Language & Literacy

This book offers specific examples and empirical evidence of how multimodal integrated science-literacy curriculum and teaching in urban primary-grade classrooms give students opportunities to learn science and to develop positive images of themselves as scientists...

Choosing and Using Fiction and Non-Fiction 3-11 is a guide for students and teachers to the many kinds of text we want children to encounter, use and enjoy during their nursery and primary school years...

Educational games played in groups or pairs help develop key language and social skills. Based on a range of material to extend vocabulary, punctuation and cross curricular creativity, Classroom Literacy Games for VCOP contains original games with suggestions how to develop writing tasks after playi..

This text shows how critical literacy is do-able with young children, even in today’s context of Common Core Standards, mandates, and pressures, and honors the sophisticated and complex social theorists that young children are...

Curriculum and Assessment in English 3 to 11 provides an overview of the subject in considerable breadth and depth, and offers a clear, balanced and forceful critique of the current UK language and literacy curriculum and of associated developments in that curriculum during the past twenty years. _x..

Curriculum and Assessment in English 3 to 11 provides an overview of the subject in considerable breadth and depth, and offers a clear, balanced and forceful critique of the current UK language and literacy curriculum and of associated developments in that curriculum during the past twenty years. _x..

Originally published in 1986. This book is concerned with the hearing-impaired child's strategies for reading, spelling and writing and explores how teachers can give the most effective help, what the impact of a teaching programme is likely to be, and how to evaluate what the child has learnt...

Descriptosaurus: Action & Adventure builds on the vocabulary and descriptive phrases introduced in the original bestselling Descriptosaurus, and within the context of adventure stories develops the structure and use of the words and phrases to promote colourful cinematic writing. This essential guid..

Descriptosaurus: Fantasy Stories aims to build on the vocabulary and descriptive phrases introduced in Descriptosaurus, and develop the structure and use of the words and phrases to promote colourful, cinematic writing within the context of fantasy stories. An essential guide for creative writing, D..

Descriptosaurus: Ghost Stories builds on the vocabulary and descriptive phrases introduced in the original bestselling Descriptosaurus, and within the context of ghost stories develops the structure and use of the words and phrases to promote colourful, cinematic writing. This essential guide will e..

Descriptosaurus: Myths and Legends builds on the vocabulary and descriptive phrases introduced in the original bestselling Descriptosaurus and within the context of myths and legends develops the structure and use of the words and phrases to promote colourful, cinematic writing. This essential guide..

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..