For Early Education/Primary Children
My First Book of Numbers: Have fun with your child as they learn their numbers to 10. They will recognise number patterns and count objects while developing hand-eye coordination and number formation.
Help them learn how to understand numbers in their many forms, from number recognition to touch counting, recognising a number and its place on a line. These skills will help them navigate school and the challenges that number understanding brings.
Develop their knowledge now to help your child navigate school and focus on number understanding in the early years. With this purchase, you are helping your child get a head start. Enjoy the journey together, and have fun!
My Numbers to 20 Book: This booklet is designed to complement and further your child’s number recognition and knowledge by introducing your child to 2-digit numbers within 20. It supports and complements the material that will be taught in school.
Children generally find 2-digit numbers challenging to begin with. Still, with a bit of patience and perseverance, they will soon start to make the connection between the teen numbers and begin to recognise the patterns they established when working on their numbers within 10. This knowledge will help to increase their confidence and number knowledge.
Understanding numbers within 20 will also support recognition of odd and even numbers and the basic skills of early addition and subtraction, using terms like 1 more than/1 less than or 2 more than/2 less than, as well as the number between, before and after. With regular revision and practice, your child will be succeeding in recognising the sequence of numbers to 20 in no time.
Fractions and Time Activity Booklet: This booklet is designed to gently introduce your child to fractions and time, supporting and complementing the material that will be taught in school.
Children generally find these topics quite challenging to begin with. Still, with a bit of patience and perseverance, they will soon start to make the connection between fractions, time, and number knowledge.
Understanding fractions also supports time, which is why these two mathematical concepts have been presented together. If your child can understand half of a shape, then this can be applied to learning half of an hour. With regular revision and practice, your child will be succeeding in no time.
Recommendations when using these phonics books:
Dry wipe whiteboard and pen set
These items will make blending and decoding far simpler and can reinforce what is being in taught in the phonics books set.
(letter set 1)
My First Phonics Book: This booklet is designed to introduce your child to the first six initial sounds tackled at school when children are learning the alphabet/phonics and the early skills of reading and writing. The remainder off the initial sounds will be covered in follow on booklets.
Each letter is introduced by looking at the letter shape and familiarising children with how each letter looks allowing them to build knowledge of how each letter sounds phonetically. Children will then find and identify each letter/sound, use the letter/sound at the start of a word, in a word and later building confidence in blending these letter sounds to make and break words. Your child can then read letters/sounds and decode words whilst being introduced to common words, to make for life long skills which transfer to the development of reading and writing more complex sentences.
(letter set 2)
My Second Phonics Book: This booklet is designed to further enhance the skills and knowledge developed in My First Phonics Book by introducing your child to the next set of sounds tackled at school when children are learning the alphabet and the early skills of reading and writing.
(letter set 3)
My Third Phonics Book: This booklet is designed to further enhance the skills and knowledge developed in My First and Second Phonics Book by introducing your child to the next set of sounds tackled at school when children are learning the alphabet and the early skills of reading and writing.
(letter set 4)
My Fourth Phonics Book: This booklet is designed to further enhance the skills and knowledge developed in the first 3 Phonics Books by introducing your child to the next set of sounds tackled at school when children are learning the alphabet and the early skills of reading and writing. This is the final part of the initial sounds for this series. Follow-on books will contain digraphs/joint phonemes.
(completes the phonics series)
Common Words and Sentences completes the literacy set. Book 5 of the literacy initial sounds series contains all the common/high-frequency words (decodable and tricky) taught in school while teaching the initial sounds covered in the four sets above. Your child will be confident and more fluent in reading, recognising the sounds that build up the word and tricky words by identifying the shape and recalling how this is pronounced.
