Collins Revision KS3 Maths Levels 5-8 is an all-in-one revision guide and exam practice workbook for Key Stage 3. Written by experienced test markers, it shows how each student can follow their level, test their knowledge, check their answers and improve.
Read and Learn is a collection that helps young readers discover and understand the world around them. Using questions to focus learning, each title prompts discussion, and encourages information gathering. It takes a look at why the human body needs water, exercise and the right types of food, to grow up fit and healthy.
This book will guide you through key events in world history, such as where the first Olympic Games were held, what happened in each of the World Wars, and how countries around the globe work with the United Nations. Find out about the origins of mankind more that 22 million years ago, and understand the world we live in with up-to-date information. More than 2000 facts are accompanied by hundreds of illustrations, diagrams and maps.
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School Zone has been developed by skilled educationalists to help support your child's learning. The range includes high-quality, beautifully illustrated books, flash cards and software that will entertain for hours and prepare your child for school success.
Workbooks
Featuring full-colour illustrations, clear directions and a variety of stimulating activities, workbooks are an effective way for parents and their child to review, practice and master important skills.
Card sets
Practice makes perfect! Engaging flash cards and game cards are a convenient way to help children memorise important facts and sharpen skills with hands-on learning.
Software
Get the attention of today's high-tech children with award-winning software that transforms workbooks into interactive learning -environments. Educational games, movies and engaging activities are just some of the stunning features that will motivate your child enhance the learning experience.
Offers an introduction to maps and their uses, supporting teaching about places and localities beyond children's immediate environment. This book teaches relevant KS1 and 2 curriculum skills in geographical enquiry and links with Units 1, 5, 6 and 24 of QCA schemes of work for Geography.
Intends to teach the main characteristics of living and non living things against the backdrop of a particular habitat. This series offers patterned text - the repetitive nature of the language helps children to learn the characteristics of living and non living things. It includes habitat-specific photographs suitble for teachers and children.
Classic Ghost Stories is a creepy collection of tales from beyond the grave, ideal for readers of all ages, Notes on the authors and ghoulish illustrations provide a powerful introduction to some of the most fiendish characters in literature, Included are the works of renowned authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving and Bram Stoker.
Intended for 4-6 year olds, this book looks at animals' noses, ears, eyes and mouths. It contains photographs that show how each body part differs across an amazing variety of the world's creatures. It includes comparisons with the human body, so readers can see each body part within a familiar context.
This delightfully illustrated nursery rhymes book offers parents and children the joy of reading all the best-loved rhymes, as well as discovering some of the less familiar ones. My Nursery Rhymes Collection is divided into 12 themes, such as farm animals, numbers and action rhymes
Gives an account of life in a medieval castle under siege, based on the real-life siege of Chateau-Gaillard in France. This fictional narrative includes information on related topics such as how the castle was built, background to the siege, and a map, placing the events in a geographical as well as historical context.
Enter a lost world of fierce hunters, armoured giants and super-sized sea monsters!
The amazing prehistoric animals that once roamed our planet are explored through hundreds of facts, fantastic images and fun cartoons. Learn about incredible fossil finds, meet the awesome T Rex and find out why all the dinosaurs died out.
Presents a progressive, differentiated programme that deals with writing skills in a cross curricular context, to encourage confident writers in secondary schools. This supplementary course book aims to keep it simple in order to enable both specialist and non specialists to teach writing for their own subject.
Part of a series that covers the design of super-vehicles, and offers information on design and technology for a range of readers at KS3, this book focuses on vehicles with exceptional design with case studies looking at design, manufacture, performance and safety.
Part of a series that explores life in different countries through simple information and the letters of a young child addressed to their pen-friend. This book describes the child's home life in a village or city, a typical school day, leisure time pursuits, home life, religious worship, and the working life of child's parents.
Part of a series that offers an insight into Shakespeare theatre as it was intended when first performed. This books includes background information on Macbeth and details of Shakespeare's life. It also contains examples of stage production, primary source material, and cast of characters and plot of the play.
