New catalogue Summer 2010

Our new summer 2010 catalogue is now available and we have added 100’s of new titles from our existing publishers and from some unique and exciting new names!  Click here to download our catalogue.

The BookShelf store now has lovely and exciting resources from the following new publishers.

Books@Press

Chunky Tunes

Ingrid Sylvestre

Yellow Door

Collins Language Clubs

Letterland

We have also expanded the range of titles from our popular existing publishers

Shoo Fly

Walker Books

Lawrence Education

Ros Bayley

Adam Bushnell

To see the full range of our resources, click on this link.

If you would like to order content credit, or find out more about StoryPhones phone 0845 652 0906.

French Club and Spanish Club are packed with songs, rhymes, jokes and tongue twisters designed to be engaging, memorable and enjoyable. Children as young as 3 and as old as 12 will enjoy singing along to the catchy rhythms. 

Learning language from a young age should be a fun, stress-free activity. By listening and joining in as native speaking children have fun in French or Spanish, your child will be learning without even realising it. Topics such as animals, colours and the days of the week are all covered, and specially-designed tongue twisters help to ensure that the pronunciation of some of the trickier aspects of French pronunciation prove to be no obstacle at all. 

Free accompanying full-colour, illustrated transcript to assist you and your children as they learn.

Dance in a Bag provide a range of resources for dance and movement for young children. These unique and innovative resources lay the foundations for reading and language, maths, dance, music, movement, drama and PSE. The products consist of music tracks on a number of themes and also a set of physical resources.

Most of these resources are a little different to most that we have in the BookShelf store.  When you purchase the downloads for Dance in a Bag you are also ordering a full Dance in a Bag kit which will be sent to you by normal post.  The full cost of the kit and downloads is included in the download price and is deducted from your account balance when you buy.

We have four titles very popular from Dance in a Bag: Look at Me, I’m A Star!, Reasons and Rhymes, The Dragon’s Surprise and Dance in a Bag Favourites.  The Favourites set contains 12 lovely music tracks but does not have any other resources with it.

For more information, go to www.danceinabag.co.uk

The Language Factory has created content sets from their award winning Modern Foreign Language Resources and these are now available to buy in BookShelf, the StoryPhones download store. If you would like an easy way to introduce your children to French or Spanish, then these content sets are an ideal solution.

The Language Factory resources are simple and fun to use. Children pick up rhythm, rap and rhyme very easily and so the repetitive nature of the songs and raps help children learn the correct pronunciation and intonation for that language.

Each content set provides MP3 song tracks and PDF resources to support the audio tracks. Children can learn the French vocabulary for greetings and weather or the Spanish vocabulary for greetings and colours.

The lively songs and raps can be taught in sections and the whole song and vocabulary can be built up over time giving young children a chance to develop their language skills and gain confidence with the vocabulary and pronunciation. Once the children are familiar with the songs and raps, they can sing along to a karaoke version of the song.

To find out more please visit  www.language-factory.co.uk

Raps

Ros Bayley’s Raps will get your children rapping, tapping wiggling and clapping. Children will develop steady beat skills, coordination, rhythm, rhyme and phonological awareness.

Almost Traditional Tales

Develop your children’s listening skills with Ros Bayley’s Almost Traditional Tales. These lively versions of some old favourites are full of sound effects and catchy raps that will promote:

auditory discrimination
aural attention span
auditory memory
phonological awareness
imaginative engagement

Each story remains almost true to the original but has a variety of catchy raps integrated into the storyline. Once the children have listened to the stories a few times, they will soon be rapping along with them and will be able to access them for themselves during child initiated learning.

StoryPhones is pleased to announce that LCP (www.lcp.co.uk), the publisher of a fantastic range of teaching resources, has agreed to make a range of audio titles available for StoryPhones. Thirteen new titles will be added to the BookShelf On-line store over the next few weeks as the start of a raneg of titles to be added in the future.