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A girl makes a picture and is surprised by a friendly bee.
The complete and comprehensive way to support your studies and assessments in 2021 and exams in 2022. Get straight to the heart of the text with crystal-clear notes, focused analysis and expert summaries. Quickly demystify historical contexts and get to grips with the text's form, language and structure. Efficiently unpick plots, contexts and themes and sharpen your memory of key facts, quotations and characters. Power up your essay-writing skills, learn how to write top-grade answers and feel fully ready and equipped to excel in any test or assessment. York Notes are the long-established experts in English Literature, and we take your success seriously. So whether you're studying Frankenstein by Mary Shelley for GCSE at home, online or in the classroom, York Notes is your best bet for the best grades. Packed with more powerful features than any other guide, this essential Frankenstein study companion is easy to use, brimming with essential info and will quickly become your go-to buddy as you navigate your GCSE course, build your confidence, stay motivated and get ready to impress in any test, assessment or exam. To make sure you feel really ready for the unique challenges of assessment and to get the grades you know you deserve, why not use this Study Guide with the York Notes Workbook for Frankenstein? Just search for 9781292138091.
Award-winning author, Jeanne Willis, revamps all the favourite Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes.Think you know your favourite classic nursery rhymes? Read this picture book and think again! In this witty reworking of popular nursery rhymes, Georgie Porgie doesn't dare to make the girls cry, Little Bo-Peep's sheep are all present and correct, thank you, and it's the queen, OF COURSE, who fixes Humpty Dumpty. With the combination of Jeanne Willis's brilliantly funny poems and charming, witty illustrations from Isabelle Follath, these nursery rhymes prove that girls can be the heroes of any story. This remixed nursery rhyme collection is the perfect gift book for any child (or adult!), to read aloud or enjoy alone.Every Nosy Crow paperback picture book comes with a free "Stories Aloud" audio recording. Just scan the QR code and listen along!
Help your child practise core grammar and punctuation skills, fill gaps in learning and boost their confidence. This Pearson Grammar & Punctuation Activity Workbook provides the tools to support your child's grammar and punctuation skills development at home. Using our years of experience designing literacy schemes proven to work in schools, we have created this series of activity workbooks to boost your child's confidence as they work through a series of engaging activities to build essential grammar and punctuation skills. There are six books spanning years 1-6 to support your child as they progress through school. Each Grammar & Punctuation Activity Workbook introduces age-appropriate techniques for you to support your child as they work through the activities. With helpful hints, tips and guidance we break down the concepts and help you track your child's progress. The workbooks are created by experts with a child-friendly design with the following features and guides: A comprehensive topic planner Tackling common misconceptions Tips and prompts, specific to the content as well as engagement techniques How to apply grammar and punctuation skills Extend and stretch activities for children who have easily grasped a topic Motivating ideas and suggestions for children that might be struggling Consistent progress checks throughout the book Also available to accompany the series are Pearson Handwriting Activity Workbooks for Years 1-6.
Age: 5-6 (Year 1/P2) Level: Key Stage 1 Subject: reading, phonics In this decodable non-fiction book, some things are missing from Jen's display! Can Andy go back to prehistoric times to take some photos for her? This book is based on the BBC show 'Andy's Amazing Adventures', featuring Andy Day. Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children aged 5-6 (Year 1/P2) Phonics phase: 5 This book aligns with Letters and Sounds (2007) Phase 5. This title is part of Pearson's Bug Club, a reading programme used in over 3500 schools. Bug Club books are designed to help children enjoy learning to read. For more Bug Club books and learn at home resources, search for Bug Club.
Rapid Writing is designed to help struggling learners to catch up and close the attainment gap in writing. Created by expert authors, you can be reassured that the progression is spot on and will help children succeed across the whole curriculum. Ideal for use with small groups or for one-to-one support, and perfect for home learning. Fun contexts and fantastic design ensure children enjoy writing. Familiar characters from Rapid reading books support the link between reading and writing. Focus on Spelling and Grammar. To be used together with the Rapid Writing Stage 2 Teaching Guide, children will use this writing log workbook to write down what they have learned.
