Today’s Groupon offers Dorling Kindersley’s Learning Ladder curriculum-based learning software in choice of levels for £4.99

The Specifics

• Dorling Kindersley’s powerful curriculum-based learning system
• Stimulating activities
• A huge variety of fun exercises
• Screens that monitor progress

Learning Ladder Pre-school

• From 3 to 5 years old
• Listening and reading: the alphabet, phonics and simple spelling, making words, reading simple words, building vocabulary, handwriting
• Numbers and shapes: counting, matching amounts, reading numbers, understanding shape, understanding size, building shape patterns, memory development
• Where? When? What?: time - clocks and calendars, ordering events, comparing past and present, position, direction and movement, sorting objects, nature and living things

Learning Ladder Years 1 and 2

• From 5 to 7 years old
• Reading and writing: alphabetical order, phonics and spelling, words lists, writing words, building sentences, word usage, reading texts
• Numbers and shapes: reading and writing numbers, ordering numbers, place value, adding and subtracting, multiplying and dividing, simple co-ordinates, recognising shapes, building shape patterns
• The World Around You: time - clocks and calendars, ordering events, position, direction and movement, maps, sorting objects, nature and living things

Learning Ladder Year 3

• Ages from 7 to 8 years old
• Reading and writing: alphabet order, phonics and spelling, writing words, writing sentences, vocabulary development, basic grammar, reading different texts
• Numbers and shapes: reading and writing numbers, ordering numbers, place value, adding and subtracting, multiplying and dividing, shapes and their properties, patterns and symmetry
• The World Around You: time - clocks and calendars, ordering events, position, direction and movement, maps, science, sorting objects, nature and living things

Learning Ladder Year 4

• From 8 to 9 years old
• Literacy: punctuation, improving spelling, building vocabulary, making sentences, understanding grammar, reading comprehension, alphabetical order
• Numeracy: comparing numbers, fractions and decimals, negative numbers, adding and subtracting, multiplying and dividing, solving problems, the properties of shapes and space
• Science: life, forces, the Earth in Space, light, sound and heat, materials

Learning Ladder Year 5

• From 9 to 10 years old
• Literacy: punctuation, spelling, sentence construction, vocabulary and audience, understanding grammar, writing for different purposes, improving your writing
• Numeracy: fractions and decimals, percentages, mental calculation, area, volume and perimeter, the properties of shapes, co-ordinates
• Science: life, forces, the Earth in Space, light, sound and heat, materials

Learning Ladder Year 6

• From 10 to 11 years old
• Literacy: punctuation, improving spelling, note making, vocabulary and audience, understanding grammar, reading comprehension, word origins
• Numeracy: fractions and decimals, understanding ratio calculation, factors, time and measurement, solving problems, shapes, space and symmetry
• Science: life, forces, the Earth in Space, light, sound and heat, materials