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My First Letter Sounds £7.95
With My First Letter Sounds, children learn all of the letter sounds of the English language, not just the alphabet letters. Learning the letter sounds is the first step towards reading and writing.
My First Letter Sounds provides an easy introduction to these by:
- Learning the sounds that letters make (not their names) – a written pronunciation guide is included in the book
- Learning how to write the letters – arrows on each letter enables children to form it correctly
- Identifying the sounds in words using the pictures in the book and asking children if they can hear the /ssss/ sound in “sun”?
- Tips and guidance for parents are included in the book
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Sounds like fun DVD £17.29
First shown on the popular Cartoonito TV Channel, the Sounds Like Fun DVD is a perfect resource for helping children learn how to read and write. Based on Jolly Phonics, the DVD introduces children to the 42 letter sounds of the English language and teaches them how to blend the sounds for reading as well as how to identify the sounds in words for writing. The DVD contains 39 short episodes (approximately 5 mins each), with each letter sound introduced in its own episode. Animated characters enhance the learning and engage children in a range of activities.
Ideal for children aged 3+
Learn to read and write with Sounds Like Fun:
- Learn the letter sounds
- Copy the letter-sound actions
- Listen out for the sounds in spoken words
- Read the words you have just heard
- Bonus material: say the sounds!
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The Grammar 1 Handbook £39.50
The Grammar 1 Handbook follows on from The Phonics Handbook. It provides a full year’s worth of lessons for teaching grammar, spelling, and punctuation to children aged 5+.
It provides:
- Practical advice and ideas for teaching
- Step-by-step lesson plans and notes for the teacher
- Introduces rudiments of grammar
- 36 structured grammar and punctuation lessons (1 lesson per week)
- 36 spelling lessons (1 lesson per week)
- Revision and extension of The Phonics Handbook
- Photocopiable worksheets for children to complete
- Fun actions for the grammar points
Topics covered include:
- Vowel digraphs
- Alternative spellings of vowel sounds
- Plural endings
- Short vowels and consonant doubling
- Tricky words
- Consonant blends
- Nouns – proper/common/plurals
- Personal pronouns
- Verbs Conjugating verbs – present/past/future
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- When to use a/an/the
- Sentences – capital letters, full stops and speech marks
- Parsing – identifying the parts of speech in sentences
- Alphabetical order
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The Grammar 2 Handbook £39.50
The Grammar 2 Handbook follows on from The Grammar 1 Handbook. It provides a full year’s worth of lessons for teaching grammar, spelling, and punctuation to children aged 6+.
It provides:
- Practical advice and ideas for teaching
- Step-by-step lesson plans and notes for the teacher
- Introduces rudiments of grammar
- 36 structured grammar and punctuation lessons (1 lesson per week)
- 36 spelling lessons (1 lesson per week)
- Revision and extension of The Grammar 1 Handbook
- Photocopiable worksheets for children to complete
- Fun actions for the grammar points
Topics covered include:
- New spelling patterns – ei, eigh, ture
- Silent letters – b, c, h, k, w
- Syllables
- Identifying the short vowels
- Spelling rules – consonant doubling and adding suffixes
- Tricky word families
- Revision of elements covered in the Grammar 1 Handbook
- Further adjectives – possessive
- Comparatives and superlatives
- Prepositions
- Conjunctions
- Dictionary work
- Punctuation
- Exclamation marks
- Apostrophes
- Further sentence development
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The Grammar 3 Handbook £39.50
The Grammar 3 Handbook follows on from The Grammar 2 Handbook. It provides a full year’s worth of lessons for teaching grammar, spelling and punctuation to children aged 7+.
It provides:
- Practical advice and ideas for teaching
- Step-by-step lesson plans and notes for the teacher
- Continues to introduce new grammar elements
- 36 structured grammar and punctuation lessons (1 lesson per week)
- 36 spelling lessons (1 lesson per week)
- Revision and extension of The Grammar 2 Handbook
- Photocopiable worksheets for children to complete
- Fun actions for the grammar points
Topics covered include:
- Revision of elements covered in The Grammar 1 & 2 Handbooks
- New spelling patters – tch, dge, ure, gn, gh, ex, n for /ng/, s, se and ze for /z/, a for /ar/, y for /i/, a for /o/, ere for /air/, and eer and ere for /ear/
- Suffixes -‘less’, ‘able’ and ‘ful’
- Proper adjectives
- Nouns acting as adjectives
- Collective nouns Pronouns – possessive/subjective and object
- The present particle and the continuous tenses
- Paragraphs
- Subject and object in a sentence
- Conjunctions
- Questions and exclamations in speech
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The Grammar 4 Handbook £39.50
The Grammar 4 Handbook follows on from The Grammar 3 Handbook. It provides a full year’s worth of lessons for teaching grammar, spelling and punctuation to children aged 8+.
