Exam Board: SQA Level: National 5 Subject: English First Teaching: September 2017 First Exam: Summer 2018 This book contains all the advice and support you need to revise successfully for your National 5 exam. It combines an overview of the course syllabus with advice from a top expert on how to improve exam performance, so you have the best chance of success. - Refresh your knowledge with complete course notes - Prepare for the exam with top tips and hints on revision technique - Get your best grade with advice on how to gain those vital extra marks

This book is a roadmap to the key decisions, processes, and procedures to use when synthesizing qualitative literacy research. Covering the major types of syntheses - including the dissertation literature review, traditional literature review, integrative literature review, meta-synthesis, and meta-ethnography - Compton-Lilly, Rogers, and Lewis Ellison offer techniques and frameworks to use when making sense of a large body of scholarship. Addressing the standard and untraditional forms a research synthesis can take, the authors provide clear and practical examples of synthesis designs and techniques, and consider how epistemological, ontological, and ethical questions arise when designing and adapting a research synthesis. The extensive appendices feature sample literature reviews, guidance on communication with editors of journals, useful charts, and more. The authors' critical reflection and analysis demonstrates how a research synthesis is not simply a means to an end, but rather reflects each scholar's interests, target audience, and message. This book is crucial reading for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as early career and more experienced researchers in literacy education.

This book is a roadmap to the key decisions, processes, and procedures to use when synthesizing qualitative literacy research. Covering the major types of syntheses - including the dissertation literature review, traditional literature review, integrative literature review, meta-synthesis, and meta-ethnography - Compton-Lilly, Rogers, and Lewis Ellison offer techniques and frameworks to use when making sense of a large body of scholarship. Addressing the standard and untraditional forms a research synthesis can take, the authors provide clear and practical examples of synthesis designs and techniques, and consider how epistemological, ontological, and ethical questions arise when designing and adapting a research synthesis. The extensive appendices feature sample literature reviews, guidance on communication with editors of journals, useful charts, and more. The authors' critical reflection and analysis demonstrates how a research synthesis is not simply a means to an end, but rather reflects each scholar's interests, target audience, and message. This book is crucial reading for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as early career and more experienced researchers in literacy education.

Help your child make progress with this essential practice and revision title covering key knowledge and skills from the whole school year. Recap all the essential content, then check your skills with easy to use quick tests. Perfect support for the National Tests - in class or at home. Structured revision matched to the curriculum Recaps key English skills Includes activities and skills check questions Ideal preparation for Year 6 National Tests (Please note: content for the SATs Made Simple series has been derived from the Scholastic Maths/English Textbooks series and has been previously published under the Scholastic Revision Guide series.)

Help your child make progress with this essential practice and revision title covering key knowledge and skills from the whole school year. Recap all the essential content, then check your skills with easy to use quick tests. Perfect support for the National Tests - in class or at home. Structured revision matched to the curriculum Recaps key English skills Includes activities and skills check questions Ideal preparation for Year 6 National Tests (Please note: content for the SATs Made Simple series has been derived from the Scholastic Maths/English Textbooks series and has been previously published under the Scholastic Revision Guide series.)

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.

Word Level Work - Vocabulary contains 42 photocopiable activities which introduce one concept per sheet making it ideal for use with slower learners or children with special needs. It provides additional practice and support for those children who are struggling to learn concepts and skills first introduced at Key Stage 1.

The Brilliant Support Activities series contains photocopiable activities for use with slower learners or pupils with learning difficulties at Key Stage 2. The books introduce one concept per sheet, using simple language and clear, black line illustrations making them easy to read and understand. Word Level Work - Phonics contains 42 photocopiable sheets addressing learning objectives set out in the Primary Literacy strategy. the sheets provide additional practice and reinforcement and are ideal for those children who are still struggling to learn concepts and skills first introduced at Key Stage 1. The worksheets cover phonological awareness and phonics: initial sounds, rhyming words, initial consonant clusters, onset and rime and final sounds.

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)!

This clear and colourful Revision Book explains every skill children will need for success in the Key Stage Two English! It covers Reading, Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling, with easy-to-read study notes and heaps of helpful tips and examples. What's more, there are quick recap questions throughout the book to help make sure children have mastered all the essential skills. For even more practice, a matching KS2 English Question Book (9781841461557) is also available.

In the World Library of Educationalists series, international scholars themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces-extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and/or practical contributions-so the world can read them in a single manageable volume. Readers thus are able to follow the themes and strands of their work and see their contribution to the development of a field, as well as the development of the field itself. Contributors to the series include: Michael Apple, James A. Banks, Joel Spring, William F. Pinar, Stephen J. Ball, Elliot Eisner, Howard Gardner, John Gilbert, Ivor F. Goodson, and Peter Jarvis. In this volume, Courtney B. Cazden, renowned educational sociolinguist, brings together a selection of her seminal work, organized around three themes: development of individual communicative competence in both oral and written language and discourse; classroom interaction in learning and teaching; and social justice/educational equity issues in wider contexts beyond the classroom. Since the 1970s, Cazden has been a key figure in the ethnography of schooling, focusing on children's linguistic development (both oral and written) and the functions of language in formal education, primarily but not exclusively in the United States. Combining her experiences as a former primary schoolteacher with the insight and methodological rigor of a trained ethnographer and linguist, Cazden helped to establish ethnography and discourse analysis as central methodologies for analyzing classroom interaction. This capstone volume highlights her major contributions to the field.

