishing Teaching Writing Strategies
Teaching Writing Strategies is a series of six books using modelling, guided and independent practice to teach pupils strategies they can use to improve the clarity, correctness and richness of their writing. The focus is on sentences, their structure, punctuation and word choices and on developing editing and proofreading skills and their habitual use.Teaching Writing Strategies is a series of six books with the explicit, overarching aim of teaching the skills and strategies required to improve the clarity, correctness and richness of children’s writing. Within the series, children are taught to recognise, choose and use specific strategies. The focus is on the process, rather than on practising, in this instance, specific text types. To this end, priority is given to improving writing at the sentence level. There is a strong hands-on emphasis; that is, there is an expectation that the children will write to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding. Unlike many other writing activity books, the desired outcome is to have the children structuring correct, enriched sentences to more clearly convey ideas and information. The ultimate goal is for them to produce clear, precise writing for a specific purpose and to understand that proofreading and editing is an integral part of the writing process. Each of the 16 units has a page of assessment activities and an assessment writing topic. These should be worked on independently and will: (a) give the teacher a record of individual understanding and achievement; and (b) highlight common points of weakness, which may require further assistance. Teacher recording sheets, a pupil proofreading checklist and a pupil self-evaluation sheet are provided.
£20.88
Prim-Ed Publishing Reading Comprehension: Lower
This title features original and entertaining fiction stories that pupils will love. It includes excellent photocopiable resource to support the English language curriculum. It provides comprehension questions that require pupils to answer literally as well as with inference and deduction. It offers many questions that provide opportunities for written, discussion or drawing activities. It also provides curriculum links and answers.
£19.12
Prim-Ed Publishing Nations in Focus
This title features superb photocopiable resource containing 10 sets of research and activity pages. You can focus on the geography, culture, history and customs of 10 nations or continents. It develops geographical knowledge of the world. It is an excellent catalyst to stimulate the start of a project; stimulus for multi-cultural activities. It encourages research from a variety of sources; and ideal homework assignments.
£16.50
Prim-Ed Publishing Reading Comprehension: Upper
This title offers original and entertaining fiction stories that pupils will love. It features an excellent photocopiable resource to support the English language curriculum. It provides comprehension questions that require pupils to answer as well as with inference and deduction. It includes questions that provide opportunities for written, discussion or drawing activities. It provides curriculum links and answers.
£19.12
Prim-Ed Publishing Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings in Britain
£19.12
Prim-Ed Publishing Reading for Success: Book 3
Reading for success is a series of four books designed to support teacher-directed lessons and independent pupil activities in the five key elements of reading instruction: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. Titles in this series are: Reading for success (Book 1) Reading for success (Book 2) Reading for success (Book 3) Reading for success (Book 4)Reading and the teaching of reading have always been at the forefront of discussions in education and recent discussions are no different. Some, such as the media, criticise schools for not knowing how to effectively teach reading, and yet we know more today than ever about effective reading instruction. Research has identified five key elements of reading instruction: Sound and letter knowledge Phonemic awareness (sounds of language) Sounds and alphabet knowledge Interpreting, analysing and evaluating Fluency Vocabulary Comprehension strategies The terminology below is commonly used when discussing reading instruction and will be helpful in understanding and discussing the five elements of reading. Phonemic awareness phonemic awareness-an individual's ability to attend to the sounds of spoken words phonological awareness-ability to recognise phonemes, graphemes, rhymes, syllables etc. phonemes-sounds in spoken language graphemes-the smallest parts of written language phonics-relationship between the sounds and symbols of spoken and written language syllable-part of a word that contains a vowel or vowel sound onset-the initial consonant in a syllable rime-the syllable part that contains a vowel (Example: In dog, the onset is d and the rime is og.) Phonics synthetic phonics-the ability to convert letters into sounds and blend them together analytic phonics-the ability to analyse the letters and sounds in words analogy-based phonics-using knowledge of word families to read unfamiliar words phonics through spelling-the ability to break words into sounds for writing embedded phonics-the instruction of letters and sounds within text onset-rime phonics-instruction that involves the identification of the initial sound in a word part (onset) and the remaining part of the word (rime) Fluency fluency-reading quickly and accurately automaticity-the quick recognition of words Vocabulary specific word instruction-the teaching of individual words word-learning strategies-the instruction of strategies that help pupils determine word meaning word parts-using parts of words (prefixes, suffixes, base words) to determine meanings of words context clues-surrounding phrases, sentences and words that provide hints that lead to a word's meaning Comprehension metacognition-thinking about one's thinking or the ability to identify what is known and not known when reading semantic organisers-maps or webs used to illustrate the connection between concepts or ideas direct explanation-a teacher's explanation of the use of comprehension strategies modelling-teacher demonstration of the use of strategies guided practice-guidance by the teacher as a pupil applies strategies application-reading strategies used by pupils General terminology explicit instruction-direct instruction of strategies by the teacher implicit instruction-indirect instruction, often embedded in context Book format This book is divided into five sections featuring each of the elements of reading. Within each section there are activities for teacher-directed instruction, as well as small-group and individual practice of reading skills. Many of the activities include follow-up games and copymasters intended to provide additional practice of skills. The use of these activities, games and practice sheets, in addition to a comprehensive reading programme, will give pupils the skills necessary for reading success.
