LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

The name Toe by Toe was chosen to signify that a student makes progress by the tiniest steps – one toe at a time. However, even though the steps taken are small, the student can clearly measure his or her progress right from the first page. The student’s confidence and self-esteem are boosted as a result.

Over 25 years of fieldwork went into the development of the system and it is this research which makes the method so easy to use. You don’t have to be trained in any field of Education to tutor with Toe by Toe. In fact, the manual often works better with non-professionals using it as they do not come to the task with any pre-conceived notions and thus simply follow the very detailed instructions to the letter.

The unique syllable division employed by Toe by Toe is very easy to use though it is not the syllable division generally used for the teaching of reading. Once the sound of a phoneme has been taught using the ‘polynons’ (nonsense words), these rules can then be applied to any multi-syllabic word and students find a whole new world of reading opening before their eyes.

No matter what the nature of the student’s literacy problem, they can be taught to read using Toe by Toe. The severity of their problem may only be reflected in the length of time needed to get through the book. Indeed, if the system is used with a ‘non-dyslexic’ child (i.e. one without learning difficulties) the rapid improvement in reading age is truly astonishing.

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.

Understanding Everyday Writing - set of 4 books.Although each book is at the same level of difficulty there is differentiation.

Book 1 Cards and Letters
Book 2 Messages and Lists
Book 3 Writing in School
Book 4 Writing All Around Us

This series was designed to help pupils who need to develop confidence in reading and writing and for those who English is an additional language to extend their range of written work to fulfill their National Curriculum requirements.

The activities can be used selectively to focus on specific types of text, or to supplement work being done in the mainstream class. Most pages are followed by writing frames/templates allowing students to extend their work and produce a task in two stages that would have been difficult in one stage. All 6 books are at the same level.
Reading age 8+ years.

Book 1 Everyday skills. Notes, cards, postcards, instructions and letters.
Book 2 Popular media and information. Cartoon strips, magazines, newspaper reports and information leaflets.
Book 3 Humour, poetry and drama. Jokes, limericks, poems, dialogues and drama.
Book 4 Personal writing and stories. Diary writing, autobiographical events, biography and fictional narratives.
Book 5 Cross-curricular text types. Experimental report, investigation plan, technology plan, writing for geography and history.
Book 6 Essays. Note-making and planning, essay types: explanation, comparison, discussion, persuasion, evaluation.

A remedial program designed to give older students the tools they need to learn to spell. Combined with a few simple spelling rules, it helps students to master spelling strategies.

Using Direct Instruction methodology, students are taught research-proven strategies to accurately spell 500 morphographs resulting in the ability to spell over 12,000 words. Spelling Through Morphographs also empowers vocabulary growth.

Improve your students' spelling skills

Improves students' spelling skills through clear explanation and teaching of the key spelling rules.

Diagnostic tests ensure progression by identifying students' weaknesses and directing them to the appropriate teaching and practice.

A complete package including front-of-class interactive whiteboard activities to fully cater for the different learning styles of all your students.

Progression can be tracked using the bank using the self-tests provided in the Student Book and Teacher Resource File.

Peer and self-assessment activities enable students to measure their own progress and confidence.

The Spotlight Series is a complete set of worksheets and activities to improve spelling skills, reading accuracy, grammar and phonological awareness.

The 75 worksheets in Spotlight on Suffixes - Book One introduce the most common suffixes in English in a systematic manner, focusing on both the grammatical function of the suffx and the spelling rules concerning the joining of the suffixes to base words. Suffixes which can be pronounced differently according to context such at the '-ed' past tense verb ending are highlighted for special practice.

Spotlight on Suffixes - Book Two, with over 80 worksheets, extends the work in Book One on common suffixes and suffixig rules. The book is in two parts, Part 1 dealing with basic suffix recognition and also giving sytematic coverage of the spelling rules by which suffixes are joined to base words. This Part provides extensive practice of the 'double', 'drop-e' and 'change y to i' rules. Part 2 focuses on individual verb, noun and adjective suffixes such as '-ate', '-ify', '-ity', '-ment', '-ous', '-ible', and others.

The Spotlight Series is a complete set of worksheets and activities to improve spelling skills, reading accuracy, grammar and phonological awareness.

