Books for International Schools

Discover the best of Early Years and Primary Literacy for 3–11 year olds

Schofield & Sims is a leading UK publisher of books for teachers, parents and tutors.

For over 120 years, Schofield & Sims has provided a wide range of high-quality educational resources, with a particular focus on maths and English for children aged 3–11. Written by experienced teachers, Schofield & Sims resources provide children with a solid grounding in reading, writing and maths, as well as equipping them with the broader knowledge and skills needed both for education and for life.

While Schofield & Sims books are primarily based on England’s National Curriculum, our resources are also ideal for schools following other international curricula such as the Cambridge Early Years and Cambridge Primary Curriculum.

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book for every child

A set of structured maths and literacy activities for children aged 3 years and above.

A dynamic scheme to bridge the gap between play and formal learning.

Affordable and effective phonics resources to get the whole class reading.

A handwriting scheme to help every child to achieve confident joined handwriting.

A mastery approach to teaching grammar and punctuation, alongside wider literacy skills.

Structured activity books written to help young children develop basic reading, writing and numeracy skills

The Nursery series features a collection of nine colourful and fun workbooks for children aged 3 years and above. Nursery Writing, Nursery Maths and Nursery Activity provide a range of exercises to help children improve fine motor skills, develop letter recognition and practise early maths skills. Designed to be as engaging and varied as possible, the activities include matching, complete the picture, counting, mazes, colouring, letter tracing, odd one out and many more.

WHY CHOOSE NURSERY?

The Nursery series helps young children develop the essential skills for life by providing:

Fun early learning support

The workbooks introduce young children to key early concepts such as numbers, letters, shapes, and colours in a fun and engaging way.

Attractive themes and memorable characters

The Nursery books feature engaging topics and recurring characters to reinforce learning and make it as interactive as possible.

Creative activities

Tasks like drawing and colouring encourage children to use their imagination and develop their creative skills.

A focus on foundational skills

Regular and consistent practice of key early maths and literacy skills ensures that children have the solid foundations needed for future academic success.

A structured programme of learning

The Nursery series is suitable for use as a structured programme for children aged 3 years and above. The nine activity books fit neatly into three terms of learning, with each book increasing in difficulty.

Three books for every term

• Term 1 topics include numbers to 6, common shapes, handwriting patterns and pencil control.

• Term 2 topics include numbers to 10, comparisons, positional words and matching and tracing letters.

• Term 3 topics include simple addition and subtraction, correct formation of more letters and repeating patterns.

Nursery Activity Books

Nine workbooks feature a range of activities and are split into three areas of learning: Nursery Writing, Nursery Numbers and Nursery Activity

Nursery Writing uses the recurring character of Eddy the Teddy to help young children develop good motor control and learn the correct formation of letters. Nursery Numbers reinforces mathematical language and early number skills, covering concepts such as money, shapes and measures with the help of the engaging character of Scamp the Dog. Nursery Activity provides additional practice of early reading, writing and mathematical skills, including matching, sequencing and counting.

Pages feature attractive illustrations for children to colour in.

Instructions are written in concise, child-friendly language that should be read aloud to the child by an adult.

Activities boost pencil control and hand–eye coordination.

Nursery Writing supports early literacy skills by encouraging children to link letters and sounds, and write simple words.

Dotted lines and directional arrows are provided to guide the formation of letters and numbers.

Early Years Foundation Stage – Reception | Foundation Stage 2

A dynamic early years programme that bridges the gap between play and formal school learning

Closely matched to the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework, Get Set Early Years focuses on the specific areas of Literacy, Mathematics and Understanding the world.

For each of the three areas, there is a Teacher’s Guide full of practical activity ideas that cover all the Early Learning Goals (ELGs). Corresponding activity books promote learning and development across both the prime and specific areas of the framework. Additionally, they recognise the importance of strong foundations in reading, writing and numbers, ensuring children are fully equipped for a smooth transition into school.

WHY CHOOSE GET SET EARLY YEARS?

Moving from play to structured learning can be challenging for children. Get Set Early Years is designed to help transition smoothly through a variety of fun activities that can be used both inside and outside the classroom.