Titch is the smallest fish on the reef. The big, bold fish won't play with him. They just laugh a him. Titch tries to join in the fun but things go from bad to worse as Titch tries to join in the fun but things go from bad to worse as Titch tries to become just like the bigger fish. Then one day the sea goes dark and events take a turn for the worse.
Ellie, the little elephant, has a secret wish. She wants to be a real fairy and even has her own pair of home-made fairy wings.
Everyday, Ellie imagines she is in a world full of sparkling fairy magic and adventure.
Come and join Ellie in this enchanting picture book and you can have fairy fun too!
Part of a series that provides a musical resource classifying muscial instruments according to the traditional groupings of the orchestra, this title focuses on one instrument to show the characteristics of the brass group and presents the music in a multi-cultural and technological context.
Introduces readers to scientific ideas through everyday situations and objects, covering basic science topics required by the curriculum. This book asks questions to encourage readers to think about the concepts presented. It also features photos and captions and labels to draw out key ideas.
Helps to share with your students the value and importance of brain function and anatomy through eight thought-provoking posters. This title also helps to learn how to use and care for the brain to keep it healthy and celebrate with your students the different ways each person is smart.
All Duncan will eat is custard - cold custard from a tin, slurped up through a stripy straw. Dad gets cross and tells him not be a baby. Mum is too busy fussing over Dencan's new baby sister, Angela, even to notice. That is, until Duncan packs his bag and runs away.
Offers coverage of the Physical Science curriculum. This series emphasizes the key features of Science teaching, including scientific enquiry, use of ideas and evidence, and planning, evaluation and investigative skills. It includes photographs and artwork to explain difficult concepts, with sample experiments and data to illustrate best practice.
One day at the beach, Anna, Ellie and Joe find a funny-looking fish in a rock pool. To their surprise, they find that it is a baby mermaid! They take the merbaby home in a bucket and keep it a secret from Mum. But, four year-old Joe isn't very good at keeping secrets, and soon the merbaby is in danger. Will Anna and Ellie be able to save her?
With the objectives of the KS3 Framework, this title is a four-stage multimedia French course, designed to meet the requirements of the National Curriculum and the demands of the GCSE examination for a wide-ability range of students. It is also suitable for students studying other UK curricula.
Most of the Earth's surface is covered by oceans that teem with living things, from microscopic plankton through to the mighty blue whale. As well as covering marine life, this book investigates ships, boats, amazing voyages, deep-water exploration ï ½ and the effect that humans have upon this incredible environment.
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Encourages scientific enquiry with an interactive, investigative and visual approach to a range of core curriculum topics. This title helps students to use scientific processes such as prediction, hypothesis and evaluating evidence. It features puzzle spreads to elicit knowledge or encourage children to predict an answer, with the help of clues.
Shows how the amount of friction present is affected by different factors and how it can either be useful or a problem. This book explores how we can increase or decrease friction, for example in the world of sport, where reducing air or water resistance can mean the difference between winning and losing.
Filled with facts and colour photographs, these books provide a bridge from the Foundation Stage into Key Stage 1. They will encourage pupils to investigate and understand colour, shape and space, pattern and texture and to use them to represent their ideas and feelings.
One of the Discovery World Reference Texts, this graded title can be used for guided, individual and shared reading with links to the wider curriculum. Carefully leveled to ensure steady progression in the aquisition of skills, Stages C and D include more complex features and questions.
Presented in large full-colour format, this title helps children learn how to survive when animals get horrible: how to cope with a killer croc, why you shouldn't turn your back on a tiger and what to do if a shark bumps into you. It includes wild animal facts, life-saving tips, and heart-stopping survival stories.
This remarkable title follows the lives of raiders, settlers, kings queens, politicians and the common people of the British Isles, it explains how England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland came into being, and how the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland were formed,
Thousands of years of complex history are presented in eight comprehensive sections m ranging from 500, 000 BC to the present day.
Presents facts and information on ancient civilisations. This series provides an introduction to the country and the culture, exploring daily life, monuments, and local dress. It includes non-fiction features, such as timelines, 'feature-boxes' and glossary to help readers navigate the subject.
