'How to Sparkle at Word Level Activities' has been designed to provide an abundance of activities to use in the 20 minutes of independent work of the literacy hour. The activities are all fun and aim to motivate children whilst reinforcing the word level work covered by the literacy hour.

How to Sparkle at Beginning Multiplication and Division contains 40 stimulating activity sheets and games that will help children to develop a thorough understanding of early multiplication and division. Topics include: repeated addition; counting and grouping; multiples; sharing; repeated subtraction; and multiplication and division facts.

How to Sparkle at Phonics contains 40 photocopiable sheets for use with beginning readers. These fun, but simple, activities aim to develop knowledge of initial and final sounds and onset and rime. The activities in this book complement those found in other books in the series. Together they provide material to cover the key skills beginning readers need to practise. Brilliant Publications publishes a range of books for 0-15 year olds. Details of our titles can be found on our website www.brilliantpublications.co.uk

How to Sparkle at Writing Stories and Poems will help early and beginning writers to master some of the skills of composition and writing conventions. All of the activities stimulate creative writing, in the form of stories or poetry. They are designed to give children lots of ideas and to help them plan and develop those ideas. The book contains 40 photocopiable worksheets. Pupils are asked to describe what is happening in pictures on the worksheets or to write stories about topics such as their best friend, who they would like to be, or what it would be like if their world shrank in size. The worksheets also give models for poems of different types, for example acrostic poems, shape poems and poems about feelings. The tasks are designed to be open-ended so that they will be a stimulus for children of all abilities. Some of the extension activities will also encourage children to think of different audiences for their writing.

How to Sparkle at Prediction Skills is part of a set of four books devoted to basic strategies which will help emerging readers to develop their skills. All the activities on the 40 photocopiable worksheets are to do with prediction skills and word recognition. They are designed to to teach children to predict and anticipate which words come next, through their awareness of context and syntax, and to build up a basic sight vocabulary of words which they will often meet.