Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories: Decode and Develop are exciting new titles in the Oxford Reading Tree series. The stories continue to provide storylines full of humour and drama, with familiar settings and characters. They also support children's transition from fully decodable readers, such as Floppy's Phonics, to a richer, wider reading experience with high-interest vocabulary. Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with children's reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.

How to Write a Story is packed full of amazing activities to get your creative juices flowing! Have fun with wow words, awesome adventures and epic endings! From coming up with crazy character names, creating the perfect plot and acting out your characters, How to Write a Story will have you writing exciting page turning stories that your friends and family won't be able to put down! Full of useful tips and inspiring ideas, How to Write a Story is jam packed full of story starters, plot changers, useful words and much much more!

50 Instructional Routines to Develop Content Literacy, 3/e helps adolescents read more and read better. Middle and high school teachers can immediately put to use its practical information and classroom examples from science, social studies, English, math, the visual and performing arts, and core electives to improve students' reading, writing, and oral language development. Going above and beyond basic classroom strategies, the instructional routines recommend simple changes to teachers' everyday procedures that foster student comprehension, such as thinking aloud, using question-answer relationships, and teaching with word walls.

Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that together provide a consistent and highly effective approach to teaching phonics. In September 1666 a fire broke out at a Baker's in London, and by the time the fire had been put out had destroyed a large portion of the city. Join the ordinary people who were affected by the fire in this fast-paced non-fiction recount of the world-famous event. Pages 22 and 23 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall. Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.

The Level 1 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide both wordless stories and a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills with simple first words and sentences. Wordless Stories A and Wordless Stories B introduce the characters and children learn that the pictures tell a story, where a story begins and how to turn the pages. First Words and More First Words introduce children to simple words and the characters' names. Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with childrens reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.

Parental involvement in children's education is a subject of growing interest and recent legislation in both the UK and USA has given formal recognition of parents' rights. Learning to read is an obvious area where parents can do a great deal to help, and some schools have had programmes for parental involvement in reading for some time. However recent research has shown the considerable benefit in having carefully structured systems for parental involvement. This book presents a review of past and current good practice in this field. Details of a wide range of schemes developed in local areas are given in a series of short contributed papers, which are grouped into sub sections of Part 2 according to the type of project. Part 3 is essentially a manual of materials and methods. The emphasis throughout the book is on service delivery to all children although there is of course considerable discussion of remedial reading and children with special needs The book should appeal to a wide audience in education, educational administration and educational psychology.

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.

Brimming with spelling practice for the KS2 English SATS, this essential SAT Buster workbook is fully up-to-date for the latest tests! It contains plenty of SATS-style questions covering all the spelling techniques pupils will need to master. We've also thrown in self-assessment boxes and a handy scoresheet to help track pupils' progress. Full answers are printed in a separate Answer Book (9781847629111), which also includes full answers to our SAT Buster Book 1s for Punctuation (9781841461755) and Grammar (9781847629074). For even more spelling practice at the same difficulty level, a Spelling SAT Buster Book 2 (9781782942788) is also available!

Reinforce your child's third-grade language skills with Spectrum Vocabulary. With the progressive lessons in this workbook, your child will learn words through strategies related to word classification, root and base words, and prefixes and suffixes. Spectrum(R) Vocabulary helps your child systematically build and strengthen vocabulary and comprehension skills. Students in grades 3-6 will find lessons and practice in word classification, context clues, root and base words, prefixes and suffixes, and imported words. Each workbook also includes test-taking practice sections and an answer key. Aligned to current state standards, Spectrum is your child's path to a strong and expanding vocabulary. Spectrum, the best-selling workbook series, is proud to provide quality educational materials that support your students' learning achievement and success.

