Using a combination of text types, including personal case study, the text outlines the beginning hours of the 2011 disaster in Japan, when a devastating earthquake hits. A massive tsunami is now on its way... Children explore some of the technical language presented in the text as well as to think more about the cause and effect of tsunamis. Children also discuss how the people of Japan initially reacted to the disaster, as well as to consider how the authors create a sense of drama in the text. Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 10-11 (Year 6)

Reinforce your child's sixth-grade skills with Spectrum Word Study and Phonics. With the progressive lessons in this workbook, your child will strengthen language skillsin digraphs and diphthongs, multiple-meaning words, and Greek and Latin roots. The Spectrum(R) Phonics series provides your child with skill-building exercises that focus on phonics, structural analysis, and dictionary skills. Phonics for grades K-2 guides students progressively through letter sounds, blends, and pairs and how they combine to form words. Word Study and Phonics for grades 3-6 includes lessons in decoding as well as vocabulary comprehension, spelling, word relationships, figurative language, and even foreign words. Unique exercises will keep children engaged, and complete answer keys will help you gauge their understanding of the way words work. Spectrum, the best-selling workbook series, is proud to provide quality educational materials that support your students' learning achievement and success.

Featuring a cute character, Horace, this series enables the reader to travel back in time using Horace's latest technology, the i-collar. In this series, Horace visits Ancient Rome; exploring a Roman Villa, a Roman Town and the Roman Army. The stories are brimming over with fascinating facts about life in Roman times and also include Horace's opinions as he sees life through a cat's eyes. A series guaranteed to stretch the imagination; they will also challenge fluent readers with new vocabulary and give him or her practice in exercises featuring grammar, punctuation, spelling and basic comprehension. The text is illustrated throughout with bold, dynamic, cartoon style illustrations that will capture the child's imagination.

Treasure House Comprehension Skills Pupil Books are aimed at ages 5-11. They cover all the text types specified in the 2014 National Curriculum, with follow-up activities that build the skills necessary to develop critical thinking. Treasure House Comprehension Skills Pupil Book 5: - has 20 units - covers a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction genres - builds enjoyment of comprehension skills on a range of top-quality texts - contains carefully tailored questions that cover all the statutory requirements of the 2014 National Curriculum - helps pupils to become accomplished critical thinkers - provides regular progress checks with 3 review units. This pupil book can be used with Treasure House Comprehension Skills Teacher's Guide 5 and activities on Collins Connect for a complete programme to enhance comprehension skills.

Structured around the individual test paper questions and skills, this full colour write-in workbook prepares students for the requirements of the AQA Year 9 English Language Paper 1 and Paper 2 tests. The workbook contains step-by-step support to approach each of the test paper questions as well as sample student answers, activities, tips, key terms and progress-monitoring assessments. Offering bespoke support for each of the Year 7, Year 8 and Year 9 Paper 1 and Paper 2 tests, this series of clear, student-friendly write-in workbooks can be used by students in class or independently at home.

This book can help your child by providing a whole year of ready to go activities and support on key English topics which will be being taught in school from 2014. Did you know that your child in Year 6 will now need to; spell words with silent letters (such as 'island'); use the subjunctive (using 'were' and 'be' to say things that may or may not be true or about wishes, for example: 'If I were Prime Minister I would make weekends longer' but you're not the Prime Minister so you can't); use expanded noun phrases to convey complicated information concisely. * Workbooks for home learning * Linked directly to what your children will be learning in school * A linked website provides additional activities, answers and support for parents * Developed by teachers to ensure the best possible support for the new 2014 National Curriculum.

Rapid Reading is a catch-up intervention reading scheme that has been proven to help children who are behind in their reading to triple their rate of progress. Each carefully-levelled reading book has a dyslexia-friendly design and supports all struggling learners, including those with SEND, to develop their comprehension skills, reading fluency and confidence. Includes 'Before reading' notes to help children read with confidence and 'Quiz' questions to develop understanding. This book contains one fiction text and one non-fiction text on a similar theme. This teaching guide includes step-by-step lesson plans for teachers and teaching assistants, as well as assessment information.

In Risks and Thrills, read all about extraordinary events that really shake things up! * What was it like to travel on the earliest-ever trains? * How will two young explorers escape a creepy cove? * Can a mysterious body-switch make brothers into friends? * What words have worked their way across the world?

