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A simple way to keep track of the reading children are doing at
home. Tracking children's reading is important and we at Pearson
know this. That's why we're launching Bug Club Reading Records - a
simple way to keep track of the reading children are doing at home
that is suitable for both KS1 and KS2 children. At the back of the
reading record, there is a Phonics progression chart that explains
the sounds covered at each phonics stage and how these relate to
our Bug Club book bands as well as a High frequency words chart for
adults and children to refer to as well. There are spaces for
children to record their thoughts at the bottom of the reading
record page and the back page of the book: what they have enjoyed
and the new things they have learned or what to learn more about.
Are your children reading Bug Club online? On the inside front
cover there is a dedicated space for children to record their log
in details saving time when it comes to reading those exciting
books in ActiveLearn!
The Level 7 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.
Longer stories help to build reading stamina, which is important
for later reading success. Books contain inside cover notes to
support children in their reading. Help with childrens reading
development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.
From Andrew Jennings (@VocabularyNinja), the bestselling author of
Comprehension Ninja and Write Like a Ninja, this is an essential
toolkit of strategies and resources to supercharge primary school
children and transform them into spelling ninjas! In this newest
instalment of the Ninja series, Spell Like a Ninja provides
essential tips, lists and advice to support the teaching and
learning of spelling in the primary classroom or at home, all in a
handy, pocket-sized book. Including every statutory spelling
pattern in the National Curriculum, this book is split into
sections for Key Stage 1, Lower Key Stage 2 and Upper Key Stage 2
to enable all pupils to learn at their own pace in this all-in-one
quick reference tool. This engaging, easy-to-use book includes: -
the statutory spelling requirements for every year as well as the
statutory word lists for Years 3, 4, 5 and 6; - clear, practical
guidance for teachers and parents to help effectively with
spelling; - fun rhymes and tips for remembering spellings; - useful
spelling lists by word type, such as homophones or homonyms; - and
a section on how spelling can support writing.
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.
Matched to the demands of the National Curriculum, the Let's Do
Punctuation workbooks have been carefully devised to match the
appropriate age and stage of your child. Containing a rich variety
of activity pages, each book has been designed for use at home and
supports classroom learning. With regular progress tests and a
complete answer section to aid assessment, this book is the perfect
way for your child to practise their punctuation skills and
consolidate their learning. And for added enjoyment and motivation,
it also contains over 100 reward stickers!
Designed to follow on from the Jolly Phonics Pupil Books 1, 2 and
3, the Grammar Pupil Books builds on the skills taught in Jolly
Phonics, and introduces grammar and spelling rules to improve
writing and reading comprehension. Children are able to work
through the Grammar 2 Pupil book and complete a wide variety of
engaging activities, which develop grammar, spelling, punctuation
and comprehension skills. Lessons are provided for 1 Grammar or
punctuation and 1 Spelling lesson per week for a for a year. The
teacher is able to support and guide the children with the Grammar
2 Teacher's Book. Topics covered include: * New spelling patterns -
ei, eigh, ture * Silent letters - b, c, h, k, w * Syllables *
Identifying the short vowels * Spelling rules - consonant doubling
and adding suffixes * Tricky word families * Revision of elements
covered in the Grammar 1 Pupil Book * Further adjectives -
possessive * Comparatives and superlatives * Prepositions *
Conjunctions * Dictionary work * Punctuation * Exclamation marks *
Apostrophes * Further sentence development *Please note that only
the covers of our Jolly Grammar Pupil Books have been refreshed and
updated. The content is the same as the previous editions and they
can still be used alongside the Grammar Teacher's Books. ISBNs and
JL codes also remain the same.
The Castle in the Classroom describes a year in a kindergarten
classroom as the children embark on literary exploration. Each
child approaches the journey from a different perspective - some
are self-sufficient, others more hesitant; some are literary
adventurers, others shyly reluctant. The detailed focus lessons
throughout the book use the power of stories - personal narratives,
folktales, and fairy tales - to deepen the literary experience so
that reading and writing become as much a part of kindergarten as
playing and pretending are. As the book progresses through the
year, teachers will find a wealth of resources, including practical
models to teach strategies and skills; effective teaching
schedules; ways to address, challenge, expand, and celebrate
student learning; examples of student work; parent education
materials; and ideas on how to manage assessment. By the end of the
year, your students - like those in Ranu's class - will have built
on their love of storytelling to establish a strong literacy
foundation.
Struggling readers need personalized, focused, and
assessment-driven instruction. In other words, they need
interventions that work. Cooper, Chard, and Kiger provide those
interventions in this essential resource. Covering the most
important aspects of literacy-- oral language, phonemic awareness,
word recognition, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, and
writing--the authors organize the interventions around a
classroom-tested framework for assessing students, diagnosing their
needs, teaching them based on findings, and reassessing them to
determine whether more instruction, practice, or application are
needed.
Comic books and graphic novels, known collectively as
"graphica," have long been popular with teenagers and adults.
Recently graphica has grown in popularity with younger readers as
well, motivating and engaging some of our most reluctant readers
who often shun traditional texts. While some teachers have become
curious about graphica's potential, many are confused by the
overwhelming number of new titles and series, in both fiction and
nonfiction, and are unsure of its suitability and function in their
classrooms.
