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Focus English by Ros Ferrara
	The materials within Focus English help teachers to plan and deliver English teaching and learning in a purposeful and engaging way, placing English and literature at the heart of the curriculum. Aligned with end of year curriculum expectations, Focus English is based on the use of high-quality texts, including poetry, which provide the driver for each unit. Separate Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2 and individual year group products are also available. For more information PLEASE CLICK HERE.
Improving Spelling by Ros Ferrara (Code: 0242)
Price �25.00 plus VAT	Spelling needs to be taught rigorously and systematically, but teaching also needs to engage children and show them that accurate spelling matters. This resource offers some guidance and suggestions as to the development of an effective spelling programme and strategies to raise the profile of spelling across the curriculum. Supplied in both PowerPoint and pdf formats.
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Writing at Greater Depth by Ros Ferrara (Code: 0243)
Price �25.00 plus VAT	Providing a pathway for able writers Working with and developing children who show potential as greater depth writers is challenging. This resource takes a close look at how to recognise these children in each year group, discusses a writing sample and offers suggestions to ensure progress and deep learning. The requirements for the end of KS2 are reviewed in detail with practical suggestions and resources to meet them. Supplied in both PowerPoint and pdf formats.
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Planning Through Quality Texts - Whole School by Ros Ferrara (Code: 0244)
Price �60.00 plus VAT (Save �10.00)	These resources are intended to support the planning of effective literacy units based on high quality books. They are not intended to be lesson plans, but offer a menu of possible ideas for teachers to use as starting points to plan for purposeful learning and give pupils reasons for writing, as well as the skills they need to write with impact on their reader. For separate KS1, KS2 and Early Years versions PLEASE CLICK HERE Please click on �More information� below to see a list of the books covered
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Giant Phonics (Code: 0881)
Price �75.00 plus VAT	Giant Phonics is an amazing supplementary resource which will save you time and effort in preparing your Letters and Sounds daily phonics lessons while enabling you to deliver the essential teaching sequence in every lesson. Giant Phonics contains: � Teachers Guidance Notes � Games Bank � 144 PowerPoint presentations covering Phases 2 - 6. These have the recommended teaching sequence, a game and practice phrase/s or sentence/s included.
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Inspire Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (Code: 0870)
Price �95.00 plus VAT	Originally intended to complement the Inspire Curriculum (recently withdrawn from sale), this excellent resource will work with any curriculum. Download SPG GUIDANCE AND OVERVIEWS Download SPG KEY STAGE 1 SAMPLE (Grammar) Download SPG KEY STAGE 2 GRAMMAR SAMPLE Download SPG KEY STAGE 2 SPELLING SAMPLE Want to purchase just one Key Stage? Please contact us on 01778 440694.
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Writing Continuums by Liz Greensides (Code: 0238)
Price �30.00 plus VAT	The Writing Continuums take different elements of the writing curriculum, and order them into a sensible and logical sequence of learning �. and teaching � year by year across the primary school. They take the end of year objectives and unravel them into small and steady steps for learning. This gives continuity and cohesion in planning, teaching and learning. Along with the Writing Continuums themselves, there is a PowerPoint presentation to be used for staff training. See samples below.
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Rainbow Writing by Liz Greensides (Code: 0160)
Price �75.00 plus VAT	Rainbow Writing: using Bloom�s Continuum to teach writing across the primary school. This practical resource considers a refreshing way of teaching writing in all its elements - from vocabulary to punctuation, from poetry to story writing - for children of all ages and all abilities. It offers challenge to the most able and supports those who have difficulty with the basic key skills of writing. It sets out the �Rainbow Continuum of Skills� in writing. See SPECIAL OFFER below with The Rainbow Continuum - planning for skills progression within the new National Curriculum
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The Rainbow Continuum + Rainbow Writing SPECIAL OFFER by Liz Greensides (Code: 0163)
Price �120.00 plus VAT (Save �30.00)	Purchase these two outstanding resources together at a SPECIAL OFFER price! See above for details of "Rainbow Writing". For "The Rainbow Curriculum" go to Leading Teaching and Learning Resources

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Successful Writers: Checklists for Writing by Simon Camby (Code: 0061)
Price �25.00 plus VAT	This resource is designed to save class teachers time when planning for writing. It includes ready-made checklists which children can use to self-evaluate their writing. The simple format provides a space for the teacher to give their feedback and prompts for improvement.
