This is an essential text for primary trainees and teachers. While the focus in early reading is on systematic synthetic phonics, it is important to see the bigger picture and understand that teaching reading is a continuum that involves more much than the mechanics of reading. The book focuses on a range of issues to develop children who can read into children who do read, including extending reading with proficient readers, engaging disengaged readers, sustaining interest in reading in the transition from primary to secondary, and the importance of oracy in reading. Additionally, there is...

This teacher's handbook offers a page of at-a-glance support for each spread in the 5th edition of 'Nelson Key Geography Connections'. Designed to be flexible and easily integrated, it works alongside the student book to help deliver exciting, relevant and up-to-date lessons that engage all of your students.

This teacher's handbook offers a page of at-a-glance support for each spread in the 5th edition of 'Nelson Key Geography Foundations'. Designed to be flexible and easily integrated, it works alongside the student book to help deliver exciting, relevant and up-to-date lessons that engage all of your students.

This essential text for primary trainees and teachers examines the key skill of writing beyond the earliest school years. Teaching writing involves much more than simply teaching the mechanics of spelling, grammar, and punctuation, important though these are. There are particular issues around writing in school, including the fact that children's writing consistently lags behind their reading in external tests, such as SATs, boys' relative lack of success, and teachers' lack of confidence in modeling writing. The book addresses these topics, as well as focusing on other pertinent practice...

Lesson planning in line with the new Primary National Curriculum

Phonics is taught every day in primary schools across England. It is fully embedded in the National Curriculum and is a huge part of teaching children to read. How do you ensure that you understand both what and how to teach? How do you separate good phonics teaching from the many phonics schemes that are used? What does a good phonics lesson look like? This text provides exemplar lessons in phonics and supports you to teach tricky words, alternative spellings, and pronunciation as well as...

Language and communication are essential in the classroom: essential in children's learning, essential in teachers' communication with children, and essential in children's understanding of themselves and their world.

This book is a guide for trainee and beginning teachers on how to support and develop talk in the classroom. It explores the theory behind the teaching of language and communication skills and includes lots of practical advice on how to translate this into the classroom. It tackles the challenges and issues of managing talk in the classroom setting, and explores the...