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A style of handwriting in which most of the words are formed by joined letters with the help of a loop/stroke.
AGE 2+ and 3+
Product Description:
- These books are 2 in 1 (stage 1 and stage 2)
- Colourful to make it attractive to kids
- Book covers are laminated to ensure durability even when mishandled by kids
AGE 2+ (Stage 1)
Product Description:
The book comes in 2 stages. Stage one initiates the child’s handwriting skill by providing activities on scribbling, which involves making impressions of no definite pattern or marks on paper. The aim is to introduce pen-hold, develop fine motor skill and hand-eye coordination. Stage two further reinforces the skills learnt on completing stage 1 by providing more complex detailed exercises (such as drawing precise strokes, curves, etc)
AGE 2+ (Stage 2)
Product Description:
The book comes in 2 stages. Stage one initiates the child’s handwriting skill by providing activities on scribbling, which involves making impressions of no definite pattern or marks on paper. The aim is to introduce pen-hold, develop fine motor skill and hand-eye coordination. Stage two further reinforces the skills learnt on completing stage 1 by providing more complex detailed exercises (such as drawing precise strokes, curves, etc)
AGE 3+ (Stage 1)
Product Description:
The book comes in 2 stages. In stage one, children learn drawing strokes and curves (which underline the formation of all letters and numbers) and this integrates into the actual tracing and writing of lowercase letters a – l. Stage 2 continues with lower case letters m – z. The letters are big with pictures of objects whose initial letter sounds are being taught, written and also placed on its side to teach phonics.
AGE 3+ (Stage 2)
Product Description:
The book comes in 2 stages. In stage one, children learn drawing strokes and curves (which underline the formation of all letters and numbers) and this integrates into the actual tracing and writing of lowercase letters a – l. Stage 2 continues with lower case letters m – z. The letters are big with pictures of objects whose initial letter sounds are being taught, written and also placed on its side to teach phonics.
AGE 4+ and 10+
Product Description:
- It comes in one booklet
- Colourful to make it attractive to kids
- Book covers are laminated to ensure durability even when mishandled by kids.
AGE 4+
Product Description:
This book offers more extensive exercises for tracing and writing lowercase letters from a to z and introduces uppercase letters from A to Z. It serves as a follow-up to the books for Ages 2 and 3 but features smaller letter sizes. Many of the lowercase letters that touch the middle and bottom lines include a flip or lead-out to facilitate joining with other letters. Furthermore, it introduces the joining of two letters by a connector.
Additionally, the book emphasizes freehand copying of letters. It utilizes three ruled lines as guides to ensure proper letter formation, uniformity, and correct positioning on the lines.
AGE 5+
Product Description:
This book is designed to help children master the writing of both lowercase and uppercase letters, focusing on proper formation and positioning on ruled lines.
It also includes exercises to practice the correct connectors used to join any pair of the 26 letters of the alphabet.
The book concludes with activities that involve joining words, consonant blend words, and using capital letters in simple sentences.
AGE 6+
Product Description:
This program aims to achieve the following objectives:
- Improve word formation by having children copy longer words with two or more syllables, ensuring even letter size and correct joining.
- Further develop reading, spelling, and vocabulary skills while emphasizing automaticity in handwriting.
- Reinforce the use of capital letters and punctuation as essential components of handwriting.
AGE 7+
Product Description:
The book among others through various exercises aims at:
- Mastery of correct smooth flow in word formation, consistency, legibility and positioning on ruled lines.
- To improve the skill of continuous writing with automacy and fluency by copying and writing various essays.
- Finally, is to improve the reading, spelling and vocabulary level through copying of various phonics exercises.
AGE 8+
Product Description:
This book, with various exercises on word formation, uses phonics exercises in long and short vowels, consonant digraphs, r-controlled vowels, diphthongs, and silent letters for mastery of the flow in word formation, consistency, clarity and speed. Also, various exercises on writing sentences, short passages, and poems induce and encourage the skill of neat handwriting with a smooth flow of words, even word spacing and note-taking.
