• Descriptosaurus Story Writing Language in Action for Ages 5–9 By Alison Wilcox, Adam Bushnell

    Descriptosaurus Story Writing La...

    $52.99

    Descriptosaurus Story Writing provides a resource for younger pupils that will not only expand their descriptive vocabulary but also provide them with models that demonstrate ‘language in action,’ in a genre that is popular and familiar to children aged 5–9. Providing the essential building blocks to create a narrative text, alongside contexualised banks of vocabulary, phrases and sentence types, this book is designed to provide young pupils with the opportunity to see how a text is constructed using words, phrases and sentences. This exciting new resource:

     

     

      • Provides vocabulary for setting, character, ‘show not tell’ and sensory descriptions with clearly defined progression

     

     

     

      • Demonstrates how to use this vocabulary in different contexts using set sentence structures

     

     

     

      • Offers four model narratives written in different styles and level of difficulty

     

     

     

      • Presents modelled sentences with exercises so that pupils can expand their vocabulary

     

     

     

      • Enables young pupils to develop their understanding of how sentences are constructed and become more confident about using these skills in their own story writing.

     

     

    This is an ideal resource to dramatically improve children’s knowledge and understanding of language, grammar and punctuation for all KS1 and KS2 primary English teachers, literacy coordinators and parents. This easily accessible guide will also be helpful for teachers to use in preparation for Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPAG) alongside a creative writing task.

  • New Wave Mental Maths Teachers Guide

    New Wave Mental Maths Teachers G...

    $34.95
    New Wave Mental Maths Teachers Guide – Revised October 2017
    • Teachers Guide available to buy in print format
    • Also available as a free PDF download on the New wave mental maths product pages
  • Beanies Teacher Book Ph 2-6 Hi-Lo Diversity Decodable BB135

    Beanies Teacher Book Ph 2-6 Hi-L...

    $65.00

    To support the Beanstalk Book range of decodable readers, we offer NEW comprehensive Teacher Books. Teacher Book for Hi-Lo Diversity includes an overview of Letters & Sounds programme; phonics scope and sequence, individual teacher lesson plans for each decodable reader in the set, photocopiable activity pages for each book, screening checks and assessment pages, and…

  • Choosing and Using Decodable Texts : Practical Tips and Strategies for Enhancing Phonics Instruction by Wiley Blevins

    Choosing and Using Decodable Tex...

    $36.25

    In this must-have follow-up to his landmark best-seller Phonics From A to Z, Wiley Blevins explains why quality decodable texts are an essential early learning tool and how to distinguish the good from the bad. This resource offers practical lessons and routines for using decodable texts to build children’s phonics and fluency skills, as well as tips on selecting strong decodable texts and what to do if you don’t have any. Includes fun and engaging reproducible decodable mini-books.

  • Australian Kid Lips Instructional Guide by Mary Dahlgren and Janice McPhail

    Australian Kid Lips Instructiona...

    $95.00

    A 131 page instructional guide with 43 user-friendly lessons. Each lesson is about 10 minutes in length. The extra value in the lessons is the English as an Additional Language or Dialect connection and explanation of why an English language learner may struggle to learn and pronounce sounds in English. Tips for instruction are also a part of every lesson. There is an inset image to match the correct Kid Lips™ picture card with each lesson. The guide is spiral bound for easy use during lessons. This manual is especially helpful for use in small groups and Special Education classrooms.

  • Working Memory and Learning : A Practical Guide for Teachers by Susan Gathercole and Tracy Packiam Alloway

    Working Memory and Learning : A ...

    $67.00

    A good working memory is crucial to becoming a successful learner, yet there is very little material available in an easy-to-use format that explains the concept and offers practitioners ways to support children with poor working memory in the classroom.

    This book provides a coherent overview of the role played by working memory in learning during the school years, and uses theory to inform good practice.

    Topics covered include:
    – the link between working memory skills and key areas of learning (such as literacy & numeracy)
    – the relationship between working memory and children with developmental disorders
    – assessment of children for working memory deficits
    – strategies for supporting working memory in under-performing children

    This accessible guide will help SENCOs, teachers, teaching assistants, speech and language therapists and educational psychologists to understand and address working memory in their setting.

  • Phonics Pathways: Clear Steps to Easy Reading and Perfect Spelling by Dolores Hiskes

    Phonics Pathways: Clear Steps to...

    $54.95

    Teaches students of all ages the basics of phonics with a time-tested, foolproof method
    This tenth edition of the best-selling book teaches reading using sounds and spelling patterns. These sounds and patterns are introduced one at a time, and slowly built into words, syllables, phrases, and sentences. Simple step-by-step directions begin every lesson. Although originally designed for K-2 emergent readers, this award-winning book is also successfully being used with adolescent and adult learners, as well as second language learners and students with learning disabilities. Wise and humorous proverbs encourage virtues such as patience, perseverance, honesty, kindness, compassion, courage, and loyalty.

    Offers help for all students including those with learning disabilities or very short attention spans
    Includes extensive examples, word lists, and practice readings that are 100% decodable
    Uses a multisensory method that benefits all learning styles
    This bestselling, much-loved book offers a complete approach to teaching phonics and reading for a fraction of the cost of other programs.

