Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Teaching - Subjects - Language Arts

Who sets language policy today? Who made whom the grammar doctor? Lacking the equivalent of l'Academie francaise, we English speakers must find our own way looking for guidance or vindication in source after source. McGuffey's Readers introduced nineteenth-century students to -correct- English. Strunk and White's Elements of Style and William Safire's column, -On Language, - provide help on diction and syntax to contemporary writers and speakers. Sister Miriam Joseph's book, The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric, invites the reader into a deeper...

'This book is written in a straightforward, unfussy style directly addressed to the busy classroom. The activities have obviously been tried successfully in real lessons, and the involvement and enjoyment of the children as a result is quite clear.'
-Geoff Dean
School Improvement Advisor

Milton Keynes Local Education Authority

Packed with ideas and activities, this book is a lively, practical guide to encouraging young children to develop their verbal reasoning skills and communicate more effectively.

Activities include:
- setting up a talk...

'This book is written in a straightforward, unfussy style directly addressed to the busy classroom. The activities have obviously been tried successfully in real lessons, and the involvement and enjoyment of the children as a result is quite clear.'
-Geoff Dean
School Improvement Advisor

Milton Keynes Local Education Authority

Packed with ideas and activities, this book is a lively, practical guide to encouraging young children to develop their verbal reasoning skills and communicate more effectively.

Activities include:
- setting up a talk...

Many examples are given that could prompt practitioners to identify ways in which they too could focus their own input with children or help their parent group to interact with their children's developing...

Lesson plans linked to national standards help students develop lifelong writing skills and confidence as writers while preparing them for standardized writing tests.

Lesson plans linked to national standards help students develop lifelong writing skills and confidence as writers while preparing them for standardized writing tests.

Join Randi Stone as she visits the classrooms of award-winning teachers to observe their tried-and-tested best practices for teaching writing to diverse elementary, middle, and high school learners.

Linked to companion volumes for teaching mathematics and science, and presenting insightful methods for building student comprehension and confidence, this book: Models techniques for improving achievement in literacy, vocabulary, student writing, and language artsDemonstrates turning a classroom into a reading and...

This innovative new book aims to help teachers and SENCOs to work alongside pupils to help them address their own difficulties. The book has three parts:

Part one explores the various issues which underpin any discussion of handwriting: letterforms; the pros and cons of handwriting models; how to help children write at speed; writing posture; pens and pen hold; left-handedness; talking to parents; and some of the common causes of...