Finally is the introduction of the Manuscript Style, which is a necessity for children who write in cursive handwriting.
AGE 9+
Product Description:
This book features various exercises focused on word formation, writing phrases and sentences, short passages, and poems. Its primary goal is to enhance the automaticity of handwriting, helping students develop neat, legible, consistent, even, accurate, and speedy writing that adheres to the rules of capitalization and punctuation.
Additionally, it familiarizes students with the conventional use of the Manuscript Style, including tasks such as filling out forms, writing emails, entering website addresses, and labelling diagrams.
AGE 10+
Product Description:
This is the final book in the series and revises all the topics from the previous books with more complex exercises that could lead to neat, legible, consistent, and accurate handwriting at an appropriate speed.
A style of handwriting in which the words are formed by unjointed letters. It is also called Print Style.
AGE 2+ and 3+
Product Description:
- These books are 2 in 1 (stage 1 and stage 2)
- Colourful to make it attractive to kids
- Book covers are laminated to ensure durability even when mishandled by kids
AGE 2+ (Stage 1)
Product Description:
The book comes in 2 stages. Stage one initiates the child’s handwriting skill by providing activities on scribbling, which involves making impressions of no definite pattern or marks on paper. The aim is to introduce pen-hold, develop fine motor skill and hand-eye coordination. Stage two further reinforces the skills learnt on completing stage 1 by providing more complex detailed exercises (such as drawing precise strokes, curves, etc)
AGE 2+ (Stage 2)
Product Description:
The book comes in 2 stages. Stage one initiates the child’s handwriting skill by providing activities on scribbling, which involves making impressions of no definite pattern or marks on paper. The aim is to introduce pen-hold, develop fine motor skill and hand-eye coordination. Stage two further reinforces the skills learnt on completing stage 1 by providing more complex detailed exercises (such as drawing precise strokes, curves, etc)
AGE 3+ (Stage 1)
Product Description:
The book comes in 2 stages. In stage one, children learn drawing strokes and curves (which underline the formation of all letters and numbers) and this integrates into the actual tracing and writing of lowercase letters a – l. Stage 2 continues with lower case letters m – z. The letters are big with pictures of objects whose initial letter sounds are being taught, written and also placed on its side to teach phonics.
AGE 3+ (Stage 2)
Product Description:
The book comes in 2 stages. In stage one, children learn drawing strokes and curves (which underline the formation of all letters and numbers) and this integrates into the actual tracing and writing of lowercase letters a – l. Stage 2 continues with lower case letters m – z. The letters are big with pictures of objects whose initial letter sounds are being taught, written and also placed on its side to teach phonics.
AGE 4+ and 10+
Product Description:
- It comes in one booklet
- Colourful to make it attractive to kids
- Book covers are laminated to ensure durability even when mishandled by kids.
AGE 4+
Product Description:
This book provides extensive exercises for tracing and writing lowercase letters from a to z and introduces uppercase letters from A to Z. It serves as a follow-up to the books for Ages 2+ and 3+, featuring smaller letter sizes. The primary focus is on correct hand orientation during letter formation.
Additionally, the book emphasizes freehand copying of letters. It utilizes three ruled lines as guides to ensure proper letter formation, uniformity, and correct positioning on the lines. The book concludes with writing two to three-letter words and simple sentences, introducing children to letter spacing and word spacing.
AGE 5+
Product Description:
This book is designed to help children master the writing of both lowercase and uppercase letters. It focuses on proper letter formation and positioning on ruled lines, using three lines: top, middle, and bottom.
The main emphasis is on writing short words with correct letter spacing and incorporating phonics reading and spelling exercises for enhanced learning.
The book concludes with activities that involve writing family words, consonant blend words, and using capital letters in simple sentences.
AGE 6+
Product Description:
This series starts with the review of short words formation with consistent letter size and letter spacing using three ruled lines.
