A lively introduction to rocks and minerals and how they are formed and used, with facts, pictures and science projects to try yourself, perfect for 8-12 year-olds at home or school.

Young children need plenty of practice in pen-control - an essential skill they must learn before starting to form letters and numbers. This fun activity book is full of animal-themed activities, encouraging children to join the dots, spot differences, solve mazes and trace the dotted lines with the special pen provided, then wipe clean and repeat.

Help your students learn essential ICT skills, from Microsoft Office (R) basics to animations and websites. This series brings a fresh approach to ICT for students from 7 to 14 years old, mapped to the Cambridge ICT Starters syllabus for examination from 2019. In Next Steps, learners develop their understanding of email and programming. The resource also introduces them to working with multimedia. Students will create a book cover and use programming to design a shop sign. Each activity is clearly introduced, with step-by-step guidance to help learners master new skills. Key words and visual examples support students' understanding. Download source files for the activities from our website.

Battle fearsome beasts and fight evil with Tom and Elenna in the bestselling adventure series for boys and girls aged 7 and up. In the realm of Gwildor, the Mistress of the Beasts is under a curse, and her ferocious Beasts are destroying the land. Tom vows to break the spell, but when deadly Krabb ambushes his boat, it looks like the Quest may already be over... There are SIX thrilling adventures to collect in the Beast Quest: The Shade of Death series: Krabb Master of the Sea; Hawkite Arrow of the Air; Rokk the Walking Mountain; Koldo the Arctic Warrior; Trema the Earth Lord; Amictus the Bug Queen. If you like Beast Quest, check out Adam Blade's other series: Team Hero, Sea Quest and Beast Quest: New Blood!

Help your students learn essential ICT skills, from Microsoft Office (R) basics to animations and websites. This series brings a fresh approach to ICT for students from 7 to 14 years old, mapped to the Cambridge ICT Starters syllabus for examination from 2019. Initial Steps takes students through working with text, images and graphs while introducing them to email, searching and programming. They'll use search engines to help them research topics, write a group story using email and begin programming using Scratch. Each activity is clearly introduced, with step-by-step guidance to help learners master new skills. Key words and visual examples support students' understanding. Download source files for activities from our website.

E a gaisa gonne e kwadilwe ke ditswerere tsa bakwadi go akaretsa CAPS. E a gaisa gonne e na le ditshwantsho le ditiro tseo di ikaeletseng go tokafatsa dipholo le go natlafatsa barutwana. E a gaisa gonne e tshegetsa barutabana ka go ba bolokela nako fa ba

A lively new jacket by Marc Brown puts a fresh face on one of the first--and widely considered the best--poetry anthologies for preschoolers. "No one better recognizes the essence of the child-poetry connection than poet and anthologist Jack Prelutsky," writes Jim Trelease, author of The Read-Aloud Handbook, in his introduction to this child-friendly collection of more than 200 poems by well-known contemporary poets. Each poem in this 112 page book is "exuberantly illustrated," wrote The New York Times Book Review. With subjects ranging from waking up to going to bed and everything in between, here is "a joyous anthology that [is] bound to develop an appreciation for poetry at a very young age."--School Library Journal

Level: KS3 Subject: English Complete revision and practice covering the KS3 course This all-in-one KS3 English study and practice book is your one-stop shop for KS3 English! Excellent value for money, it combines a full revision guide and workbook in one book. Clear and concise revision notes, plus seven practice opportunities for every topic: * quick tests to check understanding * end of topic practice questions * topic review questions later in book * mixed practice questions at end of book * free Q&A flash cards to download online * more topic by topic practice and mixed practice questions in the added workbook! * now with free ebook - visit collins.co.uk/ebooks and follow the step-by-step instructions

This first batch of Chicken Soup for Teens consists of 101 stories every teenager can relate to and learn from -- without feeling criticized or judged. This edition contains important lessons on the nature of friendship and love, the importance of belief in the future, and the value of respect for oneself and others, and much more.