Get Going With Creative Writing is a new, up to date, action packed series of five study books, that encourage children to write.They are aimed at children between the ages of 7 and 11, who have acquired some degree of reading fluency. They provide excellent writing practice for those children preparing to take 11+ examinations or S.A.T.S, but will also benefit other children with special needs, or where English is a second language.These books have a lively magazine type format: featuring short stories to read and a variety of up to date non-fiction texts that will impact young readers and provide starting points for writing.Follow up activities will inspire even the most reluctant writers to write stories, poems, play scripts, diaries, reports, persuasive leaflets, letters and more. More than this, the child will learn writing techniques including: simple, compound and complex sentences - connectives - grammar tips - harder vocabulary and punctuation from our guinea pig guide.The books are suitable for use by teachers in the classroom or parents at home.The themed books can be used in any order, though the subject matter of 'About Me' and 'All About Animals' may appeal to younger children, who start working through the series. The themed books have been written by a teacher or tutor, have been trialled by the children she teaches and comply with the National Curriculum.This is the fourth book in this excellent series from Guinea Pig Education.

180 Days of High-Frequency Words is a fun and effective daily practice workbook designed to help students recognize sight words instantly. This easy-to-use second grade workbook is great for at-home learning or in the classroom. The engaging standards-based activities cover grade-level skills with easy to follow instructions and an answer key to quickly assess student understanding. Each week students learn 5 new words. The repetitive daily activities make reading and writing these words memorable and fun. Watch students build a love of reading as they recognize sight words and start reading independently.Parents appreciate the teacher-approved activity books that keep their child engaged and learning. Great for homeschooling, to reinforce learning at school, or prevent learning loss over summer.Teachers rely on the daily practice workbooks to save them valuable time. The ready to implement activities are perfect for daily morning review or homework. The activities can also be used for intervention skill building to address learning gaps. The high-frequency words used are based on Fry s 1,000 Instant Words.

Part of the Usborne Key Skills series that supports the English lessons children learn at school, this handy pad is filled with 120 spelling activities. Add prefixes and suffixes, tackle tricky starting and ending sounds, choose the right homophones and more. The activities get progressively harder throughout, and all the answers are at the back.

Starting English covers all the key literacy skills for schoolchildren aged 5+, with fun, wipe-clean exercises

Get Going With Creative Writing aims to teach those children who struggle to write more than a few lines. To give writers loads of ideas to stimulate their thoughts for writing, using fun articles, stories, radio interviews, letters and many more fun ideas. As the child works through the four books they will learn how: 1. to write a short narrative story in three paragraphs 2. to make a story exciting. 3. to use varying sentences 4. to use different styles of writing to make their writing more interesting. 5. to use different literary techniques such as alliteration and onomatopoeia.

Get Going With Creative Writing aims to teach those children who struggle to write more than a few lines. To give writers loads of ideas to stimulate their thoughts for writing, using fun articles, stories, radio interviews, letters and many more fun ideas. As the child works through the four books they will learn how: 1. to write a short narrative story in three paragraphs 2. to make a story exciting. 3. to use varying sentences 4. to use different styles of writing to make their writing more interesting. 5. to use different literary techniques such as alliteration and onomatopoeia.

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Treasure House Composition Skills Teacher's Guides provide at-a-glance lesson planning to guide teachers through the activities in Treasure House Composition Skills Pupil Books. Treasure House Composition Skills Teacher's Guide 1: - provides at-a-glance planning with overviews, step-by-step instructions and answer keys for all Pupil Book units - offers ideas to enable all children to access learning in Support, Embed and Challenge sections - targets individual learning needs with photocopiable resources - maps units to the 2014 National Curriculum for English

Get Going With Creative Writing aims to teach those children who struggle to write more than a few lines. To give writers loads of ideas to stimulate their thoughts for writing, using fun articles, stories, radio interviews, letters and many more fun ideas. As the child works through the four books they will learn how: 1. to write a short narrative story in three paragraphs 2. to make a story exciting. 3. to use varying sentences 4. to use different styles of writing to make their writing more interesting. 5. to use different literary techniques such as alliteration and onomatopoeia.

12 exciting themed work books to choose from. Each title has a different creative writing theme, which will stimulate a child's imagination and inspire them to write. Each booklet provides 2 or 3 stories in several paragraphs to read and re-draft and provides stimulating ideas for follow up activities. Booklet may be used in any order and purchased by parents as and when required as a magazine would be purchased. Prepares children for more advanced writing. Aimed at children of 9-14 years, who require extra practice with creative writing. Excellent for stretching able writers with additional writing tasks.