The exercises incorporate phonics to enhance reading and spelling in areas of short and long vowels, r- controlled vowels, consonant digraphs and consonant blend words. It also reinforced the use of capital letters and punctuation as essential components of handwriting with exercises on writing and copying of sentences and short essay.
AGE 7+
Product Description:
The book among others through various exercises aims at:
- Mastery of correct word formation with even letter size and spacing, legibility and correct positioning on ruled lines.
- To improve the skill of continuous writing with equal word spacing, and observation of capital letters and punctuation by copying and writing various sentences, essays and poems.
- Finally, is to improve the reading, spelling and vocabulary level through copying of various phonics exercises.
AGE 8+
Product Description:
This book includes a variety of exercises focused on word formation. It features phonics activities covering long and short vowels, consonant digraphs, r-controlled vowels, diphthongs, and silent letters to help students achieve handwriting with automaticity.
Additionally, there are exercises on writing sentences, short passages, and poems that promote neat handwriting, with an emphasis on proper word spacing, capitalization, and punctuation.
Finally, the book also provides activities for labelling diagrams and filling out forms.
AGE 9+
Product Description:
This book offers a variety of exercises aimed at improving word formation, constructing phrases and sentences, and writing short passages and poems. Its main objective is to enhance handwriting automaticity, helping students develop neat, legible, consistent, and accurate writing that is also speedy and follows the rules of capitalization and punctuation.
In addition, the book introduces children to practical tasks such as filling out forms, writing emails, entering website addresses, and labelling diagrams.
AGE 10+
Product Description:
This is the final book in the series and revises all the topics from the previous books with more complex exercises that could lead to neat, legible, consistent, and accurate handwriting at an appropriate speed.
Quantitative Reasoning skill is more than just being able to compute or calculate. It involves the analysis and understanding of quantitative information presented and correctly providing accurate deductions or solutions. It is a life skill useful to children in the classroom, and beyond. It develops the children’s critical thinking ability to help them make more accurate judgments about situations that require the interpretation and evaluation of quantitative information.
Our lives are flooded with numerical data from political polling data to body measurements to distance between locations, etc., which is why quantitative reasoning skill is so keen to ensure complete primary education is attained.
In “Step by Step to Quantitative Reasoning” the exercises are preceded with logical examples that lead to the “why question” in reasoning. This helps kids think through the logic they are to use to solve a problem or come to a conclusion. The books are graded to make the learning process easy. It follows the UBE Curriculum and the exercises are arranged in Terms (1st Term, 2nd Term and 3rd Term) and weeks (week 1 to 11).
It is supported with a complementary book containing stint tests and mock exams to assess their understanding of the topics learnt. At the end of the complementary books are answers to all the questions.
- Available for age: 3yrs+ to 10yrs+.
- Colourful to make it attractive to kids.
- Book covers are laminated to ensure durability even when mishandled by kids.
- It is sold as a pair with the Verbal Reasoning.
AGE 3+
Product Description:
A primary goal of education is to teach children how to handle practical situations involving mathematics. This book supports young learners in grasping arithmetic and logical reasoning concepts early on. It provides a simple analysis of counting, numbers (1-10), shapes, and number sequences.
The book mainly consists of fill-in-the-gap exercises and matching activities designed to enhance children’s problem-solving skills in arithmetic and geometry.
AGE 4+
Product Description:
This book is a follow up to Age 3+. The book adopts a step wise approach (going from basic to complex) in creating analytical lessons and activities on numbers and basic arithmetic making it easier for the child to assimilate and develop logical reasoning.
Here the the child analyses the concept of counting, number formation, shapes and number sequence. Additionally, other concepts such as time, days and months are analyzed.
BOOK 1 - AGE 5+
Product Description:
At this age, children are beginning to understand how theories apply to everyday experiences. They learn to hold information in their minds and use it to make comparisons.
This book is specifically designed to enhance students’ understanding and analysis of numbers, comparisons of quantities, data interpretation, and geometry.
