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The fourth of four levels of decodable books, providing the best start for children just starting to read. With three lively series in each level, children are able to practise their phonic skills while developing key reading skills. Soccer and more nonfiction contains six engaging fiction stories and provides comprehension questions, discussion activities and guidance for parents. The stories in the book feature words that are spelled regularly, and can be sounded out with the 42 letter sounds first taught in Jolly Phonics. At every stage the words are within the reach of children as they use their letter sound knowledge and tricky words already taught. All the tricky words and letter sounds used are shown at the beginning of the book. Light type is used as a guide for any silent letters, such as /b/ in lamb. Level 4 provides revision of the alternative sound of /y/ used for the /ee/ sound at the end of words like funny and happy, the 'hop-over /e/' spellings of the long vowel sounds and introduces spellings of the long vowel sounds, /ay/ as in day, /ea/ as in seat, /y/ and /igh/ as in fly and high, /ow/ as in low and now, /ew/ as in dew, /oy/ as in joy, /ir/ and /ur/ as in bird and turn, and /al/, /au/ and /aw/ as in talk, pause and saw. Stories included in the book: Soccer Mountains Henry Ford Snakes The Moon The Nile Additional extension activities: Say the Sounds Tricky Words Meet the Characters Book Review Character Review *Soccer and more nonfiction is a paperback edition of the popular Jolly Phonics Readers, combining stories previously published as six individual books in the Level 4 Nonfiction series*

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The Grammar 6 Pupil Book is designed specifcally for use with the Grammar 6 Teacher's Book. Together, they follow on from the Grammar 1-5 Pupil and Teacher's Books and provide the next year of grammar, spelling and punctuation teaching. The Grammar 6 Pupil Book contains 36 spelling and 36 grammar or punctuation lessons for a full year of teaching children aged 10-11 years. The lessons continue to build upon the knowledge and skills that children have been taught in previous years. There are activities for children to complete in class or as homework, which accompany the detailed lesson plans for the teacher to follow within the Grammar 6 Teacher's Book. Topics covered include: * Revision of elements covered in The Grammar 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 Pupil Books * Prefixes & suffixes and in particular numerical * New spelling patterns/rules: ough * Silent letters: bt, te, th * Schwas -ity & -ety * More alternatives: they, great, ballet, fete, straight for /ai/ * New parts of speech: for example, countable and uncountable nouns, gerunds and modal verbs and imperatives * Further punctuation: using semi colons and colons or using a comma after a fronted adverbial * Developing a greater understanding of sentence structure and learning to recognise indirect objects, subject complements and passive agents * Introducing children to literary devices such as alliteration, learning to meaning of idioms and distinguishing between formal and informal writing *Please note that only the covers of our Jolly Grammar Pupil Books have been refreshed and updated. The content is the same as the previous editions and they can still be used alongside the Grammar Teacher's Books. ISBNs and JL codes also remain the same.

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The fourth of four levels of decodable books, providing the best start for children just starting to read. With three lively series in each level, children are able to practise their phonic skills while developing key reading skills. The Enormous Turnip and other stories contains six engaging fiction stories and provides comprehension questions, discussion activities and guidance for parents. The stories in the book feature words that are spelled regularly, and can be sounded out with the 42 letter sounds first taught in Jolly Phonics. At every stage the words are within the reach of children as they use their letter sound knowledge and tricky words already taught. All the tricky words and letter sounds used are shown at the beginning of the book. Light type is used as a guide for any silent letters, such as /b/ in lamb. Level 4 provides revision of the alternative sound of /y/ used for the /ee/ sound at the end of words like funny and happy, the 'hop-over /e/' spellings of the long vowel sounds and introduces spellings of the long vowel sounds, /ay/ as in day, /ea/ as in seat, /y/ and /igh/ as in fly and high, /ow/ as in low and now, /ew/ as in dew, /oy/ as in joy, /ir/ and /ur/ as in bird and turn, and /al/, /au/ and /aw/ as in talk, pause and saw. Stories included in the book: The Enormous Turnip Rumpelstilskin Puppets Many More Monsters The Maize Maze Town Mouse and Country Mouse Additional extension activities: Say the Sounds Tricky Words Meet the Characters Book Review Character Review *The Enormous Turnip and other stories is a paperback edition of the popular Jolly Phonics Readers, combining stories previously published as six individual books in the Level 4 General Fiction series*