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Fun play books for practising spelling in primary school
An innovative series, conceived by Susi Cazzaniga and Silvia Baldi, which turns spelling, often considered boring and frustrating by children, into an opportunity for implicit learning and active enjoyment.
So many crimes for Inspector Spellor and his assistant Agatha Bird to solve
Each child must help the steadfast Inspector Spellor, a pure breed fox terrier who is extremely renowned in the world of solving crimes, and his assistant Agatha Bird, a tufted titmouse who is training to become an inspector, find those guilty of committing the shocking crimes that have put Scotland Yard on their guard.
By solving engaging puzzles, each child will obtain clues which will serve as conclusive evidence for catching the crook!
THE FIRST BOOKS IN THE SERIES
The books have increasing levels of complexity, in order to encourage the progressive development of spelling and lexical competences in primary-aged children.
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Mini spelling detective stories 1
Who stole the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London?
Mini spelling detective stories 2
Who broke into the underground safe containing hundreds of gold coins?
Mini spelling detective stories 3
Who stole the Crystal Skull, one of the most famous artefacts in the British Museum?
Mini spelling detective stories 4
Who did help Thomas Gorilla to escape from the maximum security prison?
Mini spelling detective stories 5
Who did sabotage the Big Ben?
In line with the primary school curriculum, but unhampered by criteria strictly connected to the classroom, the books in this series can also be useful for pupils with specific learning difficulties for development and remediation.
The suspects
ASCOTT HAMISH: 45 years old, Barman
EMMA GOAT: 83 years old Ex-Italian, teacher
ROBERT CASTOR: 37 years old, Dockworker
REBECCA FOX: 26 years old, Journalist
ADAM HORSE: 56 years old, Mayor
STELLA CAT: 22 years old, Actress
The clues
Completing engaging puzzles which gradually increase in difficulty at semantic and spelling levels, children will obtain clues which will serve as conclusive evidence for catching the crook!
Each book contains a wide variety of fun puzzles and crosswords
PUZZLES FOR DEVELOPING SPELLING ABILITIES
On a theoretical level, word games like riddles and puzzles involving changing, replacing and matching letters require careful phonological analysis of the word or maybe even manipulation of sounds. Word games like crosswords and cross puzzles are instead extremely effective for boosting lexical knowledge.
The definitions allow those solving the puzzles to conjure up mental representations of the words, which are then fixed in their long-term memory, with both semantic and spelling analysis.
Word games therefore assume a certain importance in lexical enrichment and greater awareness of spelling.
Puzzles in general allow both phonological and semantic-lexical strategies to be stimulated. Above all, in a language with transparent spelling like Italian, it is only through the use of a lexical strategy that it is possible to retrieve the correct spelling of words with irregular or ambiguous spelling, for example: scienza/scenza (science), liquore/licuore (liqueur).
All the puzzle material that has traditionally been considered as recreational and little more than a pastime in this series becomes the essential means for integrating motivation and specific training.
