Blog posts for: Oxford University Press
Numicon at Home Next Steps kit (Numicon Home)
This kit provides all you need to support and develop your child’s maths learning, through carefully designed activities and games you will enjoy doing together.
Numicon at Home | Age 5–7
Numicon: 100 Square Baseboard
The Numicon 100 Square Baseboard is a plastic square with 10 x 10 raised circles on which Numicon Shapes and overlays can be placed. It provides a base for building patterns with Numicon Shapes and bonds, and can be used alongside Key Stage 1 Numicon activities.
Suitable for age 4–5.
Numicon: Box of 80 Numicon Shapes
The box of 80 Numicon Shapes provides essential apparatus to parents and teachers of children throughout the Primary years. Ideal for completing or adding to any apparatus pack. Designed to be used alongside the Numicon range.
Numicon: Card 1-100 Number Track
This thick number track made from reinforced card can be used as a number line or number square, in a wide range of activities and games to help children work with numbers 1 to 100. Split into sections of 10 for extra flexibility and to aid understanding.
Suitable ages 4-11
Numicon: Homework Activities Intervention Resource – ‘Maths Bag’ of Resources Per Pupil (Numicon Apparatus)
Especially created for use at home, the Homework Activities Intervention Resource Kit supports children’s mathematical development and learning outside of school. Not suitable for children under 36 months.
Suitable for age 4–5.
Numicon: Picture Baseboard Overlays
These 6 double-sided Numicon baseboard overlays give opportunities for matching, ordering and pattern making.
Suitable for ages 4-11
Oxford Children’s Classics: Little Women
Open your heart to the unforgettable March sisters . . . Sensible Meg, hot-headed Jo, quiet Beth, and pretty Amy might be sisters, but they’re not alike, and they don’t always get along. But when the going gets tough, they know they always have each other.
Suitable for age 9+
Oxford School Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar Dictionary (Oxford School Dictionaries)
With a clear, colour layout to make it easy to navigate, the book is in two parts. The first part is a reference section of simple rules, tips, and examples to help students spell, punctuate, and write correctly in school, in exams, and at home.
Oxford Very First Dictionary 2012
The Oxford Very First Dictionary, with its colourful clear layout and familiar first words, each with a simple definition and illustration, is a fun and easy way for young children to learn how to use a dictionary. Helps support early literacy skills.
Read Write Inc. Home: Phonics Flashcards
These flashcards offer a fun way to introduce the letters and sounds that make up words, using the Set 1 Speed Sounds. With parent notes offering guidance, they are the ideal way to support your child’s first steps in learning to read.
Read Write Inc. Phonics: Home More Phonics Flashcards (Read Write Inc. Home)
This second pack of Read Write Inc. Phonics flashcards is a fun way to introduce Speed Sounds Set 2 and 3. With humorous illustrations and rhymes, these cards are perfect for introducing the next steps in phonics.