Start Making Notes helps to develop a range of comprehension and note-taking skills, and contains interesting information texts with writing frames for pupils to record key points. It is aimed at KS1 children, including less-able readers. The sheets encourage effective comprehension: accurate close reading to understand the text, and search reading, to locate the specific information required. Another related book, Making Notes, is more suited to slightly older readers. Both books can be used by individuals or groups. Previously available through Easylearn.

Writing with Storyboards helps pupils to develop good story writing skills, and is especially useful for those who find it difficult to organise and plan their writing. The book includes whole stories, stories without endings and story starters. Each sheet encourages pupils to develop plot, setting, characterisation etc and stimulates the use of dialogue. A second book with the same format but 25 different topics is available. Previously available through Easylearn.

Fifth in a series of 6 books that make the most of budding writing skills. The 25 topics in each book are ideal for early sentence writing, and the 6 books are crammed full of things that primary school pupils love to write about. Each sheet is highly motivating, enabling pupils with very limited writing skills to produce an attractive piece of work. Write About the Picture is easy for pupils to understand and use and requires minimal teacher assistance. Previously available through Easylearn. Book 5 topic titles include: Racing Cars, Making a Salad and Washing the Car.

Last in a series of 6 books that make the most of budding writing skills. The 25 topics in each book are ideal for early sentence writing, and the 6 books are crammed full of things that primary school pupils love to write about. Each sheet is highly motivating, enabling pupils with very limited writing skills to produce an attractive piece of work. Write About the Picture is easy for pupils to understand and use and requires minimal teacher assistance. Previously available through Easylearn. Book 6 topic titles include: Car Transporter, Pet Mice and The Ball Pool.

This book provides practice in sequencing events and stories. The worksheets range from the recognition of basic, repeating patterns through pictorial sequencing to the ordering of a simple sentence. Essential for pre-literacy skills practice. Previously available through Easylearn.

Fine Motoring improves pencil control and provides opportunities for cutting and sticking. Activities include tracing over straight lines and circles, copying lines and cutting and sticking pictures. Most sheets provide an opportunity for the child to add details and make the sheet personal. This photocopiable book is essential for children who need a structure as they work towards writing letters. Previously available through Easylearn.

This book, which contains valuable comprehension material for pupils with limited reading skills, develops children’s understanding of what they read. The reading material is at a very low level and little writing is required. Previously available through Easylearn.

The 4 Read, Find, Write books are ideal for the crucial stage when children start to segment and blend words and learn high-frequency words. Book 1 uses short phrases and introduces a small number of common words. The sheets have been successfully used with KS1 and 2 children, who really enjoyed using them. The graded books are suitable for all beginner readers. The straightforward layout and slow, steady progression make the books particularly suitable for children struggling with literacy who can use the sheets independently. This series fits in well with ‘Letters and Sounds’: the 4 books cover the 100 first words. Each book includes dictation and record/assessment sheets. 3 other books available. Previously sold through Easylearn

Worksheets to support and consolidate practical work on telling the time from analogue and digital clock faces. Suitable for a wide age range from Reception to KS3, and for a wide range of abilities. The clear layout and simple, illustrated instructions enable independent work. This book covers telling the time to five minutes, then minutes, with 3 pages dealing with a.m. and p.m. Previously available through Easylearn. Two more books available.

The interesting and appealing cutting activities in this book are excellent in the classroom as a diagnostic tool, to improve fine-motor skills and to encourage independent work. Sheets link well with topic work and are perfect for pupils with dyspraxia and others who need to to improve eye and hand co-ordination. Start Cutting follows the developmental progression of cutting: tasks range from short snips to cutting combinations of straight and curved lines. Pupils really enjoy cutting out the missing parts to complete each attractive picture. Previously available through Easylearn.

Hunt the Word works on reference skills. It encourages pupils to use dictionaries and helps them to understand their alphabetical organisation, as well as improving spelling. It can be used with all dictionaries, especially First/Junior/Primary dictionaries. The book is suitable for a wide age-range: Key Stage 1 to Key Stage 3. It is perfect for inclusive education: the clear layout, motivating tasks and independent working suits all pupils. Previously available through Easylearn.

The three Out of Sight books concentrate on common words that children need when first learning to read. This first book works on 45 words such as to, can, and go, and has 105 pages. The sheets use a small steps approach. A range of activities and games sheets is included and each word is visited several times to ensure over-learning. Two other books available. Previously sold through Easylearn.

Encourage independent narrative writing with the 50 More Write Reason worksheets. This is one of a series of two books which enables pupils to use simple structures to produce sentences. The activities encourage independent narrative writing, from sentence formation to story writing. Both books enable pupils to write at different levels and for different purposes and have a wide appeal. The series is also useful for comprehension, speaking and listening and grammar work. Another book, Write Reason, is also available. Previously sold through Easylearn.

A comprehensive tool for the teaching and assessment of aural phonic skills, Sounds Good provides a ready-made collection of oral activities to develop phonological and phonemic awareness. It encompasses assessment, practice and monitoring progress. Sounds Good is ideal for children who have experienced literacy difficulties, including those with dyslexia. 77 pages. Previously available through Easylearn.

An endless supply of effective games! 10 different bingo and lotto games, covering a wide range of phonic skills, are included in this value-for-money, copiable product. The games are extremely quick and easy to make and the simple bingo format ensures time is not wasted on learning how to play. This full-colour resource can be used for lots of phonics activities. Previously available through Easylearn.

Third in a series of 6 books that make the most of budding writing skills. The 25 topics in each book are ideal for early sentence writing, and the 6 books are crammed full of things that primary school pupils love to write about. Each sheet is highly motivating, enabling pupils with very limited writing skills to produce an attractive piece of work. Write About the Picture is easy for pupils to understand and use and requires minimal teacher assistance. Previously available through Easylearn. Book 3 topic titles include: Barbecue Time, The Pet Shop and Firefighters.

This book encourages the development of phonological and phonemic awareness: essential in teaching children to read successfully. It concentrates on the onset and rime approach to phonics and contains all the common rimes, enabling children to spell hundreds of words. The book includes a revision section, which is useful for consolidation work and assessment. Phonic Rime Time helps children to learn by analogy and become good, independent spellers. It is ideal for those pupils who are not succeeding with a purely synthetic phonics approach. 80 pages. Also see: Spelling with Rime. For introductory work which is more suited to younger pupils, another book, Time to Rime, is available. Previously available through Easylearn.

The two On the Write Track books contain sentence construction work for beginner writers with stimulating images to help independent writing. Both books have a similar format and are useful for a wide range of pupils at an early stage of literacy. The sheets can also be used for Speaking and Listening work. Previously available through Easylearn.

The 4 Read, Find, Write books are ideal for the crucial stage when children start to segment and blend words and learn high-frequency words. Book 3 builds on the previous 2 books and introduces more common words. The sheets have been successfully used with KS1 and 2 children, who really enjoyed using them. The graded books are suitable for all beginner readers. The straightforward layout and slow, steady progression make the books particularly suitable for children struggling with literacy who can use the sheets independently. This series fits in well with ‘Letters and Sounds’: the 4 books cover the 100 first words. Each book includes dictation and record/assessment sheets. 3 other books available. Previously sold through Easylearn.