Learn phonics and get active with Actiphons! Actiphons is an energetic phonics series for children who are learning to read. These lively stories practise 70 letter sounds in the order they are taught in school - each with its own fun character and action. By reading the stories in order, children will build their phonics skills and become active, lifelong readers! Every book contains a unique code which unlocks a collection of free online resources, including a song, audiobook and animation for each story. Visit the Ladybird Education website and use the Get Set! reading check to find the perfect Actiphons book for every child. Something strange is happening to Bouncing Scout . . . his basketball has become stuck in a cloud! Bouncing Scout is Book 2 of 19 in Actiphons Level 3, and is designed for children to read independently. This story is also available as part of Actiphons Level 3 Box 1.

A Critique of Pure Teaching Methods and the Case of Synthetic Phonics examines how research into the effectiveness of teaching methods can and should relate to what takes place in the classroom. The discussion brings to light some important features of the way we classify teaching activities. The classifications are unlike those we use in natural science - for instance, how we classify drug dosages. This point has very important implications for what should be considered the appropriate relationships between educational research and classroom practice. Andrew Davis applies the results of this discussion to the teaching of early reading, focussing in particular on the approach known as synthetic phonics. He provides a philosophical investigation into the nature of reading, and into the concepts that feature in approaches to teaching it, such as the idea of building words from letter sounds, the nature of words themselves and reading for meaning. He concludes with a discussion of why this matters so much, reflecting on how stories and books can be part of a child's emerging identity within the family. He explores how values of family life should be weighed against the importance of achievements in school, and argues for the claim that school reading policies of certain kinds may have a destructive impact if they are felt to trump the private interests of children and their families.

The Fix-it Phonics Level 2 Teacher's Pack contains everything you need to review letter recognition skills as well as teach: 40 digraphs/new spelling patterns; listening and speaking skills; more essential English vocabulary; oral blending and segmenting and more high-frequency words.

Can you demonstrate a clear understanding of systematic synthetic phonics? If you are training to be a primary school teacher you need to have, and to demonstrate, a clear understanding of systematic synthetic phonics to meet the Teachers' Standards. This companion text to the popular Teaching Systematic Synthetic Phonics in Primary Schools enables you to audit your knowledge, making you more aware of the subject and the areas in which you need to know more. In all chapters, self audits are accompanied by guidance on next steps for developing your knowledge. All chapters feature sections that link your learning to the classroom, showing you how to use your knowledge to teach phonics. Designed to help build your confidence and develop your knowledge of phonics, this text supports your development as an effective teacher of reading. This is a companion text to: Teaching Systematic Synthetic Phonics in Primary Schools Joliffe, Waugh and Carss About the Transforming Primary QTS series This series reflects the new creative way schools are beginning to teach, taking a fresh approach to supporting trainees as they work towards primary QTS. Titles provide fully up to date resources focused on teaching a more integrated and inclusive curriculum, and texts draw out meaningful and explicit cross curricular links. David Waugh is Director on Primary PGCE at Durham University where he is also the subject leader for English. He has published extensively in Primary English. David is a former deputy head teacher, was Head of the Education department at University of Hull, and was Regional Adviser for ITT for the National Strategies from 2008 to 2010. Ruth Harrison-Palmer is a former acting head teacher. She has worked for the National Strategies and Cumbria Local Authority as a literacy consultant. Currently Ruth has a senior role in ITE at the University of Cumbria.

Meant for children to practice their early reading skills. This title supports Stage 1+ First Phonics, First Sentences and More First Sentences Packs A and B. The illustrations and activities are designed to encourage matching, visual discrimination, and sequencing skills. It is linked to the story books to present words in a meaningful context.

Miss Honey's class of bumble bees want to try water skiing during their lunch break. What could possibly go wrong? Find out in this latest hilarious addition to the popular Phonics Readers series.

Learn phonics and get active with Actiphons! Actiphons is an energetic phonics series for children who are learning to read. These lively stories practise 70 letter sounds in the order they are taught in school - each with its own fun character and action. By reading the stories in order, children will build their phonics skills and become active, lifelong readers! Every book contains a unique code which unlocks a collection of free online resources, including a song, audiobook and animation for each story. Visit the Ladybird Education website and use the Get Set! reading check to find the perfect Actiphons book for every child. Can Physical Phil get a photo on top of the mountain and win the trophy? He might need some help from his friends! Physical Phil is Book 10 of 19 in Actiphons Level 3, and is designed for children to read independently. This story is also available as part of Actiphons Level 3 Box 2.

Meant for children to practice their early reading skills. This title supports Stage 1+ First Phonics, First Sentences and More First Sentences Packs A and B. The illustrations and activities are designed to encourage matching, visual discrimination, and sequencing skills. It is linked to the story books to present words in a meaningful context.

*Steady seller, updated and expanded to reflect significant changes in ways schools deliver reading instruction: 40% new material includes four new chapters. *Updates cover interventions with English learners, state-of-the-science evaluation tools, cutting-edge resources available through federal supports, and more. *Explains crucial aspects of reading skills development in a how-to approach. *Addresses how to implement interventions in multiple contexts: individual student, small group, classroom, and schoolwide.

Help your child to discover a fascination with letter shapes and sounds with the Letterland Phonics Activity Books. Book 2 includes stickers, fun activities and actions, puzzles, colouring, handwriting practice, word building and reading. The letters and sounds are introduced in the popular teaching order 'satpin', in line with most UK schools. Also included is a link to a free pronunciation guide, so you can be sure that all the sounds you are making are correct. Making the sounds correctly you will enable your child to blend the sounds together and build words, or segment the sounds to read words. Part of a series of six activity books covering the alphabet and 40 further spelling patterns. Contents of this book: eur, hbf l, jvwx, yzq

The "Hodder Group Reading Tests 1-3" form a series of nationally standardized tests to assess pupils' reading comprehension at word, sentence and continuous text level. They are designed as wide-range tests and are especially useful in assessing large, mixed-ability groups. There are three levels of tests in the series, and two equivalent forms (A and B) are provided at each level. Each test takes 40-45 minutes to administer.;The tests use conventional multiple-choice vocabulary, sentence completion and close-procedure questions, and at each level the tests include questions which assess children's understanding of word meanings and of sentence structure. This set contains the Test 1 teacher's manual and one copy each of Test 1 forms A and B - aimed at ages 5:6 to 8:6 -, which use a multiple-choice format throughout and are objectively marked following a straightforward answer key. Standardized on over 13,000 children, the tests give norms as National Curriculum levels as well as reading quotients and reading ages.