Schofield & Sims Get Set Early Years is a comprehensive and engaging early years scheme that aims to bridge the gap between play and formal learning, helping all children to become school-ready by the end of Reception. Comprising twelve activity books and three accompanying teacher's guides, Get Set Early Years covers all the Early Learning Goals (ELGs) for Literacy, Mathematics and Understanding the world. Carefully designed to appeal to young children, each activity book page contains two stimulating activities for children to complete, such as matching, complete the picture, connect the dots, mazes, picture sequencing, colour by sound and odd one out. Additional features include a `Teaching Tip', `Notes for parents and carers' and `Key Vocabulary' and `Extension activity' sections to reinforce classroom learning. Get Set: Writing Letters familiarises children with the shapes and movements needed for writing letters. This book begins with simple mark-making exercises to develop pencil grip. The letters are then introduced one by one and are grouped by formation family for ease of learning. A separate accompanying teacher's guide, Get Set Literacy Teacher's Guide (ISBN 9780721714400), contains detailed teacher's notes, links to show corresponding pages in the activity book, and supporting photocopiable resources. A selection of free downloads, including a `Handwriting chart' and a `Learning diary', is also available from the Schofield & Sims website.

This title is suitable for children aged 7 to 9 years old. There's never been a handwriting book quite like this! With stylish art, Cursive Writing introduces the basics of script and sends students on an exciting journey around the world. As children learn their cursive As, Bs and Cs, they'll write the names of famous cities and sites from all around the world and find out fun facts about each place. So they're gaining two skills at once! With four pages devoted to each letter, there's plenty of space for children to practice, which encourages repetition and mastery.

The Oxford Let's Practise Handwriting series proudly introduces learners to our fun print and cursive monsters. These friendly monsters will support children every step of the way as they start their handwriting journey. Every handwriting stroke is represented by a different monster to provide clear instruction in the correct formation of every letter of the alphabet. This will assist parents and teachers with teaching handwriting while also keeping children interested. This exciting new series is CAPS-aligned. It provides an excellent opportunity for children to build a strong foundation in developing directionality, drawing, tracing, pattern creation, spacing familiarity and letter formation while also introducing them to cursive writing. The engaging activities provide plenty of practice in order to develop and strengthen fine and gross motor skills as well as hand-eye coordination. Our brand new handwriting font has been researched and developed by a team of local teacher s and education experts. The unique font aims to facilitate the process of teaching handwriting more easily. It is easy to use and will form the foundation for future writing activities.

Just Imagine is an exciting, unique and versatile resource that provides teachers with practical and stimulating creative writing activities for fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Taking three different, but interconnected media by which to generate and explore creative writing Text and Themes, Images and Music the book/CD offers inspiration for a wide range of creative writing workshops.

The books is organised into three sections:

• Texts and themes: 8 theme-based sections that use a variety of texts, interview clips and discussion points to explore such topics as memories, dreams, school life, friendships, outsiders, journeys, time and the wild;
• Images: a gallery of photographs and illustrations in a range of styles and forms, encompassing a range of themes including characters, landscapes, events and objects;
• Music: a CD which features instrumental tracks and soundscapes of different styles, moods and tempos.

This second edition includes three brand new tracks on the CD as well as many new images, texts and also interview clips with high profile children s authors. Sets of activities and teachers notes accompany each of the selected pieces and stimuli throughout, all of which can be easily adapted according to the needs of individual classes.

Just Imagine offers a wealth of material to help children develop confidence with their writing, deepen their understanding of the creative process and, above all, enjoy their creativity. It will appeal to Primary and Secondary English Teachers, as well as students studying on undergraduate and postgraduate initial teacher education courses in primary English/Literacy, PGCE Secondary English and Undergraduate courses in Creative Writing.

This write-in activity book is for children progressing from Handwritng Practice 1. It includes pre-writing activities, letter formation practice and combining letters to form whole words and sentences. This book also introduces the first stages of how to join up letters in pre-cursive letter writing practice. Suitable for ages 4+.

Eight workbooks accompanying the Stage Five Animal World stories in the Storyworlds series. They provide a record of a child's development, and offer activities to practise reading and writing skills, such as the consolidation of word recognition, sight vocabulary and phonological awareness.

