With My First Letter Sounds, children learn all of the letter sounds of the English language, not just the alphabet letters. Learning the letter sounds is the first step towards reading and writing. My First Letter Sounds provides an easy introduction to these by: * Learning the sounds that letters make (not their names) - a written pronunciation guide is included in the book * Learning how to write the letters - arrows on each letter enables children to form it correctly * Identifying the sounds in words using the pictures in the book and asking children if they can hear the /ssss/ sound in "sun"? Tips and guidance for parents are included in the book.

The goal of Teaching Language and Literature in Elementary Classrooms: A Resource Book for Professional Development, Second Edition is to help the beginning teacher create a classroom environment that integrates literacy development with learning in all areas of the curriculum. Theoretically based, well organized, and practical, this text identifies the major components of an integrated language program and describes and illustrates skills teachers need to implement this kind of program in their own classrooms. It is uniquely designed as a handbook for beginning educators that serves both as a text and as a professional resource to be carried into the first year of teaching. The narratives in this text, and the accompanying instruction for preparing to teach, are included for every elementary instructional level. A consistent chapter format is used to help readers move from a direct experience of a classroom narrative, to step-by-step descriptions they can follow to implement these activities in their own classrooms. A rich array of interactive pedagogical features is provided. New in the Second Edition: This edition retains the purposes of the first edition, but adds ideas and information gathered over the years from new classroom observations. It also incorporates the results of the author's extensive reviews of educational research, continuous reading in all the genres of children's literature, and correspondence with faculty and students who used the first edition of this text. In response to these varied and helpful experiences, the Second Edition features: *Strategies for dealing with problems of disruption in the classroom; *Expanded discussions related to diversity and special needs; *Increased attention to methods of evaluation and mandated testing programs; *Reorganization of chapter sections to make them more useful to readers; *A new chapter on play and the fine arts; *Integration of electronic teaching technology into all chapters; *Extensive in-text annotations of children's literature, discussions of new titles in children's literature, cultural literatures, book clubs, series books, and the influence of books published internationally; *Updated reports of research and best practice studies; *New classroom observations; and *New appendices, designed to provide information and resources for instructional support.

This fantastic range of fiction for Shared, Guided and Independent reading gives you stories your children will love to read over and over again. Gaelic and Scottish teaching support also accompanies this reading series.

Trust a revised edition of this must-have reference and revision resource for English Language in the Caribbean; now used at home and in the classroom for over 50 years. - Inspire and engage students with a striking full-colour design and brand new illustrations. - Ensure coverage of current regional curricula with additional comprehension passages and new topics, including writing, book reviews, figures of speech and poetry.

This fantastic range of fiction for Shared, Guided and Independent reading gives you stories your children will love to read over and over again. Gaelic and Scottish teaching support also accompanies this reading series.

Tried and tested over many years throughout South Africa, Oxford successful English is a content-rich First Additional Language programme that makes provision for learners of mixed ability. Teaching all the skills required of learners in the foundation phase, including phonics and spelling, the course ensures accurate and comprehensive National CAPS coverage and adequately prepares learners for the Annual National Assessment in Grade 3. Features: the CAPS focus in Grades 2 is broader including oral, reading, writing and language skills and this Learner Book is designed to develop and extend these skills; the use of full colour will engage learner's interest and allow for extension of visual literacy; the activities allow learners to move more quickly through the content.

This essential Functional Skills English book has everything students need to succeed in the Level 1 English tests! It covers every exam board and every topic and skill from the latest L1 Functional Skills Reading and Writing specifications. Everything's explained in CGP's easy-to-understand style, with examples and notes galore. Each topic is followed by a page of practice questions, so you can learn then test yourself as you go. We've included exam-style practice papers for Reading and Writing with full answers - so you'll know what to expect on the big day. Smashing!

Approach your WJEC/Eduqas GCSE 9-1 English Language exam with confidence using this write-in workbook full of annotated exam-style questions, sample answers and exam tips. Step-by-step guidance will help you to improve your exam technique so that your answers are clear, relevant and well-developed. Use the carefully chosen questions to get used to the kind of questions you can expect to see in your exam and the different ways that you should approach them. The easy to understand advice will help you to: - Understand what exam questions are asking you to do in each question - Evaluate, develop and explain your personal responses to extracts - Remember to spend the right amount of time on each question and avoid other common mistakes - Show examiners that you understand key terms and techniques

This fantastic range of fiction for Shared, Guided and Independent reading gives you stories your children will love to read over and over again. Gaelic and Scottish teaching support also accompanies this reading series.

Contents:
1. Moving In: The Moving Image Finally 'Arrives' in the English Curriculum 2. Adaptations: Not Just the Film of the Book 3. Teaching Film 4. Teaching Television 5. Practical Work 6. New Technologies and the Moving Audience 7. Imag[in]ing the Future

Contents:
1. Moving In: The Moving Image Finally 'Arrives' in the English Curriculum 2. Adaptations: Not Just the Film of the Book 3. Teaching Film 4. Teaching Television 5. Practical Work 6. New Technologies and the Moving Audience 7. Imag[in]ing the Future

This fantastic range of fiction for Shared, Guided and Independent reading gives you stories your children will love to read over and over again. Gaelic and Scottish teaching support also accompanies this reading series.