Follows the EYFS framework

Activities promote learning and development across specific areas of the Early Years Framework, as well as fostering the three characteristics of effective teaching and learning: playing and exploring; active learning; and creating and thinking critically.

Three programmes in one

• Get Set Mathematics focuses on building children’s early number sense, including key skills like subitising, counting and recognising numerals, as well as their understanding of colour, shape, space and measure.

• Get Set Literacy supports children’s early reading and writing skills, with a particular emphasis on developing language, phonics and vocabulary knowledge, alongside the physical, cognitive and perceptual skills needed for letter formation.

• Get Set Understanding the World encourages children to share ideas, ask ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions, conduct experiments, work as a team and gain an awareness of different people’s beliefs and experiences.

Get Set Activity Books

There are 12 Get Set Activity Books that cover all the Early Learning Goals (ELGs) for Literacy, Mathematics and Understanding the World. The activities in the books link directly with the units in the Teacher’s Guides, thereby reinforcing the learning that takes place at school. They also provide parents and carers with a clear understanding of the topics and vocabulary that their children are learning in school, as well as an idea of the expectations for children at this age.

Each Activity Book page contains two tasks for the child to complete. Designed to be as engaging and varied as possible, the activities include matching, complete the picture, connect the dots, mazes, picture sequencing, colour by sound, odd one out and many more.

The activity instructions are written in concise, child-friendly language that should be read aloud to the child by an adult.

Pages are clear and uncluttered with engaging illustrations to capture the child’s imagination.

Dotted or shaded lines guide children through the activities.

Notes include a suggestion for an additional practical activity that explores the topic in a real-life context.

Activities increase in difficulty, progressing at the same speed as the units in the Teacher’s Guide.

A selection of key vocabulary is highlighted for parents to use with their child when working through each page.

Get Set Teacher’s Guides

The Get Set Teacher’s Guides provide a wealth of learning opportunities and practical resources based around play, exploration and discussion that slowly build in more formal elements of learning. The books also promote strong home-school links, not only through close correspondence with the activity books, but by providing a variety of additional resources designed to encourage a strong partnership between school staff and parents.

There are three Teacher’s Guides in total, corresponding to the three Get Set strands of Literacy, Mathematics and Understanding the World. Each Get Set Teacher’s Guide contains 39 structured units, one for each week of the school year, that develop children’s knowledge and enjoyment of the relevant Early Learning Goals (ELGs).

As the units progress, the Go activities slowly introduce elements of more formal learning.

Photocopiable activity sheets include a wide range of hands-on learning resources such as cards, games and puzzles.

My Letters and Sounds

Reception – Year 1 | Foundation Stage 2 – Primary Stage 1

Affordable and effective phonics books and classroom resources to get every child reading fluently

My Letters and Sounds is a systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) programme, validated by England’s Department for Education and aligned to their 2007 version of Letters and Sounds

Developed by expert authors and teachers, the scheme provides a range of high-quality and affordable resources for use in school and at home. With plenty of guidance and CPD training available, the scheme is easy to implement, making it ideal for use in international schools.

WHY CHOOSE MY LETTERS AND SOUNDS?

My Letters and Sounds offers teachers everything they need to deliver effective phonics instruction, allowing teachers to concentrate on how to teach, rather than what to teach, and to focus on the individual needs of their pupils.

Perfect for international schools, My Letters and Sounds provides:

Daily lesson plans that reduce teacher workload

The two Teacher’s Handbooks include a lesson plan for every day of teaching, providing schools with a consistent approach to phonics, with over a thousand online and physical resources to reinforce learning.

Plenty of phonics practice

Eight write-in workbooks link to each lesson to provide highly targeted practice and revision of recently learnt GPCs and tricky words.

Attractive and engaging books

120 beautifully illustrated decodable readers feature a wide range of stories and themes that will appeal to children from a variety of backgrounds.

Cost-effective resources

Affordable readers and workbooks available in a range of packages, making the My Letters and Sounds programme suitable for schools of all sizes.

