Back to School: Top 10 Resources for 5-7 year olds

Posted on 26 August 2015

Get the new school year off to a flying start with these top resources for 5 to 7 year olds. Help your children master school essentials, like handwriting, adding and subtracting, and reading and comprehension with fun, colourful resources. With so many games, stickers and activities, getting ready for school has never been easier.

Best for mastering school essentials

Disney: Frozen Learning Workbooks Pack

Help your children master school essentials in a sparkly winter kingdom with princesses as their best friends. These learning workbooks each have 50 stickers, charming colour pictures, a cut-out game and special ‘Let’s Read’ story sections.

Disney: Star Wars Workbooks

Learning plus lightsabers. Little Star Wars fans will love learning with these workbooks. From counting battle droids and adding up Tatooine coins to reading starship manuals and knowing what rhymes with wookie, these books are full of handy and fun activities that build essential skills.

School Stars: Handwriting

The new School Stars learning helpers are packed with amazing extras to give your child the edge in class. Help your child perfect their handwriting with this book. Full of lovely bright stickers and wipe-clean activities, this book makes practising handwriting easy. Wipe away mistakes and have fun trying again!

School Stars: Telling the Time

What time is it? With the help of this workbook, your child will soon be answering that question in seconds. They’ll learn about units of time, and find out how to read clocks of many kinds. These colourful time puzzles and wipe-clean pages make it really easy to practise again and again.

School Stars: Times Tables

How do you multiply numbers? Are there any tricks you can use? How will you remember all the tables? Luckily, these colourful games and activities make it really easy for kids to learn about times tables. And just like the rest of the books in the series, the wipe-clean pages mean they can have fun making mistakes and trying again!

Best for storytelling and poetry

Scholastic Poetry Pack

Now even better-looking and with new bits! Twist your tongue around these funny and creative rhymes to see how many laughs you can whip up. Our daft poems will make you chuckle very loudly. Rap or rhyme them, mime them out or tackle fiendish tongue-twisters. Heaps of rib-tickling rhymes, and they’re perfect for National Poetry Day on October 8th.

The Usborne Write Your Own Story Book

Get your child writing about all their favourite things with this toolkit – whether that’s pirates, dragons, tea parties or big explosions! The first half of the book tells has lots of tips and tutorials on how to write, while the second half has themes and ideas to fill your child’s head with inspiration.

Best for beginner solo readers – and for history!

Usborne Beginners: The Stone Age

Cave homes. Woolly mammoths. Was the Stone Age a fun time to live? Find out. With simple first facts about the Stone Age, this book is perfect for beginner solo readers to explore ancient history in a simple way. Packed with colour pictures, photos of Stone Age artefacts and fascinating facts about – you guessed it – all sorts of stones: sharp stones, blunt stones, flat stones, bumpy stones, and what they were used for.

Usborne Beginners: The Iron Age

The Iron Age was long ago, but it left amazing clues… Ever wondered how people lived in a world without modern tools and machines? How did they grow food, or defend themselves from attack? Well, during the Iron Age the answer was obvious: iron! And some other things too of course, but the discovery of iron made life a lot easier for people back then. Read this simple book to find out how. Plus: find out where you can find Iron Age relics near you!

The bookshelf essential

Oxford Reading Tree Dictionary

This expert-made dictionary has more than 300 handy words for children to learn and remember. See what words mean with Biff, Chip and Kipper. A fun picture for every single word. Read them, spell them out and learn exactly what they mean. All with colour pictures and easy examples to make them really clear. Plus special sections for colours, numbers, weekdays, months and more. In a word: essential.