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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.

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This title features excellent photocopiable resources, with detailed artwork. Each book includes 50 per cent of activities dealing with Christianity. The balance covers Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Sikhism. It covers skills and processes synonymous with RE including investigation, interpretation, reflection, empathy, evaluation, analysis, application and expression. It is suitable for whole class investigations and discussions or for group and individual research. It provides extensive teachers notes.

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This title features three great photocopiable resources to develop mapping skills. Lower includes: mazes; pathways; pictorial story maps; and school walks. Middle includes: grid references; scales; and compass direction. Upper includes: latitude and longitude; scales; and estimating distance. Each book contains blank outlines of British Isles and Europe maps.

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In the fast-paced and ever-changing world we live in, never has there been a more important time to develop critical thinking skills. Through a range of engaging and challenging activities designed to test and strengthen problem-solving skills, this series helps pupils make deeper connections by integrating their learning across key curriculum areas. Features: • activities that build and grow pupils’ problem-solving skills through engaging logic puzzles, brain-teasers and more • each activity focuses on a behavioural verb such as analyse, predict or design, and integrates into a different curriculum area • a mixture of short early-finisher activities, and more involved tasks • pupils gain meaningful practice that they can apply across subject areas and in life

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The MENTAL MATHEMATICS PRACTICE series is designed with the following features in mind:1. Comprehensive Coverage Every book in the four book series contains:* 24 worksheets;* 24 revision worksheets;* answer sheets;* an extensive glossary of terms and symbols; and* class record/evaluation sheet.2. Wide-ranging Concepts Every book in the MENTAL MATHEMATICS PRACTICE series includes hundreds of different problems covering many areas of the curriculum including number, algebra, space, shape,measures and data handling.3. Relevance Every book covers a wide range of mathematical terms and symbols, which are subsequently described in the glossary. This makes them an excellent resource for developing and consolidating mathematical language.4. Practical Every book provides revision sheets with similar kinds of problems to their corresponding worksheets but adopting a slightly greater degree of difficulty to reinforce the mathematical topics covered. Class record sheets provide the teacher with a single record for keeping track of each pupil's progress through this series.

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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.

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The Teacher's Moderation Toolkit can be used to standardise and benchmark children's writing at three termly intervals, as a CPD resource to support teachers working together to make judgements and also as a classroom resource to share the expected standards of writing with children. Currently, writing is teacher assessed at both Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. Teachers are expected to assess a collection of children's writing that illustrate writing for different purposes and in different forms; for example, a child may write a persuasive letter, an informative leaflet, a story with a flashback, a narrative poem and a survival guide linked to their creative curriculum.Assessing a collection of writing requires teachers to be able to identify features in the child's writing, answering the questions:What can this writer do?What features have they included?Do they meet the expected standard for their year group?Are they on track to be the expected standard by the end of the year?What features are missing from their writing?What are their next steps?Many schools have worked together to create writing portfolios of what is the expected standard for each year group. As a teaching school alliance, we recognised that teachers would benefit from a moderated, standardised toolkit that could both assist and guide teachers when making termly judgements about children's writing.Initially, we worked with English subject leaders spanning a range of local authorities in the north-west of England. Schools were given a set of writing tasks to complete with years 1-6 so that it would be easier to make comparisons when moderating the writing.The first task was a picture prompt of a girl called Lizzie in a silver birch tree (See Appendix A)and children were asked to write a description. The following term, schools were given a choice of writing prompts related to other pictures of Lizzie - a newspaper report, a narrative and a diary.As schools collated evidence of children writing at different points in the year, we decided to offer specific year group moderating sessions where teachers brought samples of children's writing and annotated them in groups (some of these samples feature as part of the resource). At this point teachers did not use any criteria to moderate with. Instead they focused on the question'What can this writer do?' and annotated the writing with appropriate labels; for example, noun phrases, multi-clause sentences, range of tenses, use of direct speech, commas in a list etc.After teachers from each year group had analysed and annotated a range of writing, English subject leaders and moderators began the selection process. Using the writing objectives for each year group, we began to make decisions about what the evidence files should look like.We were very keen for the collections to be realistic, include writing examples that teachers see every day and show obvious progression. We recognised that teachers would want to see examples of writing that spanned across a range of genres. Whilst reading through the annotated examples, we realised that it was not important what age the child who wrote the writing was; for example, a more able year 1 child's writing may have been used in the autumn of year 2 collection and equally a less able year 5 writer may be used as a good example in the spring collection of year 4. Once the collections of writing had been established, a group of SLEs and moderators worked with the resource. Our priority was that there was progression within the toolkit and the summer collection from one year group would directly lead into the autumn collection of the next.Once again, national curriculum objectives and the original work samples in Appendix B were regularly referred to and referenced to ensure consistency.Final decisions were made, the toolkit was agreed upon and resulted in 3 termly collections of writing for each year group from year 1 to 6. All of the writing examples have been typed up verbatim for ease and are annotated with some of the main features expected for specific year groups; for example, writing in the year 1collection is annotated with features teachers would expect to see in year 1 writing as prescribed in the national curriculum. In the older children's writing, we have again focused on features we would expect to see evidence of in that specific year group and not commented on every single feature included by the child.eBook supplied with the book free of charge.

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This title features: super photocopiable series to develop problem solving skills and mathematical thinking in primary pupils; challenging activities that include extension ideas for the more able; activities that develop spatial visualisation, logical reasoning, establishing criteria, interpreting, analysing, organising and using information, strategic thinking and using patterns; extensive background information about problem solving skills; and, teachers notes to accompany copymaster activities, which include mathematical objectives, materials, background information, list of possible difficulties pupils will encounter and extension activities. It provides answers and curriculum links.