Ideal for international schools

A complete toolkit for phonics

My Letters and Sounds is especially helpful for multilingual learners because it offers a structured approach to mastering the complexities of English spelling. The programme provides a clear and consistent path for learning letter-sound relationships, making it easier to decode new words. Non-native English speakers can also benefit from a wealth of audio support, including free audiobooks for every decodable reader.

My Letters and Sounds Pupil Books

There are eight write-in workbooks available for use at school or home to practise the key phonics skills of grapheme recognition and recall, blending to read and segmenting to spell. The books also help children build their confidence in reading and writing captions and sentences.

With a single-page or double-page spread for every new learning point in My Letters and Sounds, the books provide highly targeted practice and integrated revision of recently learnt GPCs and tricky words. Carefully designed to appeal to young learners, the activities are consistent and predictable, and, as the children do not need to complete all the activities in one go, the books are easy to fit into your school timetable.

Activities are designed to reduce cognitive load and keep the focus on the

Workbooks are useful for providing additional support to children who need help keeping up with their peers.

Mnemonics serve as a reminder to reinforce the new letter shape and its sound.

phonics.

Each new GPC is introduced in a predictable way to encourage greater independence in the children.

Regular letter-formation activities are provided to reinforce learning.

In Phase Five, familiar activities are used to introduce new graphemes, but there are more words to read to reflect the children’s growing stamina.

Writing opportunities become increasingly challenging as children move through the programme.

Answers to the Phonics Practice Pupil Books questions are free to download from the Schofield & Sims website.

My Letters and Sounds Phonics Readers

The My Letters and Sounds Phonics Readers are exciting, fully decodable stories that perfectly match the progression of the My Letters and Sounds SSP programme. Designed to be used by children aged 4–5, these books allow them to apply their phonics skills to reading ‘real’ books from a very early stage.

120 readers feature a variety of attractive, contemporary illustration styles to give the look and feel of real, high-quality children’s picture books. Written in natural language, with plenty of humour, the story texts focus on themes and experiences that will appeal to young children from a variety of different backgrounds.

The decodable books also provide additional support for parents, including tips for reading with children and comprehension questions for the adult to complete with the child before and after they read the story.

In the first year of the programme, digraphs and trigraphs are underlined to remind children that the group of letters makes one sound.

Vibrant illustrations in a child-friendly, modern illustration style.

Every decodable book features wide range of topics and stories.

New GPCs and tricky words are gradually introduced to ensure children are given focused practice.

In the first year of the programme, tricky words are highlighted in blue.

Non-fiction stories appear from Phase Three to develop children’s reading-for-information skills.

High-quality photography is used in some non-fiction books.

120 readers available

Text devices such as captions and labels are gradually introduced.

Increased space is allocated to text rather than pictures in later books.

My Letters and Sounds Teacher’s Handbooks

The My Letters and Sounds Teacher’s Handbooks include everything you need to teach systematic synthetic phonics with confidence. Each Handbook follows a simple structure, with content divided into teaching guidance (including advice on assessment), lesson plans and photocopiable resources, with additional resources available to download. Each Handbook provides a high level of support, both for teachers that are new to phonics teaching and for more experienced practitioners looking for planning that matches the latest best practice. Carefully designed to save teachers time, there is a dedicated unit for every week of the school year. Each unit includes daily lesson plans with clear references to all the supporting resources needed for that week.

Step-by-step instructions guide you through key teaching processes.

The Teaching guidance includes strategies to use if some children struggle to grasp the new concepts.

Banks of activities are provided to facilitate regular practice of each phonics skill. These activities are also referenced in the weekly Lesson plans

The resources needed for the week are given in order of use, including the relevant Phonics Practice Pupil Book and Phonics Reader(s).

Many of the photocopiable resources in the handbooks are available as high-quality, pre-made physical resources in the Classroom Kits.

Teaching is focused, with clear weekly and daily objectives.

References to relevant sections of the Teaching guidance allow teachers to easily access more detailed instructions and support for each lesson.

A huge range of photocopiable resources are provided in each Handbook, including word cards and sentences with matching pictures.

Digital and Audio Resources

Free digital resources are available to download for each phase of My Letters and Sounds, including colourful displays, resource packs and games to support teaching and learning. Digital assessment resources, including Assessment checks and corresponding Analysis sheets for each of the phonics skills that help you to evaluate individual children’s progress at the end of each phase, are also downloadable.