£25.26
Prim-Ed Publishing Comprehension for Independent Readers Upper: Literal - Inferential - Evaluative
Comprehension for independent readers (Upper) offers a range of writing genres and activities to develop the skills required for comprehension.The aim is to provide pupils with the opportunity to work independently to extract information from different texts and to demonstrate the different levels of comprehension: literal, inferential and evaluative.
£19.12
Prim-Ed Publishing Everyday Mathematics: Mathematical Reasoning - Strategies for Investigation - Solving Problems: Book 2
Everyday Mathematics (Book 2) is one in a series of books that provides you with a challenging, high-interest resource for use in your maths lessons. Presented with a wide variety of activities, Everyday Mathematics explores mathematics through posing questions in an everyday environment, using content that is familiar to pupils.Everyday Mathematics presents mathematical problems using content that focuses on major areas of the mathematics curriculum. The problems are presented in situations that challenge, yet are relevant to the pupils solving them. The purpose of the activities is to provide challenges that require considered thought and the application of a variety of problem-solving strategies. The activities have a varied format; a structure which requires different methods and approaches to complete the problems. 1. Use of a calculator: The activities in this book seek to develop thought and problem-solving processes and therefore pupils use calculators where appropriate. This will allow them to focus on the problem, rather than the separate calculations that may be necessary to solve the problem. You may wish to identify the activities that allow calculator usage. 2. Back of the page: In many cases the pupil will be asked to show the appropriate working or diagrams on the back of the sheet. This is requested so that the processes used to solve a given problem can be identified and pupils can retrace their steps to either check their workings or identify the source of an incorrect answer. 3. Written answers: on some occasions pupils are requested to provide written explanations. This is done so that the level of understanding of a concept or problem can be indicated. Pupils should be encouraged to provide sufficient detail as is defined by the space provided. 4. Answers: are provided at the back of this book. Due to the problem-solving nature of Everyday Mathematics, there are opportunities for more than one correct answer as well as for pupils to provide their opinions. These answers will need to be assessed by the teacher as to their validity
£19.12
Prim-Ed Publishing Prime-Time Comprehension Lower: Reading and Comprehending Using Text Types
There are 20 age-appropriate texts from four different formats (fiction, comic strips, nonfiction and poetry) included in this book. The level of difficulty of the text among the formats differs. For example, the comic strips are generally much shorter and easier to read than the fiction and nonfiction texts and the poetry tends to be more challenging. The questions are organised into three categories-Levels A, B and C-which are outlined below. Four pages accompany each of the 20 texts. Each group of four pages consists of the following: Pupil page 1 The text, in the style of one of the four formats, with appropriate illustrations included. Pupil page 2 Questions related to the text - Level A (i.e. literal) and Level B (i.e. interpretive). Pupil page 3 Questions related to the text - Level C (i.e. evaluative). Pupil page 4 An activity related to the text. The three levels of questioning are: Level A Literal - the answer is provided in the text. Level B Interpretive - The answer is inferred using information in the text. Level C Evaluative - The answer requires associations to be made between the text's content and personal experience and knowledge
£19.12
Prim-Ed Publishing Grammar Minutes Book 2: Book 2
Grammar Minutes is an exciting six book series that will help your pupils apply and extend their grammar skills, step by step, over one hundred minutes. Whats more, as they challenge themselves, as they apply their knowledge and understanding of the features of the English language, they will have fun Grammar minutes provides the opportunity to let pupils practise their grammar skills and enhance their overall grammar proficiency across a variety of areas. These include sentence structure, use of capital letters and punctuation, and understanding of common nouns, proper nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, synonyms, antonyms and many more elements of language. It features 100 pupils pages, each with 10 classroom tested problems. It covers all elements of grammar, including punctuation, parts of speech, sentence structure, compound words and contractions. It offers practice in speed of recall of knowledge and understanding of the features of the English language. It is ideal as a starter activity in a timed speed test format to begin each English lesson; or, alternatively, can be used as a revision or daily homework activity. It provides the teacher with immediate feedback of pupils understanding of grammar. It provides answers.
