LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

Let children take control of their learning with this self-checking pen. With brand new sound effects and phrases, the audio and visual feedback gently redirects incorrect answer choices and congratulates correct ones. Sounds can be muted for quiet classroom use. Requires 2 AAA batteries, not included.

Sounds: perfect, well done, brilliant, ah close, nice try
Pens are compatible with all Hot Dots® card sets, available separately!
Ages 4-8

Student Record Book help enhance each students' learning experience by creating one place for students to record all their answers to the various Reading Lab exercise questions on special record pages; correct mistakes; record scores and chart their progress through the Power Builders, Skill Builders and Rate Builders.

The Student Record Book also contains a description of procedures, sample pages on which trial exercises can be worked for practice and helpful suggestions for effective reading and study habits.

EachStudent Record Book also contains a Starting Level Guide placement test to help each student start his or her individualised program at the appropriate level.

Box of Show-me magnetic lowercase letters, ideal for helping young minds learn to spell and recognise new words in individual, group and class activities.

Contains 11 each of the letters a - z in assorted vibrant colours, at approx. 35mm tall. Supplied in a reusable and recyclable box to keep classrooms tidy and organised. Numbers and lowercase letters also available.

Help young minds learn to spell and recognise new words with this tub of magnetic uppercase letters. Ideal for individual, group and entire class activities, each tub contains 11 each of the letters A - Z in assorted vibrant colours. Each letter is approx. 35mm tall, and is supplied in a recyclable, reusable box to keep your classroom tidy and organised.

This pack contains 286 colourful magnetic uppercase letters - 11 each of letters A-Z

Presented in a handy tub for easy carrying and convenient storage

Every letter is colourful and bright – ideal for children and young learners

Ideal for early years and primary literacy, and perfect for using on Show-me Magnetic Boards (not included)

Each letter measures at approx. 35mm tall

Reinforce high-frequency word recognition with these tactile cubes. Toss these cubes to learn the 36 most common sight words! Read aloud the words that you toss or use them in a sentence for a more challenging activity.
Cubes measure 4cm.
Ages 6-10

High-interest reading material in a wide variety of genres, incorporating both fiction and nonfiction. Topics that link into key curricular themes in science, geography and history. Practice of comprehension strategies using questions pitched at the literal, inferential and applied levels. Focus on vocabulary and word study

Vocabulary and word study questions specifically linked into the reading piece. Constant repetition of question types to ensure continuous practice. Suggestions for additional speaking and listening, reading, writing and cross-curricular activities relating to each card and topic contained in a comprehensive teaching guide. Creates independent readers and promotes spelling, punctuation and grammar skills through text-based activities. Engage in station teaching and group work strategies

Reading cards that are colour-coded according to reading level and difficulty. Cards can be used in mixed-ability or same ability groupings within the classroom. Independent correcting scheme to encourage children to correct their own work, freeing up teacher's time to work with selected groups in the classroom. 'Something extra' section at the end of the cards to encourage writing and further reading responses. Flexible use within the classroom

What’s in the box?

Teachers Guide containing 200+ pages of teaching suggestions and photocopiable activities.

75 × four-page literacy cards

Page 1 – reading piece

Page 2 – comprehension practice

Page 3 – word study activities

Page 4 – grammar and punctuation questions

75 × answer cards

Siti's Sisters is a series of books aimed at young readers with an interest age of 9 - 14 but a reading age of 7 - 8. This ensures the more reluctant readers can experience the trials and tribulations tackled in these books without the pressure of advanced vocabulary and complex text, thus encouraging a positive attitude towards reading.

This series was written by Helen Orme and includes both fiction texts and workbooks and full illustrations throughout. One of the following of each title is in this book pack:
All Wrapped Up
I Know Something
Kitchen Chaos
Don't Let Go
Open Wide
Making Tracks

Siti's Sisters is a series of books aimed at young readers with an interest age of 10 - 14 but a reading age of 7 - 8. This ensures the more reluctant readers can experience the trials and tribulations tackled in these books without the pressure of advanced vocabulary and complex text, thus encouraging a positive attitude towards reading.

This series was written by Helen Orme and includes both fiction texts and full illustrations throughout. One of the following of each title is in this book pack:
Boys!
Lost!
Stalker
Taken for a Ride
Trouble with Teachers
Odd One Out

This comprehensive set of 12 (1 of each title) books offers a systematic approach to the teaching of key aspects of Literacy. The materials are also suitable for the practice and reinforcement of key skills with older children with additional and special educational needs. Using a Stile Tray, pupils will work through the main phonics and spelling requirements for children age 7 years + with these fun, highly motivating activities.

The Stile Tray is the key to the self-checking activities of the Key Stage 2 programme. Pupils answer the questions by simply placing each of the twelve numbered tiles on the appropriate square on the base of the tray. When all the tiles have been placed, they close the tray, turn it over, and reopen it to reveal a geometric pattern. If the answers are all correct, the pattern will match the one printed at the top of the exercise. There are many different accompanying workbooks for use with the Stile Tray, covering Literacy, Maths and Dyslexia.