Many audio resources are available to listen to and join in with, including fun, memorable enunciation guides, alliterative sentences and read-aloud audio books for every decodable reader to help with pronunciation and prosody.

The digital Resource Packs contain all the handbook resources you need to teach a week of lesson plans, in order, making preparing for lessons quick and easy.

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Phonics e-reader Library

The phonics e-reader library features digital versions of every Phonics Reader from the My Letters and Sounds programme. These electronic books are provided in a flexible and secure FlippingBook format that can easily be displayed on digital devices.

With over 100 books to choose from, the e-reader library works on any web-enabled device and provides schools with a cost-effective way to access the My Letters and Sounds Phonics Readers.

These electronic books can be displayed on whiteboards, computer screens or tablets and used for:

• modelling reading at the front of a class or reading as a whole group

• one-to-one practice sessions or with small groups of children

• reading at home with parents or carers.

The e-reader library can be used for modelling reading at the front of class or reading as a whole group.

Free, narrated audio books for each decodable reader are also available to download as audio files or stream online from the Schofield & Sims website.

Online Phonics Training

The My Letters and Sounds programme offers high-quality and affordable online training sessions for international schools that need help implementing the programme, upskilling staff and supporting the effective delivery of the programme.

CPD sessions are 1.5 hours long and are available in the following areas:

• Phonics Subject Knowledge

• Introduction to the My Letters and Sounds Progression

• The My Letters and Sounds Resources and Teaching Sequence

• Implementing My Letters and Sounds in Your School.

To enquire about or book CPD training, please email phonics@schofieldandsims.co.uk

Ready-to-use Classroom Resources

Save valuable time with the My Letters and Sounds Classroom Kits and individual resources. Made from high-quality, laminated card, these reusable resources will vastly reduce the amount of printing and photocopying needed to teach phonics.

Resources can either be purchased as a year-group Classroom Kit containing everything you need or as individual components.

When bought as a complete Classroom Kit, resources come with a free bag for storage.

Mnemonics introduce new GPCs and demonstrate correct letter formation.

A handy poster helps children to develop their letter recognition and formation skills.

Large-format versions of the Grapheme Cards and Word Cards can be used at the front of class or with small groups of children.

Wipe-clean Phoneme Frames can be used to demonstrate segmenting with letters.

Large-format Friezes enable you to build up a colourful classroom display.

A Tog Posting Box is provided for children to post Word Cards and Grapheme Cards through Tog’s mouth.

Sound Mats support regular grapheme recognition and recall practice.

My Letters and Sounds Assessment

My Letters and Sounds helps you to track your children’s understanding over the course of each phase. Daily formative assessment is made manageable using ‘snapshot’ assessments of a different group of children during each phonics teaching session. Advice on summative assessment is also given at the end of each phase, helping you to choose appropriate next steps. In addition, optional Assessment checks enable you to assess a particular aspect of a child’s phonic knowledge, such as recognition and recall of graphemes, or spelling of tricky words. The summative assessment guidance in the Teacher’s Handbooks suggests when to use these checks with the whole class, but they can also be used with individual children as required.

A Daily assessment schedule helps you to divide your class into groups and focus on a different set of phonics skills each day.

In each phase, there are separate downloadable assessment resources to evaluate children’s developing phonics skills.

You can also find My Letters and Sounds on the popular online assessment and tracking programme, Phonics Tracker (www.phonicstracker.com).

Cost-effective phonics

My Letters and Sounds is an affordable phonics scheme that is easy to implement. Books and resources can be purchased individually or as a package, with no complicated subscriptions required. This allows you to tailor the programme to fit your specific budget and the needs of your school.

You can find the full list of books and resources on our website: www.schofieldandsims.co.uk/mylettersandsounds

Reception – Year 6 | Foundation Stage 2 – Primary Stage 6

A developmental handwriting scheme to help every child achieve clear, confident and joined handwriting

WriteWell is a complete course designed to guide children from their first steps in mark-making towards the development of secure, fluent and comfortable joined handwriting.