£17.95
Prim-Ed Publishing Handwriting Today: Book C: Book C
Handwriting Today is a comprehensive cursive handwriting programme. It removes the need for teaching a pre cursive letter formation, as it introduces individual letters at Book A level, that have the identical shape and form of those used at later stages when joining letters and creating words. It starts with a cursive font and builds to joins and words quickly. It uses a flowing cursive font that combines the best of traditional and contemporary fonts to create an easy to write and easy on the eye writing style. Pupils find this an easy beginning. It focuses on the flow of letters and text, and avoids a start-stop writing style, which in turn leads to illegible writing in later years a smooth flowing style is the result of using Handwriting Today. It makes it easy for young children to build their skills, as in the early stages all lower case letters share the same starting point. Handwriting Today is available from Book A to Book D: Book A: letters are introduced in Book A, where young writers practice word shapes and formations before moving to joins in the following year; Book B: looks at creating joins and practicing various letter combinations leading to the writing of words; Book C: builds on joins, combining multiple joins into words, groups of words and sentences; and, Book D: provides opportunities for children to practice their writing in the context of every day usage and cross-curricular themes, providing for letter and join revision as appropriate. What will the teacher get with Handwriting Today? It contains over 72 activity pages in each level. It provides regular revision and consolidation. It offers teacher assessment framework. It features programme that provide a developmental approach to handwriting. It includes diversity of resources that allow for individual attention to pupil progress and a comprehensive approach to differentiation of the class handwriting programme. It is a comprehensive, photocopiable teacher's guide. It also offers a demonstration that can be download. It also provides handwriting software resource for teachers.
£11.36
Prim-Ed Publishing India - Middle: A Cross Curricular Theme: Middle
India: A Cross Curricular Theme is a series of three books that present opportunities for pupils to discover some natural, physical, cultural, economic and political aspects about this fascinating and extremely diverse Asian country and its people. The books in this series give selected information about both modern and ancient India and use a wide variety of activities across many learning areas. Features: nine sections; Geography; History; Symbols; Modern India; Religions, Customs and celebrations; Landmarks; Folk tales and legends; The arts, and Famous people; a wide range of pupil information and activity pages; comprehensive teachers notes pages; detailed background and teacher information; suggested additional activities; cross curricular pupil activity pages; activity objectives; answers where necessary; and, curriculum links.
£20.88
Prim-Ed Publishing Early Finishers: Independent Activities to Reinforce Basic Skills: Bk. D
This is an excellent seven book photocopiable series for the entire primary age range. Features: high interest, creative, fun yet challenging activities to satisfy the demands of the early finisher; wide range of ready to use puzzles, brainteasers and creative activities to enable practice of important skills; activities that cover looking at words, working with numbers, critical thinking, following directions, looking at pictures and getting creative; independent activities that are also ideal for class and homework; and, activities can be completed individually or in pairs. It includes answers and record sheet.
£20.88
Prim-Ed Publishing Primary Health and Values: Bk. C: Ages 7-8 Years
A seven-book photocopiable series that introduces and develops the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values needed to help lead a healthy life.
£19.12
Prim-Ed Publishing Primary Health and Values: Bk. D: Ages 8-9 Years
This title introduces and develops the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values that are needed to help pupils that lead healthy and fulfilling lives. It is an exciting seven-book photocopiable series to develop awareness of physical, social, mental, emotional and sexual health. First section of each book is on healthy lifestyles and includes activities on healthy eating, exercise, leisure, hygiene, medicines, smoking, alcohol, drugs, safety, emergencies, sex education and much more. Second section of each book focuses on values, personal development and relationships and includes activities on rules, individuality, friendships, families, bullying, peer pressure, conflict resolution, goal setting, feelings, making decisions, worries and many more. It includes a wide variety of copymaster activities that contain role-plays to perform, scenarios to consider, information to discuss, questions to answer or values to compare. Each copymaster is accompanied by a page of teachers notes, providing: activity objective; background information; lesson tips (discussion and what to do); answers; and additional activities. It includes guided classroom activities and discussion that encourages pupils to think critically about health and values issues and the challenges they face as they grow and develop.