September AD 81. Returning from Ephesus to Rome, Flavia and her friends learn of the mysterious and sudden death of the Emperor Titus. Was his death natural? Or was it murder? As the four detectives investigate this mystery, they little dream how much their lives--as well as the future of Italia--will be changed as a result.

It's 50 years since the first human set foot on the surface of the Moon! Walking on the Moon celebrates this 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing by helping readers imagine what it was like to actually be there.

Blended with stunning photographs and captivating artwork, step-by-step details of events leading up to the mission are combined with eyewitness accounts and features on people who helped make the first Moon landing happen. A staggering 400,000 people, many of them working behind the scenes at NASA, helped to achieve this historic milestone.

This is the first book in the Imagine You Were There... series, which celebrates events that changed the world and the people who made them happen.

Before they can learn to write, little children need lots of practice with pen control. This book provides plenty of opportunities for that, as children can draw the farm animals (over the dotted lines) again and again, using the special wipe-clean pen provided.

FERGUS CRANE! YOU ARE IN GREAT DANGER! I AM SENDING HELP. Signed T. C., your long-lost Uncle Theo Fergus Crane has an almost ordinary life - having lessons taught by rather odd teachers on the school ship Betty Jeanne, helping his mother in the bakery. But then a mysterious flying box appears at the window of his waterfront home - and Fergus is plunged headlong into an exciting adventure! The box is followed by a winged mechanical horse that whisks him off to meet his long-lost uncle and his penguin helpers, Finn, Bill and Jackson. Fergus finds out that his teachers are not quite what they seem - they're actually pirates! Can Fergus and his winged horse save his schoolmates from the far-off Fire Island? And who else will he find there...?

An easy-to-use illustrated dictionary that includes over 1000 words and meanings to help young learners understand key computing terms and concepts, essential for working with text and data, image editing, logic, programming, and communication technology. It includes words from the National Curriculum topics of algorithms, logical reasoning, computational thinking, data representation, computer networks, and digital devices. From the basic program, file, online, browser, URL to the more technical toolbar, sprite, variable, Boolean, JavaScript, CMYK, sequence and simulation, this book supports parents and teachers as well as children with the key vocabulary needed to learn about computing and work with computers in the classroom and in their everyday lives. A fully illustrated supplement provides extended information and builds vocabulary on topics ranging from computer components, hardware and software to computer games, how the Internet works, and coding terminology in block coding and Scratch going on to Python. This dictionary sits alongside the Oxford Primary Illustrated reference titles (the Primary Illustrated Dictionary, Thesaurus, Maths and Science titles), as well as supporting transition and lower secondary. It is also ideal for use with the International Primary Computing series for age 8+ and the Matrix Computing series for age 11+, and can be a key reference tool at school and at home. For free downloadable activity worksheets, go to www.oxfordschooldictionaries.com

Help children begin joined-up handwriting writing with this wipe-clean handwriting book. Discover exactly where the joins and breaks are, so letters can be formed in the most efficient way. With cursive words and sentences to copy and trace, including lots of high-frequency words, this book is sure to capture the attention of little writers everywhere!

This is the second of three texts focusing on the mechanics of the English language. Each book offers a systematic work and study programme for use in the classroom or at home.

Utterly Amazing Earth is a jaw-dropping pop-up book packed with fascinating facts about our amazing planet. Go deep below the Earth's crust to discover earthshattering facts. From volcanoes to earthquakes, the water cycle to seasons, this beautiful pop-up book brings to life amazing phenomena with brilliant paper tricks. Learn how rocks are made and shaped, and what causes the seasons. With pop-ups, activities to try at home and bitesized mind-blowing facts Utterly Amazing Earth is perfect for any child, aged over 6, obsessed with volcanoes, earthquakes and the Earth.

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 3 will now need to; learn to spell more homophones and near-homophones such as 'accept' and 'except'; use the perfect form of verbs. * 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.

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.