Based on the latest research evidence and best practice in handwriting, it provides a consistent basis for teaching and learning this complex skill across all primary school year groups. It includes:

• 11 Pupil Books for practice of letters and joins

• a Teacher’s Handbook with teaching and assessment support

• a double-sided poster for handwriting reminders

• a range of free online resources.

WHY CHOOSE WRITEWELL?

WriteWell ensures that children get the basics of handwriting correct from the start by providing:

A developmental approach

Children begin the programme when they are developmentally ready and progress at their own pace as their handwriting skills flourish.

Movement-focused instruction

There is a strong emphasis on movement throughout the programme, from the motion-inspired letter family groupings, formation patters and kinaesthetic activities in the early stages, to the joining patterns and fluency activities in the later stages.

Physical preparation

Handwriting is a physical process and WriteWell ensures that children develop good writing habits using a system of reminders called the ‘P checks’ (posture, pencil grip, paper position and pressure).

Structured practice

Pupils are given extensive opportunities to practise new learning in activities ranging from simple tracing and copying tasks to more challenging composition exercises. Activities are carefully designed to minimise cognitive load so that children can focus on developing their handwriting while reinforcing learning from previously taught areas of literacy.

The S Factors

WriteWell follows a developmental model based on the National Handwriting Association’s eight ‘S Factors for Success’. The National Handwriting Association is a leading authority in handwriting that promotes good practice.

WriteWell Pupil Books

The eleven WriteWell Pupil Books provide carefully structured progression and a consistent approach to learning handwriting for children aged 3 to 11. Printed on high-quality paper that won’t show through, each book contains 15 units, together with a child-friendly introduction and at least one longer ‘WriteWell challenge’ task giving pupils the opportunity to use their best handwriting to ‘show off’ everything they have learnt.

Each unit provides a clear handwriting focus, explained in the information panel at the beginning of each spread, followed by focused practice activities that gradually increase in difficulty. Exercises progress from simple ‘Try it’ and ‘Practice it’ activities to more challenging ‘Apply it’ tasks that encourage children to use the handwriting focus in a realistic context.

Correct letter formation is modelled with a red starting dot and directional arrows.

Letter families and formation patters emphasise the correct movements for each letter.

Nibs the monkey provides child-friendly handwriting tips in the early books.

WriteWell challenge tasks encourage pupils to take pride in their handwriting.

Patterning activities boost pencil control and hand–eye coordination.

Letter animations and other downloadable resources are available from the Schofield & Sims website.

Thick white paper provides a smooth writing surface that won’t show through.

WriteWell Teacher’s Handbooks

The WriteWell Teacher’s Handbook provides in-depth support to help you teach handwriting. Mirroring the structure of the Pupil Books, it aligns learning with the National Handwriting Association’s ‘S Factors for Success’. For every stage of handwriting, there is a detailed set of teacher’s notes providing guidance on the key issues at each level of development, as well as comprehensive letter formation and joining charts, and assessment and intervention resources.

The handbook also contains a ‘Curriculum chart’ and ‘Scope and sequence chart’ to help you navigate the pupil books at a glance, together with an extended introduction providing essential information for improving the teaching of handwriting in your school.

Animations showing the correct formations of letters, numbers and joins allow you to demonstrate each handwriting focus confidently.

P checks focus on the physical writing process and help to establish good habits.

Detailed notes for each pupil book explain how to teach each unit and get the most out of the activities.

An Overview at the start of each Stage chapter summarises the contents of the section.

Grammar & Punctuation

Year 1 – Year 6 | Primary Stage 1 – Primary Stage 6

A comprehensive programme for teaching grammar and punctuation while also developing wider literacy skills

Comprising six pupil books and six accompanying Teacher’s Guides, one for each primary school year, this comprehensive scheme supports a mastery approach to the teaching of grammar and punctuation. Through structured lessons, stimulating Focus texts and engaging practice activities, pupils not only learn the terminology and correct usage of grammar and punctuation, but also build up the skills, knowledge and confidence to apply them successfully in their own writing.

WHY CHOOSE GRAMMAR AND PUNCTUATION?

