Primary and middle schools

Evidence suggests that the first 10 or so years of life create the foundation for subsequent participation in recreational and health-related physical activity.

Identifying the essential feature of education for international understanding advocated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the book explores how Chinese schools have implemented education for international understanding since the 1980s.

As teachers grapple with the challenge of a new, bigger and more challenging school curriculum, at every key stage and phase, success can feel beyond our reach.

Language and communication are essential in the classroom: essential in children's learning, essential in teachers' communication with children, and essential in children's understanding of themselves and their world.

How do children relate to numbers and mathematics?

Lesson planning is an essential component of every teacher's practice.

Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) involves children in school consciously assisting others to learn, and in so doing learning more effectively themselves.

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

This highly practical resource is designed to be used with children who need additional help in developing communication skills in Year 1.

The effective and fun-filled way to teach spelling to elementary students The Spelling Teacher's Lesson-a-Day gives teachers 180 engaging and ready-to-use lessons-one for each day of the school year-that boost spelling skills in students grades 3-6.

This useful reference book offers authoritative yet accessible answers to common questions posed by new and trainee teachers as they face the practical everyday questions that arise from entering the classroom for the first time.

Guided Reading: Visualize for first and second grades enhances language arts lesson plans with 36 readers-six sets of two each for below-, on-, and above-level student readers.

Hundreds of thousands of teachers have used this highly practical guide to help K12 students enlarge their vocabulary and get involved in noticing, understanding, and using new words.

With contributions from leading scholars, this compelling volume offers fresh insights into literacy teaching and learningand the changing nature of literacy itselfin today's K12 classrooms.

Give students exciting learning opportunities across the curriculum while teaching them important information skills!

The Joy of Not Knowing takes every aspect of the curriculum and of school life and transforms it into a personalised, meaningful and enjoyable experience for all.

Teachers are bombarded with advice about how to teach.

Praise for the first edition: 'How well the author understands her subject.

Drawing on critical and sociocultural frameworks, this volume presents narrative studies by or about Latinas in which they speak up about issues of identity and education.

This hands-on book offers teachers a much-needed resource that will help maximize learning for English Language Learners (ELLs).

This collection of simple to use, fun, multi-sensory games and creative lesson starters will jumpstart pupils enthusiasm for literacy learning.

In Line by Line, author Stephanie L.

This groundbreaking text provides practical, contextualized methods for teaching and discussing topics that are considered "e;taboo"e; in the classroom in ways that support students' lived experiences.

This book is an attempt to show that preservice teacher knowledge is substantive and should be part of the wider database of knowledge about teaching and learning in the field of teacher education.

Tiger wakes from a dream to find a big bite on his tail - but can he discover who is the culprit?

Pete, Jem and Belle are enjoying a day at the beach until the weather turns stormy.

This text offers a comprehensive analysis of the concept of the modern creative and imaginative child in Western education.

What meanings do your students have for key mathematics concepts?

Metacognition is known to be an important factor in academic achievement; however it is also important in a wider life context.

Block Parties examines young children's spatial development through the lens of emergent STEAM thinking.

Elementary education provides the foundation for a learned and literate global citizenry.

Instill a love of poetry in your classroom with the illuminating and inviting lessons from Teach This Poem.

Stimulating Non-Fiction Writing!

Bringing together the voices of researchers and teachers, this volume addresses how teachers connect theory to practice in the middle school English Language Arts education setting and explores how to teach and engage with young adults in a way that treats them as ethical and thoughtful citizens.

Visible Learning Guide to Student Achievement critically examines the major influences shaping student achievement today.

Help your students connect historic technologies with today's STEAM concepts through the lens of crafting!

Bringing together a mix of researchers and practitioners, With the Best of Intentions examines the major goals of recent philanthropic efforts and looks at some of the key lessons--for educators, philanthropists, policymakers, and community leaders--of philanthropic contributions to schools and school systems.

This highly accessible guide to the varied aspects of Vygotsky's psychology emphasises his abiding interest in education.

Children's curiosity about their lives and worlds motivates many interests.

Mastering Primary Languages introduces the primary languages curriculum and helps trainees and teachers learn how to plan and teach inspiring lessons that make language learning irresistible.

The National Science Foundation funded the first Coordination Theory and Collaboration Technology initiative to look at systems that support collaborations in business and elsewhere.

In the past 15 years a host of critical thinking books have appeared that teach students to find flaws in the arguments of others by learning to detect a number of informal fallacies.

Creativity for a New Curriculum: 5-11 provides an account of what creativity really means in the context of children's learning in the primary school, and describes in practical terms what teachers can do to foster it.

This new edition of Teaching Secondary English is thoroughly revised, but its purpose has not changed.

The Self-Regulated Learning Guide introduces K-12 teachers to the basics of self-regulation.

This practical resource contains a wealth of valuable advice and tried-and-tested strategies for supporting children and young people with Down's Syndrome.

This popular guide offers a wealth of innovative, research-based strategies for making K12 classrooms the best learning environments they can be.

Published in 1994.

Although the idea of the reflective practitioner is embraced by many, there is still a need to understand how teachers' practical experience and the theoretical insights of researchers can be linked in teacher education.