  • The Art and Science of Teaching Primary Reading by Christopher Such43.636

    The Art and Science of Teaching ...

    $48.00

    The essential guide to the science behind reading and its practical implications for classroom teaching in primary schools.

    Teaching children to read is one of the most important tasks in primary education and classroom practice needs to be underpinned by a secure foundation of knowledge. Teachers need to know what reading entails, how children learn to read and how it can be taught effectively.

    This book is an essential guide for primary teachers that explores the key technical and practical aspects of how children read with strong links to theory and how to translate this into the classroom. Bite-size chapters offer accessible research-informed ideas across all major key topics including phonics, comprehension, teaching children with reading difficulties and strategies for the classroom.

    Key features include:

    · Discussions of implications for the classroom

    · Questions for further professional discussions

    · Retrieval quizzes

    · Further reading suggestions

    · Glossary of key terms

  • Reading Assessment Linking Language Literacy, and Cognition by Melissa Lee Farrall

    Reading Assessment Linking Langu...

    $100.95

    A groundbreaking integrated approach to reading assessment that addresses each child’s unique Learning Profile

    Fifteen to twenty percent of our nation’s children have reading difficulties. Educational evalua-tors must be able to use progress monitoring and diagnostic tools effectively to identify students who may be at risk, evaluate the effectiveness of school-wide reading programs, and suggest interventions that will improve reading skills. Written from a strengths-based perspective, Reading Assessment: Linking Language, Literacy, and Cognition is the first book of its kind to present a research-based, integrated review of reading, cognition, and oral language testing and assessment.

    Author Melissa Lee Farrall explores the theoretical underpinnings of reading, language, and literacy, explains the background of debates surrounding these topics, and provides detailed information and administration tips on the wide range of reading inventories and standardized tests that may be used in a reading psychoeducational assessment. With a focus on how to craft professional evaluation reports that illuminate a student’s strengths—not just weaknesses—Reading Assessment enables school psychologists and diagnosticians, reading specialists, and special education professionals to conduct evaluations and develop effective interdisciplinary remedial recommendations and interventions.

    Clear, engaging, and inviting, Reading Assessment features:
    Case examples and practice exercises
    Chapter-opening reviews of each theory
    Strengths, weaknesses, and potential problems of tests and their interpretations
    Chapter-ending review questions that foster skill development and critical thinking
    Comprehensive information on more than 50 different assessment tests

    Reading Assessment is an invaluable resource that helps professionals gain the knowledge and skills to confidently interpret test results and prepare detailed and effective evaluation reports designed to meet each child’s unique needs as a learner.

  • Beneath the Surface of Words What English Spelling Reveals & Why It Matters

    Beneath the Surface of Words Wha...

    $44.95

    English spelling has an undeserved reputation as unreliable and riddled with frustrating quirks. In the pages of this book, you’ll find stories, examples, and explanations that will reorient your perspective and reveal the integrated system that makes sense of the spelling of English words.

    This book will answer questions like these:

    – Why is there a W in answer and an L in talk?

    – What’s going on with words like move and comfortable?

    – Why isn’t hasten spelled like basin or mason?

    These spellings make sense once we are aware of all that’s conveyed by a written word—information about so much more than just its pronunciation. This book will introduce the structural (morphological) framework that is present in every English word, reveal the signals of relationships that are embedded in our most interesting spellings, and provide enlightening evidence to support a reevaluation of some traditional spelling rules.

    The compelling explanations of English spelling contained in this book allow all of us to understand and reconstruct many spellings, rather than memorizing them, while expanding vocabulary and deepening reading comprehension. This is particularly important for those with dyslexia.

    Set aside what you know about spelling for the moment, and take a journey below the surface of words. Together, we’ll uncover the surprising coherence, depth, and clarity of the English writing system.

  • Writing Matters by William Van Cleave

    Writing Matters by William Van C...

    $115.00

    Writing Matters by William Van Cleave presents grammar in a systematic, sequential, and structured manner. Students have opportunities to learn about parts of speech through a variety of activities that let them see these components as tools that can be manipulated in sentence construction. Sentence writing is the ultimate application of this process.

  • Heggerty Early Pre-Kindergarten Phonological Awareness Curriculum Aust Ed

    Heggerty Early Pre-Kindergarten ...

    $160.00

    Overview: 35-weeks of lessons with 3 days per week of instruction, 5-7 components in each lesson

    Grade level: 3 & 4 year old preschool classrooms

    Format: Whole group instruction

    Lesson length: 6-8 minutes

    The Early Pre-K Phonological Awareness curriculum is meant for learners in 3- and 4-year-old classrooms, and the Early Learning and Development standards across all states were used to plan the lessons for instruction. While the standards and expectations differ from state to state, the Early Pre-K curriculum will teach 5 phonological awareness skills. The skills of rhyme, initial phoneme isolation, and blending are introduced at the beginning of instruction. Segmenting words and Final Phoneme Isolation are introduced in later weeks of instruction.

