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- Sale!Author: Valerie Muter PhD, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and University of York
- This beautifully illustrated storybook and workbook set has been created to support learners who, after acquiring the basics of reading and writing, have struggled to organically grasp the rules that govern spelling in the English language. The colourful storybook tells the story of the ‘Super Spelling School for Letters’, and the teacher who helps all the students come together to make words. Twenty-two of the most important spelling rules are explored and given meaning through the engaging story, each followed by a ‘quick quiz’ to help solidify the rule in the long-term memory. In the fully photocopiable workbook, activity pages for each rule develop reading, spelling and writing skills, allowing the child to put the rules into practice.
- More Reading and Thinking is a series designed to meet the needs of pupils who require practice in comprehension and inference in Key Stages 2 and 3. The content and aims of the book is in the same style as the very popular New Reading and Thinking range of books but contains brand new material, is designed in worksheet format and it is photo-copiable.
- Sale!Proust and the Squid is about the magic and mechanics of reading. Wolf chronicles the development of writing and, by extension, reading, detailing the neuroscience behind them. She makes a good case for the transformative powers of reading on human cognition, and champions the intriguing idea that dyslexia may be linked to 'unparalleled creativity
- Multiple-choice questions are followed by open-ended activities requiring either an imaginative or reflective response or independent research. The passages are illustrated and encompass a wide range of genres including: - fiction - poetry - dialogue - letters - recipes and news reports. Supporting the National Literacy Strategy at Key Stage 2, the photocopiable exercises in each book are grouped and graded within four main skill areas: Getting the main idea - Making inferences - Noting and recalling details - Using context clues - With teacher's notes and separate answer pages for easy checking, this series shows the way to develop and hone crucial comprehension skills.
- This is the second book in the series Reading Comprehension Jo Browning Wroe and David Lambert have created a variety of texts from fiction, poetry and dialogue to letters recipes and newspaper articles in this invaluable workbook to encourage and stimulate good comprehension for all pupils. Each text is accompanied by a set of multiple choice questions designed to practice and reinforcement of the main skill as well as an open ended activity requiring either an imaginative or reflective response or independent research.
- Sale!Ask your child questions before, during and after reading a story with these soft foam cubes
- Soft foam cubes ask children comprehension questions to answer before, during and after reading
- The types of questions on the Reading Comprehension Cubes include:
- What do the pictures on the cover tell you about the story?
- What is the main idea of the story?
- Ideal for individual or group use
- Cubes measure 4cm
- Set of six cubes
- This is a coloured overlay which aids the reading of some pupils who suffer from overexcitability of the visual cortex when confronted by the sharp contrast of black print on a white page.This is blue - known to be one of the most popular choices of people suffering from this problem. The overlay has a single line window and a broader window for reading at text level.