Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Language Experience Approach

• Mystery at the Mall,
• The Coaster Caper,
• The Case of Santa's Blackmail,
• The Case of the Missing Tiara, and
• A...

These excellent, ready to use Basic Skills resources will save tutors hours of planning and preparation. You simply select the session you want to deliver, photocopy the handouts needed, and off you go.

The pack contains:

* Session outlines and a list of resources needed

* Ready to use resources

* Ready to copy handouts

* Ready to use Basic Skills ILPs

* Sample schemes of work

* Lesson plan to fill in to your specific requirements

* Tips throughout each session on speaking and listening opportunities.

This book builds on the guidance given by the Primary Strategy for Literacy. By 'filling in the gaps' that the planning documentation leaves, the book provides teachers with the structures and ideas to plan creatively and effectively for their children whilst following and enhancing the recommendations of the strategy. It includes:

• clear and practical ways to plan units of work that embrace reading, writing, speaking and listening, in exciting and active ways
• examples of effective practice using children's work that highlight the effects of creative planning
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These creative off-the-shelf activities will spark children's thinking skills through speaking, listening, reading and writing. Busy teachers wanting to shake up their lessons will find them indispensable. Includes:

• problem-solving: creative and critical thinking; emotional thinking; questioning skills and plan-do-review formats
• clear explanation of underpinning theory
• advice on differentiating activities
• links to the National Literacy Strategy Framework.

Making Words Stick shows you how to move beyond spelling lists and rote memorization to make words both meaningful and memorable for all your students. It builds on the connection between vocabulary and comprehension and guides teachers in their most important task-- building a strong literacy foundation.

Full of efficient, effective, and engaging strategies, this useful guide explores innovative ways to organize vocabulary instruction in the grade 1 to 8 classroom. It demonstrates how to:

• create a positive, student-centered environment for the concept-based,...

One young child in every four is overweight and one in ten is obese, some of the reasons for this are:

• a general lack of interest and understanding of food and cooking
• junk food being consumed every day
• a more sedentary school life.

As a key issue that needs to be tackled early, starting with the under fives, this book offers:

• advice and recipe ideas for feeding young children properly
• ways to improve young children s understanding of food and nutrition
• contemporary evidence and policies recommended by...

These creative off-the-shelf activities will spark children's thinking skills through speaking, listening, reading and writing. Busy teachers wanting to shake up their lessons will find them indispensable. Includes:

• problem-solving; creative and critical thinking; emotional thinking; questioning skills and plan-do-review formats
• clear explanation of underpinning theory
• advice on differentiating activities
• links to the National Literacy Strategy Framework.

These simple play-based activities are ideal for teachers to copy and give out to parents who want to know how to help their child improve his or her science language skills and have fun at the same time. Activities are linked directly to the school-based Language Development Circle Time sessions, but can also be used independently. There is a clear structure and progression of ideas, with supporting black-line drawings to acts as prompts and simple record - keeping system to support home/school communication.

Presenting a powerful and stimulating approach to writing, "Location Writing" allows children to escape the confines of the classroom and develop written responses to their environment. The book features: activities covering prose, poetry, non-fiction and faction; examples of written work by both children and professional writers; detailed lesson plans and ideas; advice on establishing writers' trails; cross-curricular links; and lists of resources and suggestions for location writing around the UK.