Mary Briggs: 29 books

Play is an essential part of learning and development for children and is an increasingly important aspect of creative approaches to teaching and learning in primary education. This book demonstrates the value of play in all its different forms as a highly effective medium for teaching and learning...

This core text for primary trainee teachers is a clear introduction to the different kinds of assessment and their purposes. Throughout the book, tasks encourage the reader to practise assessment skills and to reflect on planning, listening, questioning, observing, diagnosing and target-setting. This...

This up to date book is essential reading for all those teaching or training to teach Early Years mathematics. It provides comprehensive subject and pedagogic knowledge for those responsible for the youngest children in school and their vital first experiences of learning mathematics. Appropriately...

The essential teaching theory and practice text for primary mathematics. Covering the key skills of planning, monitoring and assessment and class management, it relates these specifically to primary mathematics. The 5th edition of this popular text includes new features making specific links to Every...

An extensive knowledge of the primary Mathematics curriculum is not enough for trainee teachers, they need to know how to teach Maths in the primary classroom. This is the essential teaching theory and practice text for primary Mathematics that takes a focused look at the practical aspects...

The essential teaching theory and practice text for primary mathematics. Covering the skills of planning, monitoring and assessment and class management, it relates these specifically to primary mathematics. With full coverage of the theory and practice required for effective and creative mathematics...

This stimulating text shows how primary mathematics can be creative, exciting and enjoyable. Offering teachers a dynamic and different perspective, it enables them to see and teach in creative ways that will develop their pupil’s mathematical thinking potential. Creative Teaching: Mathematics...

This book provides early years teacher educators with critical guidance to explore the enduring philosophies and principles of early years’ pedagogy and to creatively interpret and communicate these to those they are training to be teachers and professionals. It is framed by a principle of continued...

If Hannah doesn't get out of Henson, Missouri fairly soon, she will find herself married to the local banker. A man that sends shudders down her spine at the very sight of him. So, when she reads Inez Pollard's advertisement for The Mail Order Bride Express, she promptly applies and is accepted. On...

Searching for a new life, Charlotte travels west to become the mail order bride of a successful businessman whom she is sure God has planned for her. When her stagecoach is robbed by a gang of outlaws, however, it isn't her money that the thieves are after but herself—and her fiancé! Now...

Luke Bradley isn’t a cowboy…but he plays one on the big screen. So when he gets stuck in a flooded canyon, it’s not easy being heroic without a script. Enter Delaney, who ropes Luke from the river. With her uncle missing and cattle thieves on the loose, Delaney needs some rescuing herself. Can...

A forgotten romance haunts Fairlight’s historic opera house…and a new one struggles to grow amidst its renovation. Interior designer Kate doesn’t expect to find love among the musty corridors of Drummond Hall. But she’s drawn to handsome architect, Paul Lucas. Can he open his heart, or will past mistakes keep their love buried like the secrets of the opera house?

Widowed with a small son, Jenny Timmons heads west on The Mail Order Bride Express. But her hopes for a new life are soon crushed when tragedy strikes again. All but giving up on happiness, she makes plans to head back east to live with her sister and teach school. Until Wes Cooper walks into her...

When Annie finds the pretty abandoned infant in Silver Ridge, it is love at first sight. And when the local pastor asks for her hand in marriage, all seems to be going smoothly. But when her intended is accused of all ready being married--to a local saloon girl--everything is up in the air! Despite...