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.
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.
Information Writing is the essential guide for all students wanting to develop their literacy skills and improve their grades in English assignments and examinations. It is the third in the 'Teach Your Child to Write Good English series. Information Writing has been written by an experienced teacher and tutor with the needs of children in mind. This book concentrates specifically on information writing required by the National Curriculum, providing everything needed to stimulate a child to write. It is specifically targeted at Key Stage 2 and 3 (ages 8-14 years). However, it provides a useful aid for students taking GCSE at foundation level. It contains material suitable for SATS examinations, for those taking 11+ entrance examinations and for students learning English as a foreign language.
Information Writing will guide students through all aspects of information writing, as if they had a tutor by their side. Information Writing teaches your child to recognize the difference between facts and opinions. It concentrates on different aspects of information writing including writing to advise, writing to inform, writing to explain, writing to analyse, review and comment, giving examples. It teaches the child 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.
This book is designed as a starting point for writing, helping the child to form ideas, enabling him or her to structure their work and organize it into paragraphs. Attention is given to making writing more interesting by varying sentence types, using punctuation and good grammar. Information Writing includes an exciting range of model answers and sample texts written by children and provides practice questions to test them. Common errors made by students are highlighted and corrected. It is packed with vital hints and tips on gaining those top grades. Information Writing is ideal for working through at home or as a resource in the classroom. By working methodically through this book the students will grow in confidence and will learn to enjoy writing.
The ‘Mission Spelling’ series teaches children to spell using phonics, with the help of a lovable little alien, called Zoggy, who has come all the way from planet Zen, three million light years away.
Follow the adventures of Zoggy as he explores Planet Earth and guides your child through a structured course that contains a treasury of spelling activities. Including: words to sound out; words to build up; phonic rhymes to read, cover and write from memory; spelling lists to practice; and rules to learn together.
A “must have” series, which reinforces the spelling rules taught in schools. It is essential for all children who struggle with spelling and will enable reluctant writers to attain the skills they need to get their ideas down accurately.
110 pages long
One week of distance learning work for children 8-10 years.
Give your children an hour of literacy work every day.
Each pack includes 5 activities - one for every day of the week. This includes a reading comprehension, a story to plan, write and reinvent and a letter or diary entry to write. I have also added some spelling activities as a bonus. There are 6 different packs (weeks) of work for this age.
This pack includes (and suggested order):
Mon- Lots Of Writing Tasks: The Circus Comes To Town
Tues- Comprehension The Art Gallery
Wed- Write A Persuasive Holiday Brochure
Thurs- Spelling Activity Revising Spelling Rules
Frid- Write A Story: The Summer Barbecue
Bonus vocabulary work pack - teaching more advanced vocabulary
Written by a teacher and tutor.
Is your child off school? Teachers and parents…Be prepared for SCHOOLING AT HOME.
Guinea Pig Education are supporting schools where closures are taking place, by supporting parents to access educational resources from home.
As teachers with many years experience, we have assembled some home learning packs that children will enjoy working through at home, independently or with an adult. There are work packs available for every age and year group.
Age ranges are based on the ability of the average child in a year group. If your child is working at a higher or lower ability, in comparison to their age, you may need to go up or down a scheme.
Simply, print each activity out on paper, using your home printer and your child can immediately start working.
Our packs are very good value - they are heavily discounted and jam packed with work. At Guinea Pig Education, we want all children to have access to education, at this difficult time.
This DIGITAL resource includes a link to access ‘Persuasive Writing And Argument’ and share it with your students in Google Drive. Therefore it is fully editable and can be used with Google Classroom.
It consists of 140 editable slides and at least 6 months of work.
This resource concentrates specifically and in depth on the art of persuasive writing and creating a good argument.
Learning Persuasive Writing will enable the student to write convincingly in letters, leaflets, brochures and newspaper articles for example. This resource also sets out how to write a well-balanced argument. It teaches the pupil how to structure their writing, putting forward a point of view, backing it up with convincing evidence, building up a relevant counter argument and knocking it down, as well as, putting forward their own comments and opinions. It focuses on discursive writing enabling the pupil to examine points for and against in a variety of subjects suitable for older children and teenage readers, healthy eating, fashion, social issues and many more. It includes a lively collection of writings, poems and a play to inspire the pupil. These are designed as starting points, ideal for the pupil who finds it difficult to think up ideas for writing, challenging them to recreate their own persuasive pieces.