Contains 12 x 16-page books (246 x 168mm) and teacher’s notes. Book content is the same as in our Stile Literacy programme.

The Comprehension Strategies Box 5is suitable for 5th Class pupils and above. The box contains a set of full-colour, differentiated literacy cards designed to support the teaching and learning of nine different comprehension strategies. These well-researched and proven strategies—predicting, visualising, making connections, questioning, clarifying, summarising, determining importance, inferring and synthesising—are compiled to help teachers unlock their pupils’ reading abilities.

Features:

162 cards in the box, colour-coded by strategy.

Original texts across the cards and teacher guide, allowing pupils to experience a variety of fiction and non-fiction text types.

Cater for all while learning the same strategies, with three differentiated reading levels by suggested Lexile ranges for each strategy, and a placement test provided to ascertain pupils’ starting point.

Extensive support through a comprehensive teacher guide and an additional activity book with worksheets for all texts on the cards.

Discuss different emotions with your child with the help of these soft foam cubes!

Help children learn to recognise and discuss different emotions with these 4cm cubes featuring real-life photography of multicultural children. Two cubes include photographs each expressing different emotions, while the other tow cubes feature emotion words. Activity Guide included.
Ages 6-10

All children deserve a chance to learn to love reading. The Joyful Reading Resource Kit offers teachers an impressive array of tools, resources, and activities for getting students at all levels excited about reading while developing their proficiency in comprehension. Serving as a companion to Joyful Reading, the book offers teachers everything they need to implement the Schoolwide Enrichment Model in Reading (SEM-R), a differentiated instructional approach that encourages students to read independently for a period of time each day on books of their own choice. Implemented in three phases, the SEM-R program has been shown by research to improve fluency and comprehension among at-risk students.

The Joyful Reading Resource Kit is a vital compendium not only for classroom teachers but also for parents and after-school educators who wish to support students in discovering the rich rewards and delights of reading.

The Joyful Reading Resource Kit includes:

Reproducible "bookmarks" for scaffolding students in critical thinking and comprehension activities

Extensive lists of recommended books

Tips for supporting students in selection of appropriately challenging books

Materials for managing independent reading in the classroom, including log sheets, five-minute conference tips, writing prompts, assessment rubrics, and a reading growth chart

Exciting enrichment resources to develop students' reading interests, including a survey form, online books, Web-based activities, and Renzulli Learning resources

Hands-On Creativity activities that help students elaborate ideas, develop fluency, brainstorm, and much more

Reproducible X-ploration projects on varied topics that students can pursue independently at their own pace

Let your child roll these tactile cubes and inspire writing ideas! Students can use these quiet foam cubes in both creative storytelling and non-fiction writing activities.

Feature different writing prompts on every side (36 prompts total).
Activity Guide included. Cubes measure 4cm.
Ages 6-10

Understanding the linguistic rules and phonic principles of English spelling is the key to success with spelling. This indispensable reference book explains the spelling system of the English Language and how it has developed. It includes generalizations for the phonic spelling of sounds and words, explains the rules for syllable division, rules of affixing and plurals. This book is particularly useful for students with an implicit processing difficulty.

This work is based on the Teaching Reading Through Spelling Programme developed between 1983 and 1987 at the Kingston Reading Centre by Lucy Cowdery and her colleagues. TRTS is a multi-sensory remedial programme for teaching reading, spelling and cursive writing and is used to train teachers of dyslexic pupils.

Get the facts and read a story all in one book! A fascinating fact-finding section is followed by a story which appears on two parallel ability levels – allowing access for the poorest of readers.

Featuring full-colour images, beautiful illustrations and lively, engaging layouts, the books cover high appeal topics that kids just love to read about. The books combine fact and fiction, starting with a fascinating fact-finding section followed by a beautifully illustrated story on the topic.
Interest Age 8 – 14 years | Reading Age 6 – 7 years. From Vampires, Dinosaurs and Formula One to Fashion and Body Art, the Trailblazers series is bound to offer a topic that will engage and motivate even the most reluctant and struggling of readers.

The Trailblazers books kick off with a fascinating fact finding section, making use of simple non-fiction conventions. The text is broken up into lots of manageable sections, often in the form of bullet points or captions. The pages feature lots of full colour photographs to illustrate the points being made in the text. These colourful and eye-catching layouts vary from page to page so that readers with low attention spans will be constantly engaged with new information, formats and colours. The second half of each book is devoted to a topic-related story. For boys that often prefer non-fiction, the Trailblazers format is designed to encourgage them to read fiction. The fiction story caters for two parallel ability levels. A simple text appears opposite a beautifully illustrated full colour ‘speech bubble’ version allowing access for the poorest readers and making it ideal for buddy reading sessions.

The series will appeal to older children, either with a low level of literacy or who are learning English as a second language. The vocabulary is carefully controlled, with simple sentences and the use of repetition to reinforce reading skills.

