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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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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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Reading and Writing to Learn: Strategies across the Curriculum by Katherine Wiesolek Kuta (Author)
$53.90Research indicates that writing and reading should be taught in tandem. This content-area resource puts writing to learn into practice across curricular areas. It shows teachers how to present strategies common to good readers to increase understanding of a text. Students are taught to predict and infer, visualize, connect, question, understand word meanings, organize, clarify/monitor, and evaluate/reflect. Grades 3-12
Good writers use writing to learn, to actively work and think about content areas and achieve ownership. In fact, research indicates that writing and reading should be taught in tandem. This content-area resource puts that research into practice across curricular areas. It shows teachers how to present strategies common to good readers to increase understanding of a text. Students are taught to predict and infer, visualize, connect, question, understand word meanings, organize, clarify/monitor, and evaluate/reflect.
The text is divided into 5 sections: Affective Teaching/Learning Strategies; Before Reading and Writing Strategies; During Reading and Writing Ideas; After Reading and Writing Strategies; and Planning a Lesson to Teach Incorporating Reading and Writing Strategies. Each activity/strategy offers an explanation page on how to use the idea for both teachers and students. A reproducible is available for immediate use. Grades 3-12.
ISBN: 978-1591585855
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13 Ways of Looking at Student Teaching: A Guide for First-Time English Teachers 1st Edition
$54.90The book is a collection of real-life letters to veteran teacher Mike Rychlik along with his responses.
ISBN: 978-0325005515
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Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners (Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers)
$56.00This book contains a selection of short activities organized around six themes which reflect the content covered in young learner English exams and the curriculum in most primary mainstream classrooms: Animals, Journeys, Fantasy and adventure, The world around us, Healthy bodies, and About me. Activities are organized by topic and by level to make it easy to find appropriate activities for students. They encourage meaningful language use and real communication appropriate to primary learners. Each activity also contains guidance and information on preparation, procedure, language focus, skills focus and thinking focus. Activities can be used flexibly in any order at any point in a teaching programme. In addition, the design of the activities allows teachers to adapt and apply the ideas to other themes. This book is suitable for both novice and experienced teachers who need a resource of enjoyable and motivating activities for the young learner classroom.
ISBN: 978-0521691345
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High-Impact Teaching Strategies for the ‘XYZ’ Era of Education
$56.50In today’s classrooms, the teacher/student divide isn’t just generational – it is digital. Exposure to digital technology from birth hard-wires the human brain to learn differently. For 21st Century learners, traditional ‘chalk and talk’ instruction belongs to a bygone era. Instead, these students need interactive teaching strategies. This book offers 26 proven, interactive strategies to help teachers improve academic results, student engagement and classroom behavior. Importantly, while replicating many features of the digital environment, none of the strategies rely on technology. They require little or no extra budget and reduce wasted effort on the part of the teacher by actively involving students in the learning process. Ignite student learning and enhance your instruction!
ISBN: 978-0137144266
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Planning Lessons and Courses: Designing Sequences of Work for the Language Classroom (Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers)
$60.80This book deals with the kinds of everyday questions working teachers face as they plan lessons and courses. Each chapter contains an analysis of the issue under discussion, as well as practical principles and sample activities.
ISBN: 978-0521633543
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Assessing Young Language Learners (Cambridge Language Assessment)
$64.00In this book the author builds a comprehensive framework for the assessment of young language learners in both foreign language and second language learning situations. She begins by considering why we need a special book on young learner assessment, and describes the nature of young learner language learning. The assessment approach is task-based and is centred around tasks and techniques suitable for young learners, with particular emphasis on classroom assessment. Oral language assessment, and reading and writing assessment are addressed in separate chapters, as is the large-scale testing of young learners. Underpinned by sound theory, the book is full of practical guidelines, and draws on examples of assessment contexts, issues and practices from around the world.
ISBN: 978-0521601238
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Collins Primary Focus: Spelling Teacher’s Guide 1 w/CD
$64.90Collins Primary Focus: Spelling Teacher’s Guide 1 aligns each unit to learning objectives and assessment focuses. Each set of teaching notes follows a four-stage method: revisit-explain-use, teach-model-define, practice-explore-investigate, apply-assess-reflect. Diction exercises and support and extension activity sheets are also provided.
• Comprehensive teaching notes and activity sheets provided for every unit
• Matching charts for UK and International curricula
• Photocopiable class and individual record sheets to assist with assessment
• Explains and presents differentiation opportunitiesISBN: 9780007426614
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Collins Primary Focus: Spelling Teacher’s Guide 2 w/CD
$64.90Collins Primary Focus: Spelling is a five-level programme designed to raise standards in literacy through the teaching of spelling. Each unit focuses on a clearly explained spelling rule, with visual cues to support learning, and activities for practising, consolidating and investigating the concept. Practical teaching ideas integrate reading, writing, speaking and listening activities to encourage a focus on spelling across all areas of literacy.
ISBN: 9780007426621
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Collins Primary Focus: Spelling Teacher’s Guide 4 w/CD
$64.90Collins Primary Focus: Spelling is a five-level programme designed to raise standards in literacy through the teaching of spelling. Each unit focuses on a clearly expalined spelling rule, with visual cues to support learning, and activities for practising, consolidating and investigating the concept. Practical teaching ideas integrate reading, writing, speaking and listening activities to encourage a focus on spelling across all areas of literacy.
ISBN: 9780007426645
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Collins Primary Focus: Spelling Introductory Teacher’s Guide w/CD
$64.90Collins Primary Focus: Spelling is a five-level programme designed to raise standards in literacy through the teaching of spelling. Each unit focuses on a clearly explained spelling rule, with visual cues to support learning, and activities for practising, consolidating and investigating the concept. Practical teaching ideas integrate raeading, writing, speaking and listening activities to encourage a focus on spelling across all areas of literacy.
ISBN: 9780007426607
