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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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Features a variety of photocopiable activities to develop visual discrimination, listening comprehension and memory skills. This title offers detailed teacher information pages that develop vital learning and life skills. It includes record sheets for each pupil.

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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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Offers a wealth of techniques and skills for creative and meaningful work. This title features: photograph of finished piece of art, pupil self evaluation copymaster and teacher assessment copymaster; teachers notes that include ideas for discussion; and, list of materials and instructions on how to make artwork.

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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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This is a comprehensive 4-book photocopiable series. It deals with conflict issues. It offers a requirement of the SPHE curriculum and an important life skill. Carefully structured activities direct pupils along the conflict resolution pathways of 'Communicate', 'Negotiate' and 'Consolidate'. It presents comprehensive teacher notes and background information that accompany each activity. Skills and attitudes dealt with include teacher/peer mediation, negotiation, communication, anger management, team building, problem solving, empathy and tolerance.

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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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The Teacher Guide includes detailed plans of a wide variety of different activities, with examples of teacher input and modelling, as well as photographs of pupil's writing and classroom displays. It demonstrates how Lizzie and the Birds can be used to inspire pupils to use their imaginations and their English skills in inventive and engaging ways. Features: Detailed teaching plans Oral language activities Wide variety of writing activities Learning activities Reading comprehensions Examples of pupils' work and displays Photocopiable activity pages Grammar and punctuation activities Cross-curricular ideas Downloadable resources This Teacher Guide was created by Lizzie and the Birds author, Dawn Robertson, who works across England as a consultant helping pupils and teachers to deliver book-based learning. Initially, she produced a large bank of activities and resources, which were trialled in a variety of schools, with children of all ages. Teachers and pupils were then asked to give their opinions about which activities they thought were the most effective and challenging and should be included in this Teacher Guide. Dawn listened carefully to this feedback as was keen for the materials to be as comprehensive as possible, enabling everybody to use them effectively in the classroom.

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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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English Homework is a comprehensive seven book photocopiable homework series. This title features an activity for every week of the academic year. Each activity focuses on one area of essential skills, including spelling, word study, punctuation, grammar and phonics (Books A C only). It offers simple and easy to understand instructions to aid independent working. It is suitable for homework, classwork, teaching a new concept, revision and assessment. Each pupil copymaster has an accompanying page of teachers notes, containing explanations/definitions and answers. It provides detailed additional teachers notes that include curriculum links, spelling rules, word building, glossary, prefixes, suffixes, word origins and spelling lists.

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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.

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Remove the confusion around phonological awareness and equip children with all the skills needed to conquer the world of words-spelling, reading and writing-with Prim-Ed's must-have new Phonological Awareness Skills series. This series of five comprehensive books covers all the basics for young children (from four years of age) but is also useful for older pupils who are struggling with phonics and spelling. It develops skills that fit into any phonics or spelling programme. This series is an excellent resource to help teachers address the 'Phonological and phonemic awareness' learning outcome of the new Language Curriculum, which for Stages 1 and 2 states that children should be able to 'play with and recognise sounds such as syllables, rhyme, onset-rime and phonemes in spoken words'. This series emphasises the oral element in phonological awareness. Twelve skills are presented in developmental order over the five books and include the following: * Book 1: Auditory Discrimination, Rhyming and Alliteration * Book 2: Segmentation and Syllabification, and Blending * Book 3: Phoneme Matching and Phoneme Isolation * Book 4: Phoneme Completion, and Phoneme Addition and Deletion * Book 5: Phoneme Segmentation, Phoneme Substitution and Phoneme Reversal The last 7 skills relate to phoneme manipulation. The skills are developed through fun, hands-on games and activities for whole-class, small group and pair work, with full instructions (including the actual words to say, if required). The games and activities are perfect for learning stations and station teaching. They can also be used for early finishers to consolidate skills or to motivate young pupils needing extension. All game/activity resources, supporting worksheets if applicable, differentiation ideas, formative and summative assessments and answers are provided. Literature links and suggested websites for games are also included where applicable.