Based on the popular pedagogical model ‘Teach, practise, apply and assess’, Grammar and Punctuation provides you with everything you need to teach pupils the art of writing.

Teach

Each lesson plan includes detailed guidance on how to teach each learning point in context using the Focus text provided, as well as suggestions for how to extend the lesson for more advanced learners.

Practise

Teaching notes are supported by a corresponding page in the pupil books that feature two sets of tailored practice questions and a short writing task.

Apply

The teaching notes are full of ideas for fun activities where pupils can apply their learning in independent writing and speech.

Assess

A range of formal and informal assessment resources are provided, including dictation tasks, regular revision pages and an end-of-year summative test.

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• Teaching is aimed at the whole class and pupils move at the same pace through the programme.

• Lessons link to other areas of the curriculum.

• Concepts are continuously revisited to develop pupils’ understanding.

• Suggestions are given for how you can extend the focus for pupils who have mastered the concept and are ready to delve deeper.

Follows a mastery approach

Grammar and Punctuation Pupil Books

The Grammar and Punctuation Pupil Books link directly to the lessons in the Teacher’s Guides, providing high-quality, pick-up-and-go practice materials to consolidate learning and help you identify any gaps in understanding. Suitable for use either independently or alongside the accompanying Teacher’s Guides, Books 2 to 6 each comprise 30 single-page units for pupils aged 6–11, while Book 1 features 15 double-page units aimed at children aged 5–6.

Answers to all the questions in the Pupil Books along with a selection of supporting Grammar and Punctuation resources are available to download for free from the Schofield & Sims website. An enlarged version of every Focus text is also available online.

Examples correspond to those given in the lessons plans.

Concise Remember panels summarise the key learning point for each lesson.

Key grammatical terms are defined in a Glossary at the back of the book.

Illustrations help to maintain pupils’ interest.

Children are encouraged to think about the structure of their work.

Writing tasks allow children to apply what they have learnt in their own independent writing.

Termly Revision pages help you to monitor progress and ensure that learning is not forgotten.

Space is included for pupils to write in the book, providing a permanent record of achievement.

Child-friendly I can statements support regular self-assessment.

Grammar and Punctuation Teacher’s Guides

The Grammar and Punctuation Teacher’s Guides provide you with an invaluable set of tools for teaching and assessing these fundamental literacy skills. As well as featuring detailed notes on how to teach each grammar or punctuation learning point, each Teacher’s Guide also includes a variety of assessment and record-keeping resources, answers to all the pupil book practice questions and extensive subject knowledge support. The Grammar 1 Teacher’s Guide contains an additional fun Activity for each lesson based around a photocopiable resource.

Key terminology is listed at the start of each lesson and defined in a Glossary at the back of the guide.

Clear references are given to the corresponding practice in the pupil books.

Answers are given for all the pupil book questions, with annotations to help you identify areas where pupils may need further revision.

Links to other subject areas encourage pupils to apply their learning across the curriculum.

A Final test with Mark scheme helps you to assess whether pupils are meeting the expected standard.

Writing task analysis sheets list relevant assessment criteria based on what has been taught to date.

End-of-year test mirrors the appearance and content of real examinations.

Space is provided to record evidence from pupils’ own writing. Scan for the

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structured programme to help you plan, teach and assess spelling in a systematic and progressive way

Comprising six pupil books and two books for teachers, Spelling is suitable for all pupils who have a basic understanding of letter-sound relationships. This accessible series, ideal for whole-school use, gives pupils extensive practice in using their phonic knowledge to spell words and encourages them to become effective spellers.

The Spelling series introduces rules, guidelines and conventions and encourages pupils to develop the skills and strategies they need to become confident spellers who can monitor and correct their own spelling. The series is supported by a range of free downloadable resources available from the Schofield & Sims website.

WHY CHOOSE SPELLING?

Based on the popular pedagogical model ‘Teach, practise, apply and assess’, the series builds pupils’ knowledge of spellings by providing:

A systematic approach

The programme takes a structured approach to learning, introducing common spelling rules, patterns, guidelines and word conventions gradually to build strong foundations.

