This is an activity book for children to complete at home with the support of their parents. It identifies ten vital steps to improve spelling through listening to the first and last sound, the vowels, sounds, words within words, rhyming patterns, long vowels and tricky words. The book aims to improve children's achievements at school particularly important for KS1 SATs. It is intended to build on school learning and provides valuable home-school links. The book has a coloured pull-out and merit stickers to help make learning fun.

This activity book identifies ten steps to improve the writing of children aged eight to nine years old. It aims to help parents to improve children's achievements at school, which is important for Key Stage 1 SATs. It builds on children's school learning and provides home-school links. The book also has a central pull-out and merit stickers to help make learning fun. The ten steps include: improving presentation; guiding the reader with punctuation; showing who's talking; adding colour with adjectives and adverbs; improving vocabulary; taking care with apostrophes; getting facts in order; keeping to the standard; choosing the right style; and proof-reading work.