- Tuesday 16 January 2024
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With school starting again soon, it’s the perfect time to stock up on essential teaching resources and workbooks for your classroom.
At R.I.C. Publications, we have a huge range of resource types, such as digital tools, flexible boxed sets, interactive student worksheets, and complete educator lesson plans. And, to make it extra easy to find what you need this year, we’ve created the ultimate back-to-school shopping guide for you!
Our guide is broken down into three categories to make it easier to find what you need:
1. Student workbooks – our curriculum-aligned workbooks are considered a classroom staple and go-to resource for many educators. Stock up on bestsellers, such as New Wave Mental Maths, Handwriting Today, and Reading for Me.
2. Boxed sets – our boxed sets are designed to be flexible and empower educator creativity when it comes to lesson planning, leading activities, and inspiring young minds.
3. Teacher support resources – our resources are designed for in-classroom and at-home use. So, whether you’re looking for easy-set homework, consolidating worksheets, or supporting resources for a homeschool plan, we have got you covered.
Keep reading to explore the full guide, where we’ve selected our top picks and recommendations for you this year!
Learner Workbooks
Our learner workbooks are considered a classroom staple and go-to resource for many educators.
Not only can learners keep all their work in one place and take ownership of it all, but each workbook is full of lesson plans, texts, activities, questions, and assessments designed to save you precious planning time.
Not to mention our workbooks can aid the teaching of just about any topic in any subject!
Whether you need to boost students' English skills, grow their mental maths ability, provide science essentials, develop grammar, practise handwriting, help learners find patterns and sequences, check their spelling, explain how to tell the time, or practise tracing and cutting – you’ll find the ideal workbook with R.I.C.
Take a look at our top learner workbook recommendations for back-to-school season.
1) New Wave Mental Maths
Visually rich and engaging, New Wave Mental Maths provides daily maths practice with a spiral learning method to consolidate and increase learners’ fluency and automaticity in all three maths strands.
Each book features 200 days of maths problems, developing learners’ ability to make choices, interpret, formulate, and communicate solutions effectively.
2) New Wave English in Practice
New Wave English in Practice practice focuses on the repetition and revision of English language learning, which in turn helps learners acquire and strengthen the skills they need to become competent and confident in their use of English.
This daily practice workbook covers phonological awareness, reading comprehension, spelling, word study, punctuation, and grammar, along with mixed questions that will help learners improve and consolidate their English skills. The revised workbooks have 160 days of questions, broken into four groups of eight weeks.
3) Sounds in Focus
Sounds in Focus is a whole-school spelling and language programme, employing a phonemic approach to teaching spelling and reading skills, and contains assessments, lesson plans, game templates, extension activities, remediation packs, and scope and sequence documents.
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4) Reading for Me
Reading for Me is an easy-to-follow, read-at-home program developed to be a simple way to provide and monitor reading homework.
With over 60 original texts that cover three different text types (factual, imaginative, and persuasive) Reading for Me is designed to foster an early love of reading while also developing reader comprehension and vocabulary skills.
5) Stick Kids®
Stick Kids® workbooks offer engaging activities, games and puzzles that help develop fluency in mathematics and English. These handy-sized skill practice workbooks are perfect for use at school, or as entertaining activities on the go.
Boxed sets
Are you looking for educator resources that allow for more creativity in the classroom, are more flexible, and won’t take the fun out of lesson planning?
Our boxed sets are beloved by both learners and educators as the perfect, fun-filled teaching resource to make any lesson exciting and engaging.
Plus, they’re easy to integrate and can either be used to run a whole lesson or act as a supplementary resource.
They’re also incredibly low-effort to implement and are packed with original texts, activity cards, and answer sheets, as well as additional support resources such as educator guides, worksheets, and bold line masters.
Explore our top-selling boxed sets.
6) The Maths Box
Maths is essential for learning logical thinking, problem-solving, and analytical skills, which is why The Maths Box includes motivating activities, teaching materials, and teacher reference resources, and covers all the Mathematics strands from Foundation to Year 6.
7) The Comprehension Strategies Box
Comprehension is integral to developing literacy and communication skills, as well as understanding, interpreting, and responding to written and spoken texts.
This is why The Comprehension Strategies Box is full of original texts, educator guides, and worksheets designed to support the teaching and learning of nine different comprehension strategies – plus, the series will help educators unlock all learners’ reading abilities.
8) Problem-solving Strategies and Skills Box
Covering all strands of Mathematics, our Problem-solving Strategies and Skills Box is full of extension problems and problem-solving questions for developing and practising core mathematical concepts.
9) STEM Projects
Integrating Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, our STEM Projects box focus on developing important skills such as innovation, creativity, reasoning, and problem-solving.
(A STEM Projekte version is also available, written entirely in Afrikaans.)
10) The Literacy Box
Packed with word study, comprehension and grammar questions (spanning three levels each), The Literary Box supports existing reading programs in classrooms and provides supplementary materials to cater to the needs of all readers at each level in the classroom.
Teacher support resources
Finally, for unique and special occasions such as assembly planning, early finishers, and relief teacher prep, our range of support resources have got you covered.
Explore our wide range of support resources.
11) Homework Resources
From workbooks specifically designed to extend students’ learning, to educational resources for inside and outside the classroom, our homework resource range covers all curriculum aligned areas.
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12) Relief Teacher Resources
Take a sick day feeling confident your class won’t be lost without you – our relief teacher resources are easy-to-use and perfect to have on-hand should someone need to cover you (or you need to cover someone else!)
All products are cross-curricular, ensuring every key subject area is covered. They focus on educational quizzes, games, and activities for easy implementation.
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13) Decodable Product Range
Decodable texts are an essential part of early reading instruction, as they provide a supportive and structured way for learners to apply their phonics knowledge to real reading experiences.
After growing demand, we’ve developed a brand new range of decodable readers to assist with this: Book Monster Decodable Readers.
Wrapping Up
From workbooks and boxed sets to educator resources, our back-to-school product range is packed with intentional, thoughtful, and accessible resources to support learning outcomes, help educators prepare lessons for the coming year, and do what they do best ... teach!