Primary/Elementary Education

Being able to read is one of the most important skills in life and something we all want our children to achieve - for learning and for pleasure. This book gives you the understanding you need of the reading process to ensure that children are effectively supported in their reading journeys...

A practical guide to the ways in which the Learning Support Assistant can effectively support the class teacher with regard to literacy and numeracy frameworks...

The transition from primary to secondary school is extremely important in the lives of children and young people but it is also a time of significant stress for many._x000D_ This unique programme is designed to support children during this process, helping to build the confidence, skills and the res..

The transition from primary to secondary school is extremely important in the lives of children and young people but it is also a time of significant stress for many._x005F_x000D_ This unique programme is designed to support children during this process, helping to build the confidence, skills and t..

Used as a measure of quality in the groundbreaking Effective Provision of Pre-School Education (EPPE) project, Sustained Shared Thinking is fundamental to good early years practice. It costs nothing, yet research has shown that it improves outcomes for children by supporting the most important parts..

Used as a measure of quality in the groundbreaking Effective Provision of Pre-School Education (EPPE) project, Sustained Shared Thinking is fundamental to good early years practice. It costs nothing, yet research has shown that it improves outcomes for children by supporting the most important parts..

Talking effectively about controversial issues with young children is a challenge facing every primary school teacher. Tackling Controversial Issues provides teachers with support and guidance as you engage with the more tricky questions and topics you and your pupils encounter...

Talking effectively about controversial issues with young children is a challenge facing every primary school teacher. Tackling Controversial Issues provides teachers with support and guidance as you engage with the more tricky questions and topics you and your pupils encounter...

Talk Box offers teachers tried and tested ways of developing children's talk skills, and provides inspiring lesson plans and fresh, curriculum-based activities which will help children to learn collaboratively through their talk with classmates. At the heart of the activities is the ‘Talk Box’ - a b..

Talk Box offers teachers tried and tested ways of developing children's talk skills, and provides inspiring lesson plans and fresh, curriculum-based activities which will help children to learn collaboratively through their talk with classmates. At the heart of the activities is the ‘Talk Box’ - a b..

An ethnography of one school--viewed as an intersection in social space, a knot in a web of practices that stretch into complex systems beginning and ending outside the school...

This book illustrates the experiences of elementary school teachers across one year's time as they participated in a teacher development seminar focused on mathematics, and as a result changed their beliefs, their knowledge, and their practices. It explo..