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Parents as Partners in Education: Families and Schools Working Together (7th Edition)
$138.50Parents as Partners in Education: Families and Schools Working Together, seventh edition, uniquely provides comprehensive coverage of the history of parenting and parent/school collaboration, current issues and immigration trends affecting American schools and communities, diverse family structures and ethnic groups, and many techniques that teaching professionals can use to engage family members of all children more completely as partners in education. Chapters on working with families of children with special needs and on child abuse are other remarkable aspects of this text.
ISBN: 978-0132286701
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Unlocking the Poet in Every Child; Strategies, activities and resources for teaching poetry
Original price was: $59.90.$29.95Current price is: $29.95.This unique book contains poetry teaching strategies, differentiated poetry actitvities and a coherent poetry anthology – all organised as one coherent resource. This is the definitive book for teaching and supporting poetry in the classroom. The value of poetry to children is enormously undervalued. It provides a huge variety of models for writing, as well as providing opportunities to consider grammar and punctuation in action, and to widen vocabulary. It supports many other aspects of literacy by making links with other curriculum areas, exploring points of view and justifying opinions. For students still insecure ith reading, poetry offers repetition and memorability. It is a great loss to children that poetry is not used more extensively in supporting literacy. The book is in three parts: Part One discusses strategies for teaching poetry – covering reading, listening and performing, writing and poetry assessment. Part Two contains over 60 poetry activity ideas, clearly differentiated, each with accompanying poetry texts (written by the author) to support the activity. Part Three comprises an anthology of poems, organised by type of poem rather than by subject, to support poetry in the classroom. This is a must have book to support the teaching of poetry and a great accompaniment to Unlocking the Reader in Every Child.
ISBN: 978-1841679693
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Unlocking the Writer in Every Child: The Book of Practical Ideas for Teaching Writing
Original price was: $59.90.$29.95Current price is: $29.95.The essential companion to the successful Unlocking the Reader, this new book focuses on the often neglected area of writing. It follows the same format as its predecessor, offering explanation, tips and guidance, alongside practical activities to engage and support writing. It provides a basic, quick to read guide to teaching and supporting writing of all kinds, drawing on best practice over the years. Covering everything from fiction to poetry, news articles to diaries, blogs and even epitaphs, this book is rich in creative writing ideas.Individual chapters focus on writing fiction, poetry and drama, writing for practical purposes (including persuasive writing) and writing in the digital world. A specific chapter also addresses special needs issues in writing. But this book is not just a guide. It’s a toolkit too. Each section contains practical activities, games and ‘try this’ ideas to help develp writing skills and overcome obstacles. It tackles age-old topics in new ways. As with reading, learning to write needs support and continual practice at all ages, and this book offers activity ideas for children learning to write, from beginners right up to post-16 years. There are games and activities to: develop motor skills and improve coordination develop handwriting support writing using computers, smartphones and tablets stimulate writing for different purposes meet individual needs (including children with specific learning difficulties). Specific chapters cover author visits to schools and publishing children’s work. A dedicated section also addresses digital writing opportunities, including using blogs, mobile devices and social networking sites such as Twitter.A final chapter covers the basics of orthography, providing a quick reference to the correct use of English. Every page offers some fresh perspectives to try – either at home or in the classroom. This is the ideal book for teachers to develop children’s writing skills.
ISBN: 978-1841679716
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Unlocking the Reader in Every Child: The Book of Practical Ideas for Teaching
Original price was: $59.90.$29.95Current price is: $29.95.This book helps parents and teachers unlock the reader in every child. It provides a basic, quick-to-read guide to teaching reading, drawing on best practice over the years and avoiding ‘here today, gone tomorrow’ fashions. But it is not just a guide. It is a toolkit too. Each section includes practical activities, games and ‘try this’ ideas to help develop reading skills and overcome obstacles. Every page offers some fresh perspectives to try – either at home or in the classroom- all with a practical focus. There are games and activities to: build phonological awareness turning decoders into real readers help strugglers overcome resistance to reading harness visual literacy and children’s passions meet individual needs (including children with specific learning difficulties) and achieve literacy outcomes without even teaching literacy. Published in mid-2010 and fast becoming a classic, Unlocking the Reader in Every Child has received five-star ratings from teachers. Published by Ransom Publishing for reluctant and struggling readers.
ISBN: 978-1841679709
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Challenging Behavior in Young Children: Understanding, Preventing and Responding Effectively (4th Edition)
$92.00A new edition of the acclaimed, best-selling survival guide for teachers struggling to find answers to children’s challenging behavior.