These highly acclaimed resources are now available in the traditional file and a new interactive CD-ROM format using example Technology for Year 7. Minimum specification requirements: CD-ROM for PC, use running Windows with 8Mb of RAM, 8x speed CD-ROM drive, a mouse or other pointing device.
Introduces readers to recipes from around the world, providing both cultural context and step-by-step instructions. This title features different types of recipes that are coded with simple icons for reference, and provides suggestions for healthier alternatives. It includes suggestions for further research.
From his humble beginnings in east Tennessee to his valiant stand at the Alamo, this biography introduces middle readers to the real person behind the larger-than-life image of David Crockett. It separates fact from fiction as readers learn that Crockett did not really wear a coonskin cap and that he was never known as 'Davy' Crockett.
Narrating the travel stories of those lucky enough to have voyaged through our galaxy, this book introduces us to the first men on the moon and their 'moon buggy', and also to the adventures of animal pioneers in the universe. It highlights the technical aspects of the space age.
Introduces children to the main plant parts, using intriguing photos of a variety of plants to provide child-friendly examples. This title illustrates different elements of plant make-up and development, from seed to flower and fruit. It includes photography that provides visual reinforcement of learning.
Presents information through charts and graphs, to build on student's ability to organize data while also reinforcing learning of key Science and Geography concepts. This title helps readers learn to interpret and create different types of tables and graphs and develop understanding of which type is appropriate for each application.
On a tree in the woods, three baby owls, Sarah, Percy and Bill, sit and think and wait for Owl Mother to come home.
Offering a whole new storytelling experience this picture book and DVD edition features a charming story animation, narrated by Emilia Fox.
Miniature books for miniature hands! Ten lovely little books with bright, vibrant pictures that baby will love introduce key first animals and concepts in an enjoyable way, and encourage a positive early relationship with books. Baby can choose his or her own books and read them along with you!
Helps fans discover if they could have survived the Blitz. From the pitfalls of navigating blackouts, to how leaving the toilet seat up could save your house from being blown to smithereens, this colour companion offers the things readers never knew they needed to know about the Blitz.
Rediscover the flitterific fun of the three Tinker Bell movies. Welcome Tink to Pixie Hollow, help her realize the importance of friendship in Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure, and take a trip to the mainland with all the fairies in The Great Fairy Rescue.
A language workbook that helps you turn the computer into a tool to help teach writing and literature. The accompanying CD-ROM includes students complete literary 'most wanted' posters, write Internet poems, create resumes for characters from literature, and more activities.
Looks at the political situation in Ireland before and after the formation of the Irish Free State. This title examines the major events and political figures during that time including Michael Collins and Eamon de Valera. It is illustrated with colour photographs and diagrams.
Secretly fascinated by all things grotesque? Like to know the most disgusting things about the world around you? Then this fact-packed book of grossness is just the thing. With inconceivably ghoulish facts about the human body, animals, science and history, this host of cartoon characters leaves no stone unturned in the quest for foul facts.
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Provides both you and your pupils with the tools needed to promote speaking and listening. This title features textless stories that aim to reflect everyday experiences of young children, such as walking to school. Accompanying each book is an artefact - a piece of environmental print, such as a menu or road sign that appears in the story.
The New Reading 360 series is designed to provide a solid literary foundation for infants and build on previous literacy knowledge for juniors. Pocket books have been written to get children reading independently and for fun. They provide the opportunity to improve reading stamina and fluency.
At the heart of the Longman MathsWorks programme is the fantastic Teaching and Learning software -- short-listed for three BETT awards. For use on the interactive whiteboard or around a computer, the activities allow you to explore concepts with the whole class or challenge smaller groups to work things out for themselves.
Offers a look at how materials can be changed through various processes such as heating, cooling and mixing. This title uses real life examples to illustrate the effects of various processes. It includes contents, captions, a glossary and an index, as well as diagrams and photographs, introducing children to key features of non-fiction texts.
Suitable for older children, this flap book shows what life was like in the 14th century. It features illustrations and over 80 flaps that reveal historical facts of life in the Middle Ages. It also includes an illustrated who's who in medieval society, a small booklet on living in a castle, and internet links to fun websites to find out more.
