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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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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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Comprehension for independent readers (Upper) offers a range of writing genres and activities to develop the skills required for comprehension.The aim is to provide pupils with the opportunity to work independently to extract information from different texts and to demonstrate the different levels of comprehension: literal, inferential and evaluative.

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Everyday Mathematics (Book 2) is one in a series of books that provides you with a challenging, high-interest resource for use in your maths lessons. Presented with a wide variety of activities, Everyday Mathematics explores mathematics through posing questions in an everyday environment, using content that is familiar to pupils.Everyday Mathematics presents mathematical problems using content that focuses on major areas of the mathematics curriculum. The problems are presented in situations that challenge, yet are relevant to the pupils solving them. The purpose of the activities is to provide challenges that require considered thought and the application of a variety of problem-solving strategies. The activities have a varied format; a structure which requires different methods and approaches to complete the problems. 1. Use of a calculator: The activities in this book seek to develop thought and problem-solving processes and therefore pupils use calculators where appropriate. This will allow them to focus on the problem, rather than the separate calculations that may be necessary to solve the problem. You may wish to identify the activities that allow calculator usage. 2. Back of the page: In many cases the pupil will be asked to show the appropriate working or diagrams on the back of the sheet. This is requested so that the processes used to solve a given problem can be identified and pupils can retrace their steps to either check their workings or identify the source of an incorrect answer. 3. Written answers: on some occasions pupils are requested to provide written explanations. This is done so that the level of understanding of a concept or problem can be indicated. Pupils should be encouraged to provide sufficient detail as is defined by the space provided. 4. Answers: are provided at the back of this book. Due to the problem-solving nature of Everyday Mathematics, there are opportunities for more than one correct answer as well as for pupils to provide their opinions. These answers will need to be assessed by the teacher as to their validity

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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

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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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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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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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A seven-book photocopiable series that introduces and develops the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values needed to help lead a healthy life.

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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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This is a comprehensive whole school photocopiable comprehension series. Three levels of questions; literal, deductive and evaluative; provided for each comprehension text. Features: excellent seven book photocopiable series for the entire primary age range; comprehension activities require children to read a variety of genres, including legends, fables, science fiction, adventure, poetry, biographies, journals and reports; three levels of questions, literal, deductive and evaluative, provided for each comprehension text; opportunities to practise a selection of comprehension strategies, including prediction, summarising, comparing and determining importance; each comprehension activity has accompanying teachers notes which include answers and extension activities involving texts written in the same genre; detailed introductory notes include information on question types, comprehension strategies, shared and guided reading, genre definitions and curriculum links.

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