Back to School Book Lists 2019 - Our Recommended Book List
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We’re here to help you make the transition back to school fun and stress free, giving your child the best start possible. Our recommended book list for 2019 has everything you need to get started!
Being organised can be difficult, as any parent knows, from packing lunches in the morning with brain food for active little minds to ensuring everyone has their homework, supplies and textbooks packed and ready.
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Getting ready, scheduling and having a back to school checklist ensures you save time and stay focused. Our extensive 2019 Recommended Back to School Booklist can help you cross items off your checklist and ensures your child gets the best head start this year.
Back to School Book List For Kindergarten/Prep
- Excel Early Skills - Add and Take Away to 20 Once your child has learned to count and recognise numbers to 20, and has learned to add and take away to 10, they can then learn to focus on adding and subtracting with totals of up to 20.
- Excel Early Skills - Multiply and Divide Once your child has learned to add and subtract numbers, the next step is to understand basic multiplication and division.
- Excel Early Skills - Learning Numbers to 99 Learning Numbers to 99 focuses on introducing your child to the numbers 10–99.
- Excel Early Skills - Learning the Alphabet Learning the Alphabet teaches your child to recognise all the letters in the alphabet, and breaks it down into three sections.
- Excel Early Skills - Beginning, Ending and Vowel Sounds In English Books 3, 4 and 5 in this series, children learn about the beginning sounds, ending sounds and vowel sounds of words in detail. Excel English Early Skills: Beginning, Ending and Vowel Sound consolidates and revises your childs knowledge in these areas.
- Excel Early Skills - Reading for Comprehension Your child will learn to read and understand simple sentences.
- PLUS, this pack includes a FREE pencil set!
- PACK RRP: $55.40
- BACK TO SCHOOL SPECIAL: $39.75 for the entire Kindergarten/Prep pack!
Back to School Book List For Year 1
- Excel Basic Skills - Spelling, Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation Years 1 - 2 The aim of this book is to teach your child the essential English skills.
- Excel Basic Skills - Mathematics Year 1 The aim of this book is to build basic skills in Mathematics.
- Excel Basic Skills - Reading and Comprehension Years 1-2 After completing Excel Basic Skills: Reading and Comprehension Years 1–2 your child will have improved their reading and comprehension skills, and will be prepared for more advanced work at primary school level.
- Targeting Maths Dictionary Written with the young reader in mind, this dictionary provides clear and simple definitions.
- PLUS, this pack includes a FREE pencil set!
- PACK RRP: $63.50
- BACK TO SCHOOL SPECIAL: $43.85 for the entire Year 1 pack!
Back to School Book List For Year 2
- Excel Basic Skills Mathematics Year 2 The aim of this book is to build basic skills in Mathematics.
- Excel Basic Skills-Basic Reading Skills Years 1-2 The aim of this book is to help primary-aged children with reading and comprehension using short pieces of writing.
- Excel Basic Skills - Times Tables Years 2-3 This title provides a solid and comprehensive approach for your child to learn their times tables. Multiplication is one of the basic skills in Mathematics that all children need to know.
- Excel Handbooks - Pascal Basic Primary Spelling Years 1-4 This book shows students how to master the basic letter/sound relationships that are the foundation of good spelling.
- PLUS, this pack includes a FREE pencil set!
- PACK RRP: $64.50
- BACK TO SCHOOL SPECIAL: $43.85 for the entire Year 2 pack!
Back to School Book List For Year 3
- Excel Basic Skills - English and Mathematics Year 3 Aims to build basic skills in reading, comprehension and maths for Year 3 students, in line with Australian Curriculum outcomes.
- Excel Basic Skills - Writing Skills Years 3-4 Provides activities and exercises designed to improve the quality of students written expression.
- Excel Basic Skills - Multiplication and Division Years 3-4 Designed to make students feel confident in the basic processes of multiplication and division of whole numbers. It will help to satisfy the needs of slow learners, and provide enrichment opportunity for quicker learners.
- Excel Handbooks - Basic Primary Grammar Years 3-6 Knowledge of grammar helps students improve their written and spoken language and become better communicators.
- PLUS, this pack includes a FREE pencil set!
- PACK RRP: $63.50
- BACK TO SCHOOL SPECIAL: $42.85 for the entire Year 3 pack!
Back to School Book List For Year 4
- Excel Basic Skills English and Mathematics Year 4 This book supports schoolwork by having students practise key basic skills on a regular basis. This allows your child to learn new concepts while revising program work.
