This new addition to Ladybird's I'm Ready... early learning series is developed by educational experts and gives children plenty of practice in learning and writing letters and words. Learning to form letters and numerals correctly and develop confident and accurate handwriting skills is essential in the first years of primary school. In First Writing Practice, children can practise key first handwriting activities, including both lower-case and capital letters, numbers, the letter sounds used in early phonics learning and full words, too. There is also specific help for left-handed writers. The middle of the book contains fun pull-out activities that show children how interesting and useful everyday writing skills can be. Make a shopping list, design a birthday card, create a recipe and more! The perfect first writing book for children in Reception or Year 1, it is the ideal follow-on companion to Ladybird's other I'm Ready to Write title, First Pencil Practice.

This new addition to Ladybird's I'm Ready early learning series gives young children plenty of practice in using a pencil correctly and helps to develop their fine motor skills - an essential early skill that leads to first writing. In First Pencil Practice, children can practise some brilliant first writing activities, including drawing straight, wavy and zig-zag lines and patterns, colouring and keeping within the lines. There is also specific help and advice for left-handed writers. The middle of the book contains pull-out pages contain fun extra activities to complete and keep that show how fun using your pencil can be! Design a birthday card, colour in a postcard, make your own monster and more! The perfect first writing book for children about to start school or in Reception, it is the ideal preparation for Ladybird's other I'm Ready to Write title, First Writing Practice.

The Cambridge Alphabet Book is a workbook for teaching English handwriting to young children. The writing course includes the following features: - The capital and small forms of each letter of the alphabet are practised separately at first, and then in words so that children are learning to write in logical stages. - Discrimination and matching exercises, as well as crossword puzzles, which help to maintain motivation. - Plenty of opportunities for writing practice. - Engaging pictures for children to colour in.

Learning to write is fun with Topsy and Tim's Wipe Clean First Writing. Start School with Topsy and Tim: First Writing, brought to you by Ladybird, is a lovely, easy-to-use activity book for children who are starting to learn the alphabet. Help your child practise writing letters with this bright, colourful wipe-clean book. Each letter is shown with a picture (such as 'A for Apple') and with two rows of letters drawn in dotted lines that children can draw over with their special pen. Then they can wipe the page clean and practice again! Each letter is also shown with arrows so children know where to place the pen. Left-handed options are shown in blue.

Giant Workbook: Get Ready for Pre-K is designed to provide plenty of practice for children getting ready to go to school for the first time. A strong start helps ensure a child is able to benefit from the learning opportunities available at preschool. This giant workbook includes practice in important pre-K learning areas such as the alphabet, pen control, sorting, and counting. The bright colorful pages with a delightful blend of photographs and illustrations make this workbook some of the most eye-catching and engaging available. Includes 24 pages of stickers! Scholastic Early Learners: Interactive books for hands-on learning. Perfect for babies, toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarteners, and first graders, too!

Help your child become a reader and writer with Smart Start: Read and Write! Developed by teachers, the colorful activities provide the perfect combination of fun and practice to give your child the foundation needed for academic success. The grade PreK Smart Start: Read and Write workbook helps your child learn the alphabet and progress to learning letter sounds and writing upper- and lowercase letters. - Accelerate your childs reading progress: 20 easy-to-follow weekly lessons build alphabet awareness and develop reading readiness skills. - Creative and fun lessons: Keep your child entertained while learning. - Reward stickers: Motivate your child to complete the activities. - Audio stories: Provide an option to listen to the audio story with your child. The activity book is organized into weekly lessons around letters of the alphabet and an alphabet character such as Andy the Ant and Jackie the Jaguar. Every themed unit follows a similar format and includes: - Alphabet stories: Focus on one or more alphabet characters and include an audio read-aloud option. - Listen for It! activities: Focus on beginning letter sounds. - Write It! activities: Provide practice writing and identifying uppercase and lowercase letters. - Find It! activities: Matching and drawing activity focuses on upper- and lowercase letters. - Lets Review! activities: This simple review activity helps you evaluate your childs understanding of each alphabet letter and beginning sound. Get ready for kindergarten with practice of the important skills in Smart Start: Read and Write, such as: - Naming and writing uppercase and lowercase letters - Connecting alphabet letters and sounds - Visual discrimination - Following directions - Fine motor skills - Print awareness Includes answer key. Check out Smart Start: STEM activity books for fun hands-on projects that develop problem-solving and critical thinking skills.

Help your child become a reader and writer with Smart Start: Read and Write! Developed by teachers, the colorful activities provide the perfect combination of fun and practice to give your child the foundation needed for academic success. The grade PreK Smart Start: Read and Write workbook helps your child learn the alphabet and progress to learning letter sounds and writing upper- and lowercase letters. - Accelerate your childs reading progress: 20 easy-to-follow weekly lessons build alphabet awareness and develop reading readiness skills. - Creative and fun lessons: Keep your child entertained while learning. - Reward stickers: Motivate your child to complete the activities. - Audio stories: Provide an option to listen to the audio story with your child. The activity book is organized into weekly lessons around letters of the alphabet and an alphabet character such as Andy the Ant and Jackie the Jaguar. Every themed unit follows a similar format and includes: - Alphabet stories: Focus on one or more alphabet characters and include an audio read-aloud option. - Listen for It! activities: Focus on beginning letter sounds. - Write It! activities: Provide practice writing and identifying uppercase and lowercase letters. - Find It! activities: Matching and drawing activity focuses on upper- and lowercase letters. - Lets Review! activities: This simple review activity helps you evaluate your childs understanding of each alphabet letter and beginning sound. Get ready for kindergarten with practice of the important skills in Smart Start: Read and Write, such as: - Naming and writing uppercase and lowercase letters - Connecting alphabet letters and sounds - Visual discrimination - Following directions - Fine motor skills - Print awareness Includes answer key. Check out Smart Start: STEM activity books for fun hands-on projects that develop problem-solving and critical thinking skills.