Stressing that every child has some kind of special need, especially children with challenging behavior, this book contains numerous practical, indispensable tips for responding to those needs, building relationships with children and their families, and preventing challenging behavior. It provides teachers with background information that enables them to understand why children behave the way they do and presents several evidence-based strategies to address their challenging behavior effectively so that teachers can select those best suited to the child and the situation. Useful to education students as well as in-service teachers in pre-school, child care, and primary school, the book emphasizes the importance of the teacher’s role in the behavior of children and encourages students and educators to reflect on their own values, feelings, and actions. In addition to up-to-date research on culture, dual-language learning, resilience, and inclusion, this new edition focuses on what stress can do to children’s brains, executive function, and behavior.
ISBN: 978-0133802665
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Elementary Intermediate Timesaver: Pronunciation Activities
$35.90A photocopiable resource for busy teachers
* This essential resource is full of fun pronunciation activities aiming to improve student’s fluency and confidence and to equip them with the skills they need to understand and be understood in the world today.
* The activities are divided into five sections: Pronunciation Puzzles, Fun with Phonetics, Speak Out, Listen In and Linking and Accents. The levels and timings for each activity are indicated.
* The fun and motivating activities are directly relevant to teenagers with an emphasis on practical usage.
* An A1 colour poster of the phonemic chart is included along with exploitation execises.
* The detailed introduction provides useful suggestions on how to use the material and two CDs or casseyyes accompany the book.
ISBN: 9781904720140
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Junior English Timesaver: Songs & Rhymes with CD
$29.90A photocopiable resource for busy teachers
* This resource book contains a comprehensive collection of twenty well-known songs and rhymes in English aimed at young learners at Beginner level. Each song adn rhyme is accompanied by a photocopiable worksheet with warm-up and comprehension-based activities.
* Songs and rhymes range from the traditional such as If You’re Happy and You Know It to contemporary classics such as The Beatles’ Hello, Goodbye. Each is carefully selected based on its low-level language and humorous appeal for the target ages.
* Step-by-step teacher’s notes accompany each activity with useful ideas for extension work.
* Lively recordings of all the songs and rhymes come on the accompanying CD – perfect as a model for a class sing-along!
ISBN: 9781900702669
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Elementary Timesaver: Grammar Activities
$32.90A photocopiable resource for busy teachers
* This 96-page resource contains over 80 lively and motivating grammar activities for immediate use in the classroom. All the main grammar points of an elementary English language syllabus are covered.
* Activities include crosswords, personality tets, quizzes, wordsearches and games. There is a mixture of group work, pair work and individual tasks.
* Ideal for consolidating and recycling recently acquired structures.
* Flexible usage – can be used in class and as self-study or homework.
ISBN: 9781900702553
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Belair On Display: Hands on Geography Ages 5-11
$44.40Hands on Geography provides a wealth of ideas for helping children to explore the world around them. The art and display activities are organised into fourteen geographical themes that aim to build knowledge of people, places, environments and natural phenomena:
* Local Area * Mountains * Island Home
* India * Coastlines * Seaside
* Japan * Village Settlers * Around School
* Africa * Weather * Rivers
* Mexico * WaterEach theme begins with a visual starting point and is developed through a number of linked activities that encourage children to express their geographical learning through art.
ISBN: 9780007439478
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Belair On Display: Hands on French Ages 7-11
$44.40Hands on French provides a creative, cross-curricular approach to teaching French through games, activities and display. The teaching ideas focus on developing children’s confidence in expressing themselves in a foreign language. Vocabulary, conversation models and simple grammar are covered in thirty-three themes that can be tailored to different levels and learners. The themes are organised into six chapters:
* Myself
* At School
* At Home
* Celebrations and Festivals
* Holidays
* The TownISBN: 9780007439362
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Hands on Literacy (Belair On Display)
$44.40This book provides activities to bring literacy lessons to life with interactive displays. Each theme is packed with ideas for creative games and artwork that develop children’s imaginative and practical skills whilst furthering their development in phonics, vowels and consonants, grammar, sentences and writing, and rhyme and rhythm.
ISBN: 978-0007439379
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Belair On Display: Art Inspired by Music Ages 5-11
$44.40Art Inspired by Music provides a practical guide to exploring the special relationship between music and art. Using music as a starting point to inspire a visual response, the activities encourage the use of many different materials and artistic techniques to produce beautiful two- and three- dimensional artwork. Seventeen activity-packed chapters include:
* Early Music * Music from Literature
* Music for Festivals * Music and Dance
* Music with a Message * Music and the Elements
* Music and Seasons * Music and Trasportation
* Music and Space * Music Inspiring Artists
* Music and Artists * Music and the Sea
* Music and Animals * World Music
* Musical Instruments * Music and Food
* Music and OperaISBN: 9780007439515
