For 4-11 year olds. The Nelson English is a child-focused teaching programme that aims to raise standard in pupils' understanding and use the written word, encouraging children to become confident and fluent writers. - specifically designed to offer a core programme which supports the teaching of Curriculum 2000 and NLS - the clear structure and flexibility with Nelson English offers you the freedom to deliver the scheme in a way that suits you - reading and writing skills are developed in conjunction, encouraging your pupils to read like a writer - provides parallel Fiction and Non-fiction strands containing thematically linked units - The Beginning Fiction Skills and the Beginning Non-fiction Skills books focus on fiction texts, such as stories, plays and poems. The companion books, Beginning Non-Fiction Skills, look at non-fiction texts, for example, instructions, dictionaries, labels and information texts.