Letters & Sounds (2021): Phase 5 Scholastic Set: 11 Title: Rainbow Snow Focus: y (as in 'chilly'), wh (as in 'white'), y (as in 'my'), ow (as in 'snow'), g (as in 'magical'), le (as in 'crumble'), al (as in 'magical'), c (as in 'icicle'), ve (as in 'give'), o-e (as in 'some'), o (as in 'other'), se (as in 'mouse'), ou (as in 'soup') Tricky words: the their says pure would to they of are water where's asks here what's into our Book Band: Orange This title is part of a brand new set of phonically decodable reading books perfect for very early readers. These expertly levelled stories are engaging, and are exactly matched to Little Wandle Letters & Sounds Revised, used in schools across the UK. The series includes a wide selection of diverse and inclusive stories, accompanied by bright, contemporary and humorous illustrations that will engage and inspire young readers with a 'find the character' feature on each spread. The artwork is detailed so as not to provide picture cues and prompting. Each book also contains parent's notes and a 'retell the story' task to support children's oracy, vocabulary and comprehension skills. Thirteen sets of books covering groups of sounds to allow for progression. The stories in this set focus on the sounds found in Scholastic Set 11 and revise the sounds found in previous sets. There are thirteen sets in total, covering: Phase 2 Set 1: s a t p i n m d Phase 2 Set 2: g o c k ck e u r h b f l Phase 2 Set 3: ff ll ss j v w x y z zz Phase 2 Set 4: qu ch sh th ng nk Phase 3 Set 5: ai ee igh oa oo Phase 3 Set 6: ar or ur ow oi ear air er Phase 4 Set 7: Adjacent consonants with short vowels Phase 4 Set 8: Adjacent consonants with Phase 3 long vowels Phase 5 Set 9: ay (play), ou (cloud), oy (boy), ea (each), ir (bird), ie (pie), ue (blue), u (unicorn) Phase 5 Set 10: o (go), i (tiger), a (paper), e (he), a-e (snake), i-e (time), o-e (home), u-e (cute), e-e (these), ew (new), ie (shield), aw (claw) Phase 5 Set 11: y (funny), ea (head), wh (wheel), oe (toe), ou (shoulder), y (fly), ow (snow), g (giant), ph (phone), le (apple), al (metal), c (ice), ve (give), o-e (some), o (mother), ou (young), se (cheese), se (mouse), ce (fence), ey (donkey), ui (fruit), ou (soup) Phase 5 Set 12: or (word), u (full), oul (could), are (share), ear (bear), ere (there), au (author), aur (dinosaur), oor (floor), al (walk), tch (match), ture (adventure), al (half), a (father), a (water), a (want), ear (learn), wr (wrist), st (whistle), sc (science), ch (school), ch (chef), ze (freeze), schwa at the end of words (actor) Phase 5 Set 13: eigh (eight), aigh (straight), ey (grey), ea (break), gn (gnaw), kn (knee), mb (thumb), ere (here), eer (deer), su (treasure), si (vision), dge (bridge), ge (large), y (crystal), ti (potion), ssi (mission), si (mansion), ci (delicious), augh (daughter), our (pour), oar (oar), ore (more) Have you got them all?
Engage Literacy is the new reading scheme from Raintree that introduces engaging and contemporary content to motivate and support early readers while providing a reliable and instructional framework. All titles are precisely levelled, with new vocabulary being introduced and reinforced throughout the levels. The Green book band comprises 6 fiction and 6 non-fiction books at levels 12, 13 and 14.
