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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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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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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.
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.
Exam Success
These books will help you achieve top marks in your exams.
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