It’s school holidays and Zolani is bored. Next door he sees his neighbour, Fulani, has a cute new puppy. When he overhears Fulani arranging an illegal dogfight in an abandoned warehouse, he decides to try and stop him. But he can’t do it alone. He plucks up courage to ask his bossy classmate, Tashnay, who always has an answer for everything. Will their bravery and team work be enough to stop the gang and rescue the dogs from a cruel fate?

What makes the Platinum English FAL course unique? Strong support for reading and writing skills, featuring annotations and models of all writing texts; integrated and explicit grammar teaching; predictable, consistent structure; high quality, relevant artwork; strong teacher support through explicit methods and assessment. Platinum - simply superior: Superior CAPS coverage and written by expert authors; superior illustrations and activities to improve results and motivate learners; superior teacher support to save time and make teaching easy, including photocopiable worksheets; superior quality = exam success!

Spot On is spot on! The most popular course in South Africa, Spot On has everything a learner needs in one book. Spot On improves results, makes learning enjoyable, makes teaching a pleasure and is easy to use. The Spot On Teacher’s Guide comes with printable planning material, Formal Assessment Tasks, revision tests and exams.

The English workbook educator guide is a resource written to support the teaching in The English Workbook series.

The workbooks, designed to improve and develop learners’ literacy skills, consist of ten units of work, each focused on one of the following writing formats: procedures, recounts, expositions, narratives and reports.

Each unit includes:

• Learner analysis of writing form, speaking and listening, group and individual activities, literal, inferential and applied comprehension questions, vocabulary development and extension, spelling strategies and rules practice
• Specific language features of the particular text, such as proper nouns, imperative verbs and punctuation, clearly and concisely explained with practice exercises
• Writing activities focussed on specific writing skills related to the particular genre. Writing topics are set with planning proformas and editing and proofreading checklists. Learner evaluation is included.

Spot On is spot on! The most popular course in South Africa, Spot On has everything a learner needs in one book. Spot On improves results, makes learning enjoyable, makes teaching a pleasure and is easy to use. The Spot On Teacher’s Guide comes with printable planning material, Formal Assessment Tasks, revision tests and exams.

This Smart-Kids Achieve workbook is a colourful activity book designed to develop English skills in a fun and interactive way. It is specially written for Grade 7 learners by experienced South African teachers and contains valuable notes, tips and answers for parents.

The English Workbook is a series of seven learner workbooks, each supported by a separate educator resource book. The workbooks, designed to improve and develop learners’ literacy skills, consist of ten units of work, each focused on one of the following writing formats: procedures, recounts, expositions, narratives and reports.

Features:

• ten units of work based on five writing formats
• writing format analysis, activities and practice
• planning proformas specific to each writing genre
• speaking and listening, spelling and vocabulary
• literal, inferential and applied comprehension
• comprehensive literacy educator and learner practice activities
• group and individual activities
• editing and proofreading checklists
• learner assessment

New wave spelling – A phonics-based approach is a whole-school spelling workbook series. The spelling lists within each unit are organised with a phonetic emphasis.

Each workbook is supported by a comprehensive teacher resource book containing support material to enhance the teaching and learning opportunities provided in its corresponding workbook.

Features:

• Comprehensive whole-year program of 20 units of work
• Spelling lists of words with common phonemes represented in different ways
• Revision list treated in each unit
• Words selected from proven contemporary lists
• Variety of activities to develop different strategies for spelling
• Teaches spelling rules
• Vowel and consonant phonics reference charts

Spot On is spot on! The most popular course in South Africa, Spot On has everything a learner needs in one book. Spot On improves results, makes learning enjoyable, makes teaching a pleasure and is easy to use. The Spot On Teacher’s Guide comes with printable planning material, Formal Assessment Tasks, revision tests and exams.

What makes the Platinum English first additional language course unique? Strong support for reading and writing skills, featuring annotations and models of all writing texts; integrated and explicit grammar teaching; predictable, consistent structure; high quality, relevant artwork; strong teacher support through explicit methods and assessment. Platinum! - Simply superior: superior CAPS coverage and written by expert authors; superior illustrations and activities to improve results and motivate learners; superior teacher support to save time and make teaching easy, including photocopiable worksheets. Superior quality = exam success!

