Moving Beyond Personal Loss to Societal Grieving considers how secondary English language arts teachers and teacher educators can sensitively and thoughtfully teach pieces of literature in their classrooms in which large-scale deaths are a significant, if not central, aspect of the texts. As mass shootings and violence against black and brown bodies increase, and issues such as AIDS, war, and genocide remain important to discuss as part of a shared, critical, and social consciousness, this book provides resources for educators to directly tackle and discuss these topics through the texts they read in their ELA classrooms. Whether it is canonical or contemporary literature, middle grades or young adult literature, fiction, nonfiction, or graphic novels, literature provides a vehicle to have these difficult but needed conversations about not only the personal but social effects of death and grief in our society. Each chapter in this book focuses on 1-2 texts and provides practical activities that ask students to engage with death, dying, and loss through writing assignments, projects, activities, and discussion prompts in order to build empathy, understanding, and develop critically-minded and engaged students. Moving Beyond Personal Loss to Societal Grieving will be of interest to English language arts teachers, teacher educators, librarians, and scholars who wish to explore with their students the complex emotions that revolve around discussing deaths that occur in literature.

Leer speel-speel saam met Tippie die olifant en ontdek basiese wiskunde beginsels in elke boekie.

Die Tippie doen wiskunde Vlak R-reeks fokus op die boustene van wiskundige geletterdheid en gee aan jong kinders die geleentheid om verskeie vaardighede te leer en toe te pas binne spesifieke Tippie-temas.

Konsepte ingesluit in hierdie reeks is, getalbegrip 1 - 10, vorms en grootte. Ruimte, meting, patrone, tyd en geld asook storiesomme.

* Features specific lessons, strategies, and hands-on, minds-on activities to foster key skills and thinking strategies needed to excel in literacy. * Lessons are easy to implement, inexpensive, and aligned to core components of literacy skills. * Each of topics includes a ready to go student choice board and a list of engaging family-school connection activities.

This text provides a comprehensive understanding of the foundational literacy knowledge, skills, behaviors, and attitudes necessary to guide emerging readers and writers in early childhood. Centered on the critical question of why some children learn to read easily, while others do not, this text walks readers through developmentally appropriate goal setting based on the foundational literacy skills that are critical for preschool and kindergarten children to develop. Written in an authoritative yet accessible style, chapters offer instructional strategies, insights, and scenarios from educators, self-reflection, and a variety of methods for implementation. Each chapter also includes differentiation for children with language and learning challenges as well as dual language learners, exploring methods for valuing the home language while building critical literacy skills in the classroom. Providing critical skills for guiding all emerging readers to an independent reading level, this is an essential resource for both students in early childhood, literacy, and special education courses and educators in early childhood public education, non-profit preschool settings such as Head Start, home and daycare settings, and private and corporate care and education centers.

This text provides a comprehensive understanding of the foundational literacy knowledge, skills, behaviors, and attitudes necessary to guide emerging readers and writers in early childhood. Centered on the critical question of why some children learn to read easily, while others do not, this text walks readers through developmentally appropriate goal setting based on the foundational literacy skills that are critical for preschool and kindergarten children to develop. Written in an authoritative yet accessible style, chapters offer instructional strategies, insights, and scenarios from educators, self-reflection, and a variety of methods for implementation. Each chapter also includes differentiation for children with language and learning challenges as well as dual language learners, exploring methods for valuing the home language while building critical literacy skills in the classroom. Providing critical skills for guiding all emerging readers to an independent reading level, this is an essential resource for both students in early childhood, literacy, and special education courses and educators in early childhood public education, non-profit preschool settings such as Head Start, home and daycare settings, and private and corporate care and education centers.

Bursting with bite-sized practice tests, this book is a brilliant way to split SATS preparation into manageable chunks! Each set of quick tests covers grammar, punctuation and spelling with questions in the style of the real SATS including audio tests for spelling (you can either read these out from the pull-out transcripts or access free online audio files on the CGP website). Answers are included, along with a handy progress chart to help work out which level children are working at. CGP 10-Minute Tests books are also available for Reading (9781782942399) and Maths (9781782942405)!