In addition to this, the resource teaches organisational and literary devices in persuasive writing, including, figurative language, emotive words, repetition, connectives and use of good vocabulary. The student will learn how to consider writing for the appropriate audience, how to vary sentence types in order to make their writing more interesting, and the importance of using good spelling, punctuation and grammar. They will learn vital essay writing skills that will assist their studies in other areas of the curriculum.
Learning Persuasive Writing and Argument, includes an exciting range of model answers and sample texts written by children and provides practice questions to test them. Common errors made by students are highlighted and corrected. It is packed with vital hints and tips to enable the pupil to be successful and gain good grades.
This DIGITAL resource contains a link to access and make a copy into your google drive. It is fully editable and can be shared with your students via Google Classroom. Pdf version included.
A digital creative writing resource with a spooky Halloween theme. ‘At The Stroke Of Midnight’ will certainly get your heart-racing. It is a lively themed resource, that will stimulate a child’s imagination and inspire him or her to write in a more interesting way and to achieve better results.
This resource is packed full of fun features and stories to read, follow up activities to complete, harder vocabulary to prepare children for more advanced writing and many helpful tips and techniques to improve writing style. For example, write a spine tingling story, entitled ‘The Creepy Tale’, improve your vocabulary by collecting some ghostly words and phrases and get goose bumps as you write a recount on the spooky festivities at Ghoul Hall. This is not a resource for the squeamish! It is excellent for stretching fast workers and able writers or preparing for writing tasks in examinations.
’At The Stroke Of Midnight’ is part of a series of 12 resources (available in digital and pdf format) .
The resource consists of 35 editable slides.
This DIGITAL resource includes a link to access ’Information Writing’ and share it with your students in Google Drive. Therefore it is fully editable and can be used with Google Classroom.
Consists of 131 editable slides and at least 6 months of work.
Information Writing is the essential guide for all students of 9-14 years (grades 4-8) wanting to develop their literacy skills and improve their grades in English assignments and examinations.
This book concentrates specifically on information writing and provides everything needed to stimulate a child to write. Information Writing teaches the child to recognise the difference between facts and opinions. It concentrates on different aspects of information writing including: writing to advise, writing to inform, writing to explain, writing to analyse, review and comment, giving examples. It teaches the child 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.
This unit is designed as a 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.
Information Writing includes an exciting range of model answers and sample texts written by children and provides practice questions to test them. Common errors made by students are highlighted and corrected. It is packed with vital hints and tips on gaining those top grades. Information Writing is ideal for working through at home or as a resource in the classroom. By working methodically through this book the students will grow in confidence and will learn to enjoy writing.
Learning how to write to persuade and argue is an essential writing skill needed to write articles and letters - required throughout the school curriculum. Young writers will be taught to develop their points of view, in order to convince their target audience to believe in something - whether it is an exotic holiday destination or signing a petition. What s more, they will be taught how to make a point and provide evidence and comments to support their argument. They will learn to write a balanced argument, build up a counter argument and knock it down. They will be shown how to use literary techniques in their writing. More than this, the book contains a lively collection of writings for older children and teenagers: discursive topics on topical issues, poems and a play script, inspired by the work of children, their purpose, to provide starting points to help your child write. Learning Persuasive Writing and Argument is ideal for home study and will reinforce the work done in school. It is a companion to the other books in our series, Creative Story Writing and Information Writing. By working methodically through this book the student will grow in confidence and learn to enjoy writing. Please note, this is the US Edition. The U.K. Edition is also listed.
This DIGITAL resource includes a link to access ‘Creative Story Writing’ and share it with your students in Google Drive. Therefore it is fully editable and can be used with Google Classroom.
It consists of 150 editable slides and at least 6 months of work.
Creative Story Writing is the essential guide for all students wanting to develop their literacy skills and improve their grades in English assignments and examinations.
This resource will guide students through the story writing process. This resource is designed to help the students with thinking up ideas, providing starting points for writing, structuring and organising their writing into paragraphs. It features writing a good introduction with characters, setting and plot, building up suspense and winding up the plot with a suitable resolution.
Attention is given to making writing more interesting by varying sentence types, using punctuation and good grammar. The students will investigate different narrative structures for writing stories, exploring various viewpoints so they can decide if they write in first or third person. They will learn to evoke mood and atmosphere by using good vocabulary.
Creative Story Writing includes an exciting range of model answers and sample texts written by children and provides many practice questions to test them. Common errors made by students are highlighted and corrected. It is packed with vital hints and tips on gaining those top grades.
