Writing Prompt Cubes

The Shades books offer fast-paced, shorter stories (just 64pp each) for older readers who may find longer books too daunting, but who still want the excitement of a great story told with pace and style. This great value pack includes 28 titles, with stories encompassing a range of genres such as horror, science fiction, historical fiction and straight modern teen tales. These are great quick reads, with topics to appeal to many different types of readers.

Interest Age: 12 - 18 Years old

Reading Age: 9 - 10 Years old

Dyslexia Friendly

Pages: 64pp

This pack includes the following titles:

Crime Stories Shades Shorts 2.0

Funny Stories Shades Shorts 2.0

Ghosts Stories Shades Shorts 2.0

Sci-Fi Stories Shades Shorts 2.0

Plague

Shouting at the Stars

Hunter's Moon

Who Cares?

Blitz

Hauntings

Mantrap

Coming in to Land

Life of the Party

Treachery by Night

Mind's Eye

Gateway from Hell

Cry, Baby

The Scream

Rising Tide

Stone Robbers

Fire!

Invasion

A Murder of Crows

The Messenger

Fighting Back

Tears of a Friend

Space Explorers

Four Degrees More

A series of uplifting, funny, warm, romantic, contemporary books from a variety of respected authors on topics that girls will relate to, with characters they relate to and enjoy. The upbeat stories feature everyday life, friendship and love from a range of perspectives and cultures.

The stories are designed for girls from ages 12 through to Young Adult who have a reading age of 6 - 8. This allows readers to tackle age appropriate topics in a clear way while improving literacy skills. The language levels have all been carefully designed to make for accessible reads, without losing any of the joy of a good read. In all cases the content is appropriate for inclusion in any school library.

Interest Age: 12 - 18 Years old

Reading Age: 6 - 8 Years old

Word count: 2,126 - 4,895

This pack includes the following titles:

Bad Boy

Ch@t

Forever

GamerHate

I [Heart] Glitter Boy

ILMFG (I Love My Friends Guy)

My Sister's Perfect Husband

Picture Him

Yasmin's Journey

Time to Live

This is a gripping and edgy reinvention of the vampire genre. Mixing the contemporary world of YouTube and smartphones with the centuries-old, traditional vampires of yesteryear, these must-read books have high appeal for both boys and girls.

Start with Die Now or Live Forever, then read the other books in any order. Follow these new young vampires as they struggle to cope with immortality and their craving for human blood. From Juliette modelling in Paris to rising music star Finn and would-be scientist Omar, they face tough challenges and deadly threats.

Interest Age: 12+ years

Reading Age: 9 years

Titles in the series are:

Die Now or Live Forever

Drop Dead, Gorgeous

Life Sucks

In Cold Blood

Dead on Arrival

Bloodsucking for Beginners

Every Drop of Your Blood

A trilogy of books in the Pick Your Path series. The books offers a fresh take on the traditional 'Choose your own adventure' format. These are short, strong, fast-moving stories, offering short, low-level texts. Every page requires the reader to choose the next course of action in the story. These are not just books; they are fully interactive adventures that will have the reader guessing and guessing - what happens next? The reader decides!

With strong, 'unbook-like' layouts, these black and white illustrated are perfect for building reading stamina: if the reader is 'killed' the first time, they can keep reading it until they find the route.

In Moon Unit an alien battlecraft attacks your lunar mining base.

In Ring Bearer a hoard of wraiths are after your ring - a sacred magical relic.

In Zombie Storm the zombies attack your burger van.

Interest Age: 11 to 16

Reading Age: 7 - 8

Note: some of the content of this book is not appropriate for readers under the age of eleven

“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.

Bring literacy to life with the Active Literacy Kit! Developed and designed by Dyslexia Action, the Active Literacy Kit has been carefully created for pupils who require additional support with reading and spelling, whether they are dyslexic or not.

The Active Literacy Kit includes 144 sound and picture cards, a teacher’s handbook, an exercise guide, placement assessments and an array of pupil books, as well as much more! Aimed at pupils of 7 years and over, this comprehensive resource creates a fantastic framework to support children with dyslexia and other literacy difficulties across the whole of Key Stage 2. The programme offers a super series of structured activities and timed exercises which strengthen phonological awareness and word recognition, building the foundational skills needed for fluent reading and spelling.

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

Build vocabulary, improve sight word recognition and increase fluency with this Big Box of Sentence Building. Ideal for introducing grammar and practising punctuation, each puzzle piece features a word that can be clipped together with other pieces to form sentences. Colour-coded by the part of speech it represents, the puzzle pieces are ideal for a range of activities around sentence construction. Includes 250 puzzle pieces (50 x 50 mm) plus 4-page booklet with teaching suggestions and games.

Build Vocabulary

Increase fluency

Introduce grammar

Teach punctuation

Learning Outcomes

Pupils should be encouraged to read all the words in a sentence and to do this accurately

Encapsulate what they want to say, sentence by sentence

Re-read to check that their writing makes sense

Proof-read to check for errors in spelling, grammar and punctuation (for example, ends of sentences punctuated correctly)

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

100% Comprehension using Fiction and Non-Fiction texts.

The Comprehension Box for 3rd-4th Class contains:

150 colourfully illustrated cards with texts covering a variety of genres and text types.

15 colour-coded sections.

Pupil Tracking Sheet Pad.

Questions on the back of each card.

Answer cards.

Scope and sequence chart.

A comprehensive Teachers Guide providing suggestions on how to explicitly teach comprehension strategies along with answers and pupil and teacher recording sheets.

Flexible use within the classroom

Pupils could be grouped according to reading level, work on the cards in a particular colour and then discuss and summarise what they have learned with their peers.

Capable, independent readers can work through the cards at their own pace, freeing up the teacher’s time to work intensively with different groups in the class.

Ideal for differentiation.

Teachers can easily assign the colour-coded cards to each pupil’s reading level.

Ten cards in each colour-coded section ensure that pupils practise comprehension strategies using a variety of texts and comprehension activities.

Each colour-coded section gradually increases in reading difficulty, leading to constant progression.

Pupils working on the same coloured section can alternate cards and engage in various station activities over ten lessons.