£19.12
Prim-Ed Publishing Primary Comprehension: Fiction and Nonfiction Texts: Bk. A
This is a comprehensive whole school photocopiable comprehension series. Three levels of questions; literal, deductive and evaluative; provided for each comprehension text. Features: excellent seven book photocopiable series for the entire primary age range; comprehension activities require children to read a variety of genres, including legends, fables, science fiction, adventure, poetry, biographies, journals and reports; three levels of questions, literal, deductive and evaluative, provided for each comprehension text; opportunities to practise a selection of comprehension strategies, including prediction, summarising, comparing and determining importance; each comprehension activity has accompanying teachers notes which include answers and extension activities involving texts written in the same genre; detailed introductory notes include information on question types, comprehension strategies, shared and guided reading, genre definitions and curriculum links.
£20.88
Prim-Ed Publishing Proofreading and Editing Skills: Practical Activities Using Text Types: Extension
This is a contemporary, photocopiable 4-book series to provide pupils with experience in proofreading and editing a variety of written texts. It features a selection of passages of text for correction by pupils - each with a punctuation, grammar, spelling and vocabulary focus. It provides a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction writing genres used, including legends, traditional poems, instructions, persuasive writing and reports. It is an ideal literacy resource for individual, group, class or homework use. It includes detailed teachers notes, answers and curriculum links.
£23.51
Prim-Ed Publishing Integrated Spoken Language Book 4: Practise Spoken Language Skills Through Engaging Activities and Real-life Scenarios
Integrated Spoken Language is a series of four books written to help children aged 4-8 years develop their speaking and listening skills. This book is suitable for Year 3/Primary 4. The activities centre around images and common themes and may be used independently as discrete spoken language lessons or linked to a specific learning area. This teacher resource book is accompanied by a full-colour, digital download of images for use on whiteboards. Features: * Contains 25 theme-based units focused around 25 separate poster images to appeal to the interests of pupils. * Each unit presents a variety of engaging activities to develop and practise speaking and listening skills, including role plays, barrier games, story creation, debates and discussions. * Each unit contains photocopiable support materials for the activities that require them. * The activities centre around images and common themes and may be used independently as discrete spoken language lessons or linked to a specific learning area. This teacher resource book is accompanied by a full-colour, digital download of images for use on whiteboards.
£27.89
Prim-Ed Publishing Learn from Home Workbook 4: English, Mathematics and Science Activities
Designed to be easily accessible and great to use both from home or in the classroom, these workbooks will help your child revise essential schoolwork and reinforce taught concepts. Great for independent learning, your pupil will be presented with English, mathematics and science activities that are curriculum aligned, ensuring a consistent practice across key learning areas. Each workbook contains enough work to cover a minimum of four weeks, with a subject area allocated for each week. Features: • Each workbook goes through all key English areas: reading comprehension, grammar, writing and editing to ensure that your pupil doesn’t experience any gaps in learning. • Mathematics section provides consistent practice that will reinforce and consolidate your child’s current mathematical knowledge. • Topics have been selected from different parts of the science curriculum, with some simple experiments included.
£11.36
Prim-Ed Publishing Learn from Home Workbook 1: English, Mathematics and Science Activities
Designed to be easily accessible and great to use both from home or in the classroom, these workbooks will help your child revise essential schoolwork and reinforce taught concepts. Great for independent learning, your pupil will be presented with English, mathematics and science activities that are curriculum aligned, ensuring a consistent practice across key learning areas. Each workbook contains enough work to cover a minimum of four weeks, with a subject area allocated for each week. Features: • Each workbook goes through all key English areas: reading comprehension, grammar, writing and editing to ensure that your pupil doesn’t experience any gaps in learning. • Mathematics section provides consistent practice that will reinforce and consolidate your child’s current mathematical knowledge. • Topics have been selected from different parts of the science curriculum, with some simple experiments included.