Discover and Learn with Postman Pat!
Developed with specialists in infant and child education, this book helps young children build confidence with letters and first words.
Exercises and sticker activities reinforce the learning, and support the aims of the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum.
Includes notes for parents and carers, and lots of fun reward stickers.
Take a journey around the earth's continents and learn about their landforms, climate and weather, plants and animals, countries and cities, people and places. This title features a variety of maps such as political and topographic to help reinforce key geographical skills. It looks at a range of countries and cultures within each continent.
Make coins disappear. Crush a soda can--without even touching it. Write an invisible message--that suddenly reappears out of nowhere. Teach your cereal to jump and dance, and much more! Is it magic? No, it's science! There's a lot more to magic than just waving a wand.
Explore the intriguing world of minibeasts, from ants and termites to butterflies and spiders. Discover the secrets of how these creatures communicate, find food and deter predators. Illustrated in detail, this book is crammed with facts about the anatomy, behaviours and habitats of bugs.
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Part of a series that introduces a representative selection of key art, decorative art and design of particular cultures. This book also explores the materials and resources the culture's environment has to offer. It supports Key Stage 3 Art curriculum and provides a resource for Key Stage 3 and 4. It includes photographs and illustrations.
Examines the impact of weather on our everyday lives. From global climate change and its effects to tropical storms and tornadoes, this title looks at weather systems from around the world. It gives an introduction to curriculum topics and is an easy reference tool for research.
Presents a software by which you can personalise activities and supporting resources. This work offers a range of activities designed to support and complement your lessons, including home context work, number games and puzzles, problems to solve and short written exercises including mental maths and language quizzes.
Much-loved classics, legends from faraway places and famous characters make this a collection to cherish. Every page is lavishly illustrated and will appeal to children between the ages of 4 and 9. Includes traditional favourites such as The Emperor's New Clothes, Cinderella and The Little Mermaid.
One of a series of books that presents illnesses that young children are likely to have come across at school or at home in scientific and health contexts. Each book provides information about the particular disease and general information about illness and staying healthy.
He's wild, he's wicked, he's.. . Little Rabbit Foo Foo!
Wriggly worms, tigers, goblins... no one is safe from the bad-boy bunny. But here comes the Good Fairy - and she is not amused!
Offering a whole new storytelling experience, this picture book and DVD edition features a charming story animation, narrated by Kevin Whately
Part of a series, which focuses on situations in which children are likely to find themselves for example bicycle safety, water safety and road safety. Each title includes an index, a picture glossary, suggestions for class discussions and notes on where to find further information.
Presents information through charts and graphs, to build on student's ability to organize data while also reinforcing learning of key Science and Geography concepts. This title helps readers learn to interpret and create different types of tables and graphs and develop understanding of which type is appropriate for each application.
Give yourself a head start! Collins School Dictionary is the perfect companion for all students aged 10-14. With a clear design and in colour throughout, it is easy to use and full of useful features to help build language confidence and help with work and study.
Using the Oxford Concise School Dictionary on the top part of the page and the corresponding Oxford Concise School Thesaurus entries on the bottom, this combined work provides a one-stop shop for upper primary/lower secondary school users. It includes the word origins, pronunciation guides, idiomatic phrases and idioms, and example sentences.
Suitable for pupils at Key Stage 3, this series illustrates the relevance of science to our everyday lives. It relates what is learnt in school to real-world examples that are familiar or accessible to readers to facilitate comprehension of the curriculum. It offers a discussion of topical issues, from the environment to medical research.
Introduces readers to scientific ideas through everyday situations and objects, covering basic science topics required by the curriculum. This book asks questions to encourage readers to think about the concepts presented. It also features photos and captions and labels to draw out key ideas.
Developed to encourage writers in secondary schools, meeting the need of effective literacy. This supplementary series of textbooks and teacher files places reading and writing tasks in the context of real texts, providing a springboard for original writing. It provides National Literacy Strategy recommended lesson plans for every unit.
