This book supports teachers and trainee teachers with the assessment of writing, and particularly assessment as part of the cycle of planning and teaching - assessment used formatively. - Explores the issues and challenges in the assessment of writing - Highlights the importance of specific feedback - Features examples of children's work and detailed guidance on how to assess each piece - Includes a chapter on supporting children to write more outside of school

If you were an antonym, you would mean the opposite of another word. You could be FAST or SLOW, HOT or COLD, or RIGHT or WRONG. What else could you be if you were an antonym?

The Level 6 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. Stories, More Stories A and More Stories B involve familiar situations and a variety of fantasy settings through the magic key adventures. Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with childrens reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.

The Level 1+ Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. First Sentences and More First Sentences A, B and C introduce children to stories told through complete sentences to provide practice of high frequency vocabulary to build confidence and fluency. Patterned Stories and More Patterned Stories A practise vocabulary in the context of a repeated sentence structure to help develop confidence and fluency. Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with childrens reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.

In this book Shannon's major premise remains the same as his 1998 Reading Poverty: Poverty has everything to do with American public schooling-how it is theorized, how it is organized, and how it runs. Competing ideological representations of poverty underlie school assumptions about intelligence, character, textbook content, lesson formats, national standards, standardized achievement tests, and business/school partnerships and frame our considerations of each. In this new edition, Shannon provides an update of the ideological struggles to name and respond to poverty through the design, content, and pedagogy of reading education, showing how, through their representations and framing, advocates of liberal, conservative, and neoliberal interpretations attempt the ideological practice of teaching the public who they are, what they should know, and what they should value about equality, civic society, and reading. For those who decline these offers, Shannon presents radical democratic interpretations of the relationship between poverty and reading education that position the poor, the public, students, and teachers as agents in redistribution of economic, cultural, and political capital in the United States.

Dockside, the award-winning reading intervention programme, is specifically designed for older children who are struggling with their reading, or for children learning English as an additional language. It provides an opportunity for children to practise their reading skills at a suitable level with age-appropriate storylines. A handy breakdown of key words is included as well as question prompts to encourage discussion. The series is set in an everyday world featuring a range of strong characters and stories to which children can relate, and enjoy, providing a unique approach to reading intervention.

Ensure Year 6/P7 children know the National Curriculum 2014 spelling rules and words for Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 with half termly spelling tests. With two test options per half term and record sheets, you can quickly find out which spellings children find tricky and focus on those. You can use the spelling lists for weekly homework. Practise spelling weekly with 30 word lists that follow the spelling rules and words from the National Curriculum 2014 Spelling Appendix. Then test what your children know with mixed up spellings in context every half term to ensure that they are confident and secure. Perfect for SATs practice as it revises spellings from across KS2. Photocopiable with a free editable download, you can adapt the tests for your school. SATs style tests with spellings in context help with vocabulary and understanding as well as preparing children for the national tests. Consistent tests every half term help with accountability and moderation. Available for Years 1-6, you can provide a consistent and systematic way of assessing spelling in your school.

Ensure Year 4/P5 children know the National Curriculum 2014 spelling rules and words with half termly spelling tests. With two test options per half term and record sheets, you can quickly find out which spelling rules and words children find tricky and focus on those. You can use the spelling lists for weekly homework. Practise spelling weekly with 30 word lists that follow the spelling rules and words from the National Curriculum 2014 Spelling Appendix. Then test what your children know with mixed up spellings in context every half term to ensure that they are confident and secure. Includes words from the word lists for Years 3 and 4. Photocopiable with a free editable download, you can adapt the tests for your school. SATs style tests with spellings in context help with vocabulary and understanding. Consistent tests every half term help with accountability and moderation. Available for Years 1-6, you can provide a consistent and systematic way of assessing spelling in your school.

Each book in this series features 15 comprehension passages. Each passage is accompanied by three differentiated comprehension worksheets - one sheet aimed at lower ability pupils, one aimed at the middle range and one for higher ability. It is envisaged that teachers may well end up using two of the three worksheets with each child as progress is made. The books cover a variety of genres and styles e.g. fiction, non-fiction, poetry, newspaper reports, etc. Some passages are taken from existing literature by well-known authors and some are original pieces written by the authors. The carefully worded questions include those with obvious answers to provide practice in writing clear, well-punctuated sentences, and those with less obvious answers so that higher ability pupils will need to 'read between the lines'. Once completed the worksheets will also provide evidence for teachers when monitoring pupils' progress and assessing their level. The series addresses strands 7 and 8 of the new Primary Framework for literacy, which refer to understanding, interpreting, engaging with and responding to texts, and also strands 11 and 12, which are concerned with sentence structure, punctuation and presentation.

