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Nelson Literacy Directions Level 9: Explorers’ Tour of the Middle Ages
$14.90Tired of the same old family holidays to the beach or to the mountains? Why not join us as we form a tour group that’s going to travel back through time – and experience the sights, smells and customs of the Middle Ages? It’ll be a holiday you’ll never forget – and you’ll have plenty of interesting traveller’s tales to tell your friends when you get home!
ISBN: 9780170183963
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Young Adult Literature: Exploration, Evaluation and Appreciation (2nd Edition)
$111.90This innovative text includes the most current readings that will help teachers provide a rich educational experience for adolescents throughout the middle and secondary curriculum–while nourishing their love of reading. This is not an encyclopedic reference book of the past–but rather a cutting edge resource for teachers who want to connect with their techno-savvy 21st century students and in turn connect them to the literature of today. Using themes of exploration and connecting to literature–the authors emphasize actual reading of books, rather than reading about them. The authors also encourage using the Internet to expand our knowledge and interest of literature. Finally, the text contains the most current materials that will get adolescents reading–horror, humor, mystery, science fiction, fantasy, graphic novels and comic books.
ISBN: 978-0137145324
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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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Nelson Literacy Directions Level 12: Why Kids Love Opera
$14.90Opera is a combination of drama, action, beautiful costumes, colourful settings, great characters and enthralling singing. This title finds out why so many kids love to be part of the opera experience, and looks at all the hard work that goes into producing a spectacle to keep the audience talking long after the final curtain drops!
ISBN: 9780170184090
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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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Nelson Literacy Directions Level 9: A Wearable Art Show
$14.90Sometimes, fashion designers have ideas that are so unusual, colourful and fantastic that their clothes look more like pieces of art than something you’d wear down the street. In this book, we describe the activities, inspiration and fabulous creations that young and old fashioned designers from all over the world enter into a special “wearable art” competition.
ISBN: 9780170184076
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Nelson Literacy Directions Level 10: Read That Label
$14.90When we’re in the supermarket, we often buy products that we like the look of, or that we have used before. But how often do we actually know what’s in those products? If we take a closer look at the labels that every product has, we can start to understand what’s really in our favourite foods, and we can start to make better decisions about what we really want to eat.
ISBN: 9780170184083
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Nelson Literacy Directions Level 6: Follow That Leader
$14.90What makes a good leader in the home, the classroom or the country? Many leaders share similar ways of helping people achieve great results – and if you think you’ve got the right stuff to be a leader, this book will help you on your way.
ISBN: 9780170183932
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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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Nelson Literacy Directions Level 8: Go to the Extreme
$14.90We share our planets with some amazing forms of life that love to live in places we would find too dangerous to visit. In this title, we describe some unusual creatures that make their homes in boiling underwater chemical seeps, deep ocean trenches where the sunlight never reaches, and rocks deep beneath Earth’s crust. We also discover an organism that can survive deadly radiation that would kill every other living thing.
ISBN: 9780170183956
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