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Projects Inspired by Poetry and Art provides stimulating ideas for exploring poetry alongside art, using poems and artworks from a collection of well-loved poets and artists including Roger McGough, David Hockney and Mara Bergman. Chapters include Performance, Colours and Cityscapes.

About this resource

• Practical starting points to engage the whole class.
• Inspiring ideas for cross-curricular activities and displays.
• Clear and informative illustrations show real-life classroom displays.
• Resource lists and step-by-step instructions to help with lesson planning.

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Projects Inspired by Myth, Magic and Fantasy provides ideas for exploring popular fiction texts with children through vibrant and exciting art and design projects with engaging starting points and cross-curricular links. The texts include a variety that will appeal to children from different age groups throughout primary school.

About this resource

• Practical starting points to engage the whole class.
• Inspiring ideas for cross-curricular activities and displays.
• Clear and informative illustrations show real-life classroom displays.
• Resource lists and step-by-step instructions to help with lesson planning.

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Writing is packed with flexible ideas for developing early understanding and igniting curiosity in the Literacy and Expressive arts and design areas of learning. Activities across fifteen themes can be tailored to meet the needs and interests of every child and support progress towards the knowledge and skills required by the Early Learning Goals.

About this resource

- Clear learning intentions for each activity enable effective planning of experiences. - Suggestions for involving parents with Home Links to extend the learning themes. - Links to different areas of learning through a variety of topics. - Photographs of real children’s work to illustrate potential learning outcomes of the activities.

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Rhymes is packed with flexible ideas for developing early understanding and igniting curiosity in the Communication and language area of learning. Activities across ten themes can be tailored to meet the needs and interests of every child and support progress towards attaining the knowledge and skills required by the Early Learning Goals.

About this resource

- Clear learning intentions for each activity enable effective planning of experiences. - Suggestions for involving parents with Home Links to extend the learning themes. - Links to different areas of learning through a variety of topics. - Photographs of real children’s work to illustrate potential learning outcomes of the activities.

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Stories is packed with flexible ideas for developing early understanding and igniting curiosity in the Communication and language and Literacy areas of learning. Activities across twelve themes can be tailored to the needs and interests of every child and support progress towards the knowledge and skills required by the Early Learning Goals.

About this resource

- Clear learning intentions for each activity enable effective planning of experiences. - Suggestions for involving parents with Home Links to extend the learning themes. - Links to different areas of learning through a variety of topics. - Photographs of real children’s work to illustrate potential learning outcomes of the activities.

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Hands on Phonics makes phonics fun with creative displays and activities. Each cross-curricular theme is explored through colourful and original ideas that will complement any phonics programme. The themes are grouped into five chapters: Basic Phonemes, Basic Word Building, Vowel Phonemes, From Beginning to End, The Wonder of Words.

About this resource

• Practical starting points to engage the whole class.
• Inspiring ideas for cross-curricular activities and displays.
• Clear and informative illustrations show real-life classroom displays.
• Resource lists and step-by-step instructions to help with lesson planning.

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Projects Inspired by Stories uses stories from around the world as starting points for creative work. The activities develop the core literacy skills of reading and writing, speaking and listening, drama and role-play. Chapters organised by continent feature stories such as The Elephant’s Pillow from China, and Marina and the Merchild from Chile.

About this resource

• Practical starting points to engage the whole class.
• Inspiring ideas for cross-curricular activities and displays.
• Clear and informative illustrations show real-life classroom displays.
• Resource lists and step-by-step instructions to help with lesson planning.

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Creative Literacy assists in developing a creative, cross-curriculum approach to literacy. Activities based on fiction and non-fiction texts support and extend children’s responses to reading and promote creativity in higher-order thinking skills and written work. Themes include Animal Fun, Time Travelling, Rainforests, Electricity, Ancient Egypt.

About this resource

• Practical starting points to engage the whole class.
• Inspiring ideas for cross-curricular activities and displays.
• Clear and informative illustrations show real-life classroom displays.
• Resource lists and step-by-step instructions to help with lesson planning.

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Hands on Literacy provides activities to bring literacy lessons to life with interactive displays. Each theme is packed with ideas for creative games and artwork that develop children’s imaginative and practical skills whilst furthering their development in Phonics, Vowels and Consonants, Grammar, Sentences and Writing, and Rhyme and Rhythm.

About this resource

• Practical starting points to engage the whole class.
• Inspiring ideas for cross-curricular activities and displays.
• Clear and informative illustrations show real-life classroom displays.
• Resource lists and step-by-step instructions to help with lesson planning.