Eight workbooks accompanying the Stage Two Our World stories in the Storyworlds series. They provide a record of a child's development, and offer activities to practise reading and writing skills, such as the consolidation of word recognition, sight vocabulary and phonological awareness.

Nelson Handwriting is the definitive handwriting programme for the whole school. This completely updated new edition provides all the tools and resources you need to ensure a consistent whole-school approach to handwriting. This Pupil Book 1B provides further practice for the four joins, with a focus on consistency. Links are made to the alternative graphemes of Letters and Sounds Phase 5. This Pupil Book is suitable to use both at home and in the classroom.

Nelson Handwriting is the definitive handwriting programme for the whole school. This completely updated new edition provides all the tools and resources you need to ensure a consistent whole-school approach to handwriting. This Pupil Book 4 provides practice in the trickier joins, with a focus on consistency of size, height and spacing. Attention is given to writing for different purposes such as printing and speedwriting. Links are made to the National Curriculum for Spelling and Grammar. This Pupil Book is suitable to use both at home and in the classroom.

Nelson Handwriting is the definitive handwriting programme for the whole school. This completely updated new edition provides all the tools and resources you need to ensure a consistent whole-school approach to handwriting. This Workbook 2B provides practice of the four joins and consolidation of the trickier letter formations and joins. Links are made to the National Curriculum for Spelling.

Handwriting Today will improve the appearance of your handwriting through varied practice, and will give learners greater confidence and enjoyment in writing and spelling. Handwriting Today Book 1 is an excellent learning aid for handwriting practice for all ages.

Treasure House Handwriting is a whole-school programme designed to support children in developing a clear and fluent style of writing. Using precursive and cursive handwriting styles, the programme progresses from introducing the movements and patterns needed to form letters, through to the development of a personal style. The worksheets in this resource pack: * allow children to examine different handwriting purposes and styles * include settings in which print letters may be appropriate both in upper case and lower case forms * link with common spelling rules and patterns, and common high and medium-frequency vocabulary are continued * introduce practice in writing at speed. Useful teacher notes accompany the 47 worksheets for children.

Sixteen copies of each of the four Stage Two workbooks in the Storyworlds series. They provide a record of a child's development, and offer activities to practise reading and writing skills, such as the consolidation of word recognition, sight vocabulary and phonological awareness.

Treasure House Handwriting is a whole-school programme designed to support children in developing a clear and fluent style of writing. Using precursive and cursive handwriting styles, the programme progresses from introducing the movements and patterns needed to form letters, through to the development of a personal style. The worksheets in this resource pack introduce children to the fine motor movements and pencil control that will be necessary for the formation of letters and patterns. It provides practice in moving from left to right, keeping within 'tramlines' and making the up-and-down and curved movements necessary for letter formation. Practice is also provided in each of the movements for upper case letters. Useful teacher notes accompany the 96 worksheets for children.

Treasure House Handwriting is a whole-school programme designed to support children in developing a clear and fluent style of writing. Using precursive and cursive handwriting styles, the programme progresses from introducing the movements and patterns needed to form letters, through to the development of a personal style. This workbook reinforces the handwriting style already learned, through sentences, spelling patterns and simple tongue-twisters and rhymes. During this book, children are encouraged to attempt writing with their eyes closed to help fix the pattern of movements in the mind. Throughout this workbook, children are introduced to the idea of collating a handwriting folder, and also contains exemplar material to be retained by children in their handwriting folder.

Treasure House Handwriting is a whole-school programme designed to support children in developing a clear and fluent style of writing. Using precursive and cursive handwriting styles, the programme progresses from introducing the movements and patterns needed to form letters, through to the development of a personal style. Linked closely to the National Curriculum, this resource pack provides more intense teaching strategies and practice for the first term of formal tuition. Each individual letter shape and movement is taught with a lead-in and a lead-out stroke beginning from the writing line. To provide extra practice in the transition from precursive to cursive letters, an extra section has been included to link the development of a cursive hand to the introduction of spelling patterns. Useful teacher notes accompany 94 worksheets for children.

Eight workbooks accompanying the Stage Three Fantasy World stories in the Storyworlds series. They provide a record of a child's development, and offer activities to practise reading and writing skills, such as the consolidation of word recognition, sight vocabulary and phonological awareness.