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  • Is a highly organised step by step programme for teaching reading, spelling and handwriting.
  • Comprises attractively presented books and cards shown below.
  • Each workbook is spirally bound so that it can lie easily on the work surface.
  • Is based on up-to-date research and follows a structured phonic approach involving multi-sensory methods.
  • Nothing is assumed to have been learnt or is left to chance.
  • Colourful illustrations help reinforce learning and enlist a high level of interest and motivation.
Details of the Pack
Introductory Guide Outlines the nature and purpose of the structured phonic approach based upon multi-sensory methods
£3.50
Workbook 1
Letter sounds and letter formation. Each sound is taught through a picture and a simple phonically regular word. By the end of the book, the child is reading his/her first sentences.
£4.00
Flashcards
(2 sets: Letter Sounds, Key Words)
£4.00
Workbook 2
Vowels, consonants, alphabet, letter blends. Practice exercises include passage reading, a word ladder, a word chain and finding missing words.
£4.00
Workbook 3
The magic or modifying 'e' and long vowels a, i, o, u
£4.00
Workbook 4
Capital letters, name and address, digraphs ch, sh, th. Alphabet practice. Overcoming 'b' and 'd' letter reversals. Words with two syllables. Reading for meaning.
£4.00
Workbook 5
Vowel digraphs oa, ee, ai, oo. Tracking the Alphabet. Rabbit words (two syllables, double mid-consonant)
£4.00
Workbook 6
'ar', 'er', 'ir', 'ur', 'or' words; unusual 'ea' words. Reading for Meaning.
£4.00
Workbook 7
Other 'or' words, au (haunt), aw (saw), al (walk), oa (oar), 'ou' and 'ow' words, question mark, 'ough' and 'augh' words, 'aigh' and 'eigh' words. Reading for Meaning.
£4.00
Workbook 8
Soft 'c', 'i' before 'e', soft 'g', 'dge' words, Reading for Meaning, 'ue', 'ew', 'ui' words, 'oy' and 'oi' words.
£4.00
Workbook 9
Weird and wonderful 'w', hard 'th' sound, 'ay' words final 'y' and 'y' used as a vowel, plurals with 'y', 'ph', 'qu', 'ing', 'ie' words, 'shun' sounds (action), 'us' sounds (ous, ious, cious, tious), unusual 'o' sounds (money worries), past participles, letter 'i' says its name (kind, iron)
£4.00
Workbook 10
Words with silent letters; only five letters in the Alphabet are never silent in English.
£4.00
Dictionary of Homophones
Both children and adults confuse these words which sound the same but are spelt differently. There are over 560 homophones in this dictionary. Each one is defined and placed in the context of a sentence to illustrate its meaning.
£6.00
Homophone Exercises
Useful and interesting exercises involving homophones.
£2.00
Mnemonics (memory aids)
Contains numerous suggestions and ingenious ways of remembering how to spell our most common but difficult and confusing words.
£3.00
Handwriting
Get it right from the start: a complete guide covering letter formation, seating and posture, pencil grip, choice of writing implement, warming up exercises, linkage of letters, letter patterns.
£4.50
Learning to Write with the Left Hand
A complete guide for teaching handwriting to the left-handed. Emphasises the importance of correct posture, pencil grip and positioning of paper. Contains many practice exercises.
£4.50
Look up left
A strategy for teaching spelling
£3.00
Complete Pack of 17 books plus Flash Cards
£70.00
Teaching Pack, not including 'Learning to write with the left hand'
£68.00

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