Offers a non-judgmental look at the health issues affecting young people. This book explores how our choices affect us in the short term as well as the long term, and encourages readers to think about their own experiences and discuss their feelings. It includes information on where to get further help and advice.
Developed to encourage writers in secondary schools, meeting the need of effective literacy. This supplementary series of textbooks and teacher files places reading and writing tasks in the context of real texts, providing a springboard for original writing. It provides National Literacy Strategy recommended lesson plans for every unit.
Explore world History with this definitive encyclopedia, spanning continents and eras. Take a journey through thousands of years, from the time when humans first walked on the earth to the age of space travel. Amazing photographs and illustrations capture how the world has changed.
Mistress Mary stood up and looked at it with an almost frightened face as it hung from her finger ï ½Perhaps it has been buried for ten yearsï ½, she said in a whisper. ï ½Perhaps it is the key to the garden!ï ½
- Chapter VII, The Key of The Garden
When Mary Lennox, a nine year-old orphan, is forced to move to England to live with her uncle, she is seen as selfish and disagreeable by everyone at Misselthwait Manor. As she tries to settle in, Mary starts to explore the big, gloomy house on the Moors that will be her new home. In a flower bed, she discovers an old key that leads her to a secret garden, left locked and neglected for ten years ï ½
Mary befriends her maidï ½s brother Dickon and meets her sickly cousin Colin, whose existence had been hidden from her. As the childrenï ½s friendship grows and the garden is brought back to life, the trio find happiness, mystery and magic beyond their expectations.
Whether you've already caught the bug and are eagerly searching for more puzzles with which to tax your brain, or you are interested in finding out what the fuss is all about, this second volume of intriguing Sudoku puzzles has something for everyone, diehard players and novices alike.
Developed by the Institute for Citizenship, this series aims to meet the requirements of the National Curriculum. This resource is meant for Primary teachers involved with citizenship. The programme teaches social and moral responsibility, emphasizes community involvement, and also introduces political literacy.
Ricky Gervais has won numerous awards for his broadcast work, including six BAFTAs and two Golden Globes for writing, directing and starring in his TV comedy series The Office. His stand-up tours are sell-outs and have received widespread critical acclaim. Recently, Ricky has unleashed his new sitcom Extras and written and starred in an episode of The Simpsons.
Rob Steen has devoted the last few years of his life to meticulously cataloguing Ricky Gervais' Flanimal discoveries. Unlike Mr Gervais, he has won no awards for his work but is content in the knowledge that children around the world know their Mernimbler from their Mung Ungler.
Introduces the concept of caring for our environment to young children. This series presents to children ideas on how to conserve and nurture elements of their surroundings. It features beautiful photography that provides visual reinforcement of learning.
Written and reviewed by a mathematics specialist, this workbook teaches and
reinforces the maths concepts children aged six to eight need most. Interesting activities and colourful illustrations introduce counting, addition, subtraction, place value and more.
Introduces the importance of sound in our daily lives. This work enables the reader to find out how sounds are made and detected, learn about some unusual uses of sound, and discover the ways in which sound can be recorded and reproduced. It is suitable for physics students at Key Stage 3 level.
Gives an introduction to maps and their uses, supporting teaching about places and localities beyond children's immediate environment. This book teaches relevant KS1 and 2 curriculum skills in geographical enquiry and links with Units 1, 5, 6 and 24 of QCA schemes of work for Geography.
Red Giant offers a structured experience of of fiction and non-fiction texts with specific coverage of the NLS range requirements at each year and term of KS1. Its revisiting structure reflects the fact that texts with sufficient depth can offer teaching opportunities at more than one level.
Intended for ages 9 to 12 years, this songbook contains tunes, including parodies of old favourites like My Bonnie Went in for a Face Lift and Oh, My Darling, Frankensteen, as well as Snot Is Not the Proper Subject for a Song and the tongue-twisting Impossible to Sing Song.
The moon shone bright in the evening sky as Mother Mouse watched over Little Mouse. High above, a starry blanket twinkled silver bright.