Write and Wipe Practice: Get Ready for Pre-K introduces children to concepts and themes essential for Pre-K success. It provides pictures and words for children to trace, learn to count, and build future reading success. Practice workbooks provide the essential repetition needed for the long-term retention of key learning points. It's the perfect hands-on format for children who want to get a head start on Pre-K readiness. With convenient, on-the-go spiral-bound wipe-clean pages and an embedded wipe-clean pen, kids can practice their letters and pen control anywhere, anytime! Scholastic Early Learners: Interactive books for hands-on learning. Perfect for babies, toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, and first graders, too!

Scholastic Early Learners: Interactive board books for hands-on learning! Get ready for Pre-K in this colourful wipe-clean workbook that provides plenty of practice on a range topics like counting, the alphabet, and more! Wipe Clean Workbooks — Get Ready for Pre-K is designed to provide plenty of practice for children about to enter Pre-K. It focuses on a variety of first concepts, including: letters, numbers, shapes, colours, animals, seasons, weather, vehicles, people, and food. There are tracing, writing, and drawing activities to help children with their pen control and motor skills, while looking at the letters and words and sounding them out encourages reading skills, increases children’s vocabulary, and stimulates children’s development of language.

Identifying letters and learning to write letters and words are important steps toward reading readiness, and Highlights (TM) infuses Fun with a Purpose® into these essential learning activities. With vibrant art and engaging prompts, Writing exposes kindergarteners to letters and words through tracing and writing practice and the fun of puzzles and other activities, including Hidden Pictures® puzzles and mazes.

Progress with Oxford: Starting to Write Letters Age 3-4 builds writing skills while helping your child to work independently. Engaging activities, fun characters and stickers keep them motivated and a progress chart captures achievements. Additional activities and support on oxfordowl.co.uk help your child to make progress.

Write and Wipe Get Ready for Pre-K is perfect for preparing children with the essential learning topics for Pre-K success. The book comes with a wipe-clean pen and the chunky, glossy board is easy to clean, so that children can try a page, wipe it clean, and try it again! This interactive book shows children exactly how to write numbers, trace shapes, and learn their letters. It also provides plenty of practice in pen control so that children will become confident writers! Scholastic Early Learners: Interactive books for hands-on learning. Perfect for babies, toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarteners, and first graders, too!

Having been a songwriter most of my life, condensing my ideas and emotions into short rhyming couplets and setting them to music, I had never really considered writing a book. But upon arriving at the reflective age of fifty, I found myself drawn, for the first time, to write long passages that were as stimulating and intriguing to me as any songwriting I had ever done. And so Broken Music began to take shape. It is a book about the early part of my life, from childhood through adolescence, right up to the eve of my success with the Police. It is a story very few people know. I had no interest in writing a traditional autobiographical recitation of everything thats ever happened to me. Instead I found myself drawn to exploring specific moments, certain people and relationships, and particular events which still resonate powerfully for me as I try to understand the child I was, and the man I became.

Having been a songwriter most of my life, condensing my ideas and emotions into short rhyming couplets and setting them to music, I had never really considered writing a book. But upon arriving at the reflective age of fifty, I found myself drawn, for the first time, to write long passages that were as stimulating and intriguing to me as any songwriting I had ever done. And so Broken Music began to take shape. It is a book about the early part of my life, from childhood through adolescence, right up to the eve of my success with the Police. It is a story very few people know. I had no interest in writing a traditional autobiographical recitation of everything thats ever happened to me. Instead I found myself drawn to exploring specific moments, certain people and relationships, and particular events which still resonate powerfully for me as I try to understand the child I was, and the man I became.

Parents can give their children a head-start at school with this easy-to-use sticker book that helps children to read and write their first letters. This book provides plenty of opportunity to practise writing first letters; children can trace over dotted lines, copy letters independently and sticker letters onto the correct word. With over 250 stickers, this is a great way to have fun while learning. With a full alphabet at the back of the book, this book is ideal to help children develop letter recognition skills before even entering the classroom. Friendly animal characters guide children through this brilliant sticker book, introducing them to letters of the alphabet as they prepare to start school.

‘I too wanted to forget that girl. Really forget her, that is, stop yearning to write about her. Stop thinking that I have to write about this girl and her desire and madness, her idiocy and pride, her hunger and her blood that ceased to flow. I have never managed to do so.’ In A Girl’s Story, her latest book, Annie Ernaux revisits the summer of 1958, spent working as a holiday camp instructor in Normandy, and recounts the first night she spent with a man. When he moves on, she realizes she has submitted her will to his and finds that she is a slave without a master. Now, sixty years later, she finds she can obliterate the intervening years and return to consider this young woman whom she wanted to forget completely. In writing A Girl’s Story, which brings to life her indelible memories of that summer, Ernaux discovers that here was the vital, violent and dolorous origin of her writing life, built out of shame, violence and betrayal.