Primary and middle schools

Teaching Visual Literacy in the Primary Classroom shows how everyday literacy sessions can be made more exciting, dynamic and effective by using a wide range of media and visual texts in the primary classroom.

33 Ways to Help with Spelling equips teachers and teaching assistants with a wide range of practical resources to help children who are having difficulties learning the basic skills of spelling.

This fully revised and updated second edition of Learning through Touch is essential reading for practitioners who support learners with multiple disabilities and vision impairment.

Using Outdoor Learning to Improve Behaviour for All focuses on teachers, parents and carers working together and creating environments in the classroom, home and particularly outdoors where all children can experience positive feedback and develop good learning behaviours.

Now in its third edition, History 5-11 aims to make teaching about the past exciting and stimulating for both teachers and children.

Teachers and governments all agree that if you wish to raise educational standards then it's imperative to improve school attendance, and yet an average of around ten per cent of secondary pupils are missing school on a daily basis.

Early Childhood Education and Care in a Global Pandemic is a book that highlights how the international early childhood education and care sector responded to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

An innovative exploration into the immediate and profound effects of sensory engagement, this book delves specifically into the incorporation of smell within the context of contemporary childhood experiences.

A brand new series for primary teachers that provides a full guide to teaching a primary curriculum area, especially for non-specialists.

Originally published in 1989.

Teaching students to make connections across related texts promotes engagement and improves reading comprehension and content learning.

100 IDEAS: Quick - Easy - Inspired - Outstanding'An excellent toolkit for managing and building an environment for positivity to shine in the primary classroom.

Practical and rich in resources, this book provides a roadmap to monitoring, evaluating, and implementing effective literacy instruction in grades PK-12.

This book introduces Cooperative Learning as a research-informed, practical way of engaging children and young people in lifelong physical activity.

Transforming Teaching shares the successes and the problems that were solved by a diverse group of educators during the global pandemic.

This volume emphasizes the role of effective curriculum design, teaching materials, and pedagogy to foster algebra structure sense at different educational levels.

What are the concepts and theories behind current debates about education?

Imagery and Text, Second Edition extends the first edition's unified theory of cognition in literacy from the perspective of Dual Coding Theory (DCT), one of the most influential and empirically sound theories of cognition ever developed.

The Primary National Curriculum sets challenging expectations for the teaching of writing.

Placing Students at the Heart of Creative Learning shows teachers of key stages 2 and 3 how to introduce creativity into what is often seen as a prescriptive and stifling curriculum, and addresses the tensions that can exist between the requirement to follow the curriculum and the desire to employ innovative pedagogies.

Teaching Human Rights in Primary Schools delves into the important issue of Human Rights Education (HRE) implementation, exploring the nature and extent of HRE in education policy and practice in English primary schooling, and seeking to understand the reasons for deficiencies in practice in this area.

Showing how everyday experiences can be used to encourage early mathematical thinking, this book will help you to support young children's mathematical development through play.

Originally published in 1990.

First published in 1993 this volume is an extension and revision of the 1986 book entitled Religious Schools in America: A Selected Bibliography.

Theory of mind is a key consideration in autism spectrum conditions and is frequently associated with social, emotional, behavioural and mental health difficulties.

Leadership of Pedagogy and Curriculum in Higher Music Education is the second of a two-volume anthology dedicated to leadership and leadership development in higher music education.

Play is of critical importance to the well-being of children across the globe, a fact reflected in Article 31 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Improving Classroom Learning with ICT examines the ways in which ICT can be used in the classroom to enhance teaching and learning in different settings and across different subjects.

Here is an easy-to-read and inspiring text that explores the nature of young people and the effects traditional discipline strategies have on them.

Sticky Assessment is a straightforward guide to assessment, designed to demystify assessment and to give teachers the tools they need become better assessors.

Is my singing good enough?

This book makes work in the field of sociolinguistics easily accessible to working teachers and to teachers in training.

Ditch the behavioral charts and start teaching for universal success Disinterested students and behavioral problems are all too common in schools.

Remote learning and distance education burst into the national consciousness with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic - yet it remains poorly understood in many ways.

Training Teachers in Emotional Intelligence provides pre- and in-service teachers with foundational knowledge and skills regarding their own and their students' emotions.

Originally published in 2000.

Guided Reading: Summarize for third and fourth grades features 36 readers-six sets of two each for below-, on-, and above-level student readers.

Does your hand ache when you write?

First published in 1987, this title provides primary school teachers with ideas by which geographical skills and ideas can be introduced in the primary school.

Supporting Inclusive Education is a case study of a London primary school which includes a wide range of learners.

Now in its third edition, Outdoor Learning in the Early Years is the complete guide to creating effective outdoor environments for young children's learning.

Building on the success of the previous editions, Essentials of Middle and Secondary Social Studies Third Edition focuses on the key issues central to the teaching of middle and high school social studies, including lesson planning and instructional strategies.

Responding to the global state of permacrisis, this book explores the relationship between applied theatre and disaster.

English in Urban Classrooms is a ground-breaking text that spans a range of issues central to school English today.

Demonstrating the power of teaching global literature from a critical literacy perspective, this book explores the ways that K-6 educators can infuse diverse texts into their classrooms and find support for their endeavours in teacher inquiry communities.

The aim of this book is to explore how teachers, students and parents can be given more of a say in the education system - in how schools are organised, and in what and how children learn.