    5 Phonological Awareness Skills
    Rhyme repetition, recognition, and production
    Initial Phoneme Isolation, including listening for a focus sound, alliteration and generating words that begin in a specific sound
    Blending words, syllables, body-coda, and onset-rime (Note: we do not blend at the phoneme level like we do in the current PreK curriculum)
    Segmenting into words, syllables, and onset-rime (begins in week 7; we do not segment into phonemes like we do in the current PreK curriculum)
    Final Phoneme Isolation (introduced in Weeks 24-35)
    2 Early Literacy Skills
    Alphabet Knowledge
    Language Awareness: Nursery Rhymes and sentences

    The lessons include explicit language to teach the skills and provide directions for each activity. Teacher modeling and support is included within the lessons, along with hand motions.

    The beginning weeks of instruction provide teachers with lessons for “Setting the Stage” to help students learn about listening for sounds and developing an understanding of the language play activities .

  • Oxford Spelling F - 2 Teacher Handbook

    Oxford Spelling F – 2 Teac...

    $75.95

    Oxford Spelling is an evidence-based, whole-school program supporting spelling development and best-practice classroom instruction.

    Planned and written by Dr Tessa Daffern, Oxford Spelling incorporates the latest spelling research into a flexible and practical classroom resource. This comprehensive series enables teachers to teach spelling generalisations and strategies sequentially and explicitly, and connect spelling knowledge to reading, writing and other disciplines.

    Teacher Resources:

    Teacher Handbooks that provide complete support for differentiated implementation of the program in the classroom, along with lesson plans, answers to activities and assessment guidance
    Further teacher materials available on Oxford Owl that give teachers easy access to:
    Curriculum mapping
    Assessment templates
    Flashcards for word-sorting tasks and additional spelling activities.

  • Dragon Eggs Series Workbook

    Dragon Eggs Series Workbook

    $75.00

    ISBN: 9781783693276

  • Once Upon A Word - A Word Origin Dictionary For Kids

    Once Upon A Word – A Word ...

    $39.95

    Where do words come from?–Learning new words by understanding their stories

    The English language is made up of words from different places, events, and periods of time. Each of those words has an exciting story to tell us about where, when, how, and why they came about. Once Upon a Word is packed with easy-to-understand definitions and awesome word-origin stories. With this dictionary for kids, you can understand the history and meaning of English words, improve your vocabulary and spelling, and learn to play with language.

    Explore how weird words like gnome, fun words like zombie, and common words like caterpillar came to exist. Discover why some words sound funnier than others (like cacklesizzle, and twang) and why some groups of words start with the same few letters (like hydratehydrogen, and fire hydrant). In this dictionary for kids, there’s a whole world of English words to uncover

    This unique dictionary for kids includes:

    • Roots & branches–Learn about the building blocks that make up words, called rootsprefixes, and suffixes.
    • Kid-friendly definitions–Look up definitions designed for your reading level in this dictionary for kids.
    • Word snack–Find out where your favorite food words got their start, from bacon to marshmallowspaghettiyogurt, and beyond.

    See how the English language evolved–from its beginnings to today–with this colorful dictionary for kids.

  • The Reading Comprehension Blueprint - Helping Students Make Meaning from Text

    The Reading Comprehension Bluepr...

    $114.00

    Comprehension is a primary ingredient of reading success—but most educators arent taught how to deliver structured comprehension instruction in their classrooms. K–8 teachers will find the guidance they need in this groundbreaking professional resource from Nancy Hennessy, former IDA President and an expert on reading comprehension. Meticulously researched and masterfully organized, this book offers a clear blueprint for understanding the complexities of reading comprehension and delivering high-quality, evidence-based instruction that helps students construct meaning from challenging texts.

    Aligned with the science of reading and IDAs Structured Literacy approach, this book is a must for in-service educators and an ideal supplement to pair with core literacy textbooks. Todays teachers will get the essential knowledge and practical tools they need to help every student become a proficient reader—and build a strong foundation for school success.

    EDUCATORS WILL:

    • Get critical background knowledge. Synthesizing decades of research on reading comprehension, this book provides educators with all the fundamentals they need to teach this key component of reading proficiency.
    • Master the blueprint. Teachers will get a complete framework for organizing instruction, aligned with the language comprehension strands of Scarboroughs Reading Rope. In-depth chapters are devoted to each facet of reading comprehension, including vocabulary, syntax and sentence comprehension, text structures, background knowledge, and levels of understanding and inference.
    • Make it work in the classroom. Educators will find practical guidance and tools for planning their units and lessons, adapting to the needs of individual students, and assessing student progress. (An interactive book study guide makes this book easy to use as a professional development resource.)
  • Speech to Print 3rd Edition

    Speech to Print 3rd Edition

    $97.99

    ISBN 9781681253305

  • Words: Intergrating Decoding & Spelling Instruction

    Words: Intergrating Decoding �...

    $97.00

    ISBN 9781416404415

  • The Next Step

    The Next Step

    $45.00

    9780646824888

  • Essentials of Assessing, Preventing & Overcoming Reading Difficulties

    Essentials of Assessing, Prevent...

    $99.95

    ISBN 9781118845240