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Professional Books and Videos from Kingscourt/McGraw-Hill

Show Them How to Write

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This book focuses on the importance of modelling, writing skills and behaviours to ensure children become lifelong writers for information and pleasure. The book contains several copy masters to monitor progress and has chapters on: sharing ideas; drafting and proof-reading; sharing and publishing work; evaluating and recording; creating a positive writing environment.

 

Dancing with the Pen

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This widely-acclaimed book aims to give teachers a fuller understanding of the writing process and to help them create a learning environment in which children will feel confident in developing their writing skills.

Organising for a Literacy Hour

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This book is designed to help teachers “get on top of the organisation and maximise teaching time” as recommended by the National Literacy Strategy (NLS). Ideas in the book include: training your pupils to follow common rules for class, group and individual work; what outcome to expect from each child and what they should do next; how to minimise interruptions when you are working with groups.

 

 

Reading for Life; The Learner as a Reader

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This book builds on the context of “Reading in Junior Classes” and extends it into the Upper Primary School. It describes a range of teaching and learning approaches, including reading for meaning, the exploration of language and the use of phonics. It provides many practical examples, to help teachers plan appropriate programmes for their classes.

Developing Literacy in the Early Stages - Video pack 60 minutes

Comprehensive written Guidelines and a booklet of staff development activities for staff working at the pre-school and infant stages of primary school.
Recent research has shown that indicators of success in literacy include; phonological awareness, alphabetical knowledge, regular shared stories and early experience of writing.

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Professional Books from Open University Press

Making Formative Assessment Work Effective Practice in the Primary Classroom
Kathy Hall and Winifred Burke

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Drawing on case studies from primary classrooms, this book describes and analyses how teachers use formative assessment in the primary school to promote pupils’ learning.

 

Enhancing Primary Mathematics Teaching
Ian Thompson (ed)

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Explores the effect that the National Numeracy Strategy and the Primary Strategy have had on the way in which mathematics is taught in primary schools.

Reorganizing Primary Classroom Learning
Nigel Hastings and Karen Chantrey Wood

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Looks at new ways of arranging classrooms to improve learning, illustrated through case studies of teachers who take a flexible and strategic approach to the organization of learning.

Special Educational Needs in the Primary School: A Practical Guide
Jean Gross

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Covers the revised SEN Code of Practice and new directions in inclusion. It describes workable strategies for managing the most common behaviour difficulties and meeting special needs in language, literacy and mathematics.

 

Supporting Inclusion in the Early Years
Caroline A. Jones

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This accessible text provides guidance on the inclusion of young children with special educational needs or disabilities in a variety of early education settings.

Supporting Information and Communications Technology in the Early Years
John Siraj-Blatchford and David Whitebread

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A practical book for students, parents, carers, teachers, and other professionals who want to use technology to provide a rich early learning environment.

Software / Interactive and Primary Mathematics
Jenni Way and Toni Beardon (eds)

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This book provides teachers with insights into how other teachers and researchers have discovered ways to create powerful learning experiences for children using Software / Interactive.

Software / Interactive and Special Education Needs
Lani Florian and John Hegarty

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Addresses what teachers, classroom assistants and those who manage provision need to know and do to maximise the value of technology as an important component of effective, inclusive education.

 

Software / Interactive in the Primary School
Avril Loveless and Babs Dore

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Discusses why Software / Interactive can make a critical contribution to children's learning in the primary school.

   

Teaching Primary Literacy with Software / Interactive
Moira Monteith (ed)

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Develops children's literacy skills through the use of Software / Interactive. Deals with literacy learning in schools; national literacy strategies; the effectiveness of software; connections with oracy; and the use of the internet.