The primary objective is to improve students’ knowledge and skills in the practical applications of counting, identifying, sorting, and ordering of numbers from 1 to 100. It also focuses on analyzing addition and subtraction of numbers less than 50, measuring different quantities such as money (Naira and Kobo), time, length, weight, and volume, while engaging children in problem-solving activities.
BOOK 2 - AGE 6+
Product Description:
This book reviews and expands students’ understanding of numeracy topics previously covered, including counting, skip counting, identifying numbers (1-200), ordering, and positioning. It also develops logical reasoning related to basic arithmetic operations such as addition and subtraction, applying these concepts to multiplication.
Additionally, the book enhances logical reasoning in the analysis of measurement and geometry, covering topics such as time, money, length, capacity, and weight.
BOOK 3 - AGE 7+
Product Description:
The book starts with an analysis of numbers up to 999, including fractional numbers. It covers data analysis involving addition and subtraction, as well as multiplication and division, incorporating the BODMAS rule.
Additionally, problem-solving exercises are included that focus on Roman numerals, prime factors, and multiples. Topics such as mensuration, which includes perimeter, area, capacity, and weight, are also addressed.
The book concludes with a section on data analysis in statistics, featuring pictograms and the mode.
BOOK 4 - AGE 8+
Product Description:
This book offers in-depth, tactical, and well-constructed questions designed to engage children in quantitative reasoning. It addresses larger numbers, including those in the hundreds of thousands, and presents more complex problems that involve basic arithmetic operations, sequencing, geometry, and statistics.
The content includes everyday money problems, matrices, and modular arithmetic for analysis and solution. Additionally, it covers elementary reasoning questions related to geometry, transformations, and mapping.
The book concludes with a section on data analysis in statistics, featuring histograms, pictograms, and modes.
BOOK 5 - AGE 9+
Product Description:
This book serves as a conclusion to the curriculum on quantitative reasoning at the primary level. It offers a review of all previously covered topics along with a few additional topics that were not explored in depth in the earlier series.
The exercises include standard questions that encompass the entire curriculum, as well as additional topics such as matrices, set theory, transformations, mapping, number bases, and bearings.
The book concludes with 35 timed test questions that meet
common entrance standards.
BOOK 6 - AGE 10+
Product Description:
Book 6 is the last of the primary series and it contains past questions papers of National Common Entrance Examination, Command, Navy and Air Force Entrance Examination for the pupils to practice and perfect their skills in quantitative reasoning before such examination.
It contains 24 tests and 3 Mock Examination tests. Each test are 40 multiple choice questions to be taking for 35 minutes to simulate the actual exams to be taken by the pupils.
Verbal Reasoning is the ability to analyze information and solve problems using language-based reasoning. Verbal Reasoning is not totally English Language in that it engages the child in analysing & manipulating words in basic to complex formats.
Early child education is often built around non-verbal reasoning. They are taught speech and language skill but not verbal reasoning skill which gives the child a better understanding and appreciation of the use of words. Which is why our series began at the preschool age 3. With continuous practice comes proficiency and as such this series extends to Age 10 (Book 6) to ensure that the pupils gain utmost proficiency in verbal reasoning skill.
The book follows the UBE Curriculum and the exercises are arranged in terms (1st Term, 2nd Term and 3rd Term) and weeks (week 1 to 11). It is supported with a complementary book containing stint tests and mock exams to assess their understanding of the topics learnt. At the end of the complementary books are answers to all the questions.
- Available for age: 3yrs+ to 10yrs+.
- Colourful to make it attractive to kids.
- Book covers are laminated to ensure durability even when mishandled by kids;
- It is sold as a pair with the Quantitative Reasoning;
AGE 3+
Product Description:
At a young age, children begin to use words to communicate. This book is designed to help children develop and acquire verbal reasoning skills.
Children will learn to identify, order, and write letters from A to Z. It also introduces phonics by focusing on the sounds of the alphabet and the beginning sounds of objects. The book uses fill-in-the-gap and matching questions to enhance learning.
