Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Teaching - Subjects - Reading & Phonics

A humorous story with simple, repetitive text about two little monsters painting spots, stripes, squares, zigzags and triangles. But what are they painting? Finally the reader discovers that the little monsters have actually been painting the shapes on their sleeping mum

Pink B/ Band 1B books offer emergent readers simple, predictable text with familiar objects and actions.

Text type - A story with predictable structure and patterned language.

Pages 14 and 15 feature the fully painted mum-monster, with smaller pictures of the little monsters to remind children of the shapes...

This collection seeks to fill a gap in folktale literature by offering tales of the Lao. Organized by broad themes and types, it offers more than 50 tales, including creation myths, animal tales, Buddhist Jataka and moral stories, trickster tales, riddles, ghost stories, local legends and more from peoples on both sides of the Mekong River. In addition, the book includes general information about Lao geography, peoples, and history, as well as recipes, games crafts, color photos and line drawings.

The past century has witnessed an ever-accelerating revolution in the ways by which we communicate with each other, and that revolution is far from complete. Understanding how our literacy skills and behaviours are evolving how we make use of old technologies and adapt to new ones and how critical development may be fostered is arguably one of the greatest challenges of the twenty-first century. It is vital to education, to civic participation, to political and commercial judgement, and to many other areas of contemporary life.

One of the principal barriers to gaining a...

Provides a clear and succinct introduction to teaching the language arts to elementary students

Key Features

• Focuses on integrating the six language arts--reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing, and visually representing--with other subject areas
• Provides guidance on differentiating instruction to bring out the best in the rapidly growing number of students with special needs and English language learners in the regular classroom
• Includes a detailed lesson plan in each chapter along with instructional activities and...

Imagine you were a child in Victorian times. What was your day like? What did you wear, eat and play with? Did you go to school, or out to work? Find out what life was like for children in this enthralling non-fiction book.

Diamond/Band 17 books offer more complex, underlying themes to give opportunities for children to understand causes and points of view.

A timeline on pages 54 and 55 help children to recap the main events of the Victorian era.

Text type: A non-chronological report

This book is paired with Moving Out a fiction story set in the past about a family in...

Is the world s climate changing? We all know the theory but here is the evidence, in stunning photographs and information.

Diamond/Band 17 books offer more complex, underlying themes to give opportunities for children to understand causes and points of view.

A weather map on pages 54 and 55 helps children to look at the areas of the world most affected by extreme weather and what is happening where.

Text type: A non-chronological report.

Curriculum links: Geography: Passport to the world.

This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader"

Where can you see rockets blast into space? Which is the driest place on Earth? Which is the world s highest mountain? Find out the answers and many more facts in this amazing book about the planet we live on.

Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.

A world map with all the places mentioned in the text highlighted on pages 54 and 55 helps children to recap the different places they ve learnt about and where they all are in the world.

Text type: An information book.

The book is paired...

"I believe in the power of collaborative classroom communities where everyone's ideas are valued and respected. But had you been in my classroom that day, you'd have never known it. You'd have thought I believed that I was the one with all the answers."

Effective, intentional teaching begins with a strong set of beliefs, but even the best teachers -- including Debbie Miller -- struggle to make sure that their classroom practice consistently reflects their core convictions. In Teaching with Intention, Debbie shares her process of defining beliefs, aligning practice, and...