Book One - Phonic wordsearch puzzles and activities to help the development of spelling skills. This is a collection of 30 wordsearch puzzles and fill-in-the-blank activities designed to help in the development of spelling skills. Each puzzle is based on a specific vowel or sound combination, so the book can be used by teachers as part of a structured approach to spelling and to concentrate learning activity where it is needed most.

Book Two - Phonic wordsearch puzzles and activities to help the development of spelling skills. This collection of 40 wordsearch puzzles and fill-in-the-blank activities is designed to help in the development of spelling skills. Each puzzle is based on a specific vowel or sound combination, so the book can be used by teachers as part of a structure approach to spelling and to concentrate learning activity where it is needed most.

The Spotlight Series is a complete set of worksheets and activities to improve spelling skills, reading accuracy, grammar and phonological awareness.

Spotlight on Blends Book 1 provides material to encourage systematic practice with blends at the beginning of words. The tasks in the two Spotlight on Blends books are varied. However, the main emphasis is on developing phonological awareness by means of sound blending, rhyming and careful contrasting of blends which are similar in sound. Research shows that training in such skills leads to improved reading accuracy and spelling.

Spotlight on Blends - Book Two follows on from the work in Book One of the series, focusing this time on the end of words. The tasks in the two Spotlight on Blends books are varied. However, the main emphasis is on developing phonological awareness by means of sound blending, rhyming and careful contrasting of blends which are similar in sound. Research shows that training such skills leads to improved reading accuracy and spelling.

SRA’s Corrective Reading Decoding programs are successful with problem readers because they provide the careful integration, the practice, and the management details that the problem reader needs to succeed.

Level A is appropriate for students who are extremely deficient in decoding skills. These students may recognize some words but do not have adequate strategies for accurate decoding of words like frost and track. The skills are divided into four principal areas: Word-Attack Skills, Workbook Exercises, support activities and Checkouts and Mastery Tests.

This kit contains:
Corrective Reading Decoding Level A, Presentation Book 1
Corrective Reading Decoding Level A, Presentation Book 2
Corrective Reading Decoding Level A, Teacher Guide

SRA’s Corrective Reading Decoding programs are successful with problem readers because they provide the careful integration, the practice, and the management details that the problem reader needs to succeed.

Level B1 is appropriate for most problem readers. They guess at words. They have trouble reading words such as what, that, a, and the when the words appear in a sentence context. They often read synonyms or printed words and are generally inconsistent in their reading behavior (reading a word correctly one time and missing it the next time)

This kit contains:
Corrective Reading Decoding Level B1, Presentation Book 1
Corrective Reading Decoding Level B1 Presentation Book 2
Corrective Reading Decoding Level B1, Teacher Guide

SRA’s Corrective Reading Decoding programs are successful with problem readers because they provide the careful integration, the practice, and the management details that the problem reader needs to succeed.

Level B2 is appropriate for students who have some decoding problems, who do not read at an adequate rate, who still tend to confuse words with similar spellings, and who tend to make word-guessing mistakes.

This kit contains:
Corrective Reading Decoding Level B2, Presentation Book 1
Corrective Reading Decoding Level B2, Presentation Book 2
Corrective Reading Decoding Level B2, Teacher Guide

SRA’s Corrective Reading Decoding programs are successful with problem readers because they provide the careful integration, the practice, and the management details that the problem reader needs to succeed.

Level C is appropriate for students who have mastered many basic reading skills but who have trouble with multisyllabic words and typical textbook material.

This kit contains:
Corrective Reading Decoding Level C, Presentation Book 1
Corrective Reading Decoding Level C, Presentation Book 2
Corrective Reading Decoding Level C, Teacher Guide

As one of the earliest personalized learning programs, SRA Reading Laboratory has improved the reading and independent learning skills of more than 100 million students in 63 countries, becoming one of the most trusted names in literacy learning.

SRA Reading Labs builds comprehension skills and fluency through reading selections in a range of topics.

Reinforces comprehension, phonics, grammar and word study skills

Differentiates student learning in classrooms

Builds strong reading and comprehension skills

What comes in the Box?

