Books published by Brilliant Publications

Buena Idea provides key vocabulary, word and picture matching cards, activity sheets and puzzle pages for 20 popular Spanish primary school topics. Use the suggestions given or develop your own games with these flexible sheets. Sentence building sheets for each topic provide top tips for extending the vocabulary.

Brilliant Activities for Reading Comprehension Year 4 provides a variety of engaging, enjoyable texts that will grab pupils' attention, all linked to the 2014 National Curriculum. Activities range from simple factual recall and vocabulary work to more open-ended questions enabling the reader to provide a more personal response.

Brilliant Activities for Reading Comprehension Year 3 provides a variety of engaging, enjoyable texts that will grab pupils' attention, all linked to the 2014 National Curriculum. Activities range from simple factual recall and vocabulary work to more open-ended questions enabling the reader to provide a more personal response.

Developing Reading Comprehension Skills Years 3-4: Non-fiction contains 12 high quality authentic non-fiction passages and is perfect for developing reading strategies as children move through Key Stage 2.Each of the 12 high quality non-fiction extracts is accompanied by eight sets of questions based on the Key Stage 2 (KS2) Reading Content Domains and National Curriculum. This book provides opportunities to tackle more complex vocabulary, explore how authors use language to impact their readers and develop endurance for longer passages. The clear structure and the author's passion for teaching pupils to read critically make Developing Reading Comprehension Skills Years 3-4: Non-fiction invaluable for everyone working with pupils in Years 3 and 4.Support for teachers and parents is built in with guidance for how to teach the different question types, plus suggestions for embedding these texts in the wider English curriculum. This series is suitable for new and recently qualified teachers as well as those who are more experienced and wanting to expand the range of texts they use.If you're looking for a comprehensive resource to enhance reading provision and teaching in your classroom or to support home education, this is exactly what you need. Look for other books in the Developing Reading Comprehension Skills series.The titles and themes of the articles in this book are:Dog Training (Relationships, pets, skills)Shooting for the Olympics (Women's football, Summer Olympics)Fruit Crumble (Recipe, healthy eating, instructions)The Brains Behind Legoland's Bricks (Jobs, Lego, biography)Paddle Boarding (Sport, leisure, PSHE)The Secrets of Sleep (Health, well-being, PSHE)Are Video Games Good for Us (Video games, mental health, PSHE)Look After Yourself Online (Internet safety, PSHE)Dino Giant Stuns Scientists (Dinosaurs, archaeology)Mount Etna's Spectacular Show (Geography, volcanoes)A Human Home Amongst the Stars (Space, science, STEM, biography)Is This the World's Smallest Reptile? (Science, animals, rainforests, environment, conservation)

Cracking English Grammar in Key Stage 2 will help children to see the purpose of learning grammar,punctuation and spelling. The 100+creative activities in this book put all aspects of the SPaG NationalCurriculum into context. Through writing poems and tongue twisters, playing with sentences andclauses, performing punctuation and going to spy school to crack trickyspellings, pupils will practise and reinforce grammatical structures, patternsand concepts, even getting to grips with fronted adverbials and modal verbs. The flexible activities can be integrated easilyinto any scheme of work and take no more than one hour to complete. They arewritten directly at pupils, so they can easily be used by pupils individuallyor in pairs, or a teacher can use them to teach to a whole class. Pupils will develop their linguisticunderstanding, competence and confidence at the same time as becoming better,more enthusiastic writers.

Buon Idea provides key vocabulary, word and picture matching cards, activity sheets and puzzle pages for 20 popular Italian primary school topics. Use the suggestions given or develop your own games with these flexible sheets. Sentence building sheets for each topic provide top tips for extending the vocabulary.

This is the story of a transformation, the excitement of making plans, the determination and patience to find people who have the skills needed to make your dream a reality. It is all about trusting that your journey into the great wide open will fill your heart and soul with its soothing power that only nature offers. It is about finding yourself in your own camper van, on roads less travelled being led by the free spirit inside you and feeling the excitement of the open road in front of you.All profits from the sale of this book will be donated to Prostate Cancer UK for research.

Mighty Fun Ideas for Practising Times Tables is a three-book series of reproducible worksheets providing fun games and activities to make learning the times tables fun. Superheroes are used to motivate children to practise all of the skills needed to solve multiplication, division and word based times table problems.

Missing digit puzzles are a perfect way to challenge Key Stage 2 pupils and help them to achieve maths mastery. Use the puzzles as starter activities, whole class problem solving or for stretching the more able.The instructions for these puzzles are simple – fill in the gaps in the calculations using each digit provided only once. The puzzles are designed so that there is one solution, but thousands of possibilities. They cannot be solved by simply trying all the permutations – there are far too many. Pupils will have to really think about the problem and use their knowledge and understanding of maths to decide which statements to fill in first.The puzzles will develop and consolidate children’s understanding of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, as well as fractions, decimals, percentages and much more.

How to Dazzle at Twelfth Night is a collection of photocopiable games, practical activities and worksheets designed to give Key Stage 3 (KS3) and Key Stage 4 (KS4) pupils with special needs a better understanding of the play.

How to Dazzle at Macbeth is designed to give pupils with special needs in Key Stages 3 and 4 a deeper understanding of the play through a variety of activities which will stimulate, amuse and challenge.