Terms & Conditions

These materials should be done in a relaxed and fun way. Some materials can be done at a faster pace as students become more confident in the task and as part of a game in some activities.

In many of the books there is reference made to teacher/ tutor, tutor here refers to the person tutoring the student or students. This person could be a parent/ guardian, a sibling, a relative, a child minder or an assistant.

As all students are different some students may need more time and assistance in some areas.

In many of these materials students have the opportunity to use many of the following skills: listening, creating and designing, recognition, problem solving, oral, writing, and reading.

Other materials have specific aims for target skills to be developed in the learning of tables, spellings and vowels etc.

Techniques and methods used to develop these materials:

• through font size and style
• page layout and design
• illustrations
• also through ideas developed at learning tree which include:

The Word Tree, display sheets, illustrations, activities, picture memory aids, Super Syllables, oral activities and Word Links.

Each book or activity comes with guidelines on how to use the materials. At the back of each book there is a page for teacher/ tutor notes and observations from the book or activity.

The term common words in these materials refers to words that are used regularly but which are not nouns. While many of these words form different parts of grammar e.g. prepositions, verbs, pronouns etc. at this early stage of learning to read, spell and write the focus is on two areas, nouns and common words.

As far as possible space has been left on the left hand side of the pages in these books so that these pages can be easily stapled together. On some pages that are display sheets or part of an activity, there may be less space on the left side of the page, as these pages can be laminated and cut out for activities.

While some materials have an age range on them e.g. 5+, this is only a guide. The suitability of materials for a student is entirely relative to each individual student and his/ her stage of learning.

Many books include a downloadable checklist.

This site includes a downloadable calendar that can be used for the school year.

These materials can be photocopied for educational purposes, it may be helpful to laminate some materials to make them more durable.