Now in its third edition, The Really Useful Literacy Book is the definitive guide to the high quality teaching of literacy in your primary classroom. Written specifically for primary school teachers and student trainee teachers, this book offers inventive ideas for the classroom together with an accessible and informative summary of the theories that underpin them. It explores creative approaches to literacy teaching as well as offering a range of units on all areas - speaking, listening, reading and writing. While this book provides creative ideas that can be taken by teachers and developed for their own classrooms, it clearly explains the theoretical rationale for these ideas. It can also be used by school literacy leaders to develop whole school approaches and high quality teaching throughout the school. This accessible and engaging text will be an essential companion for all primary teachers, at any stage in their career, looking to motivate, engage and challenge their children in their literacy lessons.

Whether you are a technophobe or an accomplished in integrating technology into your classroom, this book is for you. Using Technology in Middle Grades Language Arts will provide you with ideas for incorporating technology into your classroom for real results. There are practical "how to" tips and suggested activities, as well as scores of resources. Often teachers implement technology for the sake of meeting state or local standards. This text not only presents technology applications, but also facilitates reflections on your beliefs and motivation for implementing technology.

This essential Functional Skills English book has everything students need to succeed in the Level 1 English tests! It covers every exam board and every topic and skill from the latest L1 Functional Skills Reading and Writing specifications. Everything's explained in CGP's easy-to-understand style, with examples and notes galore. Each topic is followed by a page of practice questions, so you can learn then test yourself as you go. We've included exam-style practice papers for Reading and Writing with full answers - so you'll know what to expect on the big day. Smashing!

The series was written to be aligned with CAPS. A possible work schedule has been included. Each topic start with an overview of what is taught, and the resources you need. There is advice on pave-setting to assist you in completing the work for the year on time. Advice on how to introduce concepts and scaffold learning is given for every topic. All the answers have been given to save you time doing the exercises yourself. Also included are a full-colour poster and CD filled with resources to assist you in your teaching and assessment.

Written specifically for the Cambridge syllabus, this updated series provides clear and practical support for students and teachers. Cambridge IGCSE First Language English Workbook has been written specifically for the Cambridge syllabus. Written by a highly experienced and well-known author, this new and updated workbook supports the Coursebook and includes additional and updated units, a variety of student activities and an accessible new design.

This title forms part of the Little Library programme, which consists of a Literacy Kit, Numeracy Kit and Life Skills Kit. These were developed to respond to a need for high-quality, indigenous books for the younger members of our communities, and have been successfully used in schools for the last ten years. This title is found in the updated, OBE version of the Little Library Maths Kit, now called the Little Library Numeracy Kit. The Numeracy Kit keeps seven of the best stories, and introduces five new ones - all of them trialled in classrooms around the country. Baby Monkey's bananas tells the story of a baby monkey who finds a huge bunch of bananas, and how he struggles to get it home to share it with his family. Mathematics concepts: sharing and dividing. The story can also be used to introduce the principle of fractions without using the word 'fraction'.

A handy teacher's resource providing useful lists of words made from the individual letter sounds and digraphs. Ideal for dictation and blending practice in class. In addition there are initial and final consonant blends, alternative vowel spellings and tricky words lists that can be used.

Published in 1978, this is a concise and practical guide to the use of linguistic theory and analytical techniques in English language teaching at secondary and tertiary levels of education. Much has been written in this area in the past, but previous emphasis has most often been theoretical. This book is concerned with the realities of teaching, and each technique recommended is explained by reference to actual examples of students' writing and speech. The underlying theory is discussed only when this serves to clarify practice. John Keen demonstrates how students' existing grasp of the uses and processes of English can provide a reliable base from which to develop their language skills in a meaningful and effective way. His own experience has convinced him that the sympathetic use of linguistic insights can help in teaching the conventions of spelling and grammar, developing students' sensitivity to meaning in language and enabling them to use language resourcefully in a variety of contexts - including writing coherently and at length on particular topics. The Bullock Report recommended that language study should be part of every teacher's training. This book indicates some directions that such a language study might take.

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.

Help children practise their punctuation and grammar using this handy pad containing 140 pages of activities. Practise using the five most common punctuation marks, identifying nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. Part of the Usborne Key Skills series that supports the English lessons children learn at school. Answers are at the back of the book.

Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level and Subject: GCSE English Language First teaching: 2015 First exams: 2017 This revision workbook is ideal for students who want to independently practise key skills and check their knowledge during their GCSE studies. With guidance aimed at students aiming for grade 5, this full colour write-in workbook takes students through the individual exam questions and provides extensive practice opportunities, sample student answers, revision tips and sample exam papers. Structured around a self-assessment skills checklist, students take control of their learning through this confidence-boosting resource, written by an experienced and trusted author.

Video games, contributors to Rhetoric/Composition/Play assume, can be not only productive to play, but can greatly enhance learning--specifically reading, writing, and critical thinking--in myriad ways. The collection explores games as rhetorical objects, as texts equally as sophisticated as their media counterparts (films and books), and as foundations on which a classroom curriculum can be built. Scholars in this volume investigate video games' theoretical and applied dimensions, offering innovative ways to enhance composition-rhetoric scholarship and teaching through the study of games, gamers, and gaming culture.