All About Us looks at the child in his or her environment and explores the child's world. The practical activities include ideas to help children to describe themselves and others, to explore and express their feelings in a variety of ways and to develop a positive self-image and sensitivity to the needs and feelings of others. The activities will encourage children to develop an awareness of their own personal attitudes and opinions and an understanding of their relationships with families, friends and people within the community. All of the play activities are designed to develop important...

Recognizing, identifying and being able to name colours are essential steps in the early education of all children. Colour knowledge is an important means of helping children to make comparisons and observe and explore their environment. The practical activities include fun ways of teaching colour recognition and identification, sorting and matching games, unusual art and craft ideas and suggestions for exploring colours in the environment. All of the play activities are designed to develop important preschool skills and a deeper understanding of the world and are linked to the Early Learning...

Early years settings include water play in their continuous provision. The ideas and activities in this book use the children s enjoyment of water play to create meaningful learning experiences. The practical activities include ideas for increasing children s vocabulary, simple science investigations and fun movement and dance - all based on the theme of water. All of the play activities are designed to develop important preschool skills and a deeper understanding of the world and are linked to the Early Learning Goals of the Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage, revised...

The Foundation Blocks for the Early Years series makes it easy to implement the Department of Education's new, revised Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage (September 2012). The books are clearly laid out, with one activity per page, attractive illustrations and cross references to popular early years topics. Written by experienced early years practitioners, these books will be an invaluable resource for anyone working with 3-5 year olds. This book contains activities for the prime area of Communication and Language and the specific area of Literacy. They will encourage...

The Brilliant Support Activities series contains photocopiable activities for use with slower learners or pupils with learning difficulties at Key Stage 2. The books introduce one concept per sheet, using simple language and clear, black line illustrations making them easy to read and understand. Word Level Work - Phonics contains 42 photocopiable sheets addressing learning objectives set out in the Primary Literacy strategy. the sheets provide additional practice and reinforcement and are ideal for those children who are still struggling to learn concepts and skills first introduced at Key...

The Brilliant Support Activities series contains photocopiable activities for use with slower learners or pupils with learning difficulties at Key Stage 2. The books introduce one concept per sheet, using simple language and clear, black line illustrations making them easy to read and understand. Sentence Level Work contains 42 photocopiable sheets addressing learning objectives set out in the National Literacy Strategy. The sheets provide additional practice and reinforcement and are ideal for those children who are still struggling to learn concepts and skills first introduced at Key Stage...

The 42 photocopiable activities in How to Dazzle at Reading will help secondary (Key Stage 3) pupils with special educational needs. The sheets use simple language, lively illustrations and adolescent-friendly activities to motivate pupils to want to learn to read. The activities will help pupils to: understand and use a variety of decoding techniques; discriminate between sounds in words; learn letters and letter combinations; read words by sounding out and blending the sounds. Pupils will practise: identifying the sounds they hear at the start and end of specified words; the sounds of short...

The activities in How to Dazzle at Writing concentrate on composing skills. They help 11-14 year old (Key Stage 3/KS3) pupils with special educational needs to write in different genres, from letters and reports to song lyrics, stories and poetry. The 42 reproducible sheets use simple language, lively illustrations and adolescent-friendly activities to encourage pupils to develop their writing skills. Each activity includes stimulus material to set the scene and where necessary provides an example of the genre. The activities include planning and writing stories; making notes; devising...

How to Dazzle at Grammar contains 42 photocopiable sheets for use with secondary school pupils who are working at levels 1-3 (Scottish levels A-B) of the National Curriculum in English. The sheets use simple language, lively illustrations and adolescent-friendly activities with the aim of giving pupils the tools to be able to talk about and understand language development. Pupils will be helped to deconstruct language, and through this to improve their own use of language. Pupils will practise: building sentences; identifying the subject and predicate of sentences; picking out verbs; getting...

How to Dazzle at Spelling is a structured resource for teaching Key Stage 3 (KS3), 11-14 year old, pupils with special educational needs to understand and commit sounds, letter strings and high frequency words to memory. The rules of spelling are often difficult for pupils to assimilate because there are so many exceptions. Therefore rules require reinforcement many times before they are understood. The activities in this book are designed to develop: visual and aural discrimination, visual and aural recognition, visual and aural memory. Pupils will learn that if they visualize the words, as...