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Developing Literacy Each book contains more than 50 fun and engaging activities to support literacy teaching, plus the whole book on CD-ROM.
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Clear instructions and layout enable children to work independently.
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Key words and numbers are highlighted.
Name clapping
Make new words from the base words . Use any of these.
Read the names. Clap for each beat. Write the number of claps.
Beginnings
re
Endings
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Base word
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Christine Moorcroft
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Anna
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New words
Andrew
Salim
James
Christopher
Angela
Alice
Rosemary
Benjamin
Sita
Max
Amy
Elizabeth
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An open extension activity on every sheet, for children who work more quickly.
NOW TRY THIS!
Make the longest words you can from these. move
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NOW TRY THIS!
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Clap the name of a fairytale character for a friend to guess. Write the name.
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Teachers’ note Remind the children of the prefixes and suffixes they have used for changing the meanings of words and of the ways in which some base words are changed: for example, doubling the last letter, changing y to i or dropping the final e. Model how to make several different words from a base word: settle (unsettle, settled, settling, settlement), fit (unfit, refit, fitted, fitting, fitter).
Homophone hints C Circle the correct words.
Speech bubbles offer useful hints and reminders.
We took turns to read allowed/aloud to the class.
What did you see?
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Text size is appropriate to reading age.
Concise teaching notes show how to use the activities – especially helpful for teaching assistants or parent helpers.
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The first seen/scene of the play was set in a cave.
My grandad is going bald/bawled.
A peddler walks about selling goods.
Let’s wring the washing.
have in as a prefix. Decide which words can have out as a prefix. Write the new words on the Venn diagram.
Use a dictionary.
Word-bank
break building cast
come dated doors
going grow land
let line look
mate put side
in
sole spoken wit
out
We mist/missed the bus.
income outcome
They went down a coal mine. The men mined/mind for coal. She threw a ball to the corgi.
The teacher sighed/side as she looked at the messy work.
The queen sat on her throne/thrown.
Write sentences using these homophones. weather whether check cheque
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It was a misty day.
She gave a sigh and went outside.
I guessed/guest who was at the door. NOW TRY THIS!
The two armies fought/fort at the fougth/fort.
I rung/wrung the water out of the dishcloth.
A guest was ringing the bell.
Decide which words in the word-bank can
Armies fight battles.
We are going to hire/higher a caravan for our holiday.
To bawl is to shout.
The pedals/peddles on my bike are red.
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In and out The clues will help you to check the spellings.
There is a high mountain nearby.
Allow me to help.
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Teachers’ note Begin by clapping the syllables of the children’s names as you say them. Invite the children to join in. Then clap a name but do not say it. Ask the children to hold up their hand if it could be their name.
Each book focuses on one area of the curriculum and one year group.
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Teachers’ note Read the sentence to the children, replacing allowed/aloud with let and ask if it makes sense. Point out that the spelling in the clue shows where one of the words comes from and might not be the correct one in the sentence.
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Choose three words that can have either in or out as a prefix.
Write their meanings. Teachers’ note Use the completed examples to demonstrate that some words can be prefixed by either in- or out-. Use either building or cast as an example of a word that only makes sense with one of the prefixes. Ask the children whether the prefix in- always gives the opposite meaning to the prefix out-.
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