A focus on etymology and word structure

Children will explore how word structure, including prefixes and suffixes, and shared origins can help them understand and remember how words are spelled. Teaching children to recognise a word’s etymology means that rather than learning just one word at a time, they will be able to spell a variety words linked to the root word.

Helpful strategies for tricky words

The series equips pupils with strategies for remembering common “tricky” or “exception” words, as well as less familiar Topic words. These strategies will help pupils overcome the challenges posed by words that don’t follow standard rules.

Regular assessment

Learning is consolidated through regular assessment. The Spelling programme incorporates tailored dictation activities, providing pupils with opportunities to apply their knowledge in a practical setting. This regular practice, coupled with a range of other assessment types, allows teachers to identify areas needing improvement and track pupils’ progress towards spelling mastery.

Teaching Support

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An accompanying teacher’s guide provides detailed teaching notes that suggest how best to explain and explore each learning point in the pupil books. A separate Teacher’s Resource Book contains photocopy masters that support teaching, assessment and record-keeping.

Spelling Pupil Books

Each Spelling Pupil Book is divided into six sections containing five main pages that introduce new spelling conventions, followed by a Tricky words or Topic words page that focuses on particular words. Books 2 to 6 also feature regular Revision sections that use crossword-style clues, cloze and proofreading activities to elicit spellings that pupils should have mastered. The main pages in the pupil books have a simple and consistent structure comprising three parts:

1. Remember – a description of the pattern, strategy or guideline with an example

2. Try it – practice in spelling words using the pattern, strategy, rule or guideline

3. Read–cover–write – practice in using the spelling focus in whole sentences.

The main focus or learning point is introduced at the start of each page, with relevant examples provided.

Illustrations kept to a minimum to keep pages clean and uncluttered.

I can statements encourage pupils to take pride in their achievements.

Words listed on the Topic words pages support cross-curricular learning.

Revision activities draw on a large bank of question types, ensuring variety.

A simple methodology helps pupils to learn spellings that do not follow expected patterns.

Transcribing words in full sentences builds vocabulary and consolidates learning.

Pupils are encouraged to monitor and correct their own spelling.

Spelling Teacher’s Guide

The Spelling Teacher’s Guide supports the systematic and explicit teaching of strategies, rules, guidelines and patterns to help pupils throughout headteacher’s perspective school to make good progress in spelling. The main part of the book comprises detailed Teaching notes – one set for every page in the six pupil books. Clearly laid out and in a format that is easy to refer to in the classroom, each set of notes suggests how best to introduce each learning point or ‘focus’ and how to model it in the classroom.

The Teacher’s Guide also includes a full introduction to the series and in-depth guidance on how to implement each of the four stages of the ‘Teach, practise, apply and assess’ teaching model.

Each set of Teaching notes corresponds to a page in the pupil books, making planning easy.

Teaching sessions are short and direct, lasting about 10 minutes.

Clear references are given to photocopiable extension and revision activities, as well as pupil prompts and reminders.

‘Target words’ from the current focus are underlined in each dictation sentence.

A layered plan of formative and summative assessment allows you to track progress.

Further guidelines provide advice on key areas of teaching, including timetabling, differentiation, grouping and partner work, and spelling in the context of writing.

Spelling Teacher’s Resource Book

The Spelling Teacher’s Resource Book features a comprehensive collection of photocopy masters to help you get the most out of the series. Part 1 of the book supports the ‘teach’, ‘practise’ and ‘apply’ stages of the teaching model and contains extension and revision activities to reinforce or extend the learning points from the Pupil Books such as Additional word lists. Part 1 also includes resources that encourage pupils to apply what they have learnt in spelling sessions in their own independent writing. Part 2 of the Teacher’s Resource Book provides materials that support the ‘assess’ stage of the teaching model, covering both ongoing and summative assessment.

Additional word lists can be photocopied and given to pupils to learn at home.

Word collector sheets encourage pupils to investigate different spelling patterns.

Termly Dictation tests provide the opportunity for practice and consolidation.

Target and progress tracking sheets are used to record the spelling targets set for a group and to summarise evidence towards the targets.

Photocopiable Response sheets are provided for each test as well as Error analysis sheets for recording results.

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