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`This is a rare find, a book that manages to turn educational theory into accessible practice. It will appeal to teachers, managers, support staff and anyone interested in how we learn...This is a book relevant to everyone involved in education as it gets right to the...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2007-10-09
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Includes CD-Rom Why are visual approaches to literacy important? Children's experience of texts is no longer limited to words on printed pages - their reading and writing worlds are formed in multimodal ways, combining different modes of communication, including...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2007-09-26
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Covering the key principles and concepts in the teaching and learning of mathematics in primary schools, this text provides trainee and practising teachers with a quick and easy reference to what they need to know for their course, and in the classroom. The entries are...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2007-09-17
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Times Educational Supplement Star Read!
'This is an authoritative yet lively and eminently readable book. It is well grounded in both the latest academic theory and experienced hands-on pedagogic practice, and it summarises succinctly the implications...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2007-08-21
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'The aim of this book is to support schools in using the internet effectively. Refreshingly, it has a strong pedagogical focus and emphasises the value of technology to support learning...Overall a useful book that should help schools in thinking about how the internet...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2007-06-19
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Sam - a young and enthusiastic trainee teacher - asked the class, 'What is the difference between 7 and 6?'. Jo's hand shot up and he immediately responded, 'Well seven is all straight lines and sixes are all curly.'
How can you help children to make progress in...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2007-06-19
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'Intriguing and timely...I whole heartedly recommend this text to teacher educators and their trainees, certainly across English and the Arts, but arguably to all engaged in considering critical pedagogy across the curriculum' - ESCalate
`This is a...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2007-05-22
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Why is it that so many pupils are put off by maths, seeing it as uninspiring and irrelevant, and that so many choose to drop it as soon as they can? Why is it socially acceptable to be bad at maths? Does the maths curriculum really prepare pupils for life?
This...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2007-05-21
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'The author puts into perspective the importance of teaching thinking and learning skills providing clear explanations and easy to follow activities that can be used as a series of lessons, or simply as a one off. As a resource for the...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2007-04-30
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'This book is special. It proposes a style of drama that liberates teachers and children from traditional dialogues...The dramas, each linked to a literacy text or wider theme, are amazing...I would recommend buying this. It challenges, but rewards with a new level of...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2007-04-18
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For many teachers, gender issues related to role models, image and expectations have an effect upon the behaviour and achievement of both boys and girls, often to their disadvantage.
This innovative and practical resource, for teachers of students aged 14-19provides:...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2007-03-27
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`Too afraid to have a go at oral storytelling in the classroom? This is the book for you!...The book guides you through choosing a tale you really enjoy, knowing your audience and not being afraid to adapt a tried and tested fairy tale' - Literacy Time `This book is...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2007-03-27
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For many teachers, gender issues related to role models, image and expectations have an effect upon the behaviour and achievement of both boys and girls, often to their disadvantage.
This innovative and practical resource, for teachers of students...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2007-03-18
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`The book is at once accessible, evidence-based, practical and eminently readable...Readers will find in this book a treasury of learners' voices guiding us towards the goal of more effective learning in classrooms' - International Network for School Improvement
`This...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2007-03-12
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Numeracy is a core subject in schools, and this book will provide those supporting children in this subject area with tried and tested strategies for working with students, as well as the tools to improve their own subject knowledge.
Advice is given on how to:...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2007-01-24
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'What is cooperative learning? Why should teachers use it in the classroom? What are the benefits? In eight accessible chapters, Wendy Jolliffe, lecturer in primary education at Hull University, outlines the theory and practice of cooperative learning and shows how the...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2007-01-17
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'The book fulfils its purpose admirably...[It] should be required reading for all Primary and Secondary headteachers - they lead the policy making in schools' - Journal of the Writing Equipment Society `This excellent new text from the handwriting...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2006-10-16
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'Nick Pratt's book looks in detail at the real meaning of teaching mathematics interactively in primary schools. Each section is set clearly within a context, is linked by 'key ideas' – the important bits to think about – and is summarised to give a succinct close to...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2006-10-12
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This practical guide considers the research evidence that is needed to inform enlightened practice, and offers concrete suggestions and teaching approaches for early years settings and classrooms.This comprehensive book shows the 'what' the 'how' and the 'why' of...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2006-10-02
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Phonics: Practice, Research and Policy unravels the controversy surrounding phonics which currently characterises much of the discussion about reading standards and teaching reading. Bringing some much-needed balance to the debate - the book offers genuinely focused...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2006-09-12
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