Moving Beyond Personal Loss to Societal Grieving considers how secondary English language arts teachers and teacher educators can sensitively and thoughtfully teach pieces of literature in their classrooms in which large-scale deaths are a significant, if not central, aspect of the texts. As mass shootings and violence against black and brown bodies increase, and issues such as AIDS, war, and genocide remain important to discuss as part of a shared, critical, and social consciousness, this book provides resources for educators to directly tackle and discuss these topics through the texts they read in their ELA classrooms. Whether it is canonical or contemporary literature, middle grades or young adult literature, fiction, nonfiction, or graphic novels, literature provides a vehicle to have these difficult but needed conversations about not only the personal but social effects of death and grief in our society. Each chapter in this book focuses on 1-2 texts and provides practical activities that ask students to engage with death, dying, and loss through writing assignments, projects, activities, and discussion prompts in order to build empathy, understanding, and develop critically-minded and engaged students. Moving Beyond Personal Loss to Societal Grieving will be of interest to English language arts teachers, teacher educators, librarians, and scholars who wish to explore with their students the complex emotions that revolve around discussing deaths that occur in literature.

With recent changes in the curriculum and standards in language arts and mathematics, parents often are challenged to find ways to help their children be successful in their learning endeavors. While parents want to be involved in their children's education, they are often unsure of their role in their children's learning and the best ways to help their children to succeed academically. Moreover, with the changes in how math and literacy are being taught, parents often struggle with helping even first grade children with their homework. In this book we set out to alleviate this struggle, by offering parents a resource they can use to navigate their child's education, communicate with teachers, and support their children in learning mathematics and literacy. After providing an overview of the current educational climate and tips for communication with teachers, we share strategies and suggestions parents can use to assist their children in language arts and mathematics. We provide detailed descriptions of activities, games, books, and conversations that connect with what children will be learning at each grade level.

This book invites readers to engage with the rich and complex debates of contemporary English education, outlining new possibilities to revive the teaching of English. Bringing together diverse voices and insights from educators in English across the primary, secondary, further and higher education phases, the book offers reflections and critical engagement with the lived experiences of English teachers and pupils in contemporary educational spaces. Each chapter includes example vignettes from classrooms which tell something of the story of English teaching today. The book considers how politics and policy have worked to close the opportunities of the English classroom for self-expression and critical engagement with the world - a murder. The authors then offer an exploration of the opportunities for a re-imagining of English - the murmurs of teachers and pupils that resist such closures. The chapters explore new thinking, new practices and new possibilities for English classrooms as inclusive, emancipatory, critical and creative spaces. Offering a thoughtful and hopeful dialogue from practising English teacher-researchers, the book will be essential reading for researchers and students of English language and literature education, as well as trainee teachers of English.

This Revision Book is ideal for Year 6 pupils who are working above the Expected Standard in KS2 English. It's been carefully tailored to focus on the more difficult material, to help pupils master all the skills they need to score top marks in the tough SATS tests. Inside, you'll find clear, colourful study notes and examples on every topic, plus practice questions at the end of each section to cement what pupils have learnt. For even more practice, take a look at our Stretch Question Book (9781782946809) - heaps of questions matched topic-for-topic with this Revision book! We've also got a tailored Revision Book (9781782946779) for pupils working at or towards the expected standard.

The complete set of early decodable readers providing a gradual and structured start for children who are just starting to learn to read. These general fiction readers cover the 42 letter sounds across 7 sets, with each covering one particular set. The last set of readers also features a small number of tricky words. Children can be introduced to these books as each group of sounds is taught. The text in the first three books uses only decodable regular words made up from the first group of letter sounds; the text in the next three books uses only the first and second groups of letter sounds, and so on. Comprehension questions and discussion topics are provided at the end of each book, as well as guidance for teachers and parents. Light type is used as a guide for those few letters that should not be sounded out, such as the /b/ in 'lamb'. 3 different books per set, all 21 titles in Complete Set 12 pages per book 1 Sentence per page (approx.) Set 7 also includes the tricky words I, the, she, he, me, we, be The Complete Set contains: Orange Readers Set 1 Orange Readers Set 2 Orange Readers Set 3 Orange Readers Set 4 Orange Readers Set 5 Orange Readers Set 6 Orange Readers Set 7

