Literacy for All Young Learners offers 65 strategies to support literacy learning with children from preschool through the third grade. Each strategy is designed to be simple to use with all of the children in your classroom--from the not-yet-readers to the fluent readers--and each strategy is tied to the Common Core State Standards for kindergarten through third grade.
This textbook for pre-service teachers gives pragmatic guidance on the major aspects of literacy teaching, as well as how to draw insight from research and apply it in diverse classrooms.
A detailed, accessible and literacy-focused textbook for those training to teach in primary education using real life classroom scenarios to explore aspects of good teaching practice.
This is the third strand in a brand new series of Developing Literacy, developed to be fully in line with the government's Revised Primary Framework for Literacy. It features completely new content, a fresh up-to-date look both inside and out, and comes with a CD-ROM that contains all of the activity sheets in a customisable format.
Bond is the number one series for 11 plus practice, with over 45 years of experience. Written by expert authors Bond Assessment Papers offer continuous comprehensive support for all 11 plus subjects from ages 5 to 13. Tried and trusted, Bond has helped millions of children achieve 11 plus success.
Provides teaching materials on More Write Dance approach to developing prewriting and writing skills. This work explains the theory and the philosophy, and also provides more music, instructions and illustrations to guide and inform teachers and children on how to move and 'move-draw' to refine and to develop their movements and their drawings.
Making Every English Lesson Count: Six Principles to Support Great Reading and Writing goes in search of answers to the fundamental question that all English teachers must ask: 'What can I do to help my students to become confident and competent readers and writers?'
A fun, interactive activity book based around the popular theme of magic to engage and motivate young learners. This book helps children to practise their grammar skills, reinforcing what has been taught at school. The books combine fun, magical characters and fantastic illustrations with National Curriculum- focused activities
A fun, interactive activity book based around the popular theme of magic to engage and motivate young learners. This book helps children to practise their spelling skills, reinforcing what has been taught at school. The books combine fun, magical characters and fantastic illustrations with National Curriculum- focused activities.
A fun, interactive activity book based around the popular theme of magic to engage and motivate young learners. This book helps children to practise their spelling skills, reinforcing what has been taught at school. The books combine fun, magical characters and fantastic illustrations with National Curriculum- focused activities.
Enchanted English covers essential topics from the National Curriculum and is based around the popular theme of magic. Wizard Whimstaff's blend of fun with curriculum-based activities enchants and educates young learners. Children work towards attaining a Wizard's Trophy of Excellence at the end of the book.
Eerie English covers essential topics from the National Curriculum and is based around the popular theme of magic. Wizard Whimstaff,s blend of fun with curriculum-based activities enchants and educates young learners. Children work towards attaining a Wizard,s Trophy of Excellence at the end of the book.
Quirky monsters illustrate these challenging ten-minute tests in English designed to consolidate Curriculum learning for a school year. Included is a story and stickers which are awarded at the bottom of each spread, to complete a picture at the front of each book.
Offers quick, fun tests that provide further practice in the core skills. Premier Quick Tests cover the essential topics for Key Stage 2 English. Each topic is introduced clearly before fun tests provide ten minutes of practice per topic. After the test is completed there is a colour-in testometer which children can use to record their progress.
Good teachers are always looking for ways to help beginning readers and writers to understand what literacy is, how it works, who uses it, and what it is used for. This work offers useful means of helping children appreciate literacy through pictures, postcards and posters.
Discusses a fresh range of practices like blogging, fanfiction, mobile/wireless communications, and fan practices that remix audio and visual texts. This book looks at how digital technologies and fresh forms of mobile communications have been embraced by young people and integrated into their everyday lives.
A photocopiable activity book, one for each primary school year, which promotes independent work during literacy hour, helping children to achieve the word level learning objectives outlined in the National Literacy Strategy by developing essential skills in reading and spelling. In the DEVELOPING LITERACY series.
A series of seven photocopiable activity books providing practical help for teachers and parents in improving children's literacy skills. Each book focuses on helping children read, write and perform poetry and the series covers the entire range of poems outlined in the Framework for Teaching."
This is the second strand in a brand new series of Developing Literacy, developed to be fully in line with the government's Revised Primary Framework for Literacy. It features completely new content, a fresh up-to-date look both inside and out, and comes with a CD-ROM that contains all of the activity sheets in a customisable format.
This is the second strand in a brand new series of Developing Literacy, developed to be fully in line with the government's Revised Primary Framework for Literacy. It features completely new content, a fresh up-to-date look both inside and out, and comes with a CD-ROM that contains all of the activity sheets in a customisable format.
In Reading for Pleasure, Kenny Pieper has gathered a range of tried-and-tested strategies to get kids reading, and enjoying it. We hear too often that kids don't read any more: Kenny thinks it should be every teacher's mission to prove this isn't true.
Drawing on research exploring new media practices, this book explains and encourages classroom activity that makes purposeful and appropriate use of new media and is underpinned by a set of guiding principles for teaching literacy in contemporary times.
Teaching Primary English is a comprehensive, evidence-informed introduction designed to support and inspire teaching and learning in the primary school. Written in a clear and accessible way, it draws on the very latest research and theory to describe and exemplify a full and rich English curriculum.
Through teaching fabulous lessons teachers can help children to discover stories, create worlds, record events, mould characters and inspire each other as writers. This book provides the guidance and examples to help achieve this.
This book focuses on writing in different aspects of the curriculum and provides guidance, case studies and theoretical perspectives to show readers how they can become writers with and for children. It demonstrates how to write and model writing for children and includes many examples of good classroom practice in this area.
Written by Chris Curtis, How to Teach: English: Novels, non-fiction and their artful navigation is jam-packed with enlivening ideas to help teachers make the subject of English more intellectually challenging for students - and to make it fun too!
Fully updated to reflect changes in teacher education and the curriculum, the fifth edition of Learning to Teach English in the Secondary School explores the background to debates about teaching the subject, alongside tasks, teaching ideas and further reading to expand upon issues and ideas raised in the book.
Martin Griffin and Jon Mayhew's Storycraft: How to teach narrative writing is an inspiring and practical resource to support secondary school teachers in developing their students' creative writing.
Now in a fully updated third edition, Descriptosaurus is the first book for creative writing that is a thematic expansion of a dictionary and a thesaurus; it provides children with a comprehensive resource with which to expand their descriptive vocabulary and experiment with language.
This is an essential guide to teaching primary English, with a focus on systematic synthetic phonics. The new edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect the structure, content and requirements of the national curriculum, and to include the latest policy context.
In Closing the Reading Gap, Alex Quigley explores the intriguing history and science of reading, synthesising the debates and presenting a wealth of usable evidence into how children develop most efficiently as successful readers.