Phonic Books Dandelion Launchers Stages 1-7 Sam, Tam, Tim (alphabet code) comprises 14 books and runs parallel to Dandelion Launchers Extra Stages 1-7 I Am Sam. Dandelion Launchers Stages 1-7 Sam, Tam, Tim is aimed at children in Pre-K and Kindergarten, each book introduces only a few letters and sounds at a time, allowing independent reading from the outset. Two books in each stage provide practice while offering different stories. Each stage introduces new letters/sounds while supporting previously taught phonic letters/sounds and high-frequency words, or sight words. Book 1a: Sam, Tam, Tim (Stage 1: s, a, t, i, m) Book 1b: Is it Sam? (Stage 1: s, a, t, i, m) Book 2a: Pam (Stage 2: n, o, p) Book 2b: The Pot (Stage 2: n, o, p) Book 3a: Sam's Bag (Stage 3: b, c, g, h) Book 3b: Pip and the Bat (Stage 3: b, c, g, h) Book 4a: Ted (Stage 4: d, e, f, v) Book 4b: Meg and Ted (Stage 4: d, e, f, v) Book 5a: Ken, the Rat (Stage 5: k, l, r, u) Book 5b: Kim, the Bug (Stage 5: k, l, r, u) Book 6a: Jim and Jam (Stage 6: j, w, z) Book 6b: Ken Gets Wet (Stage 6: j, w, z) Book 7a: Rex Yells (Stage 7: x, y, ff, ll, ss, zz) Book 7b: Rex Will Not Sit (Stage 7: x, y, ff, ll, ss, zz) The accompanying photocopiable activities for word building, reading, writing, comprehension and spelling can be found in Reading and Writing Activities for Dandelion Launchers Stages 1-7.

Dandelion Launchers is a phonic reading series for beginner readers. The books precede and supplement the Dandelion Readers series. Dandelion Launchers can be used with any phonic programme. Each unit represents a new level.

Christmas is a beautiful time of the year-unless you're shopping with hundreds of other people, drinking too much spiked eggnog, or attempting to build a gingerbread house. In her alphabetical collection of short, playful poems for adults, author Harmony Bentosino travels from A through Z as she identifies holiday-related headaches, hassles, and happiness. Harmony, who is known for her award-winning home decorations and rhyming verse, leads holiday revelers on a satirical romp through the anxiety caused by holiday stress, the bills created by the best gift-giving intentions, and lights meticulously hung with the goal of outdoing neighbors. Her verses not only refer to Christmas festivities, but also Hanukkah, Winter Solstice, and New Year's. A Holiday Alphabet Book for Adults uses all the symbols of the season to help you find the fun and laughter during a special time of year.

Phonics for Pupils with Special Educational Needs is a complete, structured, multisensory programme for teaching reading and spelling, making it fun and accessible for all. This fantastic seven-part resource offers a refreshingly simple approach to the teaching of phonics, alongside activities to develop auditory and visual perceptual skills. Specifically designed to meet the needs of pupils of any age with special educational needs, the books break down phonics into manageable core elements and provide a huge wealth of resources to support teachers in teaching reading and spelling. Book 1: Building Basics introduces basic sounds and explores their relationship with letters. It focuses on sounds and letters where there is a simple 1:1 correspondence between the two, and explores the sounds in simple words that follow the pattern of vowel-consonant or consonant-vowel-consonant. Sounds are grouped into seven sets, with each set containing more than 50 engaging activities, including: sound story, dynamic blending, reading race, spot the word and spelling challenge. Thorough guidance is provided on how to deliver each activity, as well as a lesson planner template, handy word lists and posters for teachers and teaching assistants to use to support learning. Each book in the series gradually builds on children’s understanding of sounds and letters and provides scaffolded support for children to learn about every sound in the English language. Offering tried and tested material which can be photocopied for each use, this is an invaluable resource to simplify phonics teaching for teachers and teaching assistants and provide fun new ways of learning phonics for all children. This book is accompanied by a companion resource, 'Phonics for Pupils with Complex SEND ', to be used alongside the Phonics for Pupils with Special Educational Needs programme. The activities from Books 1-6 of the programme are adapted to be accessible for non-verbal pupils, including AAC users, and those with physical disabilities.

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE'S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE • WINNER OF THE PEN / HEMINGWAY AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION • Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the very same castle, and sold into slavery. One of Oprah’s Best Books of the Year, Homegoing follows the parallel paths of these sisters and their descendants through eight generations: from the Gold Coast to the plantations of Mississippi, from the American Civil War to Jazz Age Harlem. Yaa Gyasi’s extraordinary novel illuminates slavery’s troubled legacy both for those who were taken and those who stayed—and shows how the memory of captivity has been inscribed on the soul of our nation.