Pie Corbett

A good poetry idea should help the children feel excited about writing and enable them to think of what to write - developing their imagination, creativity and writing skills. Jumpstart! Poetry is about involving children as creative writers through writing poems. The book contains a bank of ideas that can be drawn upon when teaching poetry but also at other times to provide a source for creative writing that children relish. There are more than 100 quick warm-ups to fire the brain into a creative mood and to ‘jumpstart’ reading, writing and performing poetry in any key stage 1 or 2 classroom. Practical, easy-to-do and vastly entertaining, this new ‘jumpstarts’ will appeal to busy teachers in any primary classroom.

Games and Activities for Ages 7-12

Jumpstart! Poetry

Rachel Roberts

This course in grammar and writing practice matches the requirements of the National Literacy Strategy and ensures pupils learn and practise core grammar skills in whole class, group, and individual sessions, and apply their learning to their own writing. Full teaching notes are given as three lesson plans per teaching objective, and the teacher's guides also offer differentiated copy masters and 'reminder sheets' to enable children to work independently and accurately. Detailed guidance is given on assessment. The pupil's books offer further authentic texts, and three levels of activity to ensure children's comprehension of the text, to secure their learning of the key grammar point, and to apply their learning to their own writing.

Grammar Success: Level 2: Teacher's Guide 2

Grammar Success: Level 3: Teacher's Guide 3

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Grammar Success: Level 2: Pupil's

Grammar Success: Level 4: Pupil's

Wolf Fables retells three fables originally told by Aesop, in each story you will meet a wolf and decide whether or not wolves can be trusted! Each fable will entertain you and make you think. TreeTops Myths and Legends are a fascinating selection of the best traditional stories.

Oxford Reading Tree TreeTops Myths and Legends: Level 10: Wolf Fables

Start Poetry is part of the Adventures in... range. It features model poem types followed by detailed instructions on how to achieve the same style of poem. From riddles and shape poems to haiku and nonsense rhymes.

Poem-maker, Word-shaker

Teachers who want to cut lesson planning time will welcome this title. It aims to help teachers cover every sort of writing type they need to at Key Stage 2 with a model provided for each one, fine tune lessons by following key teaching points, deliver the literacy hour to pupils of varying ability and more.

Year 4

Writing Models

Valerie Bloom

Lightning provides: 32 books with 3 levels of differentiation per book; whole texts that provide NLS genre coverage; linked themes across fiction, non-fiction and the wider curriculum; focussed teaching support for each book including comprehension and writing activities; and a teaching and practice CD that provides opportunities for ICT.

Lightning: Year 4 Poetry Anthology - Know What I Mean?

Mary-Jane Knight

These books are designed to develop active speaking and listeningskills. Each of the books contains a wealth of practical and enjoyablespeaking and listening activities. They include sections on giving atalk, persuasive language, drama games, journalists' skills, putting ona play and storytelling. There is an end-section which helps thechildren assess how well they did, and also a glossary. The text isclear and straightforward and humorously written, designed to appeal toboth children and their teachers.

Great Ideas for Speaking and Listening Activities for Ages 7-9

Speak Out!

An easy-to-use resource for teaching essential reading skills to the whole class using an interactive whiteboard. This book accompanies the i-read 6 CD-ROM. It can be used alongside the CD-ROM for group and independent reading away from the interactive whiteboard. Series Editor Pie Corbett has specially commissioned whole fiction texts for i-read from a host of popular authors, to ensure a vibrant read. This collection includes a fantasy story in which readers make choices to determine the path of events, a retelling of a Shakespeare play and a number of short stories with different genres.

Fiction

How to Teach Story Writing at Key Stage 1 is a practical manual for teachers, to be used directly in the classroom. The book begins with a series of language games, designed to warm up creativity and strengthen the imagination. This is followed by a series of creative story workshops, based on the writer's own experience both as a teacher and poet running workshops in schools. These workshops focus on growing the roots of story writing through story telling and reading, and begin with the importance of learning a few well-known tales. There are ideas for drama, role-play and art, and a few model stories are provided for story telling. Other workshops explore simple ideas for creating new stories, based around simple familiar patterns. The book also offers advice on how to organize an effective workshop for younger children, and demonstrates how to teach story writing in a dynamic, creative and imaginative way in relationship with the KS1 national literacy framework. Workshops include the story of our lives; stories that make a circle; stories about problems; days of the week tales; humbug, stuff and nonsense stories; quests; repetitive tales; wishing stories; warning stories; and cooking the story soup.

How to Teach Story Writing at Key Stage 1

Ruth Thomson

The book supports both the writing and spelling objectives of the National Literacy Strategy at KS2 and should appeal to parents keen to help their children extend their vocabulary and develop their writing skills.

