BRAINtastic! Word Skills

Spelling, Grammar, Punctuation & more.

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Give every child a positive and empowering language experience. Builds vital practical language skills and promotes confidence in understanding and using correct spelling, grammar and punctuation. Motivation is guaranteed with 3 cool Reward Games

The BRAINtastic! Word Skills series covers the majority of outcomes for the word skills sections of the UK National Literacy Strategy for Key Stages 1 – 3.

The BRAINtastic! Word Skills content is contained in age appropriate modules that interact with Central Control and the Reward Games included on each CD.

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Titles in the BRAINtastic! Word Skills Series

The BRAINtastic! Word Skills series is divided into 3 titles. Each has been painstakingly levelled and sequenced in order to give children educational content appropriate for their age and stage.

	Ages 4-7 years Builds vital practical language skills. Carefully guided introduction to letters, phonic groups and words. More Info		Ages 7-11 years Builds and consolidates practical literacy proficiencies. Promotes confidence in using basic functional elements of language – spelling, grammar and punctuation. More Info
	Ages 11-14+ years Expands and develops writing and word skills. Refines basic skills using enjoyable stimulus material that copiously illustrates the richness and diversity of the English language. More Info

BRAINtastic! Word Skills at a glance

• All essential word skills and concepts, carefully targeted by age and school year
• 3 titles for children aged 4 to 15
• Each title covers more than 3 years of schooling
• Each title includes the three Reward Games: BugWHACK!; Galactic Retrieval Squad; and Extreme Fashion
• 1000+ word skills questions per title
• Content contains a huge variety of quality activities and question types including multiple-choice, drag-and-drop, missing answer and more
• Promotes higher-order language thinking and problem-solving skills

Each BRAINtastic! Word Skills title

• Contains more than 1000 individually crafted questions
• Incorporates a wealth of carefully-sequenced teacher-designed activities for children in the relevant Key Stage of learning development.
• Identifies and systematically unravels areas of common misunderstanding (for example, the more baffling confusions of English spelling!)
• Carefully builds word recognition from basic elements to more complex
• Provides hints, guidance and explanations of more difficult concepts of spelling, grammar and punctuation
• Expands and enriches vocabulary
• Stimulates word recognition and usage
• Promotes confident enjoyment and understanding of language
• Provides a huge and diverse bank of activity types including multiple choice, text input and drag-and-drop
• Is full of quirky characters, terrible puns and clever word plays, modelling the enjoyment of language for all learning styles

BRAINtastic! Word Skills Content

The BRAINtastic! Word Skills series covers the following concept areas for Key Stages 1-3:

• Letter tracking, matching and recognition and other preparatory skills for very young readers and spellers
• Spelling patterns & rules, including phonics
• Prefixes & suffixes
• Synonyms & antonyms
• Homophones, homographs, homonyms
• Nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, connectives
• Regular and irregular verbs
• Word origins including idioms, clichés, metaphors, similes, etc
• Punctuation
• Grammar conventions

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The thousands of questions in the BRAINtastic! Word Skills series have been purpose-built and carefully sequenced by highly competent teachers to give every child the very best. Whether at home or at school, having BRAINtastic! is like having a private tutor.

Many thousands of hours have been spent preparing the content behind BRAINtastic! Word Skills. The questions are enjoyable and intrinsically motivating, incorporating humour, quirky pictures and fun challenges/characters.

BRAINtastic! Curriculum Documents

The educational content in the BRAINtastic! Word Skills series covers the majority of outcomes for the word skills sections of the UK National Literacy Strategy for Key Stages 1 – 3.

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