EARLY LEARNING YEARS
​(Context is based on primary school sg curriculum)
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HERE ARE LINKS TO VARIOUS SUBJECT PAGES

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Mainstream Primary Education

Book resources needs to cater to certain learning style and comfort level of the individual. You can gain some insight based on some parents who had used them. 

Do take note on visual processing issues that needs careful selection or manual adjustment, of text layouts in books, colors that over stimulate, or overwhelming load of visuals or information in one single page. There are also books that are more systemic, and structured, and is usually preferred by educators and parents as well as individuals using them.
Resources Used during Primary School - Note that it is always best to have support to teach and guide. Will provide descriptions base on experience.

Most resources can be obtained from local bookstores as well as online services like amazon or book depository.

ENGLISH

Visual story concept driven style is mostly preferred, as it provides easy to grasp abstract concepts, based on the pictures described. Alot of individuals may have language learning difficulties, so it is better to have a step-by-step and systematic approach. The books at the bottom area tackles more for learning difficulty foundation buildling.
GRAMMER SMART - Scholastic
This is a highly visual storytelling way, of explaining in context with comic strips, the use of grammer. 
SCORE IN SYNTHESIS & TRANSFORMATION - EPH
This book is more for language levels that read a good amount of vocabulary and it needs guidance due to technicalities of the language. Good for advanced learners. It is also very structured and topic based.
THINKING WRITERS' HANDBOOK - EPH
This book is a great start for all expressive writing, very structured, very clear and pictures for support. Also available for borrow from NLB. Great for parents guide.
MASTERING COMPREHENSION/ CLOZE/ EDITING & PUNCTUATION SERIES - EPH
This series is more for expansion of langauge, advanced skills. It has a wide variety of stories, general knowledge, and there is alot of guided explanation systematically broken down, that can help guide u on key concepts. Also available for borrowing from NLB.
CREATIVE COMPOSITION TOOLBOX
- GLOBAL PUBLISHERS
For advanced learners, once gotten the hang of all the thematic compo available, can start reading this to engage with less repetitive style and experience expressive language further.
​Available in NLB.
FUN WITH GRAMMER/ VOCAB SERIES - EPH
Visually engaging comic strips to teach concepts.
How to Score Cloze Passage SERIES - CASCO
Simpler to begin with, and sequential guide to attempting cloze.
Presented in a set of cartoons with captions or dialogue to help learners use the idioms correctly in different contexts.

Other in Action series:
  • Idioms in Action
  • Grammar in Action
  • Animal Idioms in Action
  • Spoken Words in Action
  • Phrasal Verbs in Action
  • Conversation in Action
  • Confusing words in Action

MANDARIN

Basic Chinese 500 - SageBooks HK
Recommended to try for chinese dyslexics.
Pictorial association, very structured and systematic approach.

SCIENCE

It would be useful to have really beautiful pictures to showcase the world. To engage and make learners curious, as well as provide better idea of the topics. Also for workbooks, it is better to have guided answers that are very detailed as that is the approach usually taken here.
BEGINNING SCIENCE - Marshall Cavendish
Very simple headstart for Science age 5 onwards. Picture and classifications. Look at similar books from author.
SCIENCE BOOSTER - Marshall Cavendish
Awesome visuals and layouts, engaging students to be curious. Value Addition to Ultimate Science Guide as it contains other information not the usual. For all 4 years with Volume A & B.
ULTIMATE SCIENCE - EPH
It can be quite wordy, but this is packed full of all or most of the information u need for the entire primary school science syllabus. Very structured, very detailed as well.
NAIL THOSE MCQs! - SAP
An essential need for all MCQ practises.
It has so much support questions and answer alongside with full explanations. Lower and Upper Block available.
SCIENCE Frequently Asked Questions - EPH
Focuses on commonly-tested examination questions, multiple worked examples with answers and explanations provided immediately after each question. 

SUPPLEMENT WITH ONLINE ANIMATED GRAPHIC RESOURCES - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

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MATHEMATICS

For learners with dyscalculia, it is not advisable to follow most of the assessment books and school books, Rather use them as a guide of topic approach, devise concrete manipulatives to supplement the topics. You can find math strategies at the top of the page! (LINK TO MATH)
THINKING MATH -Conquer Problem Sums - ONSPONGE
For really advanced learners, this series focus more on heuristics and high-level math, many topics and very structured and systematic approach. For learners with dyscalculia, you have to provide more visual context to it.

MANIPULATIVES

Fraction Tower® Cubes: Equivalency Set - Learning Resources
This set has all 4 concepts : ​Illustrating the relationship between fractions, decimals and percents is a snap. YOUTUBE
Plastic Base Ten Class Set - Learning Resources
​Easy to visualize 2 key concept - eg.10 ones in 10, 10 tens in a 100, Its very concrete to build and put together.
Magnetic Pizza Fraction Demonstration Set - Learning Resources
For tough visualizers, seeing how it relates to life helps to link more to the concept of - parts of a whole. Very important concept to teach. 

OTHERS