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Hi, We are Sally and Amanda from Guinea Pig Education. We present a range of complimentary teaching aids and workbooks to use in your classroom or as homework – in both print and digital format. We aim to raise reading standards and to develop literacy skills, with our ‘fun for kids’ phonic reading resources. We also offer support for pupils aged 4-16 years. We highly recommend our comprehension and creative writing resources - which build confidence and develop imagination.

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Hi, We are Sally and Amanda from Guinea Pig Education. We present a range of complimentary teaching aids and workbooks to use in your classroom or as homework – in both print and digital format. We aim to raise reading standards and to develop literacy skills, with our ‘fun for kids’ phonic reading resources. We also offer support for pupils aged 4-16 years. We highly recommend our comprehension and creative writing resources - which build confidence and develop imagination.
Good King Wenceslas Comprehension (6-9 years)
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Good King Wenceslas Comprehension (6-9 years)

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Read the heart-warming story, based on the Christmas carol Good King Wenceslas and John Mason Neale’s original tale, and answer the comprehension questions. A wonderful activity that will encourage kids, age 6-9, to think about why we give to those less fortunate and the importance of being kind and generous. 18 pages
Christmas Shopping Comprehension and Story Writing Prompt (6-9 years)
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Christmas Shopping Comprehension and Story Writing Prompt (6-9 years)

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Do you enjoy walking round the shops at Christmas? In this Christmas themed pack, you will read a description of what you see in the shops at Christmas that will inspire young children, age 6-9, to write about their own Christmas shopping experiences. It includes a series of comprehension questions and an example story that will encourage kids to write their own. 20 pages
Craft Activity: Design And Decorate A Christmas Room
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Craft Activity: Design And Decorate A Christmas Room

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Design and decorate a Christmas living room. A super fun craft activity for kids that will ignite your child’s imagination and help them get creative. Simply colour your chosen furniture and Christmas decorations, and then, cut them out. Next, arrange all the pieces in the room outline and stick down with glue. Alternatively, you can cut and stick everything first, then colour. Younger children may need help with cutting out and fixing the different elements. It is best to leave a small border when you cut round the more intricate, little pieces; then, when stuck, colour the border to blend the pieces into your design. Be inventive - you can use felt tips, colouring pencils, paint, glitter, sequins, bits of fabric, or felt. Plus, you could design and draw your own furniture, or decorations. We are confident kids will love designing their own Christmas living rooms. Included in this pack (to download and print) is an A4 room outline and eleven A4 pages of furniture and decoration options to cut and stick.
Printable Christmas Planner
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Printable Christmas Planner

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Download our FREE printable Christmas Planner. Contains lots of space to plan your perfect Christmas! Enabling you to stay organised and stress free this holiday season. 23 pages
Craft Activity: Make A Paper Gingerbread House
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Craft Activity: Make A Paper Gingerbread House

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Make A Paper Gingerbread House Make a colourful paper gingerbread house - a fun and easy Christmas craft activity that will keep your kids entertained during the holiday season and brighten up your home, or classrooms. You could even fill it with sweets, or gifts, and give it as a present. Each pack includes instructions and templates. You will need: white card, brown paint, felt tip pens, any kids craft supplies you have to hand (such as sequins, foam shapes, glitter, buttons, stickers etc.), glue, and scissors. 11 pages
Maths Land High School: Practice Basic Maths Skills (9-12 years)d
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Maths Land High School: Practice Basic Maths Skills (9-12 years)d

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104 pages Maths Land School’ is a ‘fun’ mathematical workbook, featuring humorous cartoon characters. Felicity Factor and Max Multiple are just two kids on hand to help children with those areas of the National Curriculum in maths they struggle with most. The book provides practice in basic numeracy skills +, -, x,÷, tables, multiples, fractions, decimals, percentages, averages, area, ratios, weights and measures. The book is aimed at children of 9-12 years. It can be used as a workbook at home, a support material to use alongside existing maths schemes in school or a revision guide. The book contains exercises with answers, to enable the teacher or parent to assess if the child has understood the math’s concepts learnt. The author’s simple sketches, appeal to children and help them learn faster.
Practise Writing To Describe (9-14 years)
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Practise Writing To Describe (9-14 years)

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21 pages Information Writing work packs are essential for all students wanting to develop their literacy skills and improve their grades in English assignments and examinations. Information Writing work packs concentrate specifically on information writing, providing everything needed to stimulate a child to write. The child is taught to recognise the difference between facts and opinions. Each pack in this series concentrates on a different aspect of information writing including: writing to advise, writing to inform, writing to explain, writing to analyse, review and comment, giving examples. The child is taught how a newspaper article is structured, how to write formal and informal letters, diaries, police reports, e-mails, biographies, autobiographies, interviews, book reviews and many more. The work packs contain starting point for writing, helping the child to form ideas, enabling him or her to structure their work and organise it into paragraphs. Attention is given to making writing more interesting by varying sentence types, using punctuation and good grammar. Each work pack includes an exciting range of model answers and sample texts written by students and provides practice questions to test them. Common errors made by students are highlighted and corrected. They are packed with vital hints and tips to enable the student to be successful and gain good grades. The packs are a very useful resource for teachers and save hours of time when preparing lessons or homework tasks. The specimen lesson plans and examples contained within each work pack will give the student ideas to build on and provide practice to develop their writing skills. Each work pack provides children with ideas for writing, especially reluctant writers who require starting points to write. Each work pack provides a safe topic that children will be comfortable with.
Plan And Write Fairy Tales: Pack 3 (6-9 years)
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Plan And Write Fairy Tales: Pack 3 (6-9 years)

