In this exciting book, education professionals will tune in to how 4- to 8-year-olds think and learn--and get sound research-based information and developmentally appropriate teaching practices in four crucial areas: Literacy--including promoting enthusiasm for reading, developing phonological awareness, and improving reading comprehensionMathematics--including creating data displays, looking for patterns, drawing on everyday experiences, and working math into classroom conversationsMulticultura...
Creative Learning for Inclusion (Creative Teaching/Creative Schools)
Introducing creativity to the classroom is a concern for teachers, governments and future employers around the world, and there has been a drive to make experiences at school more exciting, relevant, challenging and dynamic for all young people, ensuring they leave education able to contribute to the global creative economy. Creative Learning to Meet Special Needs shows teachers how to use creativity in the curriculum for key stages 2 and 3 to support the learning of pupils with special educati...
"Schoolhouse Politics" tells the story of an experiment in curriculum design that was developed in the 1960s and called "Man: A Course of Study" (MACOS). In an attempt to teach anthropology to ten-year-olds, Jerome Bruner and his colleagues designed an elementary school course that combined fieldwork on the social behaviour of baboons, a film-based enthnographic study of an Eskimo tribe, and "hands-on" classroom materials. MACOS was hailed as an original and exciting way to promote science liter...
Key Concepts in Teaching Primary Mathematics (Key Concepts (Sage))
by Dr Derek Haylock
Year 3 (5 Minute Maths Mastery)
Level: KS2Subject: Maths This maths mastery practice resource book is aligned to the national curriculum for Year 3. It is packed with intelligent practice aligned to a mastery approach to maths, and will help pupils build fluency, speed and accuracy. Written by maths mastery experts, this photocopiable resource saves time with ready-to-practise questions that comprehensively cover the number curriculum for Year 3. With a focus on increasing speed and accuracy throu...
How often do your primary school pupils have the opportunity to engage in open-ended, sustained pieces of work that offer them choice and control? Do you find that the curriculum restricts openings to provide your pupils with real challenge? Is your school grappling with finding effective ways in which to elicit authentic pupil voice? Children as Researchers in Primary Schools is an innovative and unique resource for practitioners supporting children to become 'real world' researchers in the...
Tap Tap (Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds)
by Jan Burchett and Sara Vogler
Build your child's reading confidence at home with fully decodable phonics books matched to Letters and Sounds. Make instruments with tins, pans and pins in this non-fiction instruction book. Make instruments with tins, pans and pins in this non-fiction instruction book. Pink A/Band 1A offers emergent readers very simple, highly predictable texts and provides direct support through illustrations. The focus sounds in this book are: /s/ /a/ /t/ /p/ /i/ /n/...
Comprehension Power Readers with the Fish Grade 1 Six Pack 2004c (Comprehension Power Readers)
Fonolibros, Stage 2, Book 4, Cuando Seamos Grandes, 6 Pack (Fonolibros)
Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right level What's it really like to go on safari? What do you take? What will you find? Go on a journey with Jonathan and Angela Scott to the famous game parks of Kenya, and discover the excitement, the wonder and the dangers of travelling into the wild. Emerald/Band 15 books provide a widening range of genres including science fiction and biography, prompting more ways to respond to texts.Text type: A non-chron...
Grammar and Punctuation (Collins Primary Focus) (Focus on Grammar and Punctuation)
by Louis Fidge
Collins Primary Focus: Grammar and Punctuation Pupil Book 4 is aimed at ages 10+. Presented in a clear and colourful format, each grammar concept is supported by visual cues. Follow-up activities allow children to develop grammar and punctuation skills at different levels. Progress units provide opportunities for assessment and consolidation. Concepts reappear in each level to build confidence, reinforce learning and add complexityDemonstrates clear links between grammar and punctuatio...
