Mrs Wordsmith Year 1 English Gargantuan Workbook, Ages 5-6 (Key Stage 1)


Book Description

A comprehensive workbook of fun, illustrated English exercises for ages 5-6 An entire year of English learning packed into 192 pages! Phonics, vocabulary, grammar, high-frequency words, handwriting, and more! Developed with teachers and curriculum experts, and hilariously illustrated by Hollywood artists. In line with the National Curriculum. Practise long and short vowels and adjacent consonants. Revisit grammar topics, such as prepositions and conjunctions. Go over maths vocabulary, including measuring words and telling the time. Develop speaking and listening skills with Teddy Talks. "This workbook is a wonderful resource full of fun, illustrated activities, which complement the Year 1 curriculum." Emma Madden - Headteacher, Fox Primary School With a team of award-winning artists and writers, Mrs Wordsmith creates books, card games, worksheets, and mobile games to improve the reading and writing of kids aged 4-11, and to make learning fun! Variations of this content are available as printable worksheets at mrswordsmith.com © Mrs Wordsmith 2021




Mrs Wordsmith Reception English Colossal Workbook, Ages 4-5 (Early Years)


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A comprehensive workbook of fun, illustrated English exercises for ages 4-5 An entire year of English learning packed into 192 pages! Full of fun, illustrated activities, this workbook teaches and reinforces the big concepts a child learns in Reception English at school, covering phonics, letters and sounds, vocabulary, high-frequency words, handwriting, and more! Practise phonics and handwriting. Revisit confusing letters such as b and d. Explore vocabulary topics, including cause and effect and opposites. Go over key vocabulary for maths concepts such as "fewer", "more", and counting groups. Develop speaking and listening skills with Teddy Talks, and share your ideas with the world! Developed with teachers and curriculum experts, and hilariously illustrated by Hollywood artists. In line with the National Curriculum. "This workbook is a wonderful resource full of fun, illustrated activities, which complement the Reception curriculum." Emma Madden - Headteacher, Fox Primary School With a team of award-winning artists and writers, Mrs Wordsmith creates books, card games, worksheets, and mobile games to improve the reading and writing of kids aged 4-11, and to make learning fun! Variations of this content are available as printable worksheets at mrswordsmith.com © Mrs Wordsmith 2021




Blah Blah Blah Card Game


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Finally, a way to make practising phonics fun! Master decoding words using phonics with these three decks of increasing difficulty. Race to get rid of your cards by matching sounds and letters, and play wild cards to trip up your opponents! Blah Blah Blah is a hilariously fun card game, perfect for kids who are just starting to learn to read. Master decoding words using phonics with these three decks of increasing difficulty. Race to get rid of your cards by matching sounds and letters, and play wild cards to trip up your opponents! How does Blah Blah Blah work? Every card features a word consisting of three letters (or groups of letters). Each player takes seven cards. One card is placed face-up on the table with the rest of the deck in a pile, face-down. Players must play a card from their hand that contains at least one of the letters that are in the word on the table. The first player to get rid of all their cards wins. But beware! Wild cards hidden in the deck can force you to skip your turn or draw more cards. Blah Blah Blah was developed with a unique proprietary algorithm by our machine learning team to make sure it works. And it was tested with teachers and kids to make sure they love it! Why are phonics so important? English consists of about 44 phonemes (sound variations), but more than 170 graphemes (different written representations for these sounds). This means that English has no strict one-to-one correspondence between letters and sounds, but it’s also not entirely irregular. It involves numerous patterns and regularities. Phonics is the method that helps children become aware of these regularities, and it’s proven to be very effective.




Mrs Wordsmith Epic Words Vocabulary Book, Ages 4-8 (Key Stages 1-2)


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1,000+ must-know words for kids, covering everything from emotions to technology - hilariously illustrated to reinforce their meaning Boost vocabulary - and fall in love with words! Join Mrs Wordsmith's cast of word-hungry animals as they take kids on an adventure to learn the words they need to express themselves in every part of life. More than 1,000 words cover everything from emotions to mathematics, food to philosophy, making a big mucky mess to cleaning up, as well as a whole chapter on the future of technology. Designed by literacy experts to be hilariously fun and endlessly surprising, each page bursts with Hollywood illustration. The words are curated from global curriculum lists for kids aged four to eight, with extra challenging vocabulary added to the mix. "Mrs Wordsmith Epic Words Vocabulary Book uses the very latest in the science of learning to grab children's attention and teach them words about their world.