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27 pages This pack contains two resources including: Plan And Write The Story Of Jack And The Beanstalk Plan And Write The Story Of Sleeping Beauty The series provides starting points to get young children, of 6-9 years, writing their own imaginative stories. Traditional tales like ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’ are used as examples to look at the characters, the setting and the plot and to show how to structure a story with a beginning, a middle and an end. Children will learn how to brainstorm their ideas, how to put them in a plan and then set out their story. Each pack provides writing challenges, asking the child to continue writing the story, developing their own ideas and to cut up stories to put in order. Charming silhouette pictures illustrate each work pack.
It's Fun To Write A Diary About What I Did In Half Term (6-9 years)
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It's Fun To Write A Diary About What I Did In Half Term (6-9 years)

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This pack includes three extracts from Ellie Mae’s diary about half term and then gives the child the opportunity to complete the pages, using the prompts and recording their own ideas about the half term holiday. The child is encouraged to give facts and opinions, saying how they felt and why. This series of lively work packs encourages children of 6-9 years to record their personal experiences in a diary. This will enable the child to practice their writing skills independently and to express their ideas freely. It will encourage them to write in more detail. A diary is usually written in present tense. It is an informal piece of writing and may contain some colloquial English. Diaries are fun to write and to re-read later. Older children will enjoy re-reading their old ‘news’ books, years and years later. Encourage the child to write a diary everyday, once a week or just at special times, such as, Christmas or in the summer holidays, in the form of a journal. 19 pages
'Theo The Fat Cat' (Read, Write And Play) 3-7 years
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'Theo The Fat Cat' (Read, Write And Play) 3-7 years

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16 pages A series of work packs called ‘Read, Write And Play’, for children of 3-7 years. For young children of 3-5 years, read the stories aloud and discuss the content of the story with the child, answering the questions. Get the child to draw a picture from the story. Help him or her write a sentence about it, so they can trace or copy over the letters. Make the puppet and act out the story. For older children, aged 5-7 (who have some reading skills), get the child to read the story and answer the questions in sentences. The questions cover comprehension skills, retrieving information, using language and inference. Colour the pictures and then draw your own picture and write your own version of the story. Make the puppet and then act out the story with your child.
Kai, The Koala’s, London Adventure (6-10)
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Kai, The Koala’s, London Adventure (6-10)

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A fantasy tale about a little grey koala. Kai, the koala, has been selected for the final of the ‘Replant the Forest’ competition. He has to fly to London and take part in some curious challenges to win the ultimate prize. Is he brave enough to overcome his fears? His friends tell him he can do it. Can he believe in himself and win the money to replant his beloved forest after the fires? 49 pages
Mr Pickwick's Christmas - Story and Questions
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Mr Pickwick's Christmas - Story and Questions

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Read about the Christmas adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick as he visits Manor Farm and attends a festive wedding. Then, answer the questions to see how much you have remembered. This beautifully illustrated story is adapted from Charles Dickens’s popular book ‘The Pickwick Papers.’ You will find out about how Christmas was celebrated in early nineteenth century England. 25 questions with answers. 19 Pages.
Looking Back - A Victorian Christmas - Age 8-12
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Looking Back - A Victorian Christmas - Age 8-12

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This fascinating workbook is packed full of facts about Christmas celebrations in nineteenth century Great Britain. It is your job to finish the research and complete the various fun activities. You will need to ask questions, find information and interpret the evidence you discover. It includes lots of interesting firsthand source material. In this resource, your children will learn about a number of Victorian Christmas customs and traditions, many of which are still popular today. The topics covered include: Christmas cards Christmas shopping Christmas food Christmas crackers Christmas decorations Christmas charity Carol Singing The origin of Father Christmas Each topic is broken down so that it is easy to understand and all the information is presented in an engaging manner - written up as newspaper articles, imaginary interviews, letters, diary entries etc. There are also lots of creative writing exercises and questions to answer that will encourage your children to thoughtfully consider the evidence before them. Where information is missing, your children will be required to do their own research and look up the answers to the questions online and in books. This pack is designed to help support your children as they explore the Victorian era, deepen their understanding of this historical time period, and ignite their interest in history. It is suitable for children age 8-12. 60 pages. Please be aware, there are no answers, but all the missing information is provided in bullet points at the end of the pack.