Parents can play an immensely important role in supporting their children's literacy learning at home, but how can primary teachers enlist the support of parents in helping children learn literacy?

With a focus on improving children's literacy skills, this book provides practical answers to key questions that are directly relevant to all primary teachers and to many parents. It presents new ways of linking learning in home and school through a range of activities that can be used to share knowledge between children, parents and teachers. Activities include:

• teachers...

Relates the stories of ten boys who lived at vastly different times and places in history, giving the reader an excellent introduction to the important epochs in the world's history. Through these imaginary characters the book gives vivid pictures of the conditions of life at different periods of the world's development, and fosters an appreciation of all history stories which may afterward be read. Beginning with Kablu, the Aryan boy, we move forward in time and westward in space, encountering along the way: Darius, the Persian boy; Cleon, the Greek boy; Horatius, the Roman Boy; Wulf, the...

Improving Primary Mathematics provides primary teachers with practical ideas about how to bring these two worlds closer to improve children s mathematics learning.

Using a number of fascinating case studies focusing on children s experiences of mathematics both inside and outside the classroom, the book asks:

• How do children use mathematics in their everyday lives?
• How can teachers use this knowledge to improve children s learning in school?
• What activities can teachers use with parents to help...

Mother Nature unfolds some of her most precious secrets. She tells about amber, about the dragon-fly and its wonderful history, about water-lilies, how the Indian corn grows, what odd doings the Frost Giants engage in, about coral, and starfish, and coal mines, and many other things in which children take delight.

Here is Jane Andrews' most sought-after classical tail for children: The Seven Little Sisters Who Live on a Round Ball That Floats in the Air, the most popular of the Massachusetts schoolteacher's books for children, which teach geography, history, and natural history through stories, depicting the earth and its multicultural aspect of its inhabitants in not only an educational, but also a captivating way. The book appeals to the young reader's wonder and curiosity. As a result, it educates, entertains, develops and increases the reading interest in children.

Engaging introduction to the peoples of the world through the stories of the seven little sisters: the little brown baby; Agoonack, the Eskimo sister; Gemila, the child of the desert; Jeannette, the Swiss maiden; Pen-se the Chinese girl; Manenko, the little dark girl; and Louise, the child of the Rhine.

Sequel to "The Seven Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball That Floats in the Air," which is an engaging introduction to the peoples of the world through the stories of the seven little sisters: the little brown baby; Agoonack, the Eskimo sister; Gemila, the child of the desert; Jeannette, the Swiss maiden; Pen-se the Chinese girl; Manenko, the little dark girl; and Louise, the child of the Rhine. In this volume the stories of the seven little sisters are continued, with more detail about how they live in their vastly different environments and how they are connected to their sisters around the...

Jane Andrews would tell her stories to children before she published them. Her stories changed and improved with each telling. Finally she took pen to paper and wrote them down. Before publication she read her stories to a group of friends in the library of an old New England home. After their enthusiastic approval she sent her stories to a publisher. Stories in this collection include The story of the amber beads, The new life, The talk of the trees that stand in the village street, How the Indian corn grows, Water-lilies, The carrying trade, Sea-life, What the frost giants did to Nannie's...

Do you know Mother Nature? She it is to whom God has given the care of the earth, and all that grows in or upon it, just as he has given to your mother the care of her family of boys and girls. You may think that Mother Nature, like the famous "old woman who lived in the shoe," has so many children that she doesn't know what to do. But you will know better when you become acquainted with her, and learn how strong she is, and how active; how she can really be in fifty places at once, taking care of a sick tree, or a baby flower just born; and, at the same time, building underground palaces,...