Help your child learn how to write and spell 100 key first words with this big, fun, wipe-clean book from Roger Priddy. Organized into categories such as food, drink, and clothes, each word is formed of dotted letter outlines for children to trace over, with blank space underneath for free-hand copying. This quickly allows kindergarten kids to master letter formation, as well as improving their pen control and handwriting skills. The colorful pages wipe clean, and the book includes a special wipe-clean pen, so that children can write and repeat all of the first word exercises, time and time again. - 56 pages of exercises to help kindergarten children learn how to trace, copy, write, and spell - Spiral binding allows the pages to lie flat, making it easy to use - Classic Priddy photographic style with familiar, everyday objects to engage children

"Contains 16 picture cards, each with it's own image and touchable texture. First Words features common animals like fish, dogs, and cats, as well as household items like keys and shoes, and vehicles like cars, tractors, and fire trucks. The back of each picture card has word translations in Spanish, French, German, and Chinese, and phonetic spellings to help with pronunciation. There are also questions about the related animal or object. A guidance card for parents and caregivers, which has tips for learning games and ideas for additional language activities, is included in the pack."--Adapted from Amazon.com description

'I found this book to be very useful and would recommend it to all infant teachers, especially those working with children with special needs... It gave me plenty of new ideas, and would be especially helpful to newly trained teachers' - REACH Many young children need targeted support and encouragement to help develop their literacy skills. This book contains tried and tested activities to improve listening, verbal reasoning and language skills in young children and shows you how to turn theory into fun, practical ideas for the classroom. The author shows how to link activities to the Early Learning Goals and the National Literacy Strategy and the book includes: - lesson activities using puppets, nursery rhymes, story boxes and picture books; - suggestions for using role-play; - ideas for organising your play setting to encourage literacy-related play; - lesson plans; - assessment guidelines; - lists of resources; - a selection of photocopiable material. This book is a valuable resource for those working with children aged 3 to 8 and those working in playgroups, day nurseries, nursery schools and reception classes will find it particularly useful. It suggests ways to improve young children's literacy skills and can also be used as an INSET resource to share with the whole staff. Hilary White is a freelance writer, consultant and teacher. She lectured for many years in an early years training college.

Uses Letterland's story logic to explain advanced phonemes and spelling patterns.