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This area of our website is home to those little tools and tasters that we felt would be beneficial to you, but haven’t included in our retail software titles. The number of tasters, trial versions and little utilities listed on this page will increase over time, bookmark the page to make sure it’s easy to find in future. All of the items listed have been produced by Fiery Ideas and may well be listed on their site as well.

Dynamite Sentences

A fantastic resource for sentence play. Perfect for KS1 and 2

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Added 18/09/2007

The Punctuation Thief

One of the ten new VCOP Games. Victor has been stealing punctuation - can you help recover it!
Demo version only contains

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Added 05/10/2007

Big Writing Music

Soothing music for use in Big Writing sessions.

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Added 09/10/2007

Interactive Punctuation Pyramid

An interactive version of the Punctuation Pyramid similar to the one referred to on Bebweb.

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Added 01/11/2007

Big Writing Timer

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Added 06/03/2008

V.C.O.P Pyramid Posters

The V.C.O.P. Pyramids

There are 4 elements that are generic to all levels and sub-levels of development in writing skills.

They are:
- the range of vocabulary and ambitious words used
- the range of connectives used
- the range of sentence openers used
- the range of punctuation used

There are many examples of all four of the generic elements that can be explicitly taught. For pupils, the above can be learned and used in context if well taught and embedded. Each Pyramid is levelled, the top being the easiest and the bottom the hardest for more sophisticated writing.

The Pyramids can be used to illustrate progression in each of the four elements. For further information, please refer to Ros' book 'Strategies for Immediate Impact on Writing Standards'.

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Added 27/03/2008

V.C.O.P. Pyramids (for assembly into '3D')

The V.C.O.P. Pyramids

There are 4 elements that are generic to all levels and sub-levels of development in writing skills.

They are:
- the range of vocabulary and ambitious words used
- the range of connectives used
- the range of sentence openers used
- the range of punctuation used

There are many examples of all four of the generic elements that can be explicitly taught. For pupils, the above can be learned and used in context if well taught and embedded. Each Pyramid is levelled, the top being the easiest and the bottom the hardest for more sophisticated writing.

The Pyramids can be used to illustrate progression in each of the four elements. For further information, please refer to Ros? book 'Strategies for Immediate Impact on Writing Standards'.

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Added 27/03/2008

 

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