INTRODUCING EXPLODING POTATOES

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INTRODUCINGEXPLODING POTATOES!

• Written and produced
• by
• Jon Gleeson and Ed Purcell

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What is Exploding Potatoes?

• A multi sensory resource
• An educational package for all students from 4 to
  11 years old
• An exciting new teaching method for improving
  literacy in schools all over the world
• A fun way for children to develop their literacy,
  communication and social skills through play.
• A new way of exploring spellings, phonic
  relationships in words and basic grammar.

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Multi Sensory?

• Exploding Potatoes challenges every student
  simultaneously in different ways and on many
  levels
• Its visual high frequency words are displayed
  in lower and UPPER case depending on their age
• Song sheets show the letters and words in context
• Pictures support all of the key words
• Its auditory students hear and sing the
  spellings
• Its physical students can combine movement
  with letter sounds (word-robics)

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The Exploding Potatoes Package

• A set of 5 books The Alphabet Song
• Get Going
• Crazy Goat
• Exploding Potatoes
• Back To Basics
• An audio CD with all songs and backing tracks
• A set of display resources with high frequency
  words, pictures and song sheets.

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The T I D Y Up Song
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An Exciting Way to Improve Literacy

• This a new resource. Its taken two years to
  research and produce and its still expanding.
• It offers every child a chance to develop their
  language and literacy skills through songs and
  games.
• It is a teachers resource that provides support
  for students at home and in extra-curricular
  groups.

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What will ExplodingPotatoes bring?

• Affordable success for schools
• Confidence for students
• Motivation for teachers
• Fun for ALL