Mastering Primary Music introduces the primary music curriculum and helps trainees and teachers learn how to plan and teach inspiring lessons that make music learning irresistible. Topics covered include: * Current developments in music * Music as an irresistible activity * Music as a practical activity * Skills to develop in music * Promoting curiosity * Assessing children in music * Practical issues This guide includes examples of children's work, case studies, readings to reflect upon and reflective questions that all help to exemplify what is considered to be best and most innovative practice. The book draws on the experience of a leading professional in primary music, Ruth Atkinson, to provide the essential guide to teaching music for all trainee primary teachers.

For courses in Reading Methods (Supplementary) (Reading & Literacy) / Phonological Awareness and Phonics (Reading & Literacy). In keeping with the authors' belief that the hands-on word sorting approach to word study is invaluable to teachers and students alike, this volume presents 59 prepared sorts covering the complete curriculum of word study for learners in the within word pattern stage of spelling development. Complete with blackline masters, specific teacher directions, suggestions for follow-up activities, and spellchecks for ongoing assessment, the word sort lessons in this book help teachers to encourage students to think about words and reach conclusions about how the spelling system works. This 3rd Edition includes a number of new features to support effective teaching and learning, such as clearly stated generalisations for each lesson, suggestions on how to explore the meaning of words, and application activities that ask students to use the generalisation to spell unfamiliar words and develop spelling and decoding strategies. Together, the Words Their Way core text and this supplement provide teachers with the knowledge and tools to meet the wide range of needs in today's classrooms. Samples Download the detailed table of contents. Preview sample pages from Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Within Word Pattern Spellers, Global Edition

For courses in Reading Methods (Supplementary) / Phonological Awareness and Phonics In keeping with the authors' belief that the hands-on word sorting approach to word study is invaluable to teachers and students alike, this volume presents a complete curriculum of word study for students who are in the syllables and affixes stage of spelling development. Complete with 58 sorts, specific teacher directions, suggestions for follow-up activities, and spell checks for ongoing assessment, this collection of sorts presents 24 words each week. The new edition includes clearly stated generalisations for each lesson, step-by-step directions for each sort, and a new pacing chart and goal setting record form. Together, the Words Their Way core text and this supplement provide teachers with the knowledge and tools to meet the wide range of needs in today's classrooms. Samples Download the detailed table of contents. Preview sample pages from Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Syllables and Affixes Spellers, Global Edition

The English Workbook is a series of seven learner workbooks, each supported by a separate educator resource book. The workbooks, designed to improve and develop learners’ literacy skills, consist of ten units of work, each focused on one of the following writing formats: procedures, recounts, expositions, narratives and reports.

Features:

• ten units of work based on five writing formats
• writing format analysis, activities and practice
• planning proformas specific to each writing genre
• speaking and listening, spelling and vocabulary
• literal, inferential and applied comprehension
• comprehensive literacy educator and learner practice activities
• group and individual activities
• editing and proofreading checklists
• learner assessment

The English Workbook is a series of seven learner workbooks, each supported by a separate educator resource book. The workbooks, designed to improve and develop learners’ literacy skills, consist of ten units of work, each focused on one of the following writing formats: procedures, recounts, expositions, narratives and reports.

Features:

• ten units of work based on five writing formats
• writing format analysis, activities and practice
• planning proformas specific to each writing genre
• speaking and listening, spelling and vocabulary
• literal, inferential and applied comprehension
• comprehensive literacy educator and learner practice activities
• group and individual activities
• editing and proofreading checklists
• learner assessment

Never Give Up is an amazing true story. It is a case study of an experienced elementary school teacher who was motivated to change her teaching practices from teacher-centered, transmission approaches to student-centered, transformational approaches in the context of a Professional Development School. You would think she would have accomplished her goal with support from the PDS participants in a year or two. Instead, she spent seven years encountering struggles, set-backs, and occasionally small triump until she achieved bone deep change in her teaching practice. What was she aiming for and why did it take so long? How did she finally achieve her goals? This book is about her journey of change. On one level, this is a story of a teacher as she struggles to change her teaching practice in way that center on childern's learning rather than on teacher centered rote learning. On a deeper level, it is a look at how innovative reform movements and wellmeaning professional development efforts fall short of bringing about deep seated change in teaching methods. It raises weighty questions such as how teacher preparation programs should begin the process of instilling habits of exploration, experimentation, research and learning in their pre-service teachers so that they continuously work at updating and upgrading their teaching practices. It is a message to curriculum developers, policy makers and the public at large that lasting teacher professional development takes more time and support than the more immediate workshop approaches. It raises many questions about how teachers learn and how they can keep their practices fresh and innovative throughout their careers.

The English Workbook is a series of seven learner workbooks, each supported by a separate educator resource book. The workbooks, designed to improve and develop learners’ literacy skills, consist of ten units of work, each focused on one of the following writing formats: procedures, recounts, expositions, narratives and reports.

Features:

• ten units of work based on five writing formats
• writing format analysis, activities and practice
• planning proformas specific to each writing genre
• speaking and listening, spelling and vocabulary
• literal, inferential and applied comprehension
• comprehensive literacy educator and learner practice activities
• group and individual activities
• editing and proofreading checklists
• learner assessment

What are the issues that education raises for you? Beyond the technical skills and knowledge aspects of education, teachers and student teachers face questions which challenge their beliefs and approaches to their teaching and learning. This book contains a series of short articles each of which encourage you to reflect on your own practice and challenge your beliefs about how and what you teach. Questions explored include: When does inclusion become exclusion for the rest of the class? Do interactive whiteboards support or reduce creativity in the classroom? Is drama a luxury in the primary classroom? Should we be teaching other languages to children under seven? Learning outside the classroom, is it worth it? What makes a reflective practitioner? Essential reading for those training to teach children aged between 3 and 11, as well as practicing teachers looking to develop their practice.

Educational Wisdoms for All Children ... This book is a collection of "Educational Wisdoms" and guiding principles for all children in grades K - 5. Over the years, as parents and teachers, we have made great efforts to teach our children these wisdoms and principles. With some we have been successful and with others not as much so. This hands-on treasure will be a valuable tool to any parent, grandparent, teacher in the classroom, and especially home school parents who foster great one-on-one learning. In addition, young children as well as older children can learn much from this terrific book, which might help to inspire success, build personal development and more self-esteem at the childrens' various levels of maturity. Still, this book can serve the older children as a self-help guide that can remind them to make good choices, inspire self-discipline, and reinforce their images of what success looks like. Finally, with parents helping to guide younger children to study this book of instructional wisdoms each day, and with each BEE character leading the way, they will quickly gain an understanding of the helpful concepts it shares. Success is imminent if these educational wisdoms are nurtured and practiced.