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Judging Year 2 and Year 6 Writing by Ros Ferrara (Code: 0215)
Price �20.00 plus VAT	Only available in digital format from Not As We Know It Limited, this concise resource provides practical support for teachers of Year 2 and Year 6 and to English and assessment leaders. It can be printed out on A4 or (handy!) A5 size paper. The resource supports teachers' judgements by focusing on the National Curriculum requirements and differentiates between writing that is not yet at the National Standard, writing at the National Standard and writing at greater depth within the National Standard.
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Judging Year 1, 3, 4 and 5 Writing by Ros Ferrara (Code: 0264)
Price �20.00 plus VAT	Only available in digital format from Not As We Know It Limited, this concise resource provides practical support for teachers of Year 1, 3, 4 and 5 and to English and assessment leaders. It can be printed out on A4 or (handy!) A5 size paper. The resource supports teachers' judgements by focusing on the National Curriculum requirements and differentiates between writing that is not yet at the National Standard, writing at the National Standard and writing at greater depth within the National Standard.
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Progression in Writing: Model Texts for Teacher and Pupils by Martin Gregory (Code: 0237)
Price �22.00 plus VAT	These examples of writing have been put together to assist teachers in supporting pupils in the planning, writing and evaluation of their work within the National Curriculum requirements for writing in English. The annotations are visible in the �Showing Markup� mode in Microsoft Word, but the examples can be printed without them. See samples below: Sample 1 - with annotation Sample 2 - no annotation
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Exemplification of Standards in Writing: Working at Greater Depth within the Expected Standard by Ros Ferrara (Code: 0192)
Price �75.00 plus VAT	Looking at samples of children's writing over the course of the year from Year 1 to Year 6, this resource provides exemplification of progress in writing within each year group and of writing when pupils meet year group expectations, or master them. Samples are included with and without annotations so they can be used as CPD opportunities to develop understanding of year group expectations and how to identify progress across the year as well as making standards explicit at the end of year. Package includes editable PowerPoint and full colour versions. See samples below.
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Grammar Writing Right by Ros Ferrara (Code: 0060)
Price �20.00 plus VAT	This resource considers the key issues in ensuring that the teaching of grammar is effective in not only giving children the skills they need, but also in making them effective, confident writers.
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Grammar Games by Ros Ferrara (Code: 0125)
Price �25.00 plus VAT	This resource demonstrates explicitly how grammar games can be used as an effective teaching tool to ensure that children understand the statutory grammar requirements, know and use the correct terminology and can experiment with grammatical features to create effects.
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Grammar and Punctuation Subject Knowledge by Ros Ferrara (Code: 0058)
Price �8.00 plus VAT	This resource is a clear and quick guide to the key terminology and essential subject knowledge for all adults working in primary schools. In addition to explaining the terminology, it gives clear examples to illustrate the application of grammatical rules and features.
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Progression in Grammar and Punctuation by Ros Ferrara (Code: 0059)
Price �6.00 plus VAT	This resource provides an overview of the essential expectations for each year group and progression across the Primary school to support the consistent and effective teaching of grammar and punctuation.
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Developing Reasoning and Depth in Reading: Leading to Mastery of Reading Skills by Clive Davies (Code: 0186)
Price �75.00 plus VAT	This resource provides support for teachers and school leaders who are looking at ways of developing pupils' deeper learning skills in reading. Click �More information� below to see what this resource does, and does not, attempt to do.
