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Other Books
These are the ones I can remember. However, I’ve been writing since 1980 so books and series tend to blend into one another. Many of them are now out of print – they are marked with a *.
Oxford University Press
A Little Alphabet Book (2000)
The Oxford Word Box (1998)
Harcourt (i.e. Ginn, Heinemann)
Ginn Big Book Phonics with Michaela Morgan (1997)
Tuning into Sound*
The Big Alphabet Book*
Sounds and Words 1*
Sounds and Words 2*
Teachers’ Notes and copymasters for each Big Book*
Heinemann Big Book Grammar with Michaela Morgan (1999)
Books 1 to 6 (primary age range)
Teachers’ Notes and copymasters for each Big Book
Ginn Big Book Spelling with Michaela Morgan (2001)
Books for years 3, 4, 5, 6
Teachers’ Notes and copymasters for each Big Book
Masterpieces: Punctuation, Lower Junior and Upper Junior with Charles Butchart (Ginn, 1998)
BBC Educational Publishing
English Express: Language Knowledge video
English Express Language Knowledge teacher’s pack (with Charles Buchart)
The Magic Pencil Alphabet Rhymes
- one little book for each letter of the alphabet
The Magic Pencil Alphabet Rhymes big book
Words and Pictures Phonics Special poster pack (includes posters of 10 phonic poems)
Words and Pictures Year 2 poster pack (includes posters of 10 phonic poems)
Words and Pictures Big Book of Phonic Poems
Look and Read Spelling Strategies poster pack
Dorling Kindersley
Phonic Cards: Crack the Sound Code (1999)*
Teachers notes for various DK home learning packages, and a video about getting your children off to the best start
Letts Educational
Ready to Read, Ages 3 – 4 (1997)
Start to Read, Ages 4 – 5 (1997)
LDA
Brickworks Wordbuilding Games and Dictionary (1999)
Addison Wesley Longman
Sue Palmer was general editor of all the Longman Book Project materials (1994-5), and author of:
- Water in the House, written with Ron Murphy (non-fiction book on plumbing)
- Fiction 1, 2, 3, 4 Teacher’s Resource Books, written with Wendy Body
- 12 Read On Specials, written with Wendy Body (first reading material)
All the Language Strand materials
- Meet the Beeps written with Michaela Morgan*
- The Beeps ABC written with Michaela Morgan*
- All Together Now written with Michaela Morgan*
- Language 1 song tapes: The Beeps ABC and All Together Now written with Michaela Morgan*
- Language 1 Teacher’s Resource Book (contributions from Michaela Morgan)*
- Handwriting and phonic workbooks 1,2,3,4 written with Avril Barton*
- Language 2 materials: 2 pupil’s books, 4 spelling and handwriting workbooks and a teacher’s resource book*
- Language 3 materials: 2 pupil’s books, 4 spelling and handwriting workbooks and a teacher’s resource book*
- Language 4 materials: pupil’s book, 2 spelling and handwriting workbooks and a teacher’s resource book*
Mind Your Language, Books 1, 2, 3, 4 and teacher’s notes, written with Peter Brinton (first published by Oliver and Boyd 1985-6, revised 1998)*
Mind Your Spelling, Books 1, 2, 3, 4 (first published by Oliver and Boyd 1987-8, revised 1998)*
The Starter Book of Joined Up Writing*
Spelling: A Teacher’s Survival Guide (first published by Oliver and Boyd, 1988)
Words Borrowed from Other Languages written with Eugenia Low (Longman Pelicans, 1999)
A Simple Rhyming Dictionary (Longman Pelicans, 1999)
I See What You Mean Books 1 and 2, written with Alison Kilpatrick and Patricia McCall (Oliver and Boyd, 1980) – cross-curricular literacy, the genesis of skeletons*
Cliffhangers Books 1, 2, 3, 4, written with Alison Kilpatrick and Patricia McCall (Oliver and Boyd, 1982) – children’s fiction and speaking/listening activities*
English through Topics* – Food, Weather, Minibeasts, Transport, written with Avril Barton and Peter Brinton (Oliver and Boyd, 1990-1992)
5 pupil’s books per topic (one for each National Curriculum level) + teacher’s guides + copymaster packs
Hodder and Stoughton
Presenting Poetry, Books 1, 2, 3, 4, written with Patricia McCall (first published by Oliver and Boyd 1983, revised, with contributions by Gordon Jarvie 1996)
PCET (Pictorial Charts Educational Trust)
Words at Work and Complex Sentences:The Jigsaw of Meaning – posters about grammar (1998)
The Origins of English frieze wallchart (2000)
Ten Ways to Remember a Tricky Spelling wallchart (2001)
Scholastic
Term by term phonics (1997) – originally six workbooks, but latterly a rather useful compendium of photocopiables in one book
Owl Babies Read and Respond*
The ill-fatedTen Steps* home-learning books (Scholastic 1998-9)
Ten Steps to Improve Your Child’s Writing, ages 5-6
Ten Steps to Improve Your Child’s Writing, ages 6-7
Ten Steps to Improve Your Child’s Writing, ages 7-8
Ten Steps to Improve Your Child’s Writing, ages 8-9
Ten Steps to Improve Your Child’s Spelling, ages 5-6
Ten Steps to Improve Your Child’s Spelling, ages 6-7
Ten Steps to Improve Your Child’s Spelling, ages 7-8
Ten Steps to Improve Your Child’s Spelling, ages 8-9
Ten Steps to Improve Your Child’s Reading, ages 5-6
Ten Steps to Improve Your Child’s Reading, ages 6-7
Ten Steps to Improve Your Child’s Reading, ages 7-8
Ten Steps to Improve Your Child’s Reading, ages 8-9
And yes, faithful reader, it was a crippling task to write them, especially as it became clear half way through that they were being marketed by an idiot.