Books published by Brilliant Publications

How to be Brilliant at Materials contains 42 photocopiable worksheets with practical activities to help Key Stage 2 (KS2) children acquire knowledge and understanding of the way materials are classified, how they can be changed, and ways of separating them.

How to be Brilliant at Electricity, Light and Sound contains 40 photocopiable sheets for use with Key Stage 2 (KS2) children. These practical activities will help children to acquire knowledge and understanding of electrical circuits, the everyday effects of light and how we see, and how sounds are made.

The fully photocopiable plays in Fun with Plays have been specially written for primary school pupils by well-known writers. They range from re-tellings of traditional legends and performance plays to plays dealing with contemporary issues. Notes for each play highlight topics for discussion.

How to Sparkle at Word Level Activities is designed to help children develop phonemic awareness and improve their knowledge of phonics. These tried and tested activities will save you hours of preparation and planning time and will really get your class motivated.

This Graphic Revision Guide for Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, specially written to support Special Needs (SEN) and lower ability students, contains teaching resources especially tailored to strengthen the student's understanding of plot, characters, quotes, themes and more.This Graphic Revision Guide for Jane Eyre makes studying or revising this iconic novel easy. Suitable for all GCSE English Literature examinations. Brilliant Publications' Graphic Revision Guide for Jane Eyre has been specially written by Elizabeth May to support students with lower ability or lacking in confidence. It contains teaching resources especially tailored to strengthen the student's understanding of plot, characters, quotes, themes and more.The book brings an element of fun and informality to the study of this classic GCSE text, repackaging large amounts of complex information in an engaging and simple manner. Studying the sheets doesn't seem like reading or working, yet having these graphic sheets in front of them helps students immensely in understanding and sequencing the plot, remembering key events, distinguishing between characters and understanding characters' perspectives.Although initially designed to help and support SEN students, the author soon found that all the students in the class wanted copies of the graphic sheets and benefited from using them. Many students find it difficult to remember what happened in a book and in what order, let alone to write a timed essay picking apart the intricacies of it. With this book, students will gain confidence in their knowledge before jumping into the deep end.Our Graphic Revision Guide for Jane Eyre contains:the story of Jane Eyre re-told in comic form, making it easy to follow the plotcontext pages, giving background information on 19th Century England, Charlotte Brontë, Gothic Fiction, Romantic Fiction and Bildungsromancharacter pages for each of the main characters, including quotes from the booktheme pages for the key themes of the book - gender roles, love, religion, class - with relevant quotations for eachadditional graphic reference material to help with the setting and bringing the plot to lifeactivity pages ranging from vocabulary lists and matching the quote to the picture to character and quote analysis maps.The sheets are designed to be accessible to students with a range of Special Needs (SEN) through the use of:a heavy focus on visuals to help students to remember, understand, get interested in and create associations to the textsimple language for greater accessibilitya focus on vocabulary - explaining and rephrasing tricky wordsa focus on plot comprehension; chapter summaries are condensed to include key events, and are image-based to help students remember what happened and consolidate a full picture of the plotkey quotes are repeated and linked to characters and themes.

The 50 stories in this contemporary collection of school stories all have a Christian theme making them ideal for schools wishing to ensure that their collective worship is, in the main, Christian. Sunday school teachers will also find them invaluable.Here are just some of the characters you will meet: Billy loses his trunks whilst swimming at school - how embarrassing! What will he do? Listen to his hilarious story. David is missing his best friend, who has left school. Then he meets Arthur, the new boy. Arthur is different. He is autistic: he can't speak. How can David make friends with him? Joshua is fascinated with fire but one day goes too far and sets light to his school. What will his headteacher and parents say? Katherine is excited when she is chosen to be head girl. Then she receives a poison pen letter from a jealous classmate. How will she cope with her disappointment? Mrs Groves starts a new job as a headteacher and feels cheated when illness stops her following through with her plans. How will the children react to her death? What will they do to remember her?Teacher's notes make it easy to make the most of each story, providing information on the background, story and theme, as well as a brief summary of what Christians believe and a short prayer related to the story.

Brilliant Activities for Reading Comprehension Year 6 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 Creative Writing Year 6 provides a flexible, but structured resource for developing writing skills, which both you and your pupils will enjoy. The activities address the upper Key Stage 2 Programmes of Study for writing composition in the 2014 national curriculum for England. The sheets are self-explanatory and ready to use.

Brilliant Activities for Creative Writing Year 1 provides a flexible, but structured resource for developing writing skills, which both you and your pupils will enjoy. The activities address the Year 1 Programmes of Study for writing composition in the 2014 national curriculum for England. The sheets are self-explanatory and ready to use.

Brilliant Activities for Creative Writing Year 2 provides a flexible, but structured resource for developing writing skills, which both you and your pupils will enjoy. The activities address the Year 2 Programmes of Study for writing composition in the 2014 national curriculum for England. The sheets are self-explanatory and ready to use.

The books in the Open-ended Maths Investigations series provide teachers with open-ended investigations matched to the following strands of mathematics: number; money; measurement; space; chance and data; patterns and algebra. The investigations encourage pupils to apply higher order mathematical strategies creatively and effectively as they develop proficiency in a wide range of problem-solving strategies. Open-end Maths Investigations can be used in isolation, in sequence or dipped into as teachers require, providing a great supplement to every maths scheme of work.

The books in the Open-ended Maths Investigations series provide teachers with open-ended investigations matched to the following strands of mathematics: number; money; measurement; space; chance and data; patterns and algebra. The investigations encourage pupils to apply higher order mathematical strategies creatively and effectively as they develop proficiency in a wide range of problem-solving strategies. Open-end Maths Investigations can be used in isolation, in sequence or dipped into as teachers require, providing a great supplement to every maths scheme of work.