Focus on Spelling teaches children aged 6-11 essential spelling rules by investigating how they work. CD-ROM 1 is aimed at 6-8 year olds, and provides simple animations of spelling rules, plus practice activities and tests. Step-by-step Spelling Focuses (spelling rules explained with the help of sound and simple animation)Lively activities and tests that develop key learning-to-spell strategies such as matching, sorting and look-say-cover-write-checkThree ability levels for each activity, with built-in feedbackPersonal Word Bank and Spelling Notepad, ideal for recording tricky words and ways to remember how to spell themBuilt-in Teacher Support provides an easy-to-use teacher management system with the option to set up individual learning plans for pupils and groupsSimple record keeping by tracking and recording resultsPractical diagnostic support

 

 

This book is part of a book series called Focus On Spelling .

This book has been graded for interest at 6-8 years.

This book was published in 2003 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Joyce Sweeney and Carol Doncaster are two authors with years of experience in the teaching and writing of phonics. Joyce is Deputy Head Teacher of a primary school in Scotland and Carol, a Home Link teacher. Both authors have written the successful Key Phonics and New Key Phonics.