What makes the English first additional language Today course unique? 2 complete sets of mid-year and end-of-year examination papers; one set for practice, one set for testing; the learner has everything in the learner's book - notes, rubrics, exercises, tests and homework exercises!; skills boxes provide added help and guidance. Trust Today to be up-to-date and fresh for the classroom: Opportunities for revision, exam practice and assessment throughout; develops language skills; alongside subject knowledge; all content is fully CAPS-compliant. Your easy-to-use complete classroom solution! TODAY, for successful teaching tomorrow.

Children love learning with Smart-kids. Bright illustrations, stickers, creative activities and fun- loving characters bring the South African Literacy and Numeracy curriculum to life. Smart-kids is written by experienced South African teachers and contains valuable notes, tips and answers for parents.

The Comprehension strategies box: Box 6 is suitable for students aged 10-11+. 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:

• 162 cards in the box, colour-coded by strategy.
• Original texts across the cards and teacher guide, allowing students to experience a variety of fiction and non-fiction text types.
• Cater for all while learning the same strategies, with three differentiated reading levels by suggested Lexile® ranges for each strategy, and a placement test provided to ascertain students’ starting point.
• Extensive support through a comprehensive teacher guide and an additional activity book with worksheets for all texts on the cards.

New Day by Day Phonics is a progressive learning programme which covers all the phonics knowledge needed by learners from Grade 1 to Grade 7. The course will supplement any classroom reading programme by increasing knowledge of phonics, spelling and comprehension. The programme is also suitable for use during the teaching of remedial reading. New Day by Day Phonics comprises a Learner's Workbook and a Teacher's Guide and is easily adaptable for one-to-one use, working with small groups or whole classroom instruction. The Learner's Workbook contains the following key features: interesting and relevant reading passages which are graded according to learners' reading experiences; multi-skilled activities which help learners consolidate their knowledge of the phonics learnt in each reading passage; a predictable format with success-oriented lessons to encourage learners in their skills acquisition. The Teacher's Guide support the Learner's Workbook with the following features: an easy-to-use format; practical teaching aids; additional activities for every level. This New Day by Day Phonics course is suitable for both English Home Language learners and English Additional Language learners. It is integrated with the Stars of Africa Reading Programme with suggestions for additional reading material at each leve Maskew Miller Longman's comprehensive New Day by Day courses include the following: New Day by Day Literacy Grade R - Grade 3; New Day by Day Life Skills Grade R - Grade 3; New Day by Day Numeracy Grade R - Grade 3; New Day by Day English Grade 4 - Grade 7; New Day by Day Mathematics Grade 4 - Grade 6; New Day by Day Natural Sciences Grade 4 - Grade 6; New Day by Day Social Sciences Grade 4 - Grade 6; New Day by Day Technology Grade 4 - Grade 6; New Day by Day Economic and Management Sciences Grade 4 - Grade 6; New Day by Day Arts and Culture Grade 4 - Grade 6; New Day by Day Life Orientation Grade 4 - Grade 6.

New Day by Day Phonics is a progressive learning programme which covers all the phonics knowledge needed by learners from Grade 1 to Grade 7. The course will supplement any classroom reading programme by increasing knowledge of phonics, spelling and comprehension. The programme is also suitable for use during the teaching of remedial reading. New Day by Day Phonics comprises a Learner's Workbook and a Teacher's Guide and is easily adaptable for one-to-one use, working with small groups or whole classroom instruction. The Learner's Workbook contains the following key features: interesting and relevant reading passages which are graded according to learners' reading experiences; multi-skilled activities which help learners consolidate their knowledge of the phonics learnt in each reading passage; a predictable format with success-oriented lessons to encourage learners in their skills acquisition. The Teacher's Guide support the Learner's Workbook with the following features: an easy-to-use format; practical teaching aids; additional activities for every level. This New Day by Day Phonics course is suitable for both English Home Language learners and English Additional Language learners. It is integrated with the Stars of Africa Reading Programme with suggestions for additional reading material at each leve Maskew Miller Longman's comprehensive New Day by Day courses include the following: New Day by Day Literacy Grade R - Grade 3; New Day by Day Life Skills Grade R - Grade 3; New Day by Day Numeracy Grade R - Grade 3; New Day by Day English Grade 4 - Grade 7; New Day by Day Mathematics Grade 4 - Grade 6; New Day by Day Natural Sciences Grade 4 - Grade 6; New Day by Day Social Sciences Grade 4 - Grade 6; New Day by Day Technology Grade 4 - Grade 6; New Day by Day Economic and Management Sciences Grade 4 - Grade 6; New Day by Day Arts and Culture Grade 4 - Grade 6; New Day by Day Life Orientation Grade 4 - Grade 6.