£11.36
Prim-Ed Publishing Comprehension Through Cloze Book 6: Combining Cloze and Text Inspection Activities
Detailed drawings and interesting text make up this collection of comprehension activities. The book provides two distinct sections relating to each drawing and text: 1. Cloze activity pages: Each picture-story provides the reader with two exercises. First exercise: The reader is provided with a complete text and shows comprehension by completing the accompanying picture. Second exercise: The reader shows comprehension by completing a cloze task based on the accompanying picture. There is opportunity in some activities for slightly varied answers or drawings. If the answer or drawing provided can be justified by the instruction then it should be seen as acceptable. Cloze comprehension provides an ideal indication of comprehension levels. 2. Comprehension strategy pages: Each text has two additional comprehension pages that focus on a specific comprehension strategy. These pages can be used to teach these comprehension strategies. The texts and activities enable teachers to provide variety to any English language programme. Cloze is a reading comprehension activity in which words are deleted from a text. Readers are required to complete the blanks as they read to construct meaning. When completing a cloze text, readers have to search on either side of the missing word in the sentence to find what should be included. Readers must consider context as well as vocabulary. Cloze is commonly used as an assessment method because of its many advantages. Advantages of cloze: • helps identify reader knowledge and understanding of the reading process; • helps teachers work out the cueing systems readers use to construct meaning; • can assess reader vocabulary and topic knowledge (and can also promote vocabulary production); • helps readers monitor their understanding of a text as they read; • encourages readers to think critically about, and analyse, a text; • reinforces grammatical knowledge because readers need to work out what part of speech is required to fill the gap; and • reinforces syntactical knowledge (the arrangement of words and phrases in a sentence).
£23.51
Prim-Ed Publishing New Wave Mental Maths Year 4/Primary 5
New Wave Mental Maths is a mental maths programme that aims to strengthen pupils’ mental maths abilities – the essential skills that underpin all aspects of the maths curriculum and problem-solving situations. Each book provides daily practice of these skills, with more than enough questions for the entire school year. One of the most useful features of the series is that it ensures pupils meet all areas of the curriculum on a regular basis. This constant contact with the areas of study ensures that pupils are continually revising and consolidating essential maths concepts. * 40-week programme divided into a convenient Monday to Friday daily format, which is ideal for class use or for assigning nightly homework. * Aims to develop fluency in the basics of maths: emphasis is placed on daily computation/table practice to enhance speed and accuracy. * Core maths concepts are developed in each book and precise maths language is used in the questions. * Problem-solving in both pictorial and word format encourages pupils to practise problem-solving strategies mentally. * Strong assessment component is built in – the weekly Friday Review can be used to communicate progress with parents. * Enables pupil to practise and perfect problem-solving strategies using mental problems. * Core mathematical language presented using clear and simple wording. * Sequential developmental and consolidation of core maths concepts. * Can be used in conjunction with the main class maths programme. * Provides lots of opportunities for informal teaching and on-the-spot direct explanations.
£11.36
Prim-Ed Publishing My Spelling Workbook Book E
Each workbook contains 18 spelling units. Each unit is made up of four pages, with each unit containing: a list of 22 words to be learned, focusing on one or more phonic word patterns and two commonly used words word building and word study activities revision words from the previous workbook. Each unit contains word building and word study activities. A bank of activities is used throughout the book, including: unjumbling words word worms finding small words crosswords word searches synonyms antonyms and many more. Interactive spelling activities to accompany My Spelling Workbook E are available to download.
£11.36
Prim-Ed Publishing Problemsolving Strategies and Skills
The Problem-solving Strategies and Skills maths cards provide a wide variety of motivating and high-interest problem-solving activities. There are three boxes for each of the six year groups.
£16.15
Prim-Ed Publishing Primary Writing
Features a photocopiable series providing opportunities for pupils to read, analyse, plan and write a range of text types. This title covers text types such as: narrative, recount, report, procedure, explanation and discussion.
£20.88
Prim-Ed Publishing New Wave Mental Maths Book 6: Workbook 6
New Wave Mental Maths workbooks will sit comfortably with your mathematics programme. Day-to-day activities cover all mathematic strands and are developmental throughout each book and the series. It is written to provide comprehensive coverage of mental maths concepts in the Irish mathematics curriculum. It covers opportunities for consolidation of mathematical concepts to develop and maintain speed of recall. It offers opportunities for reinforcement of ongoing mathematical concepts. You can introduce, practise and understand a range of mathematical vocabulary. It includes sequential development of mathematical concepts and vocabulary. You can develop and reinforce problem-solving strategies. Features: a structured daily mental maths programme for the whole academic year; pictorial, graphic and written representation of problems; simple weekly pupil and teacher assessment (1st and 2nd Class books); an inbuilt review and assessment programme (3rd - 6th Class books); wide curriculum coverage that aids identification of 'problem' areas of maths, to help planning and assessment; clear two-colour presentation throughout. It provides record pages. It covers all mathematics strands and strand units applicable to mental activities. It includes pages of useful 'maths facts'. It offers weekly testing/review for books 3-6. It covers developmental books that provide ideal opportunity for differentiation, with pupils working on a level appropriate to their ability rather than age. It offers a comprehensive teachers guide.
