Support for Basic Spelling

Reading age 5.5 - 8.5 years - Interest level 5 - 12 years

This series of books supports the teaching of basic spelling skills and has been developed to take into account the requirements of the National Curriculum and the objectives of the National Literacy Strategy Framework.

The books are incremental in difficulty and can be used to complement the work being undertaken from any spelling programme to provide additional learning opportunities. Assessment pages and record sheets are included in each book to provide convenient ways of recording pupils' progress.

Book 1. Individual letter sounds.
Book 2. Simple word building.
Book 3. Consonent blends and digraphs.
Book 4. Magic 'e'.
Book 5. Common vowel digraphs.
Book 6. Vowel digraphs and common word endings.
Book 7. Common suffixes and prefixes.
Book 8. Common word endings and 'tricky' sounds.

Support for Basic Grammar

Reading age 5.5 - 8.5 years - Interest level 5 - 12 years

This book is one of a series which supports the teaching of basic grammar and punctuation skills. The series helps pupils meet the requirements of the National Curriculum and the National Literacy Strategy objectives. The books in the series are incremental in difficulty. They can be used in a systematic structured way or used to complement any other grammar work or text level work being undertaken. In addition to the ten units in each book there are also:
a. check up tests.
b. a glossary - provides a very useful reference of the whole book condensed onto a single page.
c. a record sheet.
d. teacher's notes.

Introductory Book: Introduction to work at the simplest level. Capital letters, full stops, nouns, adjectives, indefinite article and prepositions.
Book 1: Sentence punctuation - capital letters, full stops & question marks. Conjunctions (and & but), nouns and proper nouns.
Book 2 Subject/verb agreement. Commas in lists. Exclamation & speech marks. More about questions.
Book 3: Verbs - with similar meanings. Verbs - past & present tense. Nouns - common & proper.
Nouns - singular, plural & collective.
Book 4: Adjectives. Commas. Pronouns - personal & possessive. Pronouns - 1st, 2nd & 3rd person. Subject/verb agreement. Conjunctions.
Book 5: Verbs - past, present & future. Adverbs. Adjectives from adverbs. Apostrophes - word contractions.
Book 6: Adjectives - comparative & superlative.
Adjectives - from nouns. Similes. Apostrophes - possessive. Statements, questions & commands. Subject/verb agreement. Merging sentences.
Book 7 :Verbs - past and presenttense. Commas. Phrases. Conjunctions. Prepositions.1340
Book 8: Direct/reported speech. Subject verb agreement. Standard English. Double negatives. Homonyms. Concrete and abstract nouns. Experimenting with words.

Win-a-Word

Reading age .up to 7 - Interest level 5-8 years

Reading age 5+ years. Interest level 6 to 14 years.
Two colourful race-track games in which words are built up as the players win letters from the track. Each game includes a race-track board, a pack of cards, a dice, 4 counters and plastic letters.

In Game 1, pupils build c-v-c words.

Picture Q's

Attractive, photocopiable support material, providing a stimulus for language work. This series of six books is carefully graded and offers a wide variety of writing activities, encouraging pupils to work independently.
Book 1 The simplest cloze-type procedure using early sight vocabulary. Lively illustrations cue responses.
Book 2 A variety of short illustrated questions requiring short, simple sentences in response.
Book 3 This level is particularly helpful for those pupils at the early stages of story writing.
Book 4 A progression of book 3. Key words are provided to help with written work.
Book 5 Particularly useful for pupils who need some guidance in writing a story with a beginning, middle and an end.
Book 6 This book aims to encourage pupils to write a well-structured story. A picture page with a title, pictures and helpful words and discussion questions provide the pupils with ideas for their story. An outline page then helps them to get their initial ideas written down. They then complete their story on the picture page. Their are 14 different story lines to fire their imagination.

Sequencing Stories 1-3

Literacy Support

A series of twelve differentiated, photocopiable resource books in three units containing follow-up work and reinforcement work for all the main topic areas of the English National Curriculum and the National Literacy Strategy at levels 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Four books per unit - A, B, C and D. Books A, B and C are linked by content but are at a different National Curriculum level to facilitate work with special needs pupils of varying ability. Book D of each unit has check-up tests at NC levels 2, 3 and 4 to help with your assessment for each child.
Each book has a record sheet with desired learning outcomes and teacher's notes for each resource page with additional suggestions for further reinforcement activities.
Unit 1 - Word Level Work (Phonics, Spelling and Vocabulary)
Unit 2 - Sentence Level Work (Grammar and Punctuation)
Unit 3 - Text Level Work (Comprehension and Composition)
The 3 pages below illustrate how the series works. Page 11 in Book 1A, 1B and 1C each focus on similar meaning but at different levels of difficulty. Ideal if you have a group of students with different abilities.

Write Away!

A series of 6 photocopiable books for pupils with Special Educational Needs and those learning English as an Additional Language, helping them to extend their range of written work to fulfil the National Curriculum requirements. The activities in the books can be used selectively to focus on specific types of text, or to supplement work being done in the mainstream classroom, or the series can be followed systematically as part of an English course.

Book 1 Everyday skills - Notes, cards, postcards, instructions and letters.
Book 2 Popular media and information Cartoon strips, magazines, newspaper reports, information leaflets.
Book 3 Humour, poetry and drama, jokes, limericks, poems, dialogues and drama.
Book 4 Personal writing and stories, diary writing, autobiographical events, biography, and fictional narratives.
Book 5 Cross-curricular text types. Experiment report, investigation plan, technology plan, writing for geography and history.
Book 6 Essays. Note making and planning, essay types: explanation, comparison, discussion, persuasion, evaluation.