AGE 4+
Product Description:
This book explores the sounds of the alphabet, focusing on the beginning sounds of various objects. It covers the identification of vowels and consonants, which helps children learn to form and read CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words. Additionally, common consonant blend words are introduced.
The book includes puzzles, fill-in-the-gap exercises, and matching questions to enhance the learning experience.
BOOK 1 - AGE 5+
Product Description:
This is the first in the primary class series. It provides tactical exercises on the identification and writing of the alphabets and word formation.
Exercises on alphabetical order, alphanumeric coding, multisyllabic words, confused words, reversed words and compound words are introduced.
The exercises are graded to ensure optimal compression of the topic covered.
BOOK 2 - AGE 6+
Product Description:
This book introduced more tactical exercises on the principles behind word formation.
There are also various exercises on phonics such as consonant blend, consonant digraphs, beginning and ending sounds, short and long vowels, soft and hard letters f and g, and silent letters that improve children spelling and vocabulary.
Irregular singular and plural, adjective, adverb are introduced in tactical exercises on word formation and sentences.
BOOK 3 - AGE 7+
Product Description:
This book is designed to enhance a child’s comprehension and vocabulary. It includes a variety of exercises that focus on different aspects of verbal reasoning, such as tenses, synonyms, antonyms, and the sequence of events.
The book presents challenges to the child’s verbal reasoning skills through word exercises covering topics like word patterns, anagrams, palindromes, homophones, word squares, contradictions, and more.
Additionally, it features practical exercises on grammar elements, including singular and plural forms, capitalization, determiners, verb forms, similes, and more.
BOOK 4 - AGE 8+
Product Description:
This is the fourth book in the primary series. Its purpose is to enhance students’ proficiency in all the verbal reasoning areas covered in books 1 to 3 by offering more extensive and comprehensive exercises.
Additionally, new topics are introduced, including combining sentences, creating idea maps, reading charts, and understanding symbols.
BOOK 5 - AGE 9+
Product Description:
This book reviews all previous series and expands its coverage to include size and scope, the distinction between facts and opinions, pronoun antecedents, and both direct and indirect speech. It concludes with 10 timed tests, each containing 35 questions.
BOOK 6 - AGE 10+
Product Description:
Book 6 is the final instalment in the series designed for primary school education. It primarily features past National Common Entrance Examinations as well as Common Entrance Examinations for Army, Air Force, and Navy schools.
The exercises are carefully designed to closely simulate the exams that students will take. The book includes 16 tests, each consisting of 40 multiple-choice questions to be completed in 35 minutes. Additionally, from pages 75 to 100, there are common interview questions to help prepare students for their upcoming interviews.
One of the most crucial and significant aspects of development for babies is cognitive development. Babies interact with the world through their senses and the assumptions they make must be guided and directed.
For example, a child might notice you (as a parent or teacher) is big while he/she and his/her fellow class mates are small.It is not possible for him/her to capture the meaning of that unless he/she is taught the concept simplistically and continuously. That is why this series “Mathematical Skills” begin from a very early age (2 years) to guide the children’s understanding of mathematics (numbers, shapes and logic).
- Available for age: 18 months+ to 4 years+;
- Colourful to make it attractive to kids;
- Book covers are laminated to ensure durability even when mishandled by kids;
18 Months+
Product Description:
After conceptualizing the permanence of objects and identifying different items, we began our first series with poems about numbers.
Next, we moved on to rote learning of numbers, identifying numbers, finger counting, and object counting.
We also included tracing and colouring activities for numbers. The series concludes with the identification and colouring of basic shapes.
AGE 2+
Product Description:
After conceptualizing the permanence of objects and identifying different items, we begin this series with poems about numbers just as in our first title.
Then, we move to the idea of the same, different and odd one out. After we learn number work via rote learning, identification, tracing and writing, and counting and matching of objects and numbers.
We also have activities on basic shapes and colours. It is concluded with comparison with the concept of big and small, tall and short, heavy and light and positioning – in, on, and under.