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Remove the confusion around phonological awareness and equip children with all the skills needed to conquer the world of words-spelling, reading and writing-with Prim-Ed's must-have new Phonological Awareness Skills series. This series of five comprehensive books covers all the basics for young children (from four years of age) but is also useful for older pupils who are struggling with phonics and spelling. It develops skills that fit into any phonics or spelling programme. This series is an excellent resource to help teachers address the 'Phonological and phonemic awareness' learning outcome of the new Language Curriculum, which for Stages 1 and 2 states that children should be able to 'play with and recognise sounds such as syllables, rhyme, onset-rime and phonemes in spoken words'. This series emphasises the oral element in phonological awareness. Twelve skills are presented in developmental order over the five books and include the following: * Book 1: Auditory Discrimination, Rhyming and Alliteration * Book 2: Segmentation and Syllabification, and Blending * Book 3: Phoneme Matching and Phoneme Isolation * Book 4: Phoneme Completion, and Phoneme Addition and Deletion * Book 5: Phoneme Segmentation, Phoneme Substitution and Phoneme Reversal The last 7 skills relate to phoneme manipulation. The skills are developed through fun, hands-on games and activities for whole-class, small group and pair work, with full instructions (including the actual words to say, if required). The games and activities are perfect for learning stations and station teaching. They can also be used for early finishers to consolidate skills or to motivate young pupils needing extension. All game/activity resources, supporting worksheets if applicable, differentiation ideas, formative and summative assessments and answers are provided. Literature links and suggested websites for games are also included where applicable.

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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.

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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.

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This title features super three book photocopiable series. It takes pupils sequentially from fractions through to decimals and percentages. It offers a variety of written and practical activities. It provides answers for Middle and Upper levels.

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How many minutes does it take to complete a Maths minute? That is the challenge offered in this exciting, six book series. Pupils will enjoy challenging themselves as they apply their mathematical knowledge and understanding to complete a Maths minute in the fastest possible time. With 100 day to day activities covering all mathematical strands, Maths Minutes can be easily integrated into any primary maths programme. These easy to follow activities promote the ongoing learning of essential maths concepts and skills through practice and reinforcement. Designed to be implemented in numerical order from 1100, the activities in Maths Minutes are developmental through each book and throughout the series. Features: available at six levels (1-6); and, 100 pupil pages each with 10 classroom tested problems. It covers number, measurement, space, chance and data concepts for each year level. It offers practice in speed of recall, basic computational skills and maths fluency. It encourages the use of mental maths strategies wherever possible. It is ideal as a starter activity in a timed speed test format to begin each maths lesson or, alternatively, can be given as a daily homework activity. It offers simple structure that allows pupils to be working on different levels within the one classroom. It provides the teacher with immediate feedback of pupils understanding for future planning. It provides comprehensive teachers notes, record pages and photocopiable pupil reference materials. It introduces scope and sequence table showing when each new concept and skill. It provides answers.

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Early Years Themes (Ages 35) is a series of comprehensive teacher resource books designed to support teachers as they impart skills, concepts and knowledge about commonly taught themes in early childhood classrooms. The books in this series and the themes each contain are: Places (The ocean, The circus, The zoo, The rainforest, The farm); People (Me, Families, Friends, Community helpers, People from other countries); Animals (Pets, Bears, Frogs, Mini beasts, Dinosaurs); Science (The senses, The seasons, Space, Our bodies, Water); Fantasy (Dragons, Fairies, Giants/Ogres, Mermaids, Elves and Pixies); Fairytales (The three billy goats gruff, Jack and the beanstalk, The gingerbread man, The ugly duckling, Little red riding hood); and Special Days and Celebrations (Birthdays, Christmas, Easter, Mothers day, Fathers day, Valentines day, Eid al Fitr/Diwali/Chinese New Year/Hanukkah). Features: comprehensive teacher resource; icons to enable teachers to locate activities quickly; cross curricular learning activities; art and craft activities; teacher background information; resource sheets; early literacy and numeracy activities; age appropriate, useful artwork; display ideas; suggested books, songs, rhymes, poems; recipes; curriculum links; early literacy and numeracy activities; age appropriate, useful artwork; display ideas; suggested books, songs, rhymes, poems; recipes; and curriculum links.

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My Spelling Workbook Book A is broken into three developmental levels to cater for the changing needs of children moving into formal schooling. The first section of the book has been designed to consolidate initial, medial and final sounds. Activities require children to exercise both auditory and visual discrimination in readiness for introducing simple spelling strategies. 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

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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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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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Primary Maths is a photocopiable, six-level, year - specific series designed to address the Primary National Curriculum for Mathematics objectives of: number ratio and proportion algebra measurement geometry statistics.

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Offers a wealth of techniques and skills for creative and meaningful work. This title features: photograph of finished piece of art, pupil self evaluation copymaster and teacher assessment copymaster; teachers notes that include ideas for discussion; and, list of materials and instructions on how to make artwork.

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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 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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