Little Mouse is about to go to sleep when Mole tells Mother Mouse that the nest isn't safe. She must find another bed for her baby. but where?
Just as Mother Mouse is beginning to despair, she looks up at the soft light of the moon and remembers something...
Suitable for pupils at Key Stage 3, this series illustrates the relevance of science to our everyday lives. It relates what is learnt in school to real-world examples that are familiar to readers to facilitate comprehension of the curriculum. It also offers a discussion of topical issues, from the environment to medical research.
The story of Cars comes alive in this unique format. The book tells the story of Lightning McQueen, a hotshot race car determined to win
the biggest race of his career. The book is paired with a McQueen car that actually drives on the book by following a printed track. The car has
an infrared light that can see the track, while the McQueen car can be transformed with a Mater body to provide even more hours of driving fun.
Presents information through charts and graphs, to build on student's ability to organize data while also reinforcing learning of key Science and Geography concepts. This title helps readers learn to interpret and create different types of tables and graphs and develop understanding of which type is appropriate for each application.
Locked away in a tower, Rapunzel dreams of the world outside. When the charismatic and smooth-talking thief Flynn Rider comes to hide in the tower, Rapunzel sees a way to escape. Soon Flynn and Rapunzel embark on a hilarious, heart-felt and hair-raising adventure.
Experience the magic of Disney by reading and listening to this thrilling tale of adventure again and again!
Part of a series that introduces a representative selection of key art, decorative art and design of particular cultures. This book also explores the materials and resources the culture's environment has to offer. It supports Key Stage 3 Art curriculum and provides a resource for Key Stage 3 and 4. It includes photographs and illustrations.
Illustrates to students how the science they are studying is relevant to their everyday lives and the world around them. This book includes profiles of scientists, their research and careers information. It considers the ethical issues behind key science topics, and key concepts and examples are highlighted in panels throughout the text.
Shows the relevance of science to our everyday lives, relating what is learnt in school to real-world examples familiar or accessible to readers. This work profiles real scientists and their research. It teaches students about the importance of science, its many applications, and the implications of scientific discovery for the world.
Shows readers how to research and create their own science projects with examples building in complexity. This title provides an overview of the scientific method with tips as to how a student can create a science project. Each experiment includes planning, preparation, skill level, materials needed, cost and details of the project.
Reading Readiness
There is no ability more essential to your child's school success than reading. Clear instructions, simple examples and lots of practice will help your child learn to read quickly and with good comprehension.
Skills include:
Classifying
Sequencing
Positional Words
Visual Discrimination
Alphabetical Order
Beginning and Ending Sounds
Lollopy Lew the hare wants the cabbage patch all to himself, but Digger the mole wants it, too! Who will win the race and eat all the vegetables? Are Digger's legs really as fast as Lollopy Lew's?
Beautifully illustrated, QED Storytime introduces young children to the pleasure of reading and sharing stories. Supporting notes for parents and teachers are also included.
Presents information through charts and graphs, to build on student's ability to organize data while also reinforcing learning of key Science and Geography concepts. This title helps readers learn to interpret and create different types of tables and graphs and develop understanding of which type is appropriate for each application.
Through flaps and pop-up illustrations, this book explains how to use commas, apostrophes, brackets, exclamation marks, and more. By rescuing tadpole commas from a pike, finding the creatures that have escaped from Punctuation Park and listening to the monkeys' advice on how to use speech marks, children feel confident about basic punctuation.
Helping young readers discover and understand the world around them, this nonfiction title covers the basic what, where, and when of senses. It contains facts and colour photographs, and provides a bridge from the Foundation Stage into Key Stage 1. A 'Test your senses' section contains experiments giving children a framework for investigation.
Based on the Programme of Study for Key Stages 3 and 4, this teacher's resource file forms part of a course for those pupils with special needs in maths. Focusing on Level 4, it provides photocopiable worksheets and assessments, and answers to the exercises in the pupil's books.
This language file offers photocopiable activities to help Key Stage 3 students develop writing, grammar and punctuation. Using popular titles, teachers can integrate language and literature teaching as well as provide a coherent approach to grammar.