Annabel Gray – författare

Happy Handwriting is a whole-school handwriting course that supports children in becoming confident, fluent writers. It consists of teacher guides, practice books and whiteboard slides with letter formation animations, providing a clear plan for frequent and discrete direct teaching. A Collins handwriting font licence is also supplied. Teacher Guide 5 contains all the guidance teachers and teaching assistants need to improve automaticity, legibility, fluency and style in children’s handwriting. Each week of content is presented as grid-based lesson plans for quick reference and easy planning. There are resource sheets and home practice sheets to provide additional practice opportunities, and a Collins Handwriting font licence is provided. Provides clear, practical advice for writing a whole-school handwriting policy.Includes engaging activities that provide short, effective practice of writing skills such as note taking, writing with a time limit and writing neatly.Contains the most recent research and expert advice for developing confident and fluent writers.A licence for the Collins Handwriting font is provided with every teacher guide to allow teachers to create their own activities and displays. The font contains print and cursive options as well as a version containing starting dots and direction arrows.Includes Additional Practice sheets to support all children in meeting ambitious handwriting goals and provides practical advice to meet the needs of left-handed children.Contains structured diagnostic assessment to identify individual and group handwriting needs.Downloadable Home Practice activities are included for every unit to offer practice in the context of the national curriculum spelling goals.

Happy Handwriting is a whole-school handwriting course that supports children in becoming confident, fluent writers. It consists of teacher guides, practice books and whiteboard slides with letter formation animations, providing a clear plan for frequent and discrete direct teaching. A Collins handwriting font licence is also supplied. Practice Book 2 contains colourful, engaging activities that provide short, regular practice of letter formations and letter joining. This is a write-in book.

Happy Handwriting is a whole-school handwriting course that supports children in becoming confident, fluent writers. It consists of teacher guides, practice books and whiteboard slides with letter formation animations, providing a clear plan for frequent and discrete direct teaching. A Collins handwriting font licence is also supplied. Practice Book 5 contains short, focused activities to enable students to make choices about joins, write legibly, fluently and with increasing speed. This is a write-in book.

Pinpoint is a series of activities and resources created to provide you with highly focused resources for specific needs in English.

244 page photocopiable book, A4 size

Complete coverage of National Curriculum requirements for spelling 

Each unit contains a child-friendly introduction to a spelling rule followed by 3 pages of differentiated practice 

Scaffolded learning provides challenge for all, with the level of support gradually reduced

Perfect preparation for SATs

Boosts vocabulary with definitions for over 400 words

Saves teachers time searching for carefully levelled spelling practice - just choose a topic from the contents and copy the pages you need

Includes child-friendly answers to encourage self-evaluation

This book provides flexible, pick up and go photocopiable activities for Years 5-6 / P6-7. Each spelling rule is introduced in child friendly language, and then tackled through a series of structured tasks which scaffold children’s learning and ensure progress regardless of the starting point.

 

Pinpoint is a series of activities and resources created to provide you with highly focused resources for specific needs in English.

64 page teaching guide, A4 size

Flexible bank of activities, enough for 30 lessons 

Curriculum-linked activities for all areas of English using the context of the novel (writing, reading, comprehension, spelling & grammar, spoken language)

Vocabulary builders and cross curricular activities using themes from the text

Includes Photocopy Masters to support the activities

Introduces contemporary themes that today’s children can relate to

Saves teachers time searching for engaging activities to use across the curriculum, linked to the stimulus text

Ideas for differentiation included to help tailor activities to children’s needs

Pinpoint Whole Class Reading is a new series of teaching guides providing flexible and creative lessons for classic modern children’s books.

 

This book provides 30 starter, main and plenary activities for teaching Boy in the Tower by Polly Ho-Yen in Year 6 / P7. These can be used interchangeably over a half term or over a longer period. Activities use three levels where appropriate, showing how the content can be adapted for children who need more support or challenge. 

 

Boy in the Tower is a moving story about a boy living in a tower block with his mother, who is suffering the after effects of trauma. It introduces children to the genre of science fiction and raises themes of courage and compassion, science and nature, and parental illness.  

Pinpoint is a new series of activities and resources created to provide you with highly focused resources for specific needs in English.

6 x teaching guide, A4 size

Flexible bank of activities, enough for 30 lessons per book

Curriculum-linked activities for all areas of English using contexts from each novel (writing, reading, comprehension, spelling & grammar, spoken language)

Vocabulary builders and cross curricular activities using themes from the text

Includes Photocopy Masters to support the activities

Introduces contemporary themes that today’s children can relate to

Saves teachers time searching for engaging activities to use across the curriculum, linked to the stimulus text

Ideas for differentiation included to help tailor activities to children’s needs

Pinpoint Whole Class Reading is a new series of teaching guides providing flexible and creative lessons for classic modern children’s books.

 

Each book provides 30 starter, main and plenary activities for teaching in Year 5-6 / P6-7. These can be used interchangeably over a half term or over a longer period. Activities use three levels where appropriate, showing how the content can be adapted for children who need more support or challenge.