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The Place of Guided Reading in the New English Curriculum by Ros Ferrara (Code: 0118)
Price �40.00 plus VAT	This resource considers the rationale for guided reading and different teaching models, strategies and approaches. It also provides tables in which links between the new objectives from the 2014 curriculum and the former assessment focuses are made, enabling teachers to continue to use approaches and resources based on the focuses as well as planning and assessing effectively.
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Support and Challenge in Guided Reading: Exemplar Units for Yr1-Yr6 SPECIAL OFFER by Ros Ferrara (Code: 0182)
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Support and Challenge in Guided Reading: Exemplar Units for Yr1-Yr6 by Ros Ferrara (Code: 0133)
Price �25.00 plus VAT (See SPECIAL OFFER above)	Do you need some fresh ideas to make guided reading effective for all children? This resource offers six (from Yr1 to Yr6) guided reading teaching sequences based on quality texts: Scaredy Squirrel The Tunnel The Firework-Maker's Daughter Iron Man The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas The Nightingale and the Rose
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Support and Challenge in Guided Reading: More Exemplar Units for Yr1-Yr6 by Ros Ferrara (Code: 0181)
Price �25.00 plus VAT (See SPECIAL OFFER above)	More ideas to make guided reading effective for all children This resource offers six (from Yr1 to Yr6) guided reading teaching sequences based on quality texts: Dogger The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark KrindleKrax Cool The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe The Lady of Shalott
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Teaching Poetry by Ros Ferrara (Code: 0116)
Price �20.00 plus VAT	Are you confident with the poetry focus in the new curriculum? This resource offers a practical guide to different forms of poetry and the key terminology needed as well as suggestions for creating a poetry ethos in schools. It looks in detail, with practical examples, at responding to and discussing poetry and performing it. It includes games, approaches, strategies and models for the writing of poetry. It also supports teacher subject knowledge.
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Thematic Curriculum Planning - SPECIAL OFFER by Liz Greensides (Code: 0151)
Price �70.00 plus VAT (Save �10.00)	A set of thematic cross curricular plans, supplied in Word and pdf formats, based on a range of popular children�s literature, each with over 20 pages of detailed planning to support the development of reading and cross curricular thematic learning. Each resource follows the main elements of the book, but has a specific subject driver outside of the English curriculum, thereby guaranteeing that English is part and parcel of learning across the curriculum. The titles covered are (please note - the books themselves are not included): Charlotte�s Web George�s Marvellous Medicine International Tournaments The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark PLEASE CLICK HERE TO SEE THE INDIVIDUAL PRODUCTS Differentiation and challenge are referenced to the 2014 National Curriculum and to the skills progression outlined in “The Rainbow Continuum”.

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English Learning Challenge Curriculum by Ros Ferrara (Code: 0115)
Price �40.00 plus VAT	This resource offers practical examples of Learning Challenges in English. They are organised so they exemplify a possible teaching sequence to meet an identified outcome. These examples use the same principles as the Learning Challenges in other subjects: greater learner involvement in engaging with the context and reflection up on their learning. This package includes Word, PowerPoint and pdf versions of the resource. See "Learning Challenge Curriculum" for SPECIAL OFFERS
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Non-Negotiables: Embedding the Basics by Simon Camby (Code: 0068)
Price �30.00 plus VAT	Since the Non-Negotiables publication was first released in 2010, hundreds of schools have used the principle and content as a basis for ensuring a rigorous focus on basic skills. This fully revised resource keeps the central premise that schools need a clear map of the basic skills to be taught in each year group. The content has been revised to take account of the draft National Curriculum which will be statutory from 2014.
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Year Group Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Tests by Clive Davies
	These termly tests are provided to help teachers assess how children are progressing towards the end of year expectations. Each of the tests is provided as a Word document to allow schools to make amendments, should they wish. For more information PLEASE CLICK HERE.
Year Group Reading Tests by Clive Davies
	These termly tests are provided to help teachers assess how children are progressing towards the end of year expectations. Each of the tests is provided as a Word document to allow schools to make amendments, should they wish. For more information PLEASE CLICK HERE.