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This title features a wide variety of photocopiable mapping and atlas skill activities. You can focus on accurate identification of known and unknown locations and provision of accurate instructions. You can promote important skills into other curriculum areas and adult life. It can be used in conjunction with all school atlases. It offers skills that include horizontal and vertical, co-ordinates, symbols, compass points, giving directions, latitude and longitude and familiarity with a range of maps. It includes e.g. mud, plans, street, physical and political.

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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.

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Pupils will find these attractive, easy to use, double sided reference materials crucial to everyday learning. Laminated for durability, the Essential Study Guides come in a convenient A4 size, specifically designed to fit neatly into a standard ring binder or just stand alone. Or, perhaps, have a set at home and a set at school (Parents will find them a fantastic resource to have at home too). There are 5 Essential Study Guides available for 9-14 year olds: Grammar; Number/Algebra/Strategies; Spelling; Writing; and, Shape/Space/Measurement/Data. Writing features: Writing Frameworks; Poetry Frameworks; Hints and Tips to Improve Writing; Proofreading and Editing checklist; and, Ideas and Tips for Note taking.

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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.

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Phonics and the Common Words Teaching and learning spelling are progressive processes, which are structured in this scheme, marrying phonics with 'common words'. Children learn best when spelling is taught systematically and in a structured manner over time. Spelling needs explicit instruction for the majority of children, particularly for those who fail to 'catch it' because of inherent difficulties. The NLS Framework for Teaching (Beard 1998) recommended that successful management of the teaching of spelling should include structured teaching, which involves the following, all of which are an integral part in the My Spelling Workbook series: making it clear what has to be learnt dividing material into manageable chunks teaching in a well considered sequence the use of material in which children make use of hunches and prompts regular testing for progress immediate feedback Matching Teaching Methods to Learning Styles This phonic based, multisensory spelling series introduces strategies that feature Look, Say, Trace, Cover, Write and Check. The series promotes independent learning of spelling in context and features a proven metacognitive approach to spelling.The metacognitive approach encompasses logical and systematic thinking, combined with the skills of visualisation, emotion and creativity. Through using all aspects of thinking, children not only learn how to spell but also learn how to retain and use these words in context. Success with this series is achieved through the reinforcement activities provided in the My Spelling Workbook series. These workbooks cover the strategies in a fun, creative way ensuring that both the child and the teacher enjoy the learning process. The Teachers Guides provide the metacognitive strategies. These are clearly outlined using flash cards, assessment sheets, extra activities, guidelines for use with children with special needs, extension activities for more able children, dictation, word lists and answers. Each workbook contains 18 lists of phonic based, commonly used words to develop a base vocabulary for primary school children. These help to develop independent spellers through a variety of activities including: word building memory tests word study word puzzles discovering patterns in words. Interactive spelling activities to accompany My Spelling Workbook B are available to download.

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This title offers three excellent photocopiable resources to aid teachers and pupils alike in identifying, coping with, and preventing bullying. Features: comprehensive teachers notes provide an excellent level of support; developmental programme aims to promote positive behaviours across primary school; information to support school policy development and promote school parent communication; and, superb SPHE material on this topical issue.

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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.

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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.

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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 F are available to download.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Follow Me: Loop Card Games: English is a series of three books designed to reinforce basic literacy 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 games in these books include: Lower: rhyming words, word families, high frequency words, grammar, vocabulary development, synonyms and antonyms, analogies, contractions, compound words, singular and plural words, main idea, categorising, and cause and effect; Middle: synonyms and antonyms, homophones, homographs, compound words, grammar, prefixes and suffixes, Greek and Latin roots, base words, alphabetical order, rhyming words, analogies, sentences, context clues, main idea, categorization, fact or opinion and vocabulary; Upper: synonyms and antonyms, contractions, categorization, grammar, homophones, similes, idioms, Greek and Latin roots, prefixes and suffixes, proverbs, critical thinking and deduction, oxymorons, associative connections, and clichs. Each book contains simple to prepare activities, blank pro formas (to produce your own games) and clear and concise answer pages.

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Sequencing visual texts is a series of books which provide resources to support the teaching and learning of sequencing in early years classes. The series supports pupils struggling with written texts and those who need to develop oral communication skills. The series provides background information, suggestions for additional activities, and pictorial and text resources.T_i_t_l_e_s_ _i_n_ _t_h_i_s_ _s_e_r_i_e_s_ _a_r_e_:_ _Sequencing visual texts-B_o_o_k_ _1_ _Sequencing visual texts-B_o_o_k_ _2_ _Sequencing visual texts-B_o_o_k_ _3_ _

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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This is a great range of photocopiable classroom activities to equip substitute class teachers. It includes activities that cover a variety of curriculum areas - English, maths, science, history, geography, health, values, art and DT. Each pupil worksheet is accompanied by teachers notes, including objectives, resource list, lesson plan, additional activity suggestions, answers and curriculum links. Pupil worksheets can stand alone as a single lesson, or be extended using the additional activity suggestions in the teachers notes. Each book includes a section of themed activities, designed as a springboard for long-term relief assignments.

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This title features: comprehensive and authoritative 'must have' handbook for older primary pupils, secondary and college students, teachers and parents; first part of book that is a dictionary, giving brief and simple explanations of mathematical terms, often with examples and diagrams; second part of book that contains a detailed reference section, providing an overview of key ideas about a wide range of mathematical topics, including tables, number systems, charts, 2-D shapes, 3-D shapes, measures, conversion tables, equivalences, formulas, rules, explanations and symbols.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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New Wave Mental Maths Teachers Manual is provided to assist teachers with the use and implementation of the programme in the classroom. Contents include: background to the developmental of New Wave Mental Maths; assessment guidelines and recording formats; week-by-week concept development overview for all levels; and answers for all levels.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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