Wipe-Clean First Spellings: Start School with Topsy and Tim

Description

Practise essential first spelling skills with Topsy and Tim! This Topsy and Tim activity book has shiny, wipe-clean pages and a special pen to make practising first spellings as easy as A, B, C! Each page has a selection of themed, high-frequency words to practise that children will come across often and that are based on the new English curriculum to help support school learning. Content includes key phonics spelling patterns such as 'ai', 'er' and 'igh', nouns, verbs, tricky words, numbers and family words. The last page can be used as a place for your child to practise their own school spellings using the 'look, cover, write, check' approach. Help your child to copy over the words or write them out themselves, then they can wipe clean using the special eraser on top of the pen and practise again! Written in conjuntion with an educational consultant and teacher, this book is perfect to help support children learning to spell simple words at school and is the ideal companion to Topsy and Tim's Wipe-Clean First Letters.

Jean Adamson is the creator of more than 100 much-loved children's books spanning five decades. She studied Illustration at Goldsmiths where she met her future husband and writing partner Gareth Adamson (1925-1982). They worked on children's books together, with Gareth producing the storylines and Jean the illustration, including Topsy and Tim. More than 140 Topsy and Tim titles have been published, selling upwards of 21 million copies around the world. Since 1998, over a million copies have been sold in the UK alone. Sixty episodes of an animated TV series followed, and three seasons of a live-action version have broadcast on CBeebies, which won the BAFTA Pre-school Live Action award in 2016. In 1999 Jean Adamson was awarded an MBE for her services to children's literature.