Creative Story Writing has been written by an experienced teacher and tutor and written with the needs of children in mind. This book concentrates specifically and in depth on Creative Writing, providing everything needed to stimulate a child to write imaginatively. It is specifically targeted at children aged 9-14 years.
A lively, up to date and action packed series of five themed study books that encourage children to write. Get Going With Creative Writing is a new up to date action packed series of five themed study books that encourage children to write. These books have a lively magazine style format: featuring short stories to read and a variety of non-fiction texts that will impact young readers and provide starting points for writing. Follow up activities will inspire even the most reluctant writers to write stories, poems, play scripts, diaries, reports, persuasive leaflets, letters and more.
More than this, the child will learn writing techniques including: simple, compound and complex sentences connectives grammar tips harder vocabulary and punctuation from our guinea pig guide. They are aimed at children between the ages of 7-13 and provide excellent writing practice for those children preparing to take 11+ examinations or S.A.Ts. They will also benefit children with special needs, or where English is a second language. Although the themed books can be used in any order, the subject matter of About Me and We Love Animals may appeal to younger children, who start working through the series.
Step-by-step guide to creative and other forms of writing.
Fully based on the National Curriculum.
Can be used to supplement work done in the classroom by teachers and parents.
Packed with helpful hints and tips.
Written by an experienced teacher.
Titles in the series: All About Me: (9781907733130) We Love Animals: (9781907733161) Likes and Dislikes: (9781907733147) Out and About: (9781907733154) What We Do: (9781907733178)
99 pages
A lively, up to date and action packed series of five themed study books that encourage children to write. Get Going With Creative Writing is a new up to date action packed series of five themed study books that encourage children to write. These books have a lively magazine style format: featuring short stories to read and a variety of non-fiction texts that will impact young readers and provide starting points for writing. Follow up activities will inspire even the most reluctant writers to write stories, poems, play scripts, diaries, reports, persuasive leaflets, letters and more.
More than this, the child will learn writing techniques including: simple, compound and complex sentences connectives grammar tips harder vocabulary and punctuation from our guinea pig guide. They are aimed at children between the ages of 7-13 and provide excellent writing practice for those children preparing to take 11+ examinations or S.A.Ts. They will also benefit children with special needs, or where English is a second language. Although the themed books can be used in any order, the subject matter of About Me and We Love Animals may appeal to younger children, who start working through the series.
Step-by-step guide to creative and other forms of writing.
Fully based on the National Curriculum. Can be used to supplement work done in the classroom by teachers and parents.
Packed with helpful hints and tips.
Written by an experienced teacher.
Titles in the series: All About Me: (9781907733130) We Love Animals: (9781907733161) Likes and Dislikes: (9781907733147) Out and About: (9781907733154) What We Do: (9781907733178)
96 pages
Get Going With Creative Writing is a new, up to date, action packed series of five study books, that encourage children to write. They are aimed at children between the ages of 7 and 13 years, who have acquired some degree of reading fluency. These books have a lively magazine type format: featuring short stories to read and a variety of up to date non-fiction texts that will impact young readers and provide starting points for writing. Follow up activities will inspire even the most reluctant writers to write stories, poems, play scripts, diaries, reports, persuasive leaflets, letters and more.
More than this, the child will learn writing techniques including: simple, compound and complex sentences - connectives - grammar tips - harder vocabulary and punctuation from our guinea pig guide. The books are suitable for use by teachers in the classroom or parents at home. The themed books can be used in any order, though the subject matter of ‘About Me’ and ‘All About Animals’ may appeal to younger children, who start working through the series. The themed books have been written by a teacher or tutor, have been trialled by the children she teaches and comply with the school curriculum. This is the first book in this excellent series from Guinea Pig Education. Please note, this is the US English Edition. The U.K. Edition is also listed.
95 pages
Get Going With Creative Writing is a new, up to date, action packed series of five study books, that encourage children to write. They are aimed at children between the ages of 7 and 13 years, who have acquired some degree of reading fluency.These books have a lively magazine type format: featuring short stories to read and a variety of up to date non-fiction texts that will impact young readers and provide starting points for writing. Follow up activities will inspire even the most reluctant writers to write stories, poems, play scripts, diaries, reports, persuasive leaflets, letters and more.
