Join Little Bunny as She Invites Jesus into Her Heart It's time for a birthday celebration in the forest! Little Bunny has her heart set on one very special gift: her first sleepover party with her forest friends. Mama and Papa Bunny think it's a splendid idea and help her plan all of the details for a fun night. But when it comes time to settle down, every little noise seems scary to the friends. Mama and Papa give all the comfort they can--from hugs to bedtime stories. But still no one can sleep! Then they realize what got overlooked in all the excitement and just what's needed the most to help them all find peace and rest: Jesus's love. Bedtime Prayers with Jesus is the latest addition to the heartwarming Forest of Faith storybook series, including A Birthday Party for Jesus, Everyone Is Invited to Christmas, An Easter Basket Filled with Love, and God's Love Is a Warm Cookie. This picture book will offer young children a fun, relatable story of forest friends who discover how they can always find comfort in Jesus through prayer.

Join Little Deer as She Discovers that Jesus's Grace Is at the Heart of Easter in this Latest Delightful Picture Book in the Forest of Faith Series. As it nears Easter, the forest friends eagerly await a special tradition: setting out Easter baskets that will be filled with special treats from the entire village. But Little Deer is having a very rough week--she's upset a friend, forgot to run an errand for Mama, and left her schoolwork out in the rain. She's afraid her Easter basket will be left empty this year! An Easter Basket Filled with Jesus's Love is the follow-up to the heartwarming storybooks A Birthday Party for Jesus, Everyone Is Invited to Christmas, and An Easter Gift from Jesus. Beautifully illustrated by Lee Holland, this picture book will offer young children a fun, relatable story of forest friends who realize that overflowing grace is an important part of love, and that God gave us the ultimate gift of grace through Jesus.

Essential Primary Grammar is an invaluable resource to ensure that you are firmly equipped to teach grammar. It helps you get to grips with your knowledge of grammar for the national curriculum - including the spelling, punctuation and grammar test - as well as providing you with some tried and tested ways to teach grammar. Underpinned by a series of research studies which have investigated the teaching of grammar, it will support you in how to teach grammar in creative and meaningful ways whilst supporting you in developing your own fundamental knowledge of grammar. Uniquely, the book takes a systematic step-by-step approach to explain the grammatical terminology specified in the national curriculum. It also illustrates how you might develop children's grammatical knowledge by offering a range of practical activities which are rich, meaningful and support children's development as confident and curious language investigators. Key features include: * Easy-to-read chapters which systematically focus on grammatical subject knowledge at word, phrase and clause level * Guidance in each chapter addressing typical grammar problems or misconceptions, and some grammar jokes * Inspiring suggestions for teaching activities to help children develop grammatical knowledge in meaningful learning contexts * Reference to authentic children's books to illuminate the grammatical explanations and suggested teaching activities * Ideas on how high quality talk about grammar and texts can be fostered in the classroom "This book gives an excellent research evidence based approach that puts the teaching of grammar firmly onto a book rich curriculum that not only enhances subject knowledge but also awakens an interest in the grammar." Jo Tregenza, Senior Teaching Fellow and head of initial teacher training at The University of Sussex, UK "Myhill et al manage to tackle some of the trickiest aspects of grammar with clarity and a lightness of touch that ensures the reader never feels they have been taken too far into the depths of linguistics. Every primary teacher needs a copy in their bag!" Rebecca Cosgrave: Primary English Adviser Babcock LDP "This is extremely practical, explaining grammatical concepts in clear and helpful terms, and offering a range of engaging teaching activities for the classroom." Marcello Giovanelli, Assistant Professor in English Education, University of Nottingham, UK

The perfect book for young boys and girls to celebreate the Easter holiday, learning the meaning of Easter and the love of Jesus through a story of lovable forest animals A quiet forest wakes up from its winter sleep. Buds blossom and trees stretch their branches-spring is here! All the animals are excited for the season of rebirth, because it means Easter is soon to come! Little Bunny and his friends get ready for the special and important day with an Easter egg hunt. But when Little Bunny makes a mistake that makes him think he's ruined all the fun, his friends and family come together to help him understand the meaning of Easter-a celebration of Jesus's resurrection and the new life He offers us. An Easter Egg Hunt for Jesus features the same adorable forest creatures met in the heartwarming Christmas storybooks, A Birthday Party for Jesus and Everyone Is Invited to Christmas. Beautifully illustrated by Lee Holland, this picture book will offer young children a fun, relatable story of a little rabbit who makes a mistake and learns how disappointment can transform into hope.

Teaches young children to enjoy Christmas by celebrating Jesus! Warm, endearing animal illustrations will entice pre-readers and early readers and inspire their imagination. Reinforces Christian values in a non-judgmental and non-threatening way The forest is abuzz with magic and excitement-it's time for Jesus' birthday! The invitations for His birthday party float on in to all but one forest creature. Living far off in a hollow in the forest's furthest tree, Little Raccoon has never quite fit in with the other forest animals. Feeling left out and alone, she watches as the rest of the friends share in the fun of decorating for