It provides:
- Practical advice and ideas for teaching
- Step-by-step lesson plans and notes for the teacher
- Continues to introduce new grammar elements
- 36 structured grammar and punctuation lessons (1 lesson per week)
- 36 spelling lessons (1 lesson per week)
- Revision and extension of The Grammar 3 Handbook
- Photocopiable worksheets for children to complete
- Fun actions for the grammar points
Topics covered include:
- Revision of elements covered in The Grammar 1, 2 & 3 Handbooks
- Nouns acting as concrete/ abstract/possessives
- The present participle as an adjective
- Onomatopoeia
- Agreements
- Clauses/independent clauses
- Hyphens
- Sentence writing – statements and questions, compound sentences
- Parsing verbs
- Infinitives
- Antonyms and Synonyms
- Homophones
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The Grammar 5 Handbook £39.50
The Grammar 5 Handbook follows on from The Grammar 4 Handbook. It provides a full year’s worth of lessons for teaching grammar, spelling and punctuation to children aged 9+.
It provides:
- Practical advice and ideas for teaching
- Step-by-step lesson plans and notes for the teacher
- Continues to introduce new grammar elements
- 36 structured grammar and punctuation lessons (1 lesson per week)
- 36 spelling lessons (1 lesson per week)
- Revision and extension of The Grammar 4 Handbook
- Photocopiable worksheets for children to complete
- Fun actions for the grammar points
Topics covered include:
- Revision of elements covered in The Grammar 1, 2, 3 & 4 Handbooks
- Sentence walls
- Simple and continuous tenses
- Contractions and the verb ‘to have’
- Adverb placement in sentences
- Proofreading
- Prepositional phrases
- Compound subjects and objects
- Transitive and Intransitive verbs
- The order of adjectives
- Adverbs of manner, degree & place, time & frequency
- Irregular plurals
- Parenthesis
- Homophones
- Antonyms and Synonyms
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The Grammar 6 Handbook £39.50
The Grammar 6 Handbook follows on from The Grammar 5 Handbook. It provides a full year’s worth of lessons for teaching grammar, spelling and punctuation to children aged 10+.
It provides:
- Practical advice and ideas for teaching
- Step-by-step lesson plans and notes for the teacher
- Continues to introduce new grammar elements
- 36 structured grammar or punctuation lessons (1 lesson per week)
- 36 spelling lessons (1 lesson per week)
- Revision and extension of The Grammar 5 Handbook
- Photocopiable worksheets for children to complete
- Fun actions for the grammar points
Topics covered include:
- Revision of elements covered in The Grammar 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 Handbooks
- Prefixes & suffixes, in particular numerical
- Silent letters: bt, te, th
- New spelling patterns/rules: ough
- Schwas -ity & -ety
- More alternatives: they, great, ballet, fete, straight for /ai/
- New parts of speech: for example, countable and uncountable nouns, gerunds and modal verbs and imperatives
- Further punctuation: using semi colons and colons or using a comma after a fronted adverbial
- Developing a greater understanding of sentence structure and learning to recognise indirect objects, subject complements and passive agents
- Introducing children to literary devices such as alliteration, learning to meaning of idioms and distinguishing between formal and informal writing
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The phonics handbook £39.50
The Jolly Phonics Handbook is a complete resource for teaching young children the skills they need to read and write fluently in their first year of school. This book is a comprehensive resource for teachers who want the flexibility of teaching the programme with worksheets and other photocopiable resources in the classroom. It offers step-by-step guidance on all aspects of the teaching across the year, as well as a wealth of practical ideas and fun activities for the children. It contains:
- A year’s worth of detailed daily lesson plans and notes to introduce the 42 letter sounds, with fun actions and stories.
- Regular activities promoting the five key skills for reading and writing.
- Weekly units covering key topics such as Alternatives, Handwriting, Tricky Words, Words and Sentences, Capital Letters and the Alphabet.
- Guided writing and reading comprehension activities.
- Detailed timetables outlining the scope and sequence of the programme alongside comprehensive teaching guidance.
This new edition follows the same format and pagination as before, but has been enhanced with a modern design and updated illustrations, as well several new worksheets and additional new content, ensuring it fully aligns with other Jolly Phonics resources.