Rhyming and Spelling Dictionary

Julia Strong

This bestselling resource has been fully updated, putting formative assessment at the heart of the Talk for Writing process and showing how to help children love writing across the curriculum. By helping children speak the language of non-fiction in a fun engaging way before they attempt to write, the Talk for Writing approach builds children's confidence and linguistic ability enabling them to craft their own writing. In the new edition, this practical resource offers: • Fully worked, tried and tested examples of how to apply Talk for Writing to each non-fiction text type • A wide range of fun activities helping children internalise how to express and link text effectively • A process that co-constructs learning so that children learn how to structure text and create toolkits of key ingredients • Guidance for teachers in England on how to apply the approach across the primary curriculum • An OLC including new footage of Pie Corbett demonstrating Talk for Writing and new footage of classes engaged in the approach • Advice on how to use the DVD and handouts to train all staff in the approach • Evidence of impact from cold to hot tasks Designed for busy teachers, Talk for Writing across the Curriculum, second edition, will help transform children's writing and attainment across the curriculum. "This book celebrates the importance of talk in becoming and growing as a writer: talk to share ideas; talk to analyse text; talk to co-construct writing; and to talk to evaluate writing. Throughout the book constantly underlines the importance of talk for learning and the many creative and rich ways talk can be used to help young writers internalise the rhythms and patterns of text. Full of practical ideas and activities, the teaching combines being creative and being critical in a wholly integrated way. An invaluable resource for primary school teachers!" Debra Myhill, Professor of Education at the University of Exeter, UK "The teaching of reading has always taken priority in policy and practice in literacy. Pie Corbett and Julia Strong have produced a very welcome counterweight to that dominance in their Talk for Writing Across the Curriculum. It is so refreshing to see suggestions for teaching to bring elements of language together, especially when done in such an entertaining and engaging way as this. This new edition makes a 'classic' even better." David Wray, Emeritus Professor, University of Warwick, UK "This latest update of Pie and Julia's best-selling book reflects changes in the curriculum, strengthening the T4W approach, using cold and hot tasks, showing new worked examples of how to apply T4W to each non-fiction type and placing formative assessment at the heart of the process. It is exciting to see how all the best ideas and findings in education are converging, evidenced in this latest 'up to the minute' excellent publication." Shirley Clarke, Formative Assessment Expert

Ebook: Talk for Writing Across the Curriculum, How to Teach Non-Fiction Writing to 5-12 Year Olds (Revised Edition)

Every kind of poem you will ever need for Key Stage 2. A fantastic book of really great poems for Years 3,4,5 and 6. It contains poems which cover every form and theme of the Literacy Strategy, an index of poem types, advice for writing poems, advice for reading poems, lots of poetry activities and some workshop ideas and lesson plans.

The Works Key Stage 2

Fully updated to help teachers deal with the new 2016 Grammar Tests, this second edition presents a collection of simple to use, multi-sensory games and activities that will jumpstart pupils’ understanding of grammar in action It includes coverage of the subjunctive and past progressive, selecting which tense is the most definite, identifying when a word is used as a subordinating conjunction/preposition, explaining how a comma can change meaning, and an increased emphasis on the passive. Jumpstart! Grammar will prepare children for any grammar tests on the horizon in an engaging way so that they love playing with words and spinning sentences to make ideas dance. And, of course, they will be able to name the parts if that is what is required. Fun games will focus first on helping children hear the difference various types of grammar can make followed by activities to help them understand what different effects you can create with grammar. Technical terms will only be introduced once the children have established what the various features can do, with a particular focus on those terms that really help children discuss what makes language coherent and effective. This indispensable, practical book celebrates the joys of language and coherent expression; of finding just the right words or phrases to express what you want to say.

Games and activities for ages 6 - 14

Jumpstart! Grammar

"When I was a teacher poetry was absolutely at the heart of teaching English. Not only do children love hearing poetry, they love reading and performing poetry and that's a great place to start with poetry."Pie Corbett Pie Corbett's Poetry Spine Teacher's Guideoffers teaching notes designed to help teachers explore some of the best poems and poets with children aged 4-11. This book will help children to foster a love of poetry, increase familiarity and confidence with poems and rhymes from Nursery - Year 6and offer creative ideasto get the most out of teaching poetry. Pie Corbett is an educationalist, literary expert and author, well-known for his books on teaching creative writing, as well as writing many other books, schemes and anthologies.

Pie Corbett's Poetry Spine Teacher's Guide

Anne Webley

Key Stage 2 English

Don't just read - read aloud! With a treasure-trove of 15 favourite tales, each accompanied by an audio retelling read by a professional storyteller, this book gives children the perfect opportunity to read aloud, listen along, follow text, read together and do all the things they need to build their literacy skills! They'll meet gingerbread men, monkeys, magicians and more in this captivating collection, which comes with an audio CD.

The Gingerbread Man and Other Stories for 4-7 Year Olds

Gaby Morgan

The first in a brand-new series of poetry books created with KS1 teachers and students in mind, but packed with glorious poems that will appeal to a wide audience. This topic-based collection features brand-new poems about fairies, mermaids, princesses, monsters, mythical creatures, dinosaurs, pets, transport, families, seasons, school, people who help us, pirates, the senses, space, feelings, holidays and festivals, minibeasts, food, where we live, nature, friends and the past.

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