The Routledge Handbook of Teaching English to Young Learners celebrates the 'coming of age' for the field of research in primary-level English Language Teaching. With 32 chapters written by international scholars from a wide geographical area including East Africa, Mexico, the South Pacific, Japan, France, the USA and the UK, this volume draws on areas such as second language acquisition, discourse analysis, pedagogy and technology to provide: An overview of the current state of the field, identifying key areas of TEYL. Chapters on a broad range of subjects from methodology to teaching in difficult circumstances and from Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) to gaming. Suggestions of ways forward, with the aim of shaping the future research agenda of TEYL in multiple international contexts. Background research and practical advice for students, teachers and researchers. With extensive guidance on further reading throughout, The Routledge Handbook of Teaching English to Young Learners is essential reading for those studying and researching in this area.

Leer speel-speel saam met Tippie die olifant en ontdek basiese wiskunde beginsels in elke boekie.

Die Tippie doen wiskunde Vlak R-reeks fokus op die boustene van wiskundige geletterdheid en gee aan jong kinders die geleentheid om verskeie vaardighede te leer en toe te pas binne spesifieke Tippie-temas.

Konsepte ingesluit in hierdie reeks is, getalbegrip 1 - 10, vorms en grootte. Ruimte, meting, patrone, tyd en geld asook storiesomme.

Leer speel-speel saam met Tippie die olifant en ontdek basiese wiskunde beginsels in elke boekie.

Die Tippie doen wiskunde Vlak R-reeks fokus op die boustene van wiskundige geletterdheid en gee aan jong kinders die geleentheid om verskeie vaardighede te leer en toe te pas binne spesifieke Tippie-temas.

Konsepte ingesluit in hierdie reeks is, getalbegrip 1 - 10, vorms en grootte. Ruimte, meting, patrone, tyd en geld asook storiesomme.

Practice is the key to 11+ success, and there's no better place to start than these four realistic English test papers. They're ideal for helping children get used to the style of the 11+ and other selective entrance exams. We've thrown in a detailed answer book containing full explanations of every answer, plus a separate Parents' Guide packed with helpful notes on what to expect from the 11+ tests, how to make full use of practice papers and other handy info. Free audio instructions for each individual paper can be downloaded from the CGP website - just follow the link in the pack! There are also useful notes for parents on how to help children do as well as possible in the test. These papers are ideal for the 11+ tests set by GL Assessment and other test providers, and provide excellent practice for the Kent Test. This Practice Paper pack also comes with a free Online Edition - just use the unique access code printed inside the cover to access it on a PC, Mac or tablet!

Leer speel-speel saam met Tippie die olifant en ontdek basiese wiskunde beginsels in elke boekie.

Die Tippie doen wiskunde Vlak R-reeks fokus op die boustene van wiskundige geletterdheid en gee aan jong kinders die geleentheid om verskeie vaardighede te leer en toe te pas binne spesifieke Tippie-temas.

Konsepte ingesluit in hierdie reeks is, getalbegrip 1 - 10, vorms en grootte. Ruimte, meting, patrone, tyd en geld asook storiesomme.

This thought-provoking book will provide masters students, teachers and researchers with a toolkit and theoretical framework for teaching literacy through children's literature. It features innovative ideas for developing student and teacher experiences with literature and popular culture texts in the classroom, providing practical examples and teaching aids throughout. Taking a collaborative approach, Curtin explores how teachers and learners can engage with literature and its authors for the development of literacy in classroom practice. Connecting reader and writer identities and worlds through interviews with and suggested classroom activities from authors themselves, this text combines author, teacher and learner perspectives in the development of creative pedagogies that extend understandings of literacy beyond reading, writing and text. Exploring fairy-tales, comic books and graphic novels, children living in literature (i.e., texts which portray children, their lives and experiences), popular culture, young adult fiction, and non-fiction and digital texts such as blogs etc, this text develops a sociocultural understanding of literacy as a lived and contextually dependent practice where meaning is derived through relationships between people, settings and culture. Different contexts for literacy are explored, including reading and writing strategically (to learn about literacy and literature), widely (for personal purposes) and deeply (to transform understanding) (Short, 2011). This text will be an invaluable resource for teachers, researchers or anyone interested in reading and writing stories. The author interviews will also be of particular interest to older learners themselves as a way to develop their understanding of their own reading and writing practices. Pedagogies can be adapted to any age group, ranging from the early years to young adult.