AGE 3+
Product Description:
This stage marks a graduation from Age 2+. At this point, children’s understanding of their environment has significantly improved. The curriculum introduces deductive reasoning through images of objects.
Children will rote learn numbers up to 50, while also focusing on identifying and writing numbers up to 20. They will learn to count objects up to 20 and match them to the corresponding numbers. The concepts of tens and units are introduced using cubes and ten frames.
Basic operations of addition and subtraction are covered through concepts like “put together” for addition and “take away” for subtraction.
More advanced activities will include exploring shapes and colours, comparisons, and positional concepts. The learning will conclude with ordinal numbers, sequencing events, and identifying Nigerian currency notes.
AGE 4+
Product Description:
This series reviews numbers from 1 to 50 with poems, identification, tracing, and counting objects. It emphasizes matching numbers and writing them in designated spaces.
Additional activities cover number words, tens and units, ordering numbers, and introducing basic addition and subtraction.
The series also explores shapes, colours, comparisons, ordinal numbers, sequencing, and concepts of time and money, including counting in increments of 2s, 5s, and 10s.
The ability to speak and acquire language is innate but language skill (that is, proficiency in the use of language) is learnt.
Kids from the day they are born perceive the world through their senses (eyes, ears, nose, etc) and construct their own meanings out of it. As you keep providing this exercise to this child in a particular area (such as reading) the child begins to identify that exercise as significant and develops all senses related to that exercise more rapidly.
As such, reading to children from a very early age is very crucial for the development of their listening skill and cannot be over emphasized. That is why we created this series “English Skills” to allow parents and schools enrich the child’s comprehension and communication ability from a very early age.
- Available for age: 12 months+ to 4 years+;
- Colourful to make it attractive to kids;
- Book covers are laminated to ensure durability even when mishandled by kids;
12 Months+
Product Description:
‘Read to Me’ is written in conformity with American Academy of Pediatrics which says: “reading to your child is a must from the day he/she is born”. It contains early activities and words with pictures which the child experiences and sees around him or her. This helps the child make sense of everything they continuously perceive.
The teacher is to read, interpret and demonstrate to the child since they cannot read at this age.
18 Months+
Product Description:
After conceptualizing the permanence of letters and identifying different items, we began our first series with poems about letters. Next, we moved on to rote learning of letters and identifying letters.
We also included tracing and colouring activities for letters.
AGE 2+
Product Description:
This book is designed to support the rapid development of a child’s speech. It helps children enhance their listening skills, observational abilities, and recognition of images and objects. Featuring pictures of commonly seen objects, this book assists with image recognition.
The content is organized around themes such as Communication Arts (picture reading), Phonics (beginning letter sounds), and Writing (tracing the alphabet). Since children at this age cannot read independently, a teacher reads to them, demonstrates concepts, and interprets the material.
AGE 3+
Product Description:
This book goes beyond simple picture identification; it encourages interpretation and making basic deductions from images. Since the child cannot read yet, reading aloud to them helps develop their listening, speaking, and vocabulary skills. It also introduces fundamental reading concepts, such as turning pages and following text from left to right.
The content is organized into themes, including Communication Arts (picture reading), Phonics (beginning letter sounds), and Letter Work (identification and writing).
In summary, this book aims to improve children’s speaking abilities, observational skills, and hand dexterity.
AGE 4+
Product Description:
At this stage, children begin to understand pictures and can form simple descriptive sentences about them. In addition to picture reading, the teacher introduces the reading of consonant-vowel (CV) and consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words and sentences. Children also learn how to trace and write these words.
The concepts of stories, numbers, colours, and shapes are further developed to provide children with a deeper understanding of the world around them. At this age, children’s vocalizations become clearer, leading to the introduction of whole word reading and phonetic reading of short words.
Similar to the 3+ age group, this curriculum is structured around themes such as Communication Arts (picture reading), Phonics (focusing on beginning, middle, and ending sounds, vowel sounds, double vowel sounds, and double consonant sounds), and Letter Work (writing letters and words).
The book is concluded with the introduction to comprehension and grammar.