Syllabus: CfE (Curriculum for Excellence, from Education Scotland) and SQA Level: BGE S1-3: Third & Fourth Levels Subject: English Focus specifically on RUAE skills at Third and Fourth Levels with this popular book from Jane Cooper, comprising examples, models and active learning tasks, plus 15 practice assessments. Designed for use in BGE (S1-S3), this book helps students to: > Develop their close reading skills > Understand the distinction between key ideas and supporting details > Analyse writers' language and style via a broad range of text extracts > Learn the key concepts of reading for understanding, analysis and evaluation through examples, models and active learning tasks in Part One of the book > Apply, develop and monitor RUAE skills in Part Two, with 15 practice assessments that gradually increase in difficulty and sample both fiction and non-fiction texts > Prepare for National qualifications as the practice assessments serve as a useful precursor to the style of RUAE assessments at National 5 and beyond

The activities in How to Dazzle at Writing concentrate on composing skills. They help 11-14 year old (Key Stage 3/KS3) pupils with special educational needs to write in different genres, from letters and reports to song lyrics, stories and poetry. The 42 reproducible sheets use simple language, lively illustrations and adolescent-friendly activities to encourage pupils to develop their writing skills. Each activity includes stimulus material to set the scene and where necessary provides an example of the genre. The activities include planning and writing stories; making notes; devising characters; explaining the meaning of words to people who don't know them; making lists; writing letters; writing reviews of videos, films and books; writing poems and writing the lyrics for a song.

Timely and accessible, this book offers tangible strategies that will help teachers plan and sustain writing workshop experiences that are responsive to the needs of their specific students. Angela Stockman helps teachers understand why some writers may fail to meet their expectations and how to help all writers reach their fullest potential. Organized in three parts, this book reframes common narratives about resistant writers, empowers teachers to design, lead and refine their workshop, and provides a toolkit to do so. The appendices and eResources included provide teachers with instructions for mini-lessons and learning targets that support multimodal composition, perfect for pre-service and in-service teachers.

Timely and accessible, this book offers tangible strategies that will help teachers plan and sustain writing workshop experiences that are responsive to the needs of their specific students. Angela Stockman helps teachers understand why some writers may fail to meet their expectations and how to help all writers reach their fullest potential. Organized in three parts, this book reframes common narratives about resistant writers, empowers teachers to design, lead and refine their workshop, and provides a toolkit to do so. The appendices and eResources included provide teachers with instructions for mini-lessons and learning targets that support multimodal composition, perfect for pre-service and in-service teachers.

A paw-fect pack of 31 full-colour phonics flash cards starring CBeebies' Waffle the Wonder Dog, perfect for children starting school. These bright and colourful cards support the way children are taught to read in their first years of school. Including: letters a to z 4 first digraphs and a parent's guide Join Waffle and his friends on a reading adventure!

When young children are immersed in joyful and engaging shared reading experiences throughout the day, something wonderful happens. They learn to love books, enjoy reading, and see themselves as readers. Eric Litwin and Gina Pepin give you what you need to transform your classroom into a "reading playground" -a space in which children read along to, sing to, dance to, and celebrate words and texts. A space in which they experience the power of joyful reading. This is an accessible text suitable for practitioners working in Early Years and KS1. The book enthuses about approaches to teaching reading joyfully. With RfP high on the agenda in English schools this makes this short book pertinent to settings looking to embed Reading for pleasure. Rachel Clarke, Independent Reading Consultant

How to Sparkle at Writing Stories and Poems contains over 40 photocopiable sheets for use with beginning writers. The activities will stimulate pupils' imagination and creative thinking and give them opportunities to organise and present their ideas in different ways. The sheets provide a variety of stimuli and innovative ideas which the teacher can build upon and extend. Brilliant Publications publishes a range of books for 0-15 year olds. Details of our titles can be found on our website www.brilliantpublications.co.uk

Accessible and engaging, this methods textbook provides a roadmap for improving reading instruction. Leland, Lewison, and Harste explain why certain ineffective or debunked literacy techniques prevail in the classroom, identify the problematic assumptions that underly these popular myths, and offer better alternatives for literacy teaching. Grounded in a mantra that promotes critical thinking and agency-Enjoy! Dig Deeply! Take Action!-this book presents a clear framework, methods, and easy applications for designing and implementing effective literacy instruction. Numerous teaching strategies, classroom examples, teacher vignettes, and recommendations for using children's and adolescent literature found in this book make it an ideal text for preservice teachers in elementary and middle school reading, and English language arts methods courses as well as a practical resource for professional in-service workshops and teachers. Key features include: Instructional engagements for supporting students as they read picture books, chapter books, and news articles, and interact with social media and participate in the arts and everyday life; Voices from the field that challenge mythical thinking and offer realworld examples of what effective reading and language arts instruction looks like in practice; Owl statements that alert readers to key ideas for use when planning reading and language arts instruction.