Children love learning with Smart-kids. Bright illustrations, stickers, creative activities and fun- loving characters bring the South African Literacy and Numeracy curriculum to life. Smart-kids is written by experienced South African teachers and contains valuable notes, tips and answers for parents.

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.

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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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.

Reinforce your child's fourth-grade language skills with Spectrum Vocabulary. With the progressive lessons in this workbook, your child will learn words through strategies related to word relationships, context clues, 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.

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

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.

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.

This collection of poems is ideal for the primary classroom as it covers seasonal topics such as Harvest, Halloween, Guy Fawkes Night, Christmas, Pancake Day, Easter and many others. There are also poems about the weather and about a variety of creatures which could be used to support the curriculum. Most of them have already been enjoyed by Eleanor McLeod's discerning young pupils. Using poems such as these as a starting point for learning can be fun and informative.Eleanor McLeod is from Swansea, Wales and it was when she began her Primary School teaching career in 1966 that she started writing poems for her pupils. When she decided to change direction and become a professional actress she continued to write poems, stories and dramatic monologues. In 1984 after the birth of her son, she returned to the classroom where all the old favourites and many new ones were tried and enjoyed once again.As a teacher of the LAMDA Speech and Drama syllabus and a member of the LAMDA Examining board and a adjudicator for the British and International Federation of Festivals she realises how welcome and useful a collection of poems like this will be to teachers and performers.

Level: KS1 Subject: English Learn the easy way with this comprehension activity book! Including helpful questions and answers, this English book provides reassurance whilst supporting your child's learning at home. Combining useful English practice with engaging, colourful illustrations, this Comprehension practice book helps to boost your child's confidence and develop good learning habits for life. Each fun activity is designed to give your child a real sense of achievement. Included in this book: questions that allow children to practise the important skills learned at school colourful activities that make learning fun and motivate children to learn at home helpful tips and answers so that you can support your child's learning

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.

The Reading Teacher'sWord-a-Day

From the bestselling author of The Reading Teacher's Book of Lists comes this hands-on reference containing 180 challenging and engaging lessons--one for each day of the school year. The book is designed to expand the vocabularies of students in grades 6-12 and get them excited about the life-long process of learning new words. It can be used equally well for in-class activities, self-study, tutoring, or homeschooling. The lessons contained in this book are perfect for "sponge activities"--five-minute lessons to start off or end each class period--or for a supplementary vocabulary lesson.??

Employing his often humorous and irreverent descriptions, Edward Fry creates a vivid context for use of each of the words to promote more lasting comprehension for students.?Every page features a vocabulary word chosen from those terms found most frequently on standardized tests. Fry shows how to teach morphemes (the meaning units within words), and to ensure that students have multiple ways to learn, he

Explains the word's root

Points out similarities and subtle differences with like words

Demonstrates how roots help establish a pattern for language

Ends each lesson with a list of questions teachers may use to assess students' understanding of the new word

The Reading Teacher's Word-a-Day will help students speak, write, read, and comprehend with confidence.

Praise for The Reading Teacher's Word-a-Day

"I'm simply verklempt by the subtle but powerful approach to vocabulary improvement in Edward Fry's latest book for reading teachers and their students. Imagine the incredible vocabulary students would develop if they learned one new word aday and extended this habit over the course of a lifetime. Now that's worth getting choked up over!"
--Richard T. Vacca, professor emeritus, Kent State University

"Ed Fry's new book offers a practical guide for teachers to incorporate vocabulary instruction into their curriculum. Bravo!"
--James Hoffman, former president, National Reading Conference, and professor of language and literacy studies, University of Texas at Austin