More than this, the child will learn writing techniques including: simple, compound and complex sentences - connectives - grammar tips - harder vocabulary and punctuation from our guinea pig guide.The books are suitable for use by teachers in the classroom or parents at home.The themed books can be used in any order, though the subject matter of ‘About Me’ and ‘All About Animals’ may appeal to younger children, who start working through the series. The themed books have been written by a teacher or tutor, have been trialled by the children she teaches and comply with the school curriculum. This is the first book in this excellent series from Guinea Pig Education. Please note, this is the US English version. The U.K. Edition is also listed.
97 pages
Get Going With Creative Writing is a new, up to date, action packed series of five study books, that encourage children to write. They are aimed at children between the ages of 7 and 13 years, who have acquired some degree of reading fluency. These books have a lively magazine type format: featuring short stories to read and a variety of up to date non-fiction texts that will impact young readers and provide starting points for writing. Follow up activities will inspire even the most reluctant writers to write stories, poems, play scripts, diaries, reports, persuasive leaflets, letters and more.
More than this, the child will learn writing techniques including: simple, compound and complex sentences - connectives - grammar tips - harder vocabulary and punctuation from our guinea pig guide. The books are suitable for use by teachers in the classroom or parents at home.The themed books can be used in any order, though the subject matter of ‘About Me’ and ‘All About Animals’ may appeal to younger children, who start working through the series. The themed books have been written by a teacher or tutor, have been trialled by the children she teaches and comply with the school curriculum. This is the first book in this excellent series from Guinea Pig Education.
96 pages
This DIGITAL resource contains a link to access and make a copy of it into your google drive. It is fully editable and can be shared with your students via Google Classroom or similar platform. Pdf version included.
A digital creative writing resource with a lively theme, that will stimulate a child’s imagination and inspire him or her to write in a more interesting way and to achieve better results.
This resource is packed full of fun features and stories to read, follow up activities to complete, harder vocabulary to prepare children for more advanced writing and many helpful tips and techniques to improve writing style. For example, read the model answers and then write your own review on the Space Age Bag. Next, Imagine there have been advances in space travel and you can travel through light years to distant universes very quickly - and about your flight into outer space. Then, design a pair of super ‘Space Age’ trainers ‘Cheaters’ and write an article about them for your school magazine. This resource is excellent for stretching fast workers and able writers or preparing for writing tasks in examinations.
‘The Space Age Bag’ is part of a series of 12 resources (available in digital and pdf format) .
The resource consists of 30 editable slides.
This DIGITAL resource contains a link to access and make a copy of it into your google drive. It is fully editable and can be shared with your students via Google Classroom or similar platform. Pdf version included.
A digital creative writing resource with a lively theme, that will stimulate a child’s imagination and inspire him or her to write in a more interesting way and to achieve better results.
This resource is packed full of fun features and stories to read, follow up activities to complete, harder vocabulary to prepare children for more advanced writing and many helpful tips and techniques to improve writing style. For example, imagine that a new, trendy head teacher has come to your school and wants to make some big changes to your school day. Write an email and then a letter, to say whether you approve or disapprove of the changes. Next, design your own new timetable and then write a recount of the first day at your ‘new school’ with it’s different sort of timetable. This resource is excellent for stretching fast workers and able writers or preparing for writing tasks in examinations.
‘The New Headteacher’ is part of a series of 12 resources (available in digital and pdf format) .
The resource consists of 30 editable slides.
This DIGITAL resource contains a link to access and make a copy of it into your google drive. It is fully editable and can be shared with your students via Google Classroom or similar platform. Pdf version included.
A digital creative writing resource with a lively theme, that will stimulate a child’s imagination and inspire him or her to write in a more interesting way and to achieve better results.
This resource is packed full of fun features and stories to read, follow up activities to complete, harder vocabulary to prepare children for more advanced writing and many helpful tips and techniques to improve writing style. For example, use the writing prompts to plan a story about having to face a big change after moving house. Learn how to develop character, setting and plot, build up tension and suspense and write a memorable resolution. Next, imagine you find a box in the attic and describe what is in it, using the prompts to help you. After this, write your own diary extract about a time in life when everything changed. This resource is excellent for stretching fast workers and able writers or preparing for writing tasks in examinations.
‘Changes’ is part of a series of 12 resources (available in digital and pdf format) .