Letters & Sounds (2021): Phase 4 Scholastic Set: 07 Title: Kingston and the Lost Frog Focus: Adjacent consonants with short vowel sounds (example words: lump frog still cloth went) Tricky words: was the he of you said I have there put are when out here Book Band: Yellow 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 07 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?

The Mending Season is the story of a teenage girl who finds herself facing the challenges of a new multi-racial school in the new South Africa of 1990. Told mainly through the voice of the main character, Tshidiso, the novel draws the reader into a story

Step-by-Step Phonics Programme prepares learners to meet the requirements of this subject, as set out in the CAPS document.
The Step-by-Step Phonics Programme has the following advantages:
- Based on CAPS
- User friendly
- Supports learners in both rural and urban areas
- Stimulating Activities
- Supported by a comprehensive Teacher's Guide

Step-by-Step Phonics Programme prepares learners to meet the requirements of this subject, as set out in the CAPS document.
The Step-by-Step Phonics Programme has the following advantages:
- Based on CAPS
- User friendly
- Supports learners in both rural and urban areas
- Stimulating Activities
- Supported by a comprehensive Teacher's Guide

This fantastic range of fiction for Shared, Guided and Independent reading gives you stories your children will love to read over and over again. Gaelic and Scottish teaching support also accompanies this reading series.

Designed to follow on from the Jolly Phonics Student 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 3 Student 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 year. The teacher is able to support and guide the children with the Grammar 3 Teacher's Book. Topics covered include: * Revision of elements covered in The Grammar 1 & 2 Student Books * New spelling patters - tch, dge, ure, gn, gh, ex, n for /ng/, s, se and ze for /z/, a for /ar/, y for /i/, a for /o/, ere for /air/, and eer and ere for /ear/ * Suffixes -'less', 'able' and 'ful'. * Proper adjectives * Nouns acting as adjectives * Collective nouns. * Pronouns - possessive/subjective and object * The present particle and the continuous tenses * Paragraphs * Subject and object in a sentence * Conjunctions * Questions and exclamations in speech

Full punctuation - Now with full punctuation including speech marks, to be found right through from White to Blue levels.Offers a series of simple stories with phonic reinforcement which is consistently strong.A high degreee of phonic reinforcement in the earliest stages.Supports phonic teaching as specified in the National Literacy Strategy.Clear phonic support.

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: Letter Sounds introduces children to early phonics through exploring the single letter sounds. Following the structure of Letters and Sounds, this book takes young learners through each phoneme, from `s' for `sun' to `qu' for `queen'. 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.

When a fourth-grade student, Jenny, was asked about reading, she stated: "I love to read, you get real neat ideas. I really like books about animals and biographies. I'm writing my autobiography now. Oh, I also really like Judy Blume books. " Her enthusiasm for reading is evident as she tells you about the Judy Blume book she just read, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (1970). Jenny reads almost every night at home. Jenny's classmate through 4 years of elementary school, Anna. responds, when asked about reading: "I hate to read; it's boring. " Anna says she never reads at home. She says she'd rather watch television or play with friends. Anna would even rather clean her room than read. She explains, "I'd rather clean my room because it makes the room look neat. Reading makes my head hurt because it's so boring and no fun. " Jenny and Anna attended a large neighborhood elementary school in Austin, Texas. The school is located in a lower socioeconomic status (SES) area of small houses, duplexes, mld apartments. About 45% of the children at the school are Hispanic, 35% are African-American, and 20% are Anglo. The school consistently ranks mnong the lowest schools in the district on standardized reading achievement tests. Upon entering first grade, neither Jenny nor Anna could read the words that were to appear in their first preprimer reader.

Matched to the demands of the National Curriculum, the Let's Do Grammar workbooks have been carefully devised to match the appropriate age and stage of your child. Containing a rich variety of activity pages, each book has been designed for use at home and supports classroom learning. With regular progress tests and a complete answer section to aid assessment, this book is the perfect way for your child to practise their grammar skills and consolidate their learning. And for added enjoyment and motivation, it also contains over 100 reward stickers!

With a Foreword by Hugh Starkey and Audrey Osler, and Afterwords by Graham Crookes, Hilary Janks and Allan Luke, this book promotes critical language education and illustrates how a critical agenda can be enacted in English language education in real classrooms. It presents four cases located in primary and secondary schools in the province of Buenos Aires in Argentina in contexts that can be characterised as vulnerable or difficult. It describes the possibilities, challenges and limitations of this critical agenda using students' drawings, posters, leaflets, artwork, classroom activities and conversational data as foundation, and including the voices of local teachers in their classrooms. Importantly, these teachers used teacher-made, locally produced, critical post-method materials, described by the author of those materials in one of the chapters. In this way, the book offers a unique balance of researcher, teacher and materials writer voices. These materials are included in the book and can help language teachers around the world to introduce critical perspectives in their specific contexts. The book is appealing to researchers, classroom teachers, teacher educators, and materials writers and developers interested in critical language education.

This fantastic range of fiction for Shared, Guided and Independent reading gives you stories your children will love to read over and over again. Gaelic and Scottish teaching support also accompanies this reading series.