Get the facts and read a story all in one book! A fascinating fact-finding section is followed by a story which appears on two parallel ability levels – allowing access for the poorest of readers.

Featuring full-colour images, beautiful illustrations and lively, engaging layouts, the books cover high appeal topics that kids just love to read about. The books combine fact and fiction, starting with a fascinating fact-finding section followed by a beautifully illustrated story on the topic. Interest Age 8 – 14 years | Reading Age 6 – 7 years. From Vampires, Dinosaurs and Formula One to Fashion and Body Art, the Trailblazers series is bound to offer a topic that will engage and motivate even the most reluctant and struggling of readers.

The Trailblazers books kick off with a fascinating fact finding section, making use of simple non-fiction conventions. The text is broken up into lots of manageable sections, often in the form of bullet points or captions. The pages feature lots of full colour photographs to illustrate the points being made in the text. These colourful and eye-catching layouts vary from page to page so that readers with low attention spans will be constantly engaged with new information, formats and colours. The second half of each book is devoted to a topic-related story. For boys that often prefer non-fiction, the Trailblazers format is designed to encourgage them to read fiction. The fiction story caters for two parallel ability levels. A simple text appears opposite a beautifully illustrated full colour ‘speech bubble’ version allowing access for the poorest readers and making it ideal for buddy reading sessions.

The series will appeal to older children, either with a low level of literacy or who are learning English as a second language. The vocabulary is carefully controlled, with simple sentences and the use of repetition to reinforce reading skills.

ACE Spelling Activities is designed to be used with the ACE Spelling Dictionary. It provides a framework for all learners to get to grips with phonics and the English spelling system. While especially valuable for dyslexic pupils, this resource is designed to improve spelling and writing performance on a whole-school basis through fun activities like crosswords, puzzles and games.

With over 100 photocopiable activities for individual, pair, group and whole-class work, this revised second edition of the ACE Spelling Activities fully covers the statutory spelling lists for the National Curriculum for English for KS2. Activities cover tricky word endings, spellings for sounds, searching for patterns and more. A new Slippery Characters section focuses on 240 frequently misspelt words between 5 and 13 letters in length, providing the opportunity to correct misspellings that could otherwise persist for a lifetime. The resource also includes sections on how to teach and practice spellings.

Contains 150 photocopiable pages.
Minimum Age Suitability:7 Years +

“Pupils with spelling difficulties often experience problems accessing the curriculum and lose confidence with writing. The ACE Spelling Dictionary breaks through these problems, taking away the frustration of hunting through a conventional dictionary and actually improving users’ spellings through increasing their understanding of common spelling patterns and unusual features.

The Dictionary is designed for writers of all ages who need to check spellings, and is intended for use in educational settings and at home. The fourth edition of the ACE Spelling Dictionary has expanded user’s notes and thousands of new words, including more alternative spellings, plural forms and ‘sound-alike’ pairs and groups than before. The darker blue long vowel section makes it easy to open the book near the wanted page. It has an up-to-date vocabulary and provides full ‘how to use’ guidance for new and experienced users.

Using the unique ACE Spelling Index, users need only think about how a word sounds to find out how to spell it. By simply identifying the first vowel sound, the speller is directed to the page where the problem word is found. The easy-to-use reference system will tempt users to use more interesting words in their writing. Both spelling patterns and irregularities are highlighted in the dictionary so that pupils learn to spell incidentally.

This highly practical activity workbook is linked to the core text How to Manage Spelling Successfully and has been designed to support dyslexic students practise the spelling strategies and methods recommended in that book.

This activity book can be used separately, or as part of an integrated programme for building students' spelling skills at home or at school. Suitable for mainstream classrooms, pupils undertaking additional literacy support in small groups, and for one-to-one teaching of individuals with specific learning difficulties including dyslexia, this excellent resource contains activities suitable for use at different stages of development, and for use with adults as well as school students.

Each section contains a range of multi-sensory activities, including word searches, simple crossword puzzles and dictation exercises. This is an essential classroom companion for anyone helping struggling spellers

By author Philomena Ott

Joyful Reading offers teachers a differentiated instructional approach for motivating students at varied levels to discover the rewards and delights of reading appropriately challenging books. Authored by Sally M. Reis, an acclaimed scholar of gifted and talented education, the book describes the Schoolwide Enrichment Model for Reading (SEM-R), an easy-to-implement program that encourages students to read independently for a period of time during the school day on books of their own choice while supporting them in learning comprehension strategies.

The program includes three phases:

A Book Hook component in which the teacher reads aloud from a high-interest book while engaging the class in critical thinking responses

A Supported Independent Reading component in which students are encouraged to select and read progressively challenging books while the teacher offers instruction through individualized confer-ences

A Special Interest component in which students engage in reading-enrichment activities

The SEM-R program has been shown by research to improve students' fluency and comprehension as well as their attitudes toward reading and is praised by teachers for getting students excited about books.
Jossey-Bass Teacher