Language & Literacy

This accessible text will show students and class teachers how they can enable their pupils to become critical thinkers through the medium of picturebooks. By introducing children to the notion of making-meaning together through thinking and discussion, Roche focuses on carefully chosen picturebooks..

Educators want young people to grow up knowing that writing is an important and deeply satisfying life skill, one that helps them make more sense of themselves and their world, and one that helps them to communicate effectively. Sadly, too often writing becomes merely an exercise in ‘getting words r..

Originally published in 1976. This book is about the teaching of reading and writing in infant schools around Britain for all parents and teachers. It outlines some schemes, approaches, methods and developments but focuses on the pragmatic application...

Enhancing Classroom-based Talk provides an overview of the major research and theoretical perspectives that underpin the development of classroom-based talk. It provides strategies on how to promote student to student and student to teacher discourse during classroom-based activities, and elaborates..

Originally published in 1937. This book is ‘an account of the special training necessary for the young boy or girl in letter-making and simple reading’. A superb insight into educational history and a fascinating early explanation of a now common method...

This book provides a re-conceptualization of grammar in a period of change in the communication landscape and widening disciplinary knowledge. Drawing on resources in systemic functional linguistics, the book envisions a ‘functional grammatics’ relevant to disciplinary domains such as literary study..

Grammar Survival for Primary Teachers provides you with the knowledge and tools that are essential to teach grammar effectively. It includes over forty separate grammar topics as well as teaching hints, ideas for the classroom and clear examples throughout. Making explicit links between grammatical ..

Grammar Survival for Primary Teachers provides you with the knowledge and tools that are essential to teach grammar effectively. It includes over forty separate grammar topics as well as teaching hints, ideas for the classroom and clear examples throughout. Making explicit links between grammatical ..

Here Comes the Bogeyman is a text book that focuses on the contemporary issues surrounding writing for children. Containing a critical and creative investigation of both fiction and non-fiction writing, it contains a wealth of ideas and exercises for students on Creative Writing degree courses; Engl..

Hit the Headlines charts out a series of fun and inspiring, cross-curricular journalism workshops that enhance key skills and confidence in areas such as:_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Writing and editing._x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Critical assessment._x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Interviewing and observation._x000..

How to Teach Poetry Writing: Workshops for Ages 5-9 is a practical, activity based resource of poetry writing workshops for teachers of primary age children...

How to Teach Poetry Writing: Workshops for Ages 5-9 is a practical, activity based resource of poetry writing workshops for teachers of primary age children...