No Nonsense Literacy Strategies for Test Taking, The Classroom, and Beyond: Teacher Manual

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Visit our assessment page to see the Y3 example of EXS and to see our range of assessment tools for reading and writing. Texts noted as good for a particular year are especially useful for teaching specific grammar objectives for that year group.

Contains editable resources and video guidance from Babcock LDP, with a teacher’s book for each year, Years 2-6. See further information about teaching sequences here and the texts we have written the sequences around. Teacher’s Books – one per year for Years 2-6, 1 x USB stick with editable documents and helpful video guidance from the Babcock LDP Primary Literacy team. In terms of day to day teaching, the routines are quickly and easily established and children respond incredibly well to the structure and familiarity of the programme. I talked about the need to focus on skill development rather than ‘reading levels’ for our beginning readers and exactly what you can teach them at each stage of their reading development.ie is the largest exporter of books from Ireland currently exporting to approximately 100 countries around the world. If you have been reading my blog of any length of time you will know that I am a MASSIVE advocate for explicit teaching in early literacy skills. Performance in this area lags significantly behind that in reading, where only 11% fail to achieve level 4. Note: The content of the Pupil Books is suitable for children aged 4+ up to approximately 9 years of age (when used for intervention purposes).

There are over 200 sequences, all of which are available in Word format, so that teachers can make their own adaptations to suit their class. The Babcock LDP literacy team is a well-established andexperienced group of English advisers, who work extensively in schools in Devon and beyond. The programme breaks down the curriculum requirements into termly overviews with individual lesson plans and resources.

There are many reading, writing, spelling and talking routines to revisit, practise, apply, extend, discuss, illustrate, embed and assess the knowledge and understanding of new alphabetic code, vocabulary, concepts and spelling word banks. Dependent on the stage of learning and need of the learner or learners (the books are not age-specific although you can start Book 1 with four to five year olds – no younger! national curriculum age-related structures (text and grammatical) that can be replicated to inspire pupils' original compositions. structures (text and grammatical) that are national curriculum age-related and can be replicated to inspire pupils’ original compositions.

No Nonsense Spelling organises the National Curriculum into strands and breaks them down into termly overviews.

Each box includes: 5 teacher books of pathways and flexible lessons (one for each year group); a USB stick containing editable versions of all the activities and resources and video guidance from the lead author on how to use the programme in your school. Phonemic awareness, letter formation, oral segmenting, encoding and decoding are featured throughout Books 1 to 8. It consists of samples of writing from Year 1 to Year 6, all of which have been assessed and annotated to show what the assessment criteria look like in children's writing. One of the big questions I hear Foundation (Kindergarten/prep/pre-primary/reception/transition) Teachers ask is, “When should children be writing sentences?

Since adopting NNP and PI we have seen a significant increase in our children’s phonic scores, moving from 50% passing the PSC in 2019 to now having 89% on track to pass this year. The new spelling solution from Raintree, No Nonsense Spelling, meets the needs of teachers looking to improve spelling standards at KS2. This is because many schools have existing reading book schemes which introduce some letter/s – sound correspondences earlier than they are introduced in Debbie’s No Nonsense Phonics and Phonics International programmes. Guidance on how to teach the spelling strategies and skills required to meet the New Curriculum requirements. It's very clear on the rules and patterns you have to follow, but then also makes clear activities you can use to help teach that spelling pattern.It is highly recommended that the teacher reads through the Teacher Book for any particular Pupil Book in its entirety to assimilate all the guidance and content before using the Pupil Books with the learner or learners. Written by the Babcock LDP Primary Literacy team, No Nonsense Spelling provides sufficient guidance to implement an effective spelling teaching programme from Year 2 to Year 6. We offer a range of resources to support assessment on our Assessment page and can provide training and support in assessment of writing, standardisation and moderation. Many schools across Kent now use the No Nonsense Spelling programme from Years 2 to 6, and teachers report that they love the flexibility it offers. Our curriculum is inspired by high quality texts and reading for pleasure, and NNP encourages children’s curiosity about new vocabulary.