Looking for even more punctuation practice for the KS2 English SATS? This brilliant Book 2 is what you need - it contains another whole set of SATS-style questions covering all the punctuation techniques pupils will need to master, all set at the same difficulty as Book 1 (9781841461755). It also includes self-assessment boxes and a handy scoresheet to help track pupils' progress. Full worked answers are printed in a separate Answer Book (9781782942764), which also includes full answers to our SAT Buster Book 2s for Spelling (9781782942788) and Grammar (9781782942757).

This smashing Punctuation SAT Buster is packed with practice for the KS2 English SATS! It contains plenty of SATS-style questions covering all the punctuation techniques they'll need to master. We've also thrown in self-assessment boxes and a handy scoresheet to help track pupils' progress. Full worked answers are printed in a separate Answer Book (9781847629111), which also includes full answers to our SAT Buster Book 1s for Spelling (9781841461779) and Grammar (9781847629074). For even more punctuation practice at the same difficulty level, a Punctuation SAT Buster Book 2 (9781782942771) is also available!

Matched to the demands of the National Curriculum, the Let's Do Grammar workbooks have been carefully devised to match the appropriate age and stage of your child. Containing a rich variety of activity pages, each book has been designed for use at home and supports classroom learning. With regular progress tests and a complete answer section to aid assessment, this book is the perfect way for your child to practise their punctuation skills and consolidate their learning. And for added enjoyment and motivation, it also contains over 100 reward stickers!

Dennis Ward, who died aged 84, was the first Professor of Russian at Edinburgh University. Having graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge, with first class honours, Ward successfully established an honours degree course and a full Russian and Slavonic studies department at Edinburgh, where he worked from 1949. Ward's Russian Pronunciation Illustrated was first published by Cambridge University Press in 1966. Its illustrated format is designed to easily transport the reader through the vowels and dipthongs of the Russian language, whatever their native tongue. Each sound that Professor Ward introduces the reader to is presented alongside a series of lively illustrations, and workable examples of words, phrases and whole sentences. A pioneer for the teaching and learning of Russian, Professor Ward has here created an engaging and entertaining volume which will be of use to any student of Russian wishing to get to grips with the pronunciation of this fascinating language.

Originally published in 1980. This practical guide to the teaching of writing is set in the context of the functional use of language for communication. It examines what communicating in writing involves and gives detailed procedures for teaching different types of writing from beginner to advanced level, together with illustrated suggestions for visual aids. This provides up-to-date ideas and advice for teachers and trainee teachers of English as a Foreign Language.

Originally published in 2000. This book provides insights, practical suggestions and clear-cut strategies for integrating media across the K-12 curriculum. This contribution to teaching and curriculum design uses students' own media experiences or media vignettes from students' lives to enter teaching and learning. It provides a road map for teachers longing to reflect and take seriously the knowledge students bring to school from their homes and communities, and to draw upon this background to develop students' critical thinking, viewing and reading of written texts, visuals, and other electronic images and messages.

This fantastic range of fiction for Shared, Guided and Independent reading gives you stories your children will love to read over and over again. Gaelic and Scottish teaching support also accompanies this reading series.

A complete package of interactive materials for Early Childhood Language Arts and Literacy education in the Caribbean. Its interactivity and diversity provides opportunities for children to learn through play, developing critical Language Arts and Literacy skills in a stimulating and enjoyable way. - Written and reviewed by experts in the field, and developed in accordance with Caribbean curricula - Child-centered, hands-on, developmentally appropriate and integrated - Teachers and parents can be con tent that this package will provide the support and tools they need to teach and excite young learners Activity Book 1 concentrates on pre-reading and pre-writing skills and the beginnings of sound and letter recognition.

Early Comprehension is a series of graded activity books that develop children's ability to make sense of pictures and text - through activities such as story sequencing, reading for meaning and traditional comprehension work. Early Comprehension Book 2 covers: matching pictures with captions; reading simple instructions; riddles; speech bubbles.

Planning to become a secondary English teacher? This must-have guide contains everything you need to know before embarking on your training programme. From your reflections on your chosen course and your preparations for interview to thinking about the demands of school-based training, this book encourages you to engage with the challenges of teaching in a realistic and enthusiastic manner. It aims to answer the question: What should trainees know, understand and be able to do before they start the training programme? Written in a practical, accessible and thought-provoking style, each chapter is packed full of reflective points, discussion questions, and a wealth of activities and examples. It explores key aspects of practice, including target setting and progression, as well as observing and being observed, and offers advice on tricky topics such as how to accept and build upon criticism and how to take responsibility for your professional development. There are numerous opportunities to reflect upon your subject knowledge, in order to help you celebrate what you know already as well as to identify what you still need to find out before you begin. Above all, the book encourages you to think about what English teaching means to you. You are invited to engage with core issues related to theory, curriculum and assessment, before exploring these issues in the context of the school. Although Take Off into English Teaching! is written for trainee teachers and teachers of Secondary English, many of the issues it covers will be highly relevant for school and academic staff, trainees and training staff involved in secondary education generally.

