Provides a wide range of opinions on a specific social issue. Offers a variety of perspectives-eyewitness accounts, governmental views, scientific analysis, newspaper and magazine accounts, and many more-to illuminate the issue. Extensive bibliographies and annotated lists of relevant organizations point to sources for further research.
Stimulating and accessible, the titles in the LIVEWIRE series have been produced in association with The Basic Skills Agency to ensure a non-patronising approach towards the requirements of readers with special needs. They provide teenagers/adult interest level fiction and non-fiction for those with reading ages below 10, or adult students learning English as a second language. Each book is graded at one of the following reading ages: 6-7, 7-8, 8-9 or 9-10. All LIVEWIRE books are written by qual...
The author, an autistic teenager, explains how other autistic children can make friends, fit in, and deal with such issues as popularity, peer pressure, and bullying.
DBT Workbook for Teens (Mental Health Therapy, #2)
by Barrett Huang
Livewire Teacher's Resource Reading (Livewire S.)
by Ros Lamb, Peter Fraser, Peter Leigh, and Eileen Kenning
The LIVEWIRE series is aimed at struggling teenage and adult readers with reading ages of between 6 and 10 years old. The reading books have been developed by Hodder & Stoughton in association with The Basic Skills Agency to provide the very best fiction and non-fiction for struggling readers. The teacher's resources to accompany the LIVEWIRE series consist of worksheets that are divided into four sets, according to the reading age they provide work on (6-7, 7-8, 8-9 and 9-10 years). These teach...
This title forms part of the history series which has been checked and revised by a remedial specialist to meet the needs of less able pupils. Presentation, language and activities have all been structured both to satisfy National Curriculum requirements, and to be accessible to those students for whom the majority of NC materials are dense and intimidating. Steve Buxton is also the author of "The Invaders" and "Medieval Times", both part of the "Action History" series, and co-author of "Castles...
It is thought that 8-10 per cent of people have dyslexia, and it can have a devastating effect on their everyday life. This book looks at what causes dyslexia, how it is diagnosed, and how it affects reading, writing, spelling and other areas, such as maths, music and organizational skills. Throughout, people with dyslexia share their experiences of overcoming the problems they have had.
Britain 1750-1900 (Discovering the Past)
by Colin Shephard, Tim Lomas, and Ann Moore
Drug Therapy and Obsessive-compulsive Disorder (Psychiatric Disorders: Drugs & Psychology for the Mind & Body)
by Shirley Brinkerhoff
Drug Therapy and Impulse Control Disorders (Psychiatric Disorders S.) (Psychiatric Disorders: Drugs & Psychology for the Mind & Body)
by Autumn Libal