Reading Lab 2B, Skill Builder Cards and Dividers

Reading Lab 2B, Skill Builder Key Cards

Reading Lab 2B, Rate Builder Cards

Reading Lab 2B, Rate Builder Key Cards

Reading Lab 2B, Teacher's Handbook

Reading Lab 2B, Power Builder Cards and Dividers

Reading Lab 2B, Power Builder Key Cards

SRA Reading Lab Level 2 Top Tray

SRA Reading Lab Level 2 Bottom Tray

SRA Reading Lab Level 2 Small Card Pocket

SRA Reading Lab Level 2 Shipper

SRA Reading Lab Level 2 Front Spacer

SRA Reading Lab Level 2 Medium Card Pocket

SRA Reading Lab Level 2 Medium Card Pocket Divider

SRA Reading Lab Level 2 Large Center Pocket

SRA Reading Lab Level 2 Back Teacher Guide Pocket

SRA Reading Lab Level 2 Back Pocket Divider

SRA Reading Lab Level 2B Sticker X 2

This pack of 24 books contains fictionalised biographies of 21 fantastic football players and three of the world's best managers. Ransom's Tales from the Pitch series, is great for encouraging even the most reluctant reader. These books offer strong stories and lots of football.

Each of these fast-moving reads, focuses on one football superstar, many of them up-and-coming players who are yet to reach the summit of their career. From Erling Haaland to Lionel Messi, these biographies cover the full range of football both in Europe and beyond. The players are from all walks of life and have faced failure, injury and rejection, to ultimately make their dreams come true. So meet the fresh young talent behind the iconic tackles and goals and find out what makes each of these players so special.

Interest Age: 7 - 18 Years old

Reading Age: 9 - 10 Years old

This pack includes the following titles:

Felix

Gnabry

Haaland

Kane

Kante

Kelly

Lewandowski

Mahrez

Mbappe

Messi

Neymar

Pulisic

Rashford

Ronaldo

Saka

Salah

Sancho

Silva

Son

Sterling

Van Dijk

Guardiola

Klopp

Southgate

“Zone 13” is a high interest age, low reading age series covering the supernatural. These exciting action packed stories appeal to children with a love of the unexplained. The set includes the following titles:

The Shadow from the Past

Crawlers

Space Weeds

A nest of Aliens

Interest Age 8 – 14 years

Reading Age 8 – 9 years

The Starchasers series is classic, fast paced, high action space adventures are perfect for children aged 8-14 who have a reading age of 8-9. The books follow the antics of the Starchasers - a team of freelance space adventurers who will take on just about any mission that's legal and earns good money.

The exciting plots and entertaining characters ensure Starchasers are classic, simple and rewarding reads for reluctant and struggling readers. Supported by superb black and white illustrations throughout, each story is approximately 2600 words long, with carefully controlled vocabulary and simple sentences that will help carry the reluctant reader from beginning to end.

Interest Age: 8 - 14 Years old

Reading Age: 8 - 9 Years old

In Jungle Planet the Starchasers are out of work and hard up for cash so they decide to explore the far reaches of space for a money-making opportunity. A planet covered in thick jungle grabs their attention so Suma and Finn take the lander down to get a closer look. Distracted by his virtual games helmet, Finn doesn't notice the jungle advancing until it's too late. The planet is alive with thick rubbery creepers and it has the lander in it's grips! It's up to Misha to land the Lightspinner and come to Finn and Suma's rescue. Can she negotiate the viscious vines? And will the jungle hold the treasures the Starchasers are searching for?

In The Planet of the Vampiresthe Starchasers are lost deep in space and Rob, their onboard computer is riddled with viruses. Without any of their controls working and only 24hrs of oxygen left, the team make an emergency landing on an unknown planet. Soon the Lightspinner is surrounded by menacing black cats howling in the night. When day comes the cats have disappeared and the team set about making repairs but minutes later Misha is gone. Can Finn and Suma rescue her from the grips of the planet's thirsty inhabitants? And how will they find the money to fix Rob and continue their space adventures?

The Breakouts pack contains eight titles, with stories ranging from shark attacks on an Australian beach, peril in the Himalayas, witches, ghosts and dystopian futures.

These are strong modern, adventurous stories for both boys and girls. This series offer a challenging read in terms of ideas and vocabulary but in a style and length that make them easier to read. These books are perfect for readers who have gained a bit more confidence in reading and who are after a more challenging read in terms of ideas and vocabulary but who aren't yet ready for longer, more demanding reads.

Interest Age: 9 - 13 years

Reading Age: 10 years

Titles in the series:

The Last Time I Died

Young Blood

The Witch's Daughter

Magpie

Dead in the Water

Strangers on a Plane

Peril in the Snow

In the Dark of Night