Confidence Boosting Workbooks
Our supplementary range of teaching materials, for 4-16 year olds, are designed to accelerate learning and boost your child’s confidence. Our phonic reading scheme will teach your child to read fast, in as little as six months, even if they are reluctant readers. Our range of comprehension and creative writing books will inspire them to develop their literacy skills and stimulate their imaginations. We also include in our range, resources that will make learning to spell fun and that will reinforce maths basics. Guinea Pig Education makes learning exciting.
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Go on an adventure and follow the road of yellow brick.
Shop our new range of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz resources.
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Introducing Pom Pom and the Naughty Dog
A brilliant way to practise first writing skills and build confidence.
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Check out the gang at Mathsland High
Trust these cool kids to give a helping hand with maths basics.
Phonics
An eight year old boy, called William, is the reason the Guinea Pig reading scheme exists. He was a very reluctant reader, who had barely made a start in acquiring literacy, but with our scheme, he had fluency in nine months.
Why labour teaching your child to read?
Our reading scheme is a fast, fun way to teach a child to read, in only 8 books. Follow the humorous adventures of Sam and his friends, as you build up a series of phonic sounds. Your child will be on the road to fluency in as little as 6 months.
An Intensive Course of Systematic Phonics
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Introduce sounds a few at a time and build up words. Sounds are taught in this order: c a t o d g f x v n p w e r m u h b s l k j y z qu l. To make this fun, play bingo, snakes and ladders, and matching pairs to reinforce the words.
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Learn to blend initial sounds together, like spot the dog and doll in a pram. Then, learn final consonant endings, such as soft cat rests. Syllable words (like lemon, seven, kitten) are also taught at this stage.
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Start introducing vowel digraphs, like ee, oo, ar, or, ur, ir, oa, ai, ay, oi. Plus, consonant digraphs, like ch, sh, th, wh, ph. For each of these sounds we provide word and sentence matching activities.
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Once the first sounds have been introduced, it’s time to start reading simple stories, which introduce more complicated sounds. The stories are simple ones, which children can identify with.
Take a look at some sample pages …
Introducing Zoggy
Zoggy is a superhero alien, from fictional planet Zen. He features in Mission Spelling Zero, a series of fun supplementary reading and spelling books for children aged 4-8.
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Violet - Level One
Learn initial sounds and three letter words
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Indigo - Level Two
Learn initial consonant blends and consonant digraphs.
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Blue - Level 3
Learn final consonant blends and double consonant endings.
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Green - Level 4
Learn long vowel sounds and magic e, oo, ee, ar, or, ur, ir, er.
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Yellow - Level Five
Learn vowel digraphs ai, ay, oi, oy, ea, oa.
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Orange - Level Six
Learn soft c, soft g, and vowel digraphs ow, ou, oar, au and aw.
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Red - Level Seven
Learn silent letters, tricky words and endings.
We have also created a range of supplementary worksheets and games to use alongside this scheme.
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Writing Sentences Worksheets
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Sentence Makers
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Games
Writing
Our writing books are designed to help children express their ideas; to make their imagination run wild; and to encourage them to write. We believe in saturating even the most reluctant writers (whose minds go blank) with ideas and good vocabulary. All of our writing books teach students how to write fluently for a wide range of purposes and audiences.
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Time to Read and Write
Teaches children, age 6-9, essential reading and writing skills. Each book is full of starting points to teach children to love writing and encourage them to write down their own ideas. This series will help students develop confidence and build on the work they do at school.
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Creative Writing Tutor
Twelve themed creative writing booklets that prepare students, age 9-13, for more advanced writing. Includes many helpful hints and tips to improve writing style for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences. A great resource for stretching fast workers and preparing for 11+.
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Get Going With Creative Writing
A lively, up-to-date and action packed series of five themed study books that encourage children, age 7-11, to write. These books have a lively magazine style format, featuring short stories to read and a variety of non-fiction texts that will impact young readers and provide starting points for writing.
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Write Good English
An essential series that teaches students, age 9+, all the skills they need to write fluently for a wide range of purposes and audiences. Each book includes an exciting range of model answers and sample texts written by children and helpful hints and tips to help them to gain top grades.
Grammar, Spelling & Punctuation
Our spelling, grammar and punctuation books will enable all students to attain the skills they need to write their ideas down accurately. Simple to understand and lots of fun, they will inspire even the most reluctant students.
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Mission Spelling
A crash course to succeed in spelling with phonics, age 7-11. Learn spelling rules and improve vocabulary. Follow the adventures of Zoggy, as he explores Planet Earth and guides students through a structured course that contains a treasury of spelling activities.
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Learning with History
Join Horace, the time travelling tabby cat, as he leads you on an adventure through ancient lands. Each book includes a story and a series of follow up graded exercises to help improve spelling, grammar, punctuation and basic comprehension skills.
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Improve your English
This essential guide concentrates on teaching students to write English correctly, using perfect grammar, spelling and punctuation. It provides a series of exercises with answers, so they can practise their skills and improve their vocabulary.
Exam Success
These books will help you achieve top marks in your exams.
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SATs Practice Papers
Prepare to attain top grades in the SATs with our range of grammar, punctuation, spelling and comprehension practice tests. All the tests are based upon the corresponding assessment sample papers and are therefore, like sitting the real exam.
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How Do I Improve My Grades in GCSE Writing?
A clear, concise revision guide in GCSE writing, written by a tutor who is familiar with the requirements of the new GCSE examination. It is so simple, you can use it for last minute revision.
Maths
Check out the gang at Mathsland High. You can trust them to give kids a helping hand with maths basics. Lively cartoon characters, such as Felicity Factor and Max Multiple, will help your children practise the areas of the National Curriculum, in maths, they struggle with most.
"Dan dreams and in his dreams, a spacecraft is landing. An alien is getting out. This is no ordinary alien, but Zoggy, the super alien hero, from faraway Planet Zen..."
Bedtime stories that are bang up-to-date, full of lessons to be learned and will be loved by children of 3 to 7 years
