Pinpoint
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Pinpoint is a series of activities and resources created to provide you with highly focused resources for specific needs in English.
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244 page photocopiable book, A4 size
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Complete coverage of National Curriculum requirements for spelling
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Each unit contains a child-friendly introduction to a spelling rule followed by 3 pages of differentiated practice
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Scaffolded learning provides challenge for all, with the level of support gradually reduced
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Perfect preparation for SATs
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Boosts vocabulary with definitions for over 400 words
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Saves teachers time searching for carefully levelled spelling practice - just choose a topic from the contents and copy the pages you need
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Includes child-friendly answers to encourage self-evaluation
This book provides flexible, pick up and go photocopiable activities for Years 5-6 / P6-7. Each spelling rule is introduced in child friendly language, and then tackled through a series of structured tasks which scaffold children’s learning and ensure progress regardless of the starting point.
Pinpoint is a series of activities and resources created to provide you with highly focused resources for specific needs in English.
- 64 page teaching guide, A4 size
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Flexible bank of activities, enough for 30 lessons
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Curriculum-linked activities for all areas of English using the context of the novel (writing, reading, comprehension, spelling & grammar, spoken language)
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Vocabulary builders and cross curricular activities using themes from the text
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Includes Photocopy Masters to support the activities
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Introduces contemporary themes that today’s children can relate to
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Saves teachers time searching for engaging activities to use across the curriculum, linked to the stimulus text
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Ideas for differentiation included to help tailor activities to children’s needs
Pinpoint Whole Class Reading is a new series of teaching guides providing flexible and creative lessons for classic modern children’s books.
This book provides 30 starter, main and plenary activities for teaching Boy in the Tower by Polly Ho-Yen in Year 6 / P7. These can be used interchangeably over a half term or over a longer period. Activities use three levels where appropriate, showing how the content can be adapted for children who need more support or challenge.
Boy in the Tower is a moving story about a boy living in a tower block with his mother, who is suffering the after effects of trauma. It introduces children to the genre of science fiction and raises themes of courage and compassion, science and nature, and parental illness.
Pinpoint English Whole Class Reading Y5: The Unforgotten Coat
by Annabel Gray
Pinpoint is a series of activities and resources created to provide you with highly focused resources for specific needs in English.
- 68 page teaching guide, A4 size
- Flexible bank of activities, enough for 30 lessons
- Curriculum-linked activities for all areas of English using the context of the novel (writing, reading, comprehension, spelling & grammar, spoken language)
- Vocabulary builders and cross curricular activities using themes from the text
- Includes Photocopy Masters to support the activities
- Introduces contemporary themes that today’s children can relate to
- Saves teachers time searching for engaging activities to use across the curriculum, linked to the stimulus text
- Ideas for differentiation included to help tailor activities to children’s needs
Pinpoint Whole Class Reading is a new series of teaching guides providing flexible and creative lessons for classic modern children’s books.
This book provides 30 starter, main and plenary activities for teaching The Unforgotten Coat by Frank Cottrell Boyce in Year 5 / P6. These can be used interchangeably over a half term or over a longer period. Activities use three levels where appropriate, showing how the content can be adapted for children who need more support or challenge.
The Unforgotten Coat sensitively addresses the contemporary issue of immigration through a friendship between two refugees from Mongolia and one of their classmates in Liverpool, offering links with current affairs, geography and art.