Writing and Language Skills

Learning High Frequency Words

Reading Age 5+ - Interest Age 4-9

These books have been written for pupils with special educational needs at Key Stages 1 & 2 who are learning the high frequency word lists as laid down in the National Literacy Strategy. This series covers all the words for Year R to Year 2 inclusive.
The books are designed to provide a multisensory approach to learning and two pages are allocated for each set of words.The first page follows a set format of: saying, colouring, tracing and spelling (using the look - say - cover - write - check method). The second page provides a variety of follow-up activities as reinforcement work. At the back of each book lotto games provide further reinforcement of the words in each book.

Book 1 Reception year words
Book 2 Year 1 to 2 words
Book 3 Year 1 to 2 words
Book 4 Year 1 to 2 words
Book 5 Number and colour words
Book 6 Day and month words

Learning Medium Frequency Words

Reading Age 6+ - Interest Age 7-12

This series of photocopiable books has been written for pupils with special educational needs at Key Stages 2 - 3 who are learning the medium frequency words (List 2) as laid down in the National Literacy Strategy. This series covers all the List 2 words for years 4 - 5 inclusive.
The books are designed to provide a multisensory approach to learning. Three pages are allocated for each unit of words; the first page providing an introduction to the words, the second and third pages providing opportunities for reinforcement work.

Confusing Letters

Reading Age 5+ - Interest Age 4-7

This series of books focuses on letters which pupils often find particularly confusing, and aims to help them to feel confident in recognising and writing the letters both in isolation and in text. The vocabulary used in the series has been taken from the word lists as laid down in the National Literacy Strategy for Year R to Year 2 inclusive. Where no suitable illustratable words are available in the lists, other simple and familiar words have been used.
The first 9 pages focus on the first letter of the title. The pupils are then tested using the assessment page before being allowed to attempt the next 9 pages, which focus on the second letter. After further assessment the pupil then attempts the final section which has both letters on the same page for the first time.

Writing Sentences

Reading Age 6+ - Interest Age 6-13

The photocopiable books provide motivating material for writing basic sentences and are supportive of pupils working at levels 1 and 2 of the National Curriculum. They are of particular help to pupils who, because of learning difficulties or because English is their second language, have real problems with writing complete sentences.
Throughout the series, there is repetition of basic sight words common to most early reading material.

New Cloze

Reading Age 7+ - Interest Age 7-12

This series of books is linked to the National Curriculum and the NLS.
Fictional and factual text passages provide cloze-type procedures.
Each title is covered in two pages, at different levels of difficulty. In addition to this differentiation, each exercise focuses on a specific part of speech: either nouns, verbs or adjectives are deleted from the passages. (This is stated at the top of each page.)

Book 1 Traditional Tales
Book 2 Aesop's Fables
Book 3 Tales From Around the World
Book 4 Great Inventors
Book 5 Transport Through the Ages

Cloze Pegs

Reading Age 6 to 9 years. Interest Level 7 to 10 years.

The Cloze Pegs series has proved very popular with teachers since its launch. The other titles are:

Life In Tudor Times
Victorian Britain
Britain Since 1930
How Romans Lived
Life In Ancient Egypt

Each of the photocopy masters provides differentiated passages of cloze-type procedures with cross-curricular links suitable for pupils working at Levels 2 and 3 of the National Curriculum in reading.
Each topic is covered in two pages and allows six levels of difficulty. Although the passages in the book are history based, teachers wishing to use the books simply as language support, will find the passages sufficiently interesting to use independent of a history lesson.