Spark Island – Key Stage 2 Skills Practice English - Softcover

Loadman, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007159927 ISBN 13: 9780007159925

Publisher: Collins, 2003

Synopsis

A series of activity books based on the fictional world of Spark Island and its inhabitants. All the activities reinforce basic literacy, numeracy and science skills for KS2 and support the National Curriculum.

KS2 Skills Practice English includes advice and fun activities so children can tackle their English SATs with confidence. The activities concentrate on making creative writing clear and interesting, and give tips on how to plan and structure writing tasks.

Spark Island is an online learning channel for children aged from 3-12. It has been designed, built and tested in close cooperation with teachers and education experts to help practise and develop core skills in a highly interactive and enjoyable way using all the capabilities of digital media.

About this title

Synopsis:

Spark Island is an online learning channel for children aged from 3-12. It has been designed, built and tested in close co-operation with teachers and education experts to help practise and develop core skills in a highly interactive and enjoyable way using all the capabilities of digital media. The content of the website is divided into a teacher and parent domain so it is designed to be used in the classroom and at home. Based on Spark Island's learning environment and the appealing characters that live there, this series of activity books should provide lots of opportunities for children to practise core skills at home. The books are set in two distinct areas of Spark Island (Sparklantis and Sparkopolis) and are aimed at two different age groups 5-7 and 7-11 year olds. Each area has its own environment and its own set of characters, so in the underwater world of Sparklantis children will encounter the Hair Care Crew consisting of a group of mullets, a pike and a plaice. In Sparkopolis they might come across the Elders (or Wizards) that ride around on magic unicycles.

The "Spark Island KS2 English" activity book provides practice and advice on developing the aspects of English necessary to enable children to tackle their English SATs with confidence. The activities concentrate on making a child's writing clear and interesting and give tips on how to plan writing tasks as well as how to structure writing in paragraphs.

About the Author:

Anne Loadman specialises in preparing children for their National Tests and has experience running Key Stage 2 booster classes. Anne is currently a Specialist Primary Mental Health teacher.

About this edition

• Publisher: Collins
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0007159927
• ISBN 13: 9780007159925
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48