£28.34
Prim-Ed Publishing Teaching Writing Strategies
Teaching Writing Strategies is a series of six books using modelling, guided and independent practice to teach pupils strategies they can use to improve the clarity, correctness and richness of their writing. The focus is on sentences, their structure, punctuation and word choices and on developing editing and proofreading skills and their habitual use. Teaching Writing Strategies is a series of six books with the explicit, overarching aim of teaching the skills and strategies required to improve the clarity, correctness and richness of children’s writing. Within the series, children are taught to recognise, choose and use specific strategies. The focus is on the process, rather than on practising, in this instance, specific text types. To this end, priority is given to improving writing at the sentence level. There is a strong hands-on emphasis; that is, there is an expectation that the children will write to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding. Unlike many other writing activity books, the desired outcome is to have the children structuring correct, enriched sentences to more clearly convey ideas and information. The ultimate goal is for them to produce clear, precise writing for a specific purpose and to understand that proofreading and editing is an integral part of the writing process. Each of the 16 units has a page of assessment activities and an assessment writing topic. These should be worked on independently and will: (a) give the teacher a record of individual understanding and achievement; and (b) highlight common points of weakness, which may require further assistance. Teacher recording sheets, a pupil proofreading checklist and a pupil self-evaluation sheet are provided.
£20.88
Prim-Ed Publishing R.E. and Literacy in the Classroom: Bk.1
This title is an excellent 3-book photocopiable series featuring sacred stories from major religions (Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism and Buddhism). Each unit contains; sacred story, RE activity and a language activity. It is an ideal resource, to combine literacy and RE teaching. It includes answers, and teachers notes.
£17.95
Prim-Ed Publishing Contemporary Cloze (Ages 5-7): Lower (Ages 5-7)
This title features: high-interest photocopiable cloze resources; contemporary topics, including mobile phones, bullying and the Harry Potter phenomenon; reading strategies that allow pupils to either: choose words from a list by using context clues, or provide own words; cloze passages written in a range of genres; great individual, group, whole-class, homework and special needs resources; literacy skills such as grammar and parts of speech featured; and, activities to help promote written expression and expand vocabulary.
£16.50
Prim-Ed Publishing Differentiated Cloze: Activities to Develop Reading Comprehension: Middle
This title features photocopiable differentiated cloze activities to improve reading comprehension skills. It is an excellent resource to encourage pupils in use of context clues. It is ideal resource for English language curricular requirements. It offers variety of fiction and non-fiction passages. Each cloze passage presented in two ways - with and without missing words listed. It covers wide range of cross-curricular topics in texts. It provides answers and curriculum links.
£20.30
Prim-Ed Publishing Reading Maps: Reading and Interpreting: Middle
This title develops skills of reading and interpreting a wide range of maps. Features: a variety of challenging and problem-solving activities; an excellent three-book photocopiable series; a geographical skills that are highlighted and introduced gradually; some activities that contain two maps to compare/contrast information; standardised symbols used; and answers.
£16.50
Prim-Ed Publishing Prime-Time Comprehension Middle: Reading and Comprehending Using Text Types
There are 20 age-appropriate texts from four different formats (fiction, comic strips, nonfiction and poetry) included in this book.The level of difficulty of the text among the formats differs. For example, the comic strips are generally much shorter and easier to read than the fiction and nonfiction texts and the poetry tends to be more challenging.The questions are organised into three categories-Levels A, B and C-which are outlined below.Four pages accompany each of the 20 texts. Each group of four pages consists of the following:Pupil page 1 The text, in the style of one of the four formats with appropriate illustrations included.Pupil page 2 Questions related to the text - Level A (i.e. literal) and Level B (i.e. interpretive). Pupil page 3 Questions related to the text - Level C (i.e. evaluative). Pupil page 4 An activity related to the text.The three levels of questioning are:Level A Literal - The answer is provided in the text.Level B Interpretive - The answer is inferred using information in the text.Level C Evaluative - The answer requires associations to be made between the text's content and personal experience and knowledge.Activity pages These may require pupils to apply knowledge gained from the text, from their personal experiences and, in some cases, to use their imagination. Answers Answers to all questions are provided. Levels B and C answers are provided as a guide only as answers to interpretive and evaluative questions will vary. Teachers may need to assess answers individually and judge whether they are acceptable.
£19.95