Primary and middle schools

How can elementary school teachers--the proverbial jacks-of-all-trades--feel more confident in their knowledge of science and teach science more effectively?

In this practical guide to teaching beginning language learners of all ages, Calhoun encourages us to begin where the learners begin--with their developed listening and speaking vocabularies and other accumulated knowledge about the world.

The basic understanding which underlies scientific evidence - ideas such as the structure of experiments, causality, repeatability, validity and reliability- is not straightforward.

'Her storytelling ability is second to none' Mail on Sunday'Maeve Binchy is a master storyteller' New York TimesAn old copper beech overlooks a school, and witnesses all the hopes and loves, dreams and ambitions of the children who grew up there.

Building Your Inclusive Classroom explores why we need to adapt our teaching - and our approaches to children and young people - and how this will support the achievement of everyone in the classroom, including the teacher.

No matter what you teach, there is a 100 Ideas title for you!

No matter what you teach, there is a 100 Ideas title for you!

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

Making your lessons fun, engaging and effective for all learners, including those with dyslexia, can be challenging and you can soon run out of ideas.

Everyone agrees that an understanding of phonics is essential to cracking the code for reading.

Everyone agrees that an understanding of phonics is essential to cracking the code for reading.

Have you ever been in a restaurant and heard raucous noises coming from a table full of children next to you?

Unicorn Dreams is about a little girl who looks forward to her father reading to her nightly.

Have you ever been in a restaurant and heard raucous noises coming from a table full of children next to you?

Time to Talk provides a powerful and accessible resource for practitioners working to improve children's language and communication skills.

Time to Talk provides a powerful and accessible resource for practitioners working to improve children's language and communication skills.

With a focus on what mathematics and science educators need to know about academic language used in the STEM disciplines, this book critically synthesizes the current knowledge base on language challenges inherent to learning mathematics and science, with particular attention to the unique issues for English learners.

With a focus on what mathematics and science educators need to know about academic language used in the STEM disciplines, this book critically synthesizes the current knowledge base on language challenges inherent to learning mathematics and science, with particular attention to the unique issues for English learners.

Great Minds and How to Grow Them is a handbook for parents that shows how they can grow the minds of their children and teenagers and guide them to success both at school and in life.

Great Minds and How to Grow Them is a handbook for parents that shows how they can grow the minds of their children and teenagers and guide them to success both at school and in life.

Are you grappling with grammar?

Are you grappling with grammar?

Science Fiction, Science Fact!

Science Fiction, Science Fact!

Science Fiction, Science Fact!

Science Fiction, Science Fact!

Spoken Language is a key component of the primary national curriculum and is fundamental to children's language development and learning.

Spoken Language is a key component of the primary national curriculum and is fundamental to children's language development and learning.

Practitioner Enquiry: Professional Development with Impact for Teachers, Schools and Systems offers an accessible, step-by-step guide to practitioner enquiry, describing what practitioner enquiry is, what its adoption in schools entails, and what research and experience says about its benefits and possible pitfalls.

Practitioner Enquiry: Professional Development with Impact for Teachers, Schools and Systems offers an accessible, step-by-step guide to practitioner enquiry, describing what practitioner enquiry is, what its adoption in schools entails, and what research and experience says about its benefits and possible pitfalls.

Discover how to design innovative learning environments that increase student ownership so they can achieve at high levels and meet rigorous standards.

Discover how to design innovative learning environments that increase student ownership so they can achieve at high levels and meet rigorous standards.

Discover how to design innovative learning environments that increase student ownership so they can achieve at high levels and meet rigorous standards.

Discover how to design innovative learning environments that increase student ownership so they can achieve at high levels and meet rigorous standards.

Synthesizing a range of studies on morphological processing from the past 30 years, this edited collection presents the current state of knowledge on morphological processing and defines classroom practices to help students conceptualise the role of morphology in reading, spelling, and vocabulary development.

Synthesizing a range of studies on morphological processing from the past 30 years, this edited collection presents the current state of knowledge on morphological processing and defines classroom practices to help students conceptualise the role of morphology in reading, spelling, and vocabulary development.

Curriculum and Assessment in English 3 to 11: A Better Plan provides an overview of the subject in considerable breadth and depth, and offers a clear, balanced and forceful critique of the current language and literacy curriculum and its assessment arrangements for 3- to 11-year-olds in England, and of developments in the area during the past thirty years.

Curriculum and Assessment in English 3 to 11: A Better Plan provides an overview of the subject in considerable breadth and depth, and offers a clear, balanced and forceful critique of the current language and literacy curriculum and its assessment arrangements for 3- to 11-year-olds in England, and of developments in the area during the past thirty years.

Drive boredom out of your classroom-and keep it out-with the student engagement strategies in this book.

Drive boredom out of your classroom-and keep it out-with the student engagement strategies in this book.

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.

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.

The Musical Classroom: Backgrounds, Models, and Skills for Elementary Teaching, Ninth Edition, is designed for students majoring in elementary or music education.

The Musical Classroom: Backgrounds, Models, and Skills for Elementary Teaching, Ninth Edition, is designed for students majoring in elementary or music education.

First published in 1981, this work is based on the author's research in the playgrounds of two Oxford schools.

First published in 1981, this work is based on the author's research in the playgrounds of two Oxford schools.

First published in 1988, this work reports on a major British study of children's progress and behaviour in 33 infant schools.

First published in 1988, this work reports on a major British study of children's progress and behaviour in 33 infant schools.