The resource consists of 30 editable slides
A lively, up to date and action packed series of five themed study books that encourage children to write. Get Going With Creative Writing is a new up to date action packed series of five themed study books that encourage children to write. These books have a lively magazine style format: featuring short stories to read and a variety of non-fiction texts that will impact young readers and provide starting points for writing. Follow up activities will inspire even the most reluctant writers to write stories, poems, play scripts, diaries, reports, persuasive leaflets, letters and more.
More than this, the child will learn writing techniques including: simple, compound and complex sentences connectives grammar tips harder vocabulary and punctuation from our guinea pig guide. They are aimed at children between the ages of 7-13 and provide excellent writing practice for those children preparing to take 11+ examinations or S.A.Ts. They will also benefit children with special needs, or where English is a second language. Although the themed books can be used in any order, the subject matter of About Me and We Love Animals may appeal to younger children, who start working through the series.
Step-by-step guide to creative and other forms of writing.
Fully based on the National Curriculum.
Can be used to supplement work done in the classroom by teachers and parents.
Packed with helpful hints and tips.
Written by an experienced teacher.
Titles in the series: All About Me: (9781907733130) We Love Animals: (9781907733161) Likes and Dislikes: (9781907733147) Out and About: (9781907733154) What We Do: (9781907733178)
91 pages
A lively, up to date and action packed series of five themed study books that encourage children to write. Get Going With Creative Writing is a new up to date action packed series of five themed study books that encourage children to write. These books have a lively magazine style format: featuring short stories to read and a variety of non-fiction texts that will impact young readers and provide starting points for writing. Follow up activities will inspire even the most reluctant writers to write stories, poems, play scripts, diaries, reports, persuasive leaflets, letters and more.
More than this, the child will learn writing techniques including: simple, compound and complex sentences connectives grammar tips harder vocabulary and punctuation from our guinea pig guide. They are aimed at children between the ages of 7-13 and provide excellent writing practice for those children preparing to take 11+ examinations or S.A.Ts. They will also benefit children with special needs, or where English is a second language. Although the themed books can be used in any order, the subject matter of About Me and We Love Animals may appeal to younger children, who start working through the series.
Step-by-step guide to creative and other forms of writing.
Fully based on the National Curriculum.
Can be used to supplement work done in the classroom by teachers and parents.
Packed with helpful hints and tips.
Written by an experienced teacher.
Titles in the series: All About Me: (9781907733130) We Love Animals: (9781907733161) Likes and Dislikes: (9781907733147) Out and About: (9781907733154) What We Do: (9781907733178)
95 pages
Get Going With Creative Writing is a new, up to date, action packed series of five study books, that encourage children to write. They are aimed at children between the ages of 7 and 13 years, who have acquired some degree of reading fluency. These books have a lively magazine type format: featuring short stories to read and a variety of up to date non-fiction texts that will impact young readers and provide starting points for writing. Follow up activities will inspire even the most reluctant writers to write stories, poems, play scripts, diaries, reports, persuasive leaflets, letters and more.
More than this, the child will learn writing techniques including: simple, compound and complex sentences - connectives - grammar tips - harder vocabulary and punctuation from our guinea pig guide. The books are suitable for use by teachers in the classroom or parents at home. The themed books can be used in any order, though the subject matter of ‘About Me’ and ‘All About Animals’ may appeal to younger children, who start working through the series. The themed books have been written by a teacher or tutor, have been trialled by the children she teaches and comply with the school curriculum. This is the first book in this excellent series from Guinea Pig Education. Please note, this is the US English Edition. The U.K. Edition is also listed.
91 pages
Get Going With Creative Writing is a new, up to date, action packed series of five study books, that encourage children to write. They are aimed at children between the ages of 7 and 13 years, who have acquired some degree of reading fluency.These books have a lively magazine type format: featuring short stories to read and a variety of up to date non-fiction texts that will impact young readers and provide starting points for writing. Follow up activities will inspire even the most reluctant writers to write stories, poems, play scripts, diaries, reports, persuasive leaflets, letters and more.
More than this, the child will learn writing techniques including: simple, compound and complex sentences - connectives - grammar tips - harder vocabulary and punctuation from our guinea pig guide. The books are suitable for use by teachers in the classroom or parents at home. The themed books can be used in any order, though the subject matter of ‘About Me’ and ‘All About Animals’ may appeal to younger children, who start working through the series. The themed books have been written by a teacher or tutor, have been trialled by the children she teaches and comply with the school curriculum. This is the first book in this excellent series from Guinea Pig Education. Please note, this is the US English Edition. The U.K. Edition is also listed.
96 pages