This thought-provoking book will provide masters students, teachers and researchers with a toolkit and theoretical framework for teaching literacy through children's literature. It features innovative ideas for developing student and teacher experiences with literature and popular culture texts in the classroom, providing practical examples and teaching aids throughout. Taking a collaborative approach, Curtin explores how teachers and learners can engage with literature and its authors for the development of literacy in classroom practice. Connecting reader and writer identities and worlds through interviews with and suggested classroom activities from authors themselves, this text combines author, teacher and learner perspectives in the development of creative pedagogies that extend understandings of literacy beyond reading, writing and text. Exploring fairy-tales, comic books and graphic novels, children living in literature (i.e., texts which portray children, their lives and experiences), popular culture, young adult fiction, and non-fiction and digital texts such as blogs etc, this text develops a sociocultural understanding of literacy as a lived and contextually dependent practice where meaning is derived through relationships between people, settings and culture. Different contexts for literacy are explored, including reading and writing strategically (to learn about literacy and literature), widely (for personal purposes) and deeply (to transform understanding) (Short, 2011). This text will be an invaluable resource for teachers, researchers or anyone interested in reading and writing stories. The author interviews will also be of particular interest to older learners themselves as a way to develop their understanding of their own reading and writing practices. Pedagogies can be adapted to any age group, ranging from the early years to young adult.

* Features specific lessons, strategies, and hands-on, minds-on activities to foster key skills and thinking strategies needed to excel in literacy. * Lessons are easy to implement, inexpensive, and aligned to core components of literacy skills. * Each of topics includes a ready to go student choice board and a list of engaging family-school connection activities.

Learning basic numeracy skills are super easy with Tippie the elephant.

The Level R maths books focus on the building blocks for mathematical literacy and gives young children the opportunity to discover and apply new skills within a familiar and relevant theme.

Concepts included in this series is number concepts 1-10, shapes and size. Spatial awareness, measurement, patterns, time and money. Word problems and silly rhymes form part of this unique approach.

Inspiring and supporting you to become an insightful, creative and professional teacher of primary English. Teaching children English is an opportunity to give them skills that will enrich their entire lives and is a crucial part of their intellectual development. Covering all major aspects of primary English and following the foundations set in the early years, this book takes you through your teacher training and into your early career in the classroom. Each topic explores what we know from theory and the latest research, and then demonstrates how you can use this understanding in practice. Drawing on the authors' own knowledge and experiences in the classroom, the book is full of practical advice and strategies to support your own teaching, while also helping you develop your subject knowledge. Key topics include: * Reading and writing in the early years * Curriculum design and planning * Promotive reading for pleasure and teachers as readers * Teaching writing and its role as a form of communication * Vocabulary development and word knowledge * Assessment for formative and summative purposes * Oracy and spoken language development

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.

CGP's Vocabulary Activity Books are a brilliant way to boost vocabulary skills. This fun and colourful activity book is perfect for expanding pupils' vocabulary, in class or at home. It's loaded with vocab-building activities perfectly suited to ages 8-9 (Year 4 of Primary school). We've even thrown in a fun puzzle so children can apply their skills in a different context. There are also self-assessment boxes at the end of each topic for pupils to keep track of their progress, and all the answers are included at the back - amazing! For even more vocab practice, check out our Vocabulary Flashcards for ages 7-9 (9781789089233) and ages 9-11 (9781789089240)!

* This book comprehensively tackles head-on the challenges of teaching standards-based education effectively for the English Language Arts, with a close look at the CCSS and other state standards * Third edition is fully updated and includes new strategies, tools, lesson plans and figures * New topics and expanded attention on social justice, current events, critical inquiry, digital texts, multimodal texts, and arts integration -Meets the needs of preservice teachers to be ready to address the requirements of the CCSS and other state standards * Authors are a team of renowned scholars: Richard Beach, Amanda Haertling Thein, Allen Webb