The Comprehension strategies box: Box 3 is suitable for students aged 7-8. The box contains a set of full-colour, differentiated literacy cards designed to support the teaching and learning of nine different comprehension strategies. These well-researched and proven strategies—predicting, visualising, making connections, questioning, clarifying, summarising, determining importance, inferring and synthesising—are compiled to help teachers unlock their students’ reading abilities. Features:
The Comprehension strategies box: Box 2 is suitable for students aged 6-7. The box contains a set of full-colour, differentiated literacy cards designed to support the teaching and learning of nine different comprehension strategies. These well-researched and proven strategies—predicting, visualising, making connections, questioning, clarifying, summarising, determining importance, inferring and synthesising—are compiled to help teachers unlock their students’ reading abilities. Features:
Helpful instruction and plenty of practice for your child to understand the basics of grammar and vocabulary Understanding grammar is essential for your child to speak and write with competence and clarity. "Practice Makes Perfect: Exploring Grammar" gives your child bite-sized explanations of grammar and vocabulary, with engaging exercises that keep her or him motivated and excited to learn. They can practice the grammar skills that are challenging, polish skills they've mastered, and stretch themselves to explore skills they have not yet attempted. This title features 170 activities (plus answer key) that increase in difficulty as your child proceeds through the book. This book is appropriate for a 4th grade student working above his or her grade level, or as a great review and practice for a struggling 5th or 6th grader. Your student will learn how to: Recognize types of sentences Understand sentence structure Identify parts of speech Use punctuation and capitalization together Find her or his own grammar mistakes Topics include: Sentences, Nouns, Verbs, Pronouns, Adjectives, Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions and Interjections, Punctuation and Capitalization, Usage and Proofreading
Designed to follow on from the Jolly Phonics Pupil Books 1, 2 and 3, the Grammar Pupil Books builds on the skills taught in Jolly Phonics, and introduces grammar and spelling rules to improve writing and reading comprehension. Children are able to work through the Grammar 2 Pupil book and complete a wide variety of engaging activities, which develop grammar, spelling, punctuation and comprehension skills. Lessons are provided for 1 Grammar or punctuation and 1 Spelling lesson per week for a for a year. The teacher is able to support and guide the children with the Grammar 2 Teacher's Book. Topics covered include: * New spelling patterns - ei, eigh, ture * Silent letters - b, c, h, k, w * Syllables * Identifying the short vowels * Spelling rules - consonant doubling and adding suffixes * Tricky word families * Revision of elements covered in the Grammar 1 Pupil Book * Further adjectives - possessive * Comparatives and superlatives * Prepositions * Conjunctions * Dictionary work * Punctuation * Exclamation marks * Apostrophes * Further sentence development *Please note that only the covers of our Jolly Grammar Pupil Books have been refreshed and updated. The content is the same as the previous editions and they can still be used alongside the Grammar Teacher's Books. ISBNs and JL codes also remain the same.
This 11 plus English book provides practice for fact-finding style questions. Comprehension skills are at the heart of 11 plus and Common Entrance exams and approximately 80% of questions in exams focus on fact-finding. The questions in this book are designed to test a child's ability to extract explicitly stated information from the text to answer questions. This book contains 50 exercises comprising 35 fiction passages and 15 non-fiction passages, each with six questions. For further practice on fact-finding style comprehensions, see 11+ Essentials English: Mini Comprehensions Fact-Finding Book 1, and our 11+ Essentials English Mini-Comprehensions Inferencerange
Help your child practise core grammar and punctuation skills, fill gaps in learning and boost their confidence. This Pearson Grammar & Punctuation Activity Workbook provides the tools to support your child's grammar and punctuation skills development at home. Using our years of experience designing literacy schemes proven to work in schools, we have created this series of activity workbooks to boost your child's confidence as they work through a series of engaging activities to build essential grammar and punctuation skills. There are six books spanning years 1-6 to support your child as they progress through school. Each Grammar & Punctuation Activity Workbook introduces age-appropriate techniques for you to support your child as they work through the activities. With helpful hints, tips and guidance we break down the concepts and help you track your child's progress. The workbooks are created by experts with a child-friendly design with the following features and guides: A comprehensive topic planner Tackling common misconceptions Tips and prompts, specific to the content as well as engagement techniques How to apply grammar and punctuation skills Extend and stretch activities for children who have easily grasped a topic Motivating ideas and suggestions for children that might be struggling Consistent progress checks throughout the book Also available to accompany the series are Pearson Handwriting Activity Workbooks for Years 1-6.
"This book is a must have for mums who have no clue how to help their child with comprehension. I would recommend to everyone." Sue, Amazon customer As well as being an integral part of the English curriculum, good comprehension skills help children to understand the world around them. Our simple workbooks help to break down the skills children need to master to meet their curriculum objectives in a clear and fuss-free way. This workbook supports children in Year 6 (ages 10-11) to develop their comprehension skills using a mix of fiction and non-fiction texts as well as fun activities. Practice activities to use at home or in school Matched to National Curriculum requirements Quickly builds confidence and understanding Includes extra notes and tips to reinforce skillsAll answers available online Matched to the Scholastic English Skills: Comprehension teacher resource book Perfect for use in class or at home |
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