Publications
Our director, Rachel Clarke, is an experienced educational author with over 10 published titles. Rachel works with a number of well-known publishers to write and series edit educational books covering all aspects of primary English teaching.
Collins Big Cat - Assess Fluency in Reading : Reception to Year 6
Assess fluency in reading provides ready-to-use assessment sheets that can be administered by a teacher or TA to assess pupils’ speed, accuracy, expression and understanding. The resource contains 60 fluency assessments mapped against age-related explanations. Assess fluency in reading supports teachers to:
Identify gaps so they can be targeted and closed
Measure and record pupil progress in fluency
Match pupils to an appropriate-level reading book
Spelling Rules!
Kickstart confident spelling using these creative teaching ideas and interactive activities to establish key rules and patterns.
If you enjoy the practical activities in our resources area, you’ll love Spelling Rules!
Reading Detectives
Ensuring your children are able to answer questions about what they read has never been easier thanks to the Reading Detectives. This series of reading comprehension books from Collins Keen Kite addresses the challenging aspects of reading comprehension such as inference and deduction. Each book contains uses high quality texts, questions for children to answer and comprehensive teaching notes. Primary English’s Rachel Clarke is Series Editor and author of three Reading Detectives publications.
Writing Mechanics
Teach children how to use grammatical structures effectively and accurately in their writing. Using carefully selected ‘authentic’ text types that feature specific grammatical features consistently, these resources will help pupils to explore and recognise where and when grammar is used to effectively communicate a text with its intended audience.
If you like our Progression in Non-Fiction texts, you’ll love Writing Mechanics.
Wicked Wording
Prepare children for the different styles of questions included in the KS2 Reading SAT with this book containing varied practice in the style of language used and the format of the questions presented. Each unit includes a photocopiable extract of high quality text (fiction, non-fiction or poetry), a photocopiable pupil question page which includes space for answers, a set of model answers with analysis of the language used in the questions and how this indicates the type of responses expected. Each extract has a focus on either retrieval or inference – the two big areas tested in the KS2 Reading SATs.
Big Cat Guided Reading
Collins Big Cat Guided Reading Handbooks provide a continuous programme of teaching and assessment that take every reader from phonics to fluency.
Letts KS2 SATs Success
Ace your KS2 English Reading SAT with just 10-minutes practice at a time.
Getting ready for SATs? Try this book of 15 short 10-minute practice tests to really prepare yourself for the reading paper.
