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Collins Big Cat, Ruby, Band 14: Stowaway! (PDF)

This adventure story recounts the first round-world voyage of Tudor explorer Sir Francis Drake through the eyes of Dickon, a lame stowaway, who goes on to become Drake's cabin boy and personal hero. Readers learn about the harsh life that sailors in Tudor times experienced as they coped with storms, mutinies and illness on board ship.

Collins Big Cats, Band 13, Topaz: stories from West Africa (PDF)

Inspired by three traditional African tales, follow the crafty spider Anansi, and find out how his greed and cunning don't always get him what he wants.

Collins Big Cats, Band 13, Topaz: Kings of the Wild (PDF)

This report with its dramatic photography helps us understand what brown bears look like and the savage, unspoilt, grandeur of their habitat. It persuades us that these animals are to be respected and saved from encroachment on their habitat.

Collins English Skills Book 3 (PDF)

Collins English Skills 3 is intended for children age 7-8 in Year 3/P4. Each unit begins with a reading passage and follows a repeated pattern of reading, phonics grammar, writing and language activities. Ideal for use in literacy sessions. This book was previously published as Folens English Skills 3. âe¢ Build and develop key language skills with this whole-school programme âe¢ Raise standards in literacy through phonics, reading and writing activities âe¢ A flexible resource with photocopiable activity sheets for Key Stage 1 âe¢ Repeated pattern of learning provides support, consolidation and extension

Collins New Primary Maths: Pupil Book 5C (PDF)

Collins New Primary Maths Pupil Book 5C is packed with exciting activities to help build and develop the skills needed to be successful in Maths.

Collins New Primary Maths: Pupil Book 5B (PDF)

Collins New Primary Maths Pupil Book 5B is packed with exciting activities to help build and develop the skills needed to be successful in Maths.

Collins New Primary Maths: Pupil Book 5C (PDF)

Collins New Primary Maths Pupil Book 5C is packed with exciting activities to help build and develop the skills needed to be successful in Maths.

Collins New Primary Maths: Year 6+ Pupil's Book (PDF)

Collins New Primary Maths Pupil Book 6+ is packed with exciting extension activities to help build and develop the skills needed to be successful in Maths.

Collins New Primary Maths: Pupil Book 6B (PDF)

Collins New Primary Maths Pupil Book 6B is packed with exciting activities to help build and develop the skills needed to be successful in Maths.

Collins New Primary Maths: Pupil Book 6C (PDF)

Collins New Primary Maths Pupil Book 6C is packed with exciting activities to help build and develop the skills needed to be successful in Maths.

Collins New Primary Maths - Cross-Curricular Word Problems 2 (PDF)

Collins New Primary Maths: Cross-Curricular Word Problems 2 encourages children to practise the skills of using and applying maths. The activities build problem-solving skills while developing other key maths concepts, and challenge children to apply their mathematical knowledge to other curricular contexts, such as science, history and geography It contains 40 differentiated word problems, each matched to an objective from the Renewed Framework, and a cross-curricular topic nbsp;They can be easily integrated with the daily mathematics lesson.

Collins New Primary Maths - Enriching Maths Resource Pack 2 (PDF)

Enriching Maths Resource Pack 2 provides a bank of activities for children working above age-related expectations, which can be slotted in alongside the maths programme for your class.

Collins New Primary Maths - Pupil Book 4B (PDF)

Collins New Primary Maths Pupil Book 4B is packed with exciting activities to help build and develop the skills needed to be successful in Maths.

Collins New Primary Maths:Pupil Book 4C (PDF)

Collins New Primary Maths Pupil Book 4C is packed with exciting activities to help build and develop the skills needed to be successful in Maths.

Collins Primary Focus: Pupil Book 3 (PDF)

Collins Primary Focus: Grammar and Punctuation Pupil Book 3 is aimed at ages 9+.

Collins Primary Focus: Grammar and Punctuation

Presented in a clear and colourful format, each grammar concept is supported by visual cues. Follow-up activities allow children to develop grammar and punctuation skills at different levels. Progress units provide opportunities for assessment and consolidation.

Collins Primary Focus: Grammar and Punctuation (PDF)

Presented in a clear and colourful format, each grammar concept is supported by visual cues. Follow-up activities allow children to develop grammar and punctuation skills at different levels. Progress units provide opportunities for assessment and consolidation.

Collins Primary Focus: Pupil Book 1 (PDF)

Collins Primary Focus: Comprehension Pupil Book 1 is aimed at ages 7+. Using a variety of well-known authors, the book is designed to encourage children to read and understand every essential fiction and non-fiction text type.

Collins Primary Focus: Pupil Book 3 (PDF)

Collins Primary Focus: Comprehension Pupil Book 3 is aimed at ages 9+. Using a variety of well-known authors, the book is designed to encourage children to read and understand every essential fiction and non-fiction text type. Follow-up activities progress from literal questions to higher order thinking skills.

Collins Primary Focus: Pupil Book 4 (PDF)

Collins Primary Focus: Comprehension Pupil Book 4 is aimed at ages 10+. Using a variety of well-known authors, the book is designed to encourage children to read and understand every essential fiction and non-fiction text type.

Collins Primary Geography Teacher's Book 5 (Collins Primary Geography Ser.)

Comics (PDF)

This series of books incorporates popular themes combined with a low reading age to entice reluctant students back to reading.

Cool!

Michael Morpurgo's inspiring new story of Robbie, a boy in a coma - victim of a car accident. Locked inside his own head, able to hear but not move or speak, Robbie tries to keep himself from slipping ever deeper into unconsciousness.

Cool! (PDF)

Michael Morpurgo's inspiring new story of Robbie, a boy in a coma - victim of a car accident. Locked inside his own head, able to hear but not move or speak, Robbie tries to keep himself from slipping ever deeper into unconsciousness.

Cracking Creative Writing in KS2: 100+ Activities To Improve Key Stage 2 Children's Writing Confidence

100+ activities to inspire Key Stage 2 children to write creatively and independently: to be in charge of their own creative writing process. Writing doesnʼt have to be a chore – slow and uninviting. It can be a source of pleasure and success and, above all, quick! This book is the proof! The book contains 100+ tried and tested activities which will inspire Key Stage 2 children to write creatively. Each sheet begins with a worked example showing the kind of finished piece being aimed at. Then step-by-step instructions explain what young writers need to do to create their own piece of writing that they can be proud of. The aim throughout is for the writer to be independent and in charge of their own writing, not the other way round. The activities take between 30 and 60 minutes each to complete and cover a great range of writing-related features and terms as well as some creative routes into the trickier aspects of the National Curriculum grammar requirements. The ideas here cover a great range of writing-related features and terms as well as some creative routes into those trickier aspects of English grammar and punctuation. Some are straightforward, others more demanding. Rather than using decontextualized exercises, these activities invite young writers to explore the language. The children’s own creative writing becomes the context for their playing with, and thus learning about, the language – how it works, its rules, its possibilities – and crucially therefore, what they can do with it. These are not ‘free’ writing activities; each has its specific challenges, constraints and formal game plan. If a child could benefit from using, say, a dictionary or thesaurus for a particular idea, then they are told this at the outset. ‘Writing is the greatest human invention.’ – Professor Brian Cox Writing matters. It matters to teachers, and it certainly matters to children – they want to be able to do it, and be good at it. As teachers, we want children to write successfully and also enjoy the activity itself. Perhaps even find it fun.