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School Zone's boredom-busting Activity Zone Workbook has challenging word searches to solve.

Kids will love the challenge of solving intriguing crosswords on each colourful page and discovering fascinating people, places and things as they go.

Building On ..., the popular series of English homework books for Year 9 and 10 students, is going where no New Zealand book has gone before: it is being offered as two compatible versions, differentiated to meet the needs of the range of abilities in your students. The original, and probably most widely-used Established version is designed for students who are 'comfortable' with the skills required at this level, those who are refining their established skills. For students who are still mastering these skills we have created a si... read more

Building On ..., the popular series of English homework books for Year 9 and 10 students, is going where no New Zealand book has gone before: it is being offered as two compatible versions, differentiated to meet the needs of the range of abilities in your students. The original, and probably most widely-used Established version is designed for students who are 'comfortable' with the skills required at this level, those who are refining their established skills. For students who are still mastering these skills we have created a si... read more

The Jolly Phonics Activity Books 1-7 guide children through the early stages of reading and writing. Clear, straightforward instructions lead the way to the first fun steps in learning to read and write. Shrinkwrapped pack of books 1-7.

50 wipe-clean cards with exercises to test your grammar and punctuation. Includes pen, rules and helpful hints.

A picture book of first words that makes picture to word recognition fun. It is a delight for very young children to share with an adult, looking at and talking about the pictures, or to pore over on their own. Each scene is designed to help readers learn, revise or enrich their vocabulary quickly and enjoyably.

The stories and activities in this book are designed to help children develop reading comprehension skills. Learning to understand and retain what they read is an important step in a child's reading development. The Flash Skills series makes learning fun.

The crazy cats deliver loads of additional examples to illustrate the potent power of adjectives to describe the wonderful world around us. Brian P. Cleary's playful verse and Brian Gable's comical cats turn traditional grammar lessons on end. Each adjective is printed in colour for easy identification.

This book helps your child develop listening skills, identify similar sounds, and become aware of simple spellings, while broadening vocabulary. Ages 4-6.

This book helps children understand clauses in sentences and how to use apostrophes. It also looks at persuasive writing, poetry, and classic novels. Ages 10-11.

This book has practice on paragraphs and punctuation, similes and metaphors, and looks at different types of writing such as instructional and information text. Ages 11-12.

Sight Word Fun contains simple, fun activities that will help your child understand the meaning of sight words and recognise differences in spelling. Sight words are not phonetic which makes them more difficult to learn. This workbook offers plenty of activities to help your child memorise sight words with fun activites to help the process.

School Zone's boredom-busting Activity Zone Workbooks entertain kids with colourful hidden pictures, dot-to-dots, mazes, games, and word searches. These educational workbooks help children develop eye-hand coordination, perceptual skills, vocabulary, problem solving and more.

School Zone's boredom-busting Activity Zone Workbooks entertain kids with colourful hidden pictures, dot-to-dots, mazes, games, and word searches. These educational workbooks help children develop eye-hand coordination, perceptual skills, vocabulary, problem solving and more.

Children will have fun learning and practising beginning phonics skills in this easy-to-use program. Just click one of the colourful buttons on the left of the screen to explore letter sounds,vowels sounds, rhyming families, letter blends and more. Suitable for both Windows and Mac. Ages 6+

This phonics book introduces your child to letter sounds and combinations that allow them to further develop their reading and writing skills. Write the answers using the marker pen that is included, then slide out the tab to check the answers. Wipe-off pages allow repeated practice. Ages 5+.

The two hours of the Jolly Phonics Videos now available on DVD. Designed for children in the classroom or at home, Inky Mouse shows her friends Snake and Bee how to read and write with the help of 'Phonic', an old computer. The DVD covers all the letter sounds and the five basic skills for reading and writing. Bonus material includes a fun activity for children, and for adults, the Using Jolly Phonics Video, explaining the teaching. There is also an extra section explaining the letter sounds of English, ideal for those learning ... read more

Part 1 Parts of speech: nouns; proper nouns; collective nouns; abstract nouns; pronouns; adjectives; verbs; more verb practice; adverbs; conjunctions; propositions; revision. Part 2 Punctuation, spelling and grammar: capital letters; full stops; commas; apostrophes; more apostrophes; speech marks; simple sentences; compound sentences; spelling trouble-shooting; revision and practice. Part 3 Poetic techniques: simile; metaphor; personification; alliteration; onomatopoeia; assonance; rhyme; revision. Final test - answers.

The Jolly Phonics workbooks teach the skills for reading and writing. All the letter sounds of English are introduced, with an 'action' for each. Exercises show how to use the letter sounds to read and to spell, along with ways of learning the 'tricky' spellings. The correct way to form each letter is shown and in later Workbooks joined-up (cursive) writing is introduced.