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The Red (Y1/P2) and Yellow (Y2/P3) Pupil Books provide a range of engaging, attractively illustrated activities including:

• Phonic practice to review phonemes and graphemes to match the phonic sequence of Letters and Sounds and Jolly Phonics.
• Differentiated exercises to support and extend the acquisition of pre-cursive and cursive handwriting skills.

• Further support and extension activities to practise spellings related to the phonic focus of each unit.

The Blue (R/P1), Red (Y1/P2) and Yellow (Y2/P3) Workbooks provide a series of carefully targeted activities and include:

• Phonic practice to introduce phonemes and graphemes to match the phonic sequence of Letters and Sounds and Jolly Phonics.
• Built-in differentiation to help children acquire key spelling and handwriting skills.

• Exercises to practise the handwriting movements of pre-cursive and cursive letters.
• Further activities to practise spellings related to the phonic focus of the day.

The Teacher’s Book provides full guidance for teaching spelling and handwriting alongside a full systematic phonics course for Reception/Key Stage 1 (P1-P3) children, including:

• A full series overview on how best to link handwriting and spelling with your systematic phonics course.
• Full lesson planning and guidance in using Nelson Phonics Spelling and Handwriting to deliver the key skills of spelling and handwriting alongside phonic learning.

• Fully linked to Jolly Phonics, Letters and Sounds, the renewed Literacy Framework and the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence.
• Guidance on getting the most from the ground-breaking Nelson Phonics Spelling and Handwriting CD-ROM.

The CD-ROM provides a full range of whiteboard teaching and learning tools including:

• Whole-class or group whiteboard activities for teaching spelling and handwriting skills linked directly to pupils’ phonic learning.
• Individual and paired practice activities and games designed to test children’s handwriting and spelling skills in an engaging and fun way.
• Teacher Notes providing assessment and guidance material related to the scheme as well as links to curriculum objectives.

• Links to two of the main systematic phonics courses allowing teachers to match the running order of the scheme to help lesson planning.
• The full array of phonemes, graphemes, alternative spellings and spelling rules which children need to master alongside phonics.