Drawing on his own success using graphica with elementary
students, literacy coach Terry Thompson introduces reading teachers
to this popular medium and suggests sources of appropriate graphica
for the classroom and for particular students. Taking cues from
research that supports the use of graphica with students, Terry
shows how this exciting medium fits into the literacy framework and
correlates with best practices in comprehension, vocabulary, and
fluency instruction. "Adventures in Graphica" contains numerous,
easy-to-replicate, instructional strategies, including examples of
how graphic texts can be used to create a bridge as students
transfer abstract comprehension strategies learned through comics
and graphic novels to traditional texts.
" Adventures in Graphica" provides a roadmap for teachers to the
medium that the "New York Times" recently hailed as possibly "the
next new literary form."
Every elementary teacher deals with students who struggle as
readers on a daily basis. Each struggling child is complex and each
has a unique history as a learner. In "One Child at a Time,"
experienced literacy specialist and consultant Pat Johnson provides
a framework she has used in numerous K-6 classrooms to help
teachers understand and assist individual children. The four-step
process outlined in the book enables teachers to focus carefully on
specific strategies and behaviors; analyze them with theoretical
and practical lenses; design targeted instruction in keeping with
current research on reading process; and then assess and refine the
teaching in conferences with the child. The framework is by no
means an easy answer to a difficult problem, but through its use
teachers learn how the reading process works for proficient readers
and how to support struggling readers as they construct their own
reading process.
The text is packed with examples of actual conferences with
students, detailing how and when Pat and her colleagues intervene
to instruct and assess. The examples of follow-up assessment and
analysis of struggling readers over days and weeks provide an
indispensable model for teachers.
Pat shows how to use this framework successfully with a range of
learners, including young children, English language learners, and
students in the upper elementary grades who are stalled in their
literacy progress. She builds upon her decades of work as a
classroom teacher, literacy specialist, and consultant in schools
with high poverty and diversity, to demonstrate how this framework
can be useful in any setting.
Reading is all about understanding. Many English language learners
simply do not understand what they are reading, whether it's a
picture book, a literature selection, or a science textbook. Juli
Kendall and Outey Khuon believe that small group comprehension
lessons have a key role to play in advancing students'
understanding of texts."Making Sense" provides answers to many
common questions asked by teachers of English language learners:
How do we organize small-group comprehension instruction? How do we
select books to teach strategies? How do we know our kids are
getting it--and what do we do when they don't get it? It is an
easy-to-use, practical resource for ELD, ESL, and ESOL pull-out
teachers, and for push-in teachers working "in-class" to support
English language learners.The book's five main sections are geared
to the stages of language proficiency, and lessons are divided into
'younger' and 'older' students, spanning kindergarten through grade
8. The authors outline fifty-two lessons that teach students how to
make connections, ask questions, visualize (make mental images),
infer, determine importance, and synthesize. Each lesson follows a
four-part teaching framework: Start Up/Connection--helping students
build background and use prior knowledge to connect to the
lesson;Give Information--explicitly telling students what they are
going to learn and why they are learning it, and then teaching
them;Active Involvement--often occurs during the teaching as
students practice what they are learning while the teacher checks
for understanding and monitors and adjusts instruction;Off-You-Go
--opportunities for students to practice what they learned with
peers or independently."Making Sense" also explores the stages of
language proficiency through descriptions of ten English language
learners of different ages. A chart of student characteristics for
each stage shows how students demonstrate understanding and
outlines the implications for planning instruction. This book will
appeal to experienced teachers seeking to expand their repertoire
of lessons, as well as new teachers just beginning the adventure of
teaching comprehension to English language learners.
"This book is a must have for mums who have no clue how to help
their child with comprehension. I would recommend to everyone."
Sue, Amazon customer As well as being an integral part of the
English curriculum, good comprehension skills help children to
understand the world around them. Our simple workbooks help to
break down the skills children need to master to meet their
curriculum objectives in a clear and fuss-free way. This workbook
supports children in Year 3 (ages 7-8) to develop their
comprehension skills using a mix of fiction and non-fiction texts
as well as fun activities. Practice activities to use at home or in
school Matched to National Curriculum requirements Quickly builds
confidence and understanding Includes extra notes and tips to
reinforce skillsAll answers available online Matched to the
Scholastic English Skills: Comprehension teacher resource book
Perfect for use in class or at home
Sunshine and her little sister, Hadiza, love to play in and around
their camp. When a tiger cub is hurt by a sharp tool, Sunshine and
Hadiza want to help, but their father says no. After escaping the
camp to help the poor cub, more trouble comes their way in the form
of a stampede of mammoths! Will the tigers save Sunshine, Hadiza
and the whole camp? (Letter-sounds featured: /ee/ -ie ea /igh/ i
i-e ) Sunshine and the Tiger is part of the Rocket Phonics
systematic synthetic phonics programme from Reading Planet. Rocket
Phonics ensures that every child achieves phonics success. This
fully-decodable Target Practice reading book provides focused
practice of a small group of letter-sounds. The book also includes
useful notes and activities to support reading in school and at
home as well as comprehension questions to check understanding.
Reading age: 5-6/Year 1
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