If you have been following our home school journey you will know that I love to provide interactive lessons that offer a one to one experience of learning through the suggested curriculum topics. This style of teaching in Home Education, from my point of view, is fantastic; I hope as well that you have seen how engaging it is.
When teaching children topics can be fairly easy to cover; you have your main objectives and from that point you can create a curriculum suited for your class or children.
Other subjects, however, can be a little more difficult.
Literacy and Numeracy can be very repetitive and unless it is a fully engaging topic they can become quite tedious.
I was lucky enough to be sent some Literacy books from Collins and Letts aged for children 9 to 11.
Within these book you have 2 that focus on English as a subject covering all individual areas. They also publish books that specifically focus on sub topics like spelling,
These books are created and designed to build up the child’s
confidence in a fun and engaging way.
Each section covers key features to work towards for
example: There are 3 to 4 tasks in learning about Silent letters.
Once these activities are completes they have a further
section to explore the topic further and in doing so creates a round up
activity that reinforces the key skills they have learnt.
The books offer a range of quick tests which promote a consolidation of the child's learning over all the different topics. They then provide, at the back, an easy to follow answer section that anyone can use.
I did a post earlier this month reviewing the Literacy books designed for Key Stage one. Those books were engaging and age appropriate.
Where every page showed an unique, bright monster character that children would automatically love. In the centre you also find a selection of monster stickers that can be used to support achievement or just a fun collection.
These books for Key Stage two are no different; the books are presented as fact files and as well as creating tasks around these fact they also provide mini wild facts to accompany them.
From a Teachers point of view:
Each page is designed to offer a straightforward learning objective that is not only easy to follow for the Child but also for the adult supporting. They are up to date with current curriculum levels providing an opportunity to easily use these individually or alongside other teaching resources.
From a Parents point of view:
Every page is engaging and unique; something that has been carefully designed for the appropriate age group. As a parent you can track the progress through the child's understanding as well as using the quick test to gauge what was fully learnt.
I would advise though that you take photocopies of the pages to repeat tasks if necessary and use spare paper to present thoughts, working out and presentation.
If you are interested in any of the following Literacy Wild About books then please follow the link here. (They also produce these books for Numeracy topics)
Alternatively you can contact them via:
Twitter: Collins for Parents
Facebook: Collins for Parents
I have got more resources that I will be reviewing soon for 5 - 6 year olds in Numeracy so please keep a look out!
(I was given this product for free to review. My opinions are my own and I am under no obligations to give a positive review. Please see my full disclosure at the bottom of my blog)
2 comments:
I like the sound of these. I'm struggling a bit with Libby at the moment. She can write her name with a little bit of help and is getting on really well with some of the letters books that we have. She also loved the cards that we (and you) reviewed for writing. It seems though that writing is perhaps coming before reading for her. She can form the letters but other than the ones in her name, she doesn't know what the letters are. I know this is in part due to my lack of time to spend with her on it. I'm not sure how to fit in more time to do this, because of having to do things with Lia as well and managing to maintain Libby's concentration. I'm reading your home education posts with interest and will be looking up some more resources soon!
Thanks Natalie! It's difficult when you have two apart from each other and how to incorporate this into your day to day, especially when you have other responsibilities.
Writing and mark making cam often come first. It did with William. Reading can be slower. But there are ways to help with that. Maybe I should do a few posts on that as well.
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