Each book in this series features 15 comprehension passages. Each passage is accompanied by three differentiated comprehension worksheets - one sheet aimed at lower ability pupils, one aimed at the middle range and one for higher ability. It is envisaged that teachers may well end up using two of the three worksheets with each child as progress is made. The books cover a variety of genres and styles e.g. fiction, non-fiction, poetry, newspaper reports, etc. Some passages are taken from existing literature by well-known authors and some are original pieces written by the authors. The carefully worded questions include those with obvious answers to provide practice in writing clear, well-punctuated sentences, and those with less obvious answers so that higher ability pupils will need to 'read between the lines'. Once completed the worksheets will also provide evidence for teachers when monitoring pupils' progress and assessing their level. The series addresses strands 7 and 8 of the new Primary Framework for literacy, which refer to understanding, interpreting, engaging with and responding to texts, and also strands 11 and 12, which are concerned with sentence structure, punctuation and presentation.

Learn about the purposes for writing, brainstorm with eight different prewriting exercises, and put it all into practice with hilarious writing prompts. Finally, a prompt journal that will take you through the whole writing process! From Grammaropolis, the revolutionary "Schoolhouse Rock! for the 21st Century," comes a story and writing prompt journal that will teach you how to write and have fun doing it!

Nelson Comprehension provides a simple and effective course for the teaching of key comprehension skills. Units cover all genres of texts - including fiction, poetry, playscripts, instructions and biography - with plenty of practice, repetition and assessment built in. Differentiated questions and resource sheets as well as assessment materials help ensure that all children are on track. This Pupil Book offers 20 engaging illlustrated texts with accompanying differentiated questions which test the whole range of comprehension skills, including literal, inferential and deductive.

Being able to read is one of the most important skills in life and something we all want our children to achieve for learning and for pleasure. Supporting Children s Reading gives you the understanding you need of the reading process to ensure that children are effectively supported in their reading journeys.

This practical programme draws on the authors wealth of experience in delivering this kind of training and is an invaluable point of reference for anyone working with children to improve their reading. With links to downloadable online resources, it provides everything you need to deliver a bespoke training course tailored to meet your particular audience, including:

• succinct and clear explanations of how reading works
• time-saving resources such as photocopiable handouts and professionally designed visual display screens
• advice on helping children to improve both their decoding and comprehension skills
• guidance on strategies for helping a child deal with a problem word.

Supporting Children s Reading is an accessible, ready-to-use resource to support teachers working with teaching assistants, volunteer Reading Buddies and parents, to provide training on how to share books and listen to readers effectively. It will be especially useful for adults working with children who, for whatever reason, need extra support in developing reading skills.

Ensure Year 2/P3 children know the National Curriculum 2014 spelling rules and words with half termly spelling tests. With two test options per half term and record sheets, you can quickly find out which spelling rules and words children find tricky and focus on those. You can use the spelling lists for weekly homework. Practise spelling weekly with 36 word lists that follow the spelling rules and words from the National Curriculum 2014 Spelling Appendix. Then test what your children know with mixed up spellings in context every half term to ensure that they are confident and secure. Includes homophones, near homophones and common exception words. Photocopiable with a free editable download, you can adapt the tests for your school. SATs style tests with spellings in context help with vocabulary and understanding and prepare children for the KS1 test. Consistent tests every half term help with accountability and moderation. Available for Years 1-6, you can provide a consistent and systematic way of assessing spelling in your school.

A write-in activity book to help children plan, plot and write their own adventure stories. Each colourful page is full of inspiring ideas for writing thrilling adventure stories about explorers, spies, daring rescues, ghosts, aliens, heroes and villains and lots more. Fun activities such as creating a character and "what happens next?" help children to create characters, develop plot and stage all important action scenes, until they are racing through their own short stories.

The Grammar 1 Handbook follows on from The Phonics Handbook. It provides a full year's worth lessons for teaching grammar, spelling and punctuation to children aged 5+. It provides: * Practical advice and ideas for teaching * Step-by-step lesson plans and notes for the teacher * Introduces rudiments of grammar * 36 structured grammar and punctuation lessons * 36 spelling lessons * Revision and extension of The Phonics Handbook * Photocopiable activities * Fun actions for the grammar points Topics covered include: * Vowel digraphs * Alternative spellings of vowel sounds * Plural endings * Short vowels and consonant doubling * Tricky words * Consonant blends * Nouns - proper/common/plurals * Personal pronouns *Verbs * Conjugating verbs - present/past/future * Adjectives * Adverbs * a/an/the - when to use * Sentences - capital letters, full stops and speech marks * Parsing - identifying the parts of speech in sentences * Alphabetical order

By the late 1980s, half the nation's children were receiving eleven years of progressivist schooling that failed to give them even the elementary basis of education that was completed by the age of seven in earlier days. This great reading disaster was caused by the 'look-say' method of teaching, which presented whole words not individual letters. This book explains the causes and provides the solution to this problem. In 2006, the Secretary of State for Education and Skills has ordered schools to use the phonic method but there seems little evidence that its implications are properly understood or that any serious re-training programme for teachers is being put in place. The authors believe their explanations and recommendations in this book are thus needed just as much as ever.