Planning to become a secondary English teacher? This must-have guide contains everything you need to know before embarking on your training programme. From your reflections on your chosen course and your preparations for interview to thinking about the demands of school-based training, this book encourages you to engage with the challenges of teaching in a realistic and enthusiastic manner. It aims to answer the question: What should trainees know, understand and be able to do before they start the training programme? Written in a practical, accessible and thought-provoking style, each chapter is packed full of reflective points, discussion questions, and a wealth of activities and examples. It explores key aspects of practice, including target setting and progression, as well as observing and being observed, and offers advice on tricky topics such as how to accept and build upon criticism and how to take responsibility for your professional development. There are numerous opportunities to reflect upon your subject knowledge, in order to help you celebrate what you know already as well as to identify what you still need to find out before you begin. Above all, the book encourages you to think about what English teaching means to you. You are invited to engage with core issues related to theory, curriculum and assessment, before exploring these issues in the context of the school. Although Take Off into English Teaching! is written for trainee teachers and teachers of Secondary English, many of the issues it covers will be highly relevant for school and academic staff, trainees and training staff involved in secondary education generally.

This fantastic range of fiction for Shared, Guided and Independent reading gives you stories your children will love to read over and over again. Gaelic and Scottish teaching support also accompanies this reading series.

In this book, Bronwyn T. Williams explores how perceptions of agency-whether a person perceives and feels able to read and write successfully in a given context-are critical in terms of how people perform their literate identities. Drawing on interviews and observations with students in several countries, he examines the intersections of the social and the personal in relation to how and, crucially, why people engage successfully or struggle painfully in literacy practices and what factors and forces they regard as enabling or constraining their actions. Recognizing such moments and patterns can help teachers and researchers rethink their approaches to teaching to facilitate students' sense of agency as writers and readers.

This book recognizes nonfiction text as a staple part of the literacy curriculum and advocates that educators include it in their daily practices. It offers innovative ideas on how these texts can be used to nurture literacy acquisition, growth, and fluency in and out of the classroom.

Talk Box supports teachers implementing the new curriculum, who are looking for fresh ideas with a focus on teaching talk skills, encouraging discussion and developing articulate children. It sets out different types of teaching involving children learning collaboratively through discussion with peers and centres on step-by-step lesson plans to develop hidden potential across the entire classroom. At the heart of the lesson plans is the 'talk box' - a collection of interesting objects which provide a focus for class discussion and where the activities are based on these linked ideas: * Young children need their teachers to help them make sense of the world; * The most effective medium for explaining, discussing, describing with children, is talk; * Children learn very well from one another when taught how to do so, and are a good resource for one another in the classroom; * Children may be able to talk, but they are not often aware what sort of talk can help them to get the best from their education; * Direct teaching of essential talk skills and understanding is straightforward and should be undertaken in school classrooms. The numerous lesson plans included in this book are each built around specific learning objectives for speaking and listening and cover subjects such as literacy, numeracy, science, citizenship, ICT and Computing. Each lesson includes a resources list and photocopiable worksheets and range from whole class to small group work. This book will help you teach children to engage in the educationally effective kind of discussion known as Exploratory Talk, where everyone's viewpoint is considered, opinions are justified with reasons, and decisions are made together. This new edition includes updated curriculum links, new research findings, a home-school link section and contain additional EAL and SEN materials.

When was the last time you shook up your writing instruction? Shawna Coppola's new book is built on the premise that our students are ever-changing, and so is our global landscape. While there's nothing inherently wrong with relying on instructional strategies that have worked in the past, Shawna challenges writing teachers to rethink and revise their practice regularly--leading to the renewal of their professional lives. By looking at whether a practice matches students' needs and interests and examining whether it fits into what we know about children and learning and then adjusting our teaching accordingly, we can nurture students to become critical thinkers, problem solvers, and risk takers in the writing classroom and beyond. Shawna uses a framework of Rethinking, Revising, and Renewing to examine the most pervasive educational practices in writing instruction and to help ask the questions necessary in order to revise those practices so that they are effective for all students. She describes why it's vital to engage in this challenging work and goes on to examine some of the most ubiquitous practices, including what it means to write, the tools typically used to teach writing, and how writing is often assessed. She also offers ideas for how teachers can nurture their own writing lives and thus reinvigorate their instructional practice.

The First Additional Language Teacher's Guide contains a year plan, the four term plans, possible time schedules for a full week and daily step-by-step teaching plans for 40 weeks for the subject. The teaching plans include the following: the weekly teaching plan, hints and essential information as background knowledge before the lessons are tackled, the rhymes and songs mentioned in the teaching plan, complete step-by-step lessons for each day and guidance on how to complete the prescribed assessment tasks. The CD in the Teacher's Guide contains the year and term plans for the subject, so that the teacher can print it out and keep it at hand, free resources for teacher and learner, free prescribed worksheets, the theme-oriented stories mentioned in the teaching plans, the sheet music for the songs in the teaching plans and the assessment forms and rubrics. The Teacher's Guide is written by experts in the field of the Foundation Phase. All the authors have years of experience and have been involved in series which has been successfully used in schools. The series has been developed under the guidance of Mart Meij whose various educational series, from Grade R to 3, are widely used by schools. The New All-In-One series is nationally recognised and used in many schools. The Teacher's Guides not only provide lessons for the teacher that describe exactly what to do, but also background information so that the teacher knows why certain instructions are included in the lesson. The teaching plans include innovative, multisensory activities that promote active learning and accommodate different learning styles. The guides contain a CD with full colour free resources which can be used over and over by the teacher and the learner. Free worksheets on the CD can be downloaded and printed so that it is not necessary to buy workbooks.