Primary and middle schools

This exciting, practical book is an essential resource for every busy primary teacher and very easy to use in the classroom.

Learn a range of effective behaviour management techniques for your classroom!

Studying Children is the first book of its kind to offer a theoretical and practical discussion of how to undertake research using cultural-historical theory when researching the everyday lives of children.

What do I need to know about science to teach children in primary school?

Teaching is a complex process which involves the development and utilization of subject knowledge and teaching skills.

How do teachers assess the ordinary classroom work of young children?

How do young children learn science, design and technology?

This book focuses on the inter-relationship between reading, writing and speaking and listening.

"e;This is a unique portrait of a group of working-class families whose 4 year old children start school on the cusp of the millenium in urban Britain.

This book provides the main ingredients for professional development in working with young children in a diverse society.

What does creativity mean in theory and in practice?

"e;This book is the third in an important trilogy of edited collections on the teaching and learning of primary mathematics.

This book looks at an issue which is at the heart of every classroom the role that talk plays in childrens learning.

This bestselling textbook provides an introduction to the fundamentals of teaching and learning in early years and primary education.

"e;This should be essential reading for anyone involved in the training and professional development of early years practitioners.

Hall and Burke acknowledge that formative assessment is hard work.

This innovative book aims to support schools in shifting teaching and learning in primary science by changing teacher perceptions of where science should be taught.

Essential Primary Grammar is an invaluable resource to ensure that you are firmly equipped to teach grammar.

This book reveals how early childhood leaders and practitioners can lead and enhance children's play, learning and experiences outdoors.

One of the foremost authorities on the use of sign language with hearing children provides a guide for teachers and parents who want to introduce signing in hearing children's language development.

This book examines emergent literacy as the foundations for language instruction and seeks to relate the work of those doing research on literacy acquisition and those designing programs to facilitate children's literacy development.

Filling a crucial need, this book provides concrete ways to support all students in grades 612 as they engage with rigorous grade-level texts in English language arts, science, and social studies.

Word problems can be especially difficult for elementary students.

Teaching phonemic awareness can be boring and repetitive in the hands of a teacher who wishes to just use a workbook approach.

These 50 tales take just minutes to read but amply illustrate scientific principles and the evolution of science through history.

Use popular fairy tales and fairy-tale characters as springboards for learning, and help students develop problem-solving abilities and creative-writing skills.

Journals offer young people a safe place to reflect, reminisce, dream, explore feelings and relationships, set goals, solve problems, celebrate themselves, and yes, even practice writing.

Brimming with inspiration and ideas, this book is a basic how-to guide for new primary teachers and education students.

Rubinstein's stimulating ideas are accompanied by practical classroom-tested strategies and suggestions for new ways of thinking and teaching.

Combining practical, student-centered activities with an annotated bibliography of more than 160 children's books, this guide models ways for classroom teachers to teach geography through children's literature.

The purpose of this book is to give media specialists, teachers and/or teacher helpers and parents a guide to using beginning chapter books to encourage first and second graders to read independently.

Integrate language arts with science, social studies, and mathematics.

Keep students happily focused on learning during two of the most exciting holidays of the year for the elementary classroom-Halloween and Valentine's Day.

Using portfolios is a great way to build skills, reinforce learning, communicate achievements, and prepare students for future challenges.

Each of these volumes explores five popular genres and shows how they can be used to promote learning in the library and classroom.

Lead children to literacy and learning along the garden path with books and activities designed to spark interest and imagination.

Have your students experience the thrill of life and growth through gardening, book-sharing, and other activities.

Literature and educational books about Native Americans frequently present stereotypical images or depict the people as they existed hundreds of years ago.

Introduce elementary children to six areas of the world-Japan, Italy, Hawaii, Australia, Kenya, and Brazil.

The sounds of an anaconda slithering along the steamy jungle floor in search of prey; a lion's breath rippling through the dry savannah grass as it crouches, waiting to spring; the frantic thrashing of a seal pup's tail as it recoils from the vicious attack of a tiger shark-these are part of the natural drama of the animal world and daily events when deadly predators come face to face with their prey.

Take advantage of the appeal and power of Caldecott award literature to extend and promote learning across the curriculum.

Getting parents to participate in their child's education is easy with these take-home reproducibles!

Use this activity-centered, literature-based approach to get students excited about social studies.

Featuring fiction, food, and fun, this unique approach motivates young people to read and builds their comprehension skills while extending their learning across the curriculum.

Use children's literature as a springboard to successful mathematical literacy.

This second volume delivers completely new recipes and activities that have all been kid-tested and teacher-approved.

Book clubs, literature circles, and reading groups are great ways to promote literacy and books to young readers.

This practical handbook provides more than 30 ready-to-use lesson plans that connect picture books to the national language arts standards set forth by NCTE and IRA.

This text reviews both similarities and unique cultural, linguistic, and script differences of Chinese relative to alphabetic reading, and even across Chinese regions.

Now you can implement the ideas and research findings of Jean Casey's Early Literacy to help students become successful readers and writers.