This new edition of Read Write Inc. Fresh Start rescues pupils aged 9 and above who are below age-related expectations, using a phonics-based approach. Read Write Inc. Fresh Start gives older pupils who have not yet cracked the 'code of reading' the chance to catch up and become confident, fluent readers and writers - enabling them to access the secondary curriculum. Read Write Inc. Fresh Start Anthologies are motivating, full-colour, magazine-style texts to provide further practice of the sounds and graphemes taught in the Fresh Start Modules. They contain a variety of lively non-fiction, poetry and fiction texts, including quizzes, playscripts and comic strips, to motivate the students to read for pleasure. The Anthology texts should be read in order after each Module is completed, to ensure students are reading within their phonic knowledge and so experience success in reading. The subjects of the Anthology texts are linked to the Module texts so that some of the vocabulary students meet will be familiar and so support independent reading. The Anthologies are fully integrated within the Fresh Start programme and support teachers with effective lesson planning and organisation.

This new edition of Read Write Inc. Fresh Start rescues pupils aged 9 and above who are below age-related expectations, using a phonics-based approach. Read Write Inc. Fresh Start gives older pupils who have not yet cracked the 'code of reading' the chance to catch up and become confident, fluent readers and writers - enabling them to access the secondary curriculum. The Modules are specially written to help students to catch up on and develop their reading and writing skills, featuring engaging age-appropriate texts that are appealing to all students. Each Module contains a fiction or non-fiction text and a range of step-by-step writing and comprehension activities to build skills and confidence. Sounds and graphemes taught during the phonics lessons are reinforced through further practice in the Modules.

Approved by AQA this GCSE English Language Student Book 1 develops the key reading and writing skills that students will be assessed on in Paper 1 and Paper 2 of the AQA GCSE English Language specification. Structured around the Assessment Objectives, this book engages students through a thematic approach with inspiring texts that help prepare students for the thematic connections they will face in their examinations. Through a range of texts, activities, stretch and support features, as well as tips and key terms, this book supports students of all abilities prepare for their GCSE English Language assessments. Spelling, punctuation and grammar activities and guidance are provided in context to help improve students' technical accuracy. In addition to the regular peer and self-assessment activities, teachers can monitor progress through the substantive end-of-chapter assessments and the sample exam papers. This title is suitable for all students studying AQA GCSE English Language.*English Language Student Book 1 has been approved by AQA

Teach youngsters their first 100 words about weather around the world with this bright and adorable board book! From the #1 bestselling science author for kids comes a simple and colorful introduction to the first weather words every baby should know. With 100 engaging illustrations to look at and talk about, this is the perfect tool for your budding meteorologist! Each spread in this primer focuses on 8 to 12 weather-related words-from squall to monsoon, erosion to humidity and more! Chris Ferrie's latest offering is the perfect way to introduce basic concepts to even the youngest readers-after all, it's never too early to become a weather expert!

Following on from the At Home with Spelling 1-2 for the trade, the Oxford Spelling Workbooks have been expanded to a series of six fill-in workbooks for schools: books 1-2 for Key Stage 1, books 3-6 for Key Stage 2. The content progresses systematically through all the necessary spelling rules, and is cross-referenced to the sequence in the National Literacy Strategy Framework. This is Workbook 1, and is aimed at Key Stage 1 pupils.

Presents creative writing exercises that focus on the use of adjectives and nouns. Features scratch and sniff pages, electronic sounds, comic book spreads, and Greek chorus characters.

"Influenced by the principles of writing across the curriculum, Blooming with the Pouis provides students with a range of readings selected to enhance the development of writing skills in all academic disciplines. Multidisciplinary in approach, the Reader presents selections from Caribbean literature, culture, geography, history, education, religion, economics, and the pure and applied sciences, which help students expand their vocabulary and improve their critical thinking skills.Concise, yet comprehensive, Blooming with the Pouis enforces the perception of reading as both an academic pursuit and means of engaging society. Using both classic and contemporary Caribbean writings, students are exposed to a full volume of expository and argumentative material. The Reader is divided into four sections: exposition, argument, mixed modes and additional readings. It contains excellent examples of discourse types as well as several exercises to improve students analytical skills. "