- Excel Basic Skills - Addition and Subtraction Years 3-4 Designed to help make students feel confident in the basic processes of addition and subtractions of whole numbers.
- Excel Basic Skills - Writing Skills Years 3-4 Provides activities and exercises designed to improve the quality of students written expression.
- Excel Handbooks - Primary Spelling Years 3-6 Will increase students vocabulary development and associated word skills
- PLUS, this pack includes a FREE pencil set!
- PACK RRP: $65.50
- BACK TO SCHOOL SPECIAL: $42.85 for the entire Year 4 pack!
Back to School Book List For Year 5
- Excel Basic Skills - English and Mathematics Year 5 This book aims to build basic skills in reading, comprehension and maths.
- Excel Basic Skills - Multiplication and Division Year 5 Designed to make students feel confident in the basic processes of multiplication and division of whole numbers.
- Excel Basic Skills - Spelling and Vocabulary Years 5-6 Essential for students who wish to improve their language skills.
- Excel Writer's Handbook Years 5-8 Helps your child develop essential writing skills through explanations, examples and structured activities.
- PLUS, this pack includes a FREE pencil set!
- PACK RRP: $66.50
- BACK TO SCHOOL SPECIAL: $42.85 for the entire Year 5 pack!
Back to School Book List For Year 6
- Excel Basic Skills - English and Mathematics Year 6 This book supports schoolwork by having students practise key basic skills on a regular basis. This allows your child to learn new concepts while revising program work.
- Excel Basic Skills - Build Your Vocabulary Skills Year 5-6 Covers subjects such as place names, geography, weather, occupations, useful verbs and adjectives.
- Excel Basic Skills - Problem Solving Year 5-6 This title shows students, step by step, how to apply basic skills of Mathematics and logic to solve problems.
- Excel Basic Skills Creative Holiday Learning Year 6 Contains lots of interesting and enjoyable educational activities for children to do in their spare time.
- PLUS, this pack includes a FREE pencil set!
- PACK RRP: $66.50
- BACK TO SCHOOL SPECIAL: $42.85 for the entire Year 6 pack!
Back to School Book List For Year 7
- Excel Revise in a Month Year 7 NAPLAN*-style Tests Helps students prepare for the Year 7 NAPLAN Numeracy Tests.
- Excel Essential Skills Essay Writing Step-by-Step Years 7-10 Learn essay-writing skills for junior high school using this easy, five-step process.
- Excel Essential Skills Problem Solving Workbook Children learn the skills required to excel in both the problem solving and reasoning proficiency.
Back to School Book List For Year 8
- Excel SmartStudy English Consolidates students’ understanding of Year 8 English in accordance with the Australian Curriculum outcomes.
- Excel Essential Skills Grammar and Punctuation Workbook improves students’ writing by teaching essential grammar and punctuation rules.
- Excel Essential Skills Mathematics Revision and Exam Workbook Year 8 This book has been specifically written to help students revise their work and succeed in all their class tests, half-yearly and yearly exams.
Back to School Book List For Year 9
- Excel Year 9 Mathematics Practice Tests Provides students with extensive test and exam practice at all levels in Year 9, in the topics they cover in class.
- Excel Essential Skills Calculator Workbook Years 8-9 It features questions that will test students’ numerical, algebraic, spatial, graphical and statistical concepts and skills.
- Excel Essential Skills Problem Solving Workbook Year 9 The book aims to give Year 9 Mathematics students a step-by-step process for both the Problem Solving and Reasoning
- Excel Year 9 NAPLAN*-style Literacy Tests Revise for the Year 9 NAPLAN Tests!
Back to School Book List For Year 10
- Excel SmartStudy Advanced Mathematics Year 10 This book outlines the six steps to test and exam success!
- Excel Essential Skills English Workbook Gives students practical help with writing tasks in Year 10 and later years at school.
Back to School Book List For Year 11
- Excel Preliminary Study Guides BRAND NEW titles, updated for the new Year 11 Syllabus! This range is designed to develop essential skills in a variety of Preliminary subjects.
Back to School Book List For Year 12
- Excel Study Guides Designed to help students achieve the best possible HSC results.
- Excel Success One Series Titles within this series combine actual past HSC papers with clear and concise worked answers.
*This is not an officially endorsed publication of the NAPLAN program and is produced by Pascal Press independently of Australian governments.
Offer ends 1 May 2019.