Elementary category: 2214 books
by Ann Roberts, Avril Harpley
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
For babies, learning is about exploring and finding things out for themselves.
Helping Children to be Competent Learners covers:
making connections
being imaginative
being creative
representing.
This handy little series of books links directly to the Government’s Birth to...
Autism in the Early Years
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Anyone meeting a young child with autism for the first time will find this fully revised edition of a classic text invaluable. The authors provide parents and professionals with an insight into the nature and educational implications of autism, particularly in very young children.
In a clear...
by Nick Easingwood, John Williams
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Throughout this book, the authors emphasize that primary science is at its best as a practical, hands-on experience for children. When ICT is used in an integral way, it can enable practical work to be done at a more sophisticated level, helping children to make sense of their findings. The book includes...
Teaching Computing Unplugged in Primary Schools
Exploring primary computing through practical activities away from the computer
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Teaching primary computing without computers?
The Computing curriculum is a challenge for primary school teachers. The realities of primary school resources mean limited access to computer hardware. But computing is about more than computers. Important aspects of** the fundamental principles...
Children at Their Best
Understanding and Using the Five Elements to Develop Children's Full Potential for Parents, Teachers, and Therapists
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Understanding child development through the prism of the Five Elements adds an exciting new dimension to western thinking on the nurture of children. It can not only explain patterns of behaviour in a new and helpful way, but suggest approaches and methods to help children, and groups of children,...
by Anita Loughrey
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Using stories to teach ICT is a new, excellent series of four books that will make the teaching of ICT a more exciting and creative cross-curricular experience.The aim of the series is for ICT to be presented in a format that shows how information technology is used in our everyday lives and demonstrates...
by Deborah A. Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Are you ready to go on a HUNT? I hope so! These hunts are a lot of fun, and they are educational. By spending fifteen to twenty minutes, you and your students will be able to do the following:
Learn about animals, including their descriptions, habitats, predators, diets, and babies. Learn interesting...
by Eileen Jones
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
This is an essential resource for the non-specialist who needs extra guidance and accessible material. The book will meet the pressing needs of non-specialist KS2 teachers, who are new to teaching French, with an accessible and manageable format. It will work on oracy and literacy skills making the...
by Ted Wragg
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
How does classroom observation support your professional development?How can you observe as effectively as possible?Highly regarded as one of the most widely used and authoritative texts on this topic, An Introduction to Classroom Observation is an essential text for anyone serious about becoming a good teacher or researcher in education.Now part o
by Steve Bowkett
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Using Comic Art to Improve Speaking, Reading and Writing uses children’s interest in pictures, comics and graphic novels as a way of developing their creative writing abilities, reading skills and oracy. The book’s underpinning strategy is the use of comic art images as a visual analogue to help...
Engaging in Mathematics in the Classroom
Symbols and experiences
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
What comes first, class management or student engagement? How can the ‘real world’ be used to engage learners? What is the role of technology in engaging students? And is ‘understanding’ or ‘exam success’ more engaging?
In the modern world, success in school mathematics can determine...
Early Childhood and Compulsory Education
Reconceptualising the relationship
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
What should be the relationship between early childhood and compulsory education? What can they learn from one another and by working together?
The rapid expansion of early childhood education and care means that most children in affluent countries now have several years at pre-school before...
The Brothers and Sisters Learn to Write
Popular Literacies in Childhood and School Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Building on her groundbreaking work in Writing Superheroes, Anne Dyson traces the influence of a wide-ranging set of “textual toys” from children’s lives—church and hip–hop songs, rap music, movies, TV, traditional jump-rope rhymes, the words of professional sports announcers and radio deejays—upon...
Deployment
Strategies for Working with Kids in Military Families
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
Author is an internationally-known, hands-on trainer and presenter in the field 2. Comprehensive handbook suitable for virtually anyone who has contact with children from military families