Mrs Wordsmith How to Write a Story, Ages 7-11 (Key Stage 2)


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Become a master storyteller with illustrated story kits How to Write a Story builds confidence and helps kids fall in love with writing! 21 story starters from detective adventures to space missions Visual guides for structuring stories Illustrated writing prompts Descriptive vocabulary lists Creative writing techniques Developed with teachers and assessment experts With a team of award-winning artists and writers, Mrs Wordsmith creates books, games, worksheets, and apps to improve the reading and writing of kids aged 4-11, and to make word learning fun! "This is a wonderfully engaging and helpful resource to help children fall in love with stories. The storytelling guidance is excellent, and the story kits are full of helpful questions, rich vocabulary, and even graphs to help motivate and inspire young writers to be." Emma Madden - Headteacher, Fox Primary School This content is also available to purchase as a printable workbook at mrswordsmith.com Mrs Wordsmith 2021




Changing Our Minds


Book Description

Children are born full of curiosity, eager to participate in the world. They learn as they live, with enthusiasm and joy. Then we send them to school. We stop them from playing and actively exploring their interests, telling them it's more important to sit still and listen. The result is that for many children, their motivation to learn drops dramatically. The joy of the early years is replaced with apathy and anxiety. This is not inevitable. We are socialised to believe that schooling is synonymous with education, but it's only one approach. Self-directed education puts the child back in control of their learning. This enables children, including those diagnosed with special educational needs, to flourish in their own time and on their own terms. It enables us to put wellbeing at the centre of education. Changing Our Minds brings together research, theory and practice on learning. It includes interviews with influential thinkers in the field of self-directed education and examples from families alongside practical advice. This essential guide will give you an understanding of why self-directed education makes sense, how it works, and what to do to put it into action yourself.




Raising Critical Thinkers


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A guide for parents to help children of all ages process the onslaught of unfiltered information in the digital age. Education is not solely about acquiring information and skills across subject areas, but also about understanding how and why we believe what we do. At a time when online media has created a virtual firehose of information and opinions, parents and teachers worry how students will interpret what they read and see. Amid the noise, it has become increasingly important to examine different perspectives with both curiosity and discernment. But how do parents teach these skills to their children? Drawing on more than twenty years’ experience homeschooling and developing curricula, Julie Bogart offers practical tools to help children at every stage of development to grow in their ability to explore the world around them, examine how their loyalties and biases affect their beliefs, and generate fresh insight rather than simply recycling what they’ve been taught. Full of accessible stories and activities for children of all ages, Raising Critical Thinkers helps parents to nurture passionate learners with thoughtful minds and empathetic hearts.




Handwriting Made Easy, Joined-up Writing, Ages 5-7 (Key Stage 1)


Book Description

This fun-fill workbook will help your child develop a neat, consistent and fluid style of handwriting.




Handwriting Made Easy: Confident Writing, Ages 7-11 (Key Stage 2)


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Help your child be top of the class with Handwriting Made Easy Help your child learn good handwriting skills with Made Easy Handwriting Confident Writing KS2. Packed with notes, tips and fact-boxes to make learning handwriting skills easy and fun! Follow the exercises and activities with your child to strengthen their learning in school, then reward them with gold stars for their efforts. Your child can keep track of all the exercises they have completed using the progress chart. Parent's notes explains what your child need to know at each stage and what's being covered in the national curriculum so you can support your child. Your child can learn all about story-writing, proof-reading and accuracy. From numerals to synonyms, Made Easy Handwriting Confident Writing KS2 clearly and simply unravels the rules behind handwriting. Developed in consultation with leading educational experts to support the new national curriculum learning at Key Stage 2.




Mrs Wordsmith Storyteller's Word a Day, Ages 7-11 (Key Stage 2)


Book Description

Storyteller's Word a Day is kids' daily dose of rich, descriptive vocabulary for all aspects of storytelling. See your child laugh as they learn 180 new words to describe characters' appearance, actions, and emotions. Beyond the pages, help your child retain what they've learned through our action-packed, vocabulary-boosting Word Tag video game. - 180 richly descriptive storytelling words - Vocabulary that appears on KS2 SATs, CATs, ISEB, 11+ - Designed for effective word understanding and awareness, with synonyms, word pairs, story starters and more - Research-backed and aligned to the national curriculum - Parent's Choice Gold Award Winner 2019 and an Amazon Best Seller in Schools and Education - Best used with Mrs Wordsmith's Word Tag video game, to reinforce vocabulary through play We know that one exposure to a word is simply not enough to master it. Our Storyteller's Word a Day flip book comes with a 3-month subscription to our Word Tag video game, enabling your child to revisit the words they've learned through gameplay. Flip a page. Play the game. Learn the words to create vivid, memorable story worlds! "This book is a highly informative, engaging, and fun resource to help young people (and their parents) build their knowledge and understanding of story-telling vocabulary. It helps children to develop a climate of interest and involvement with words, consequently developing not only their vocabulary but also their spelling and comprehension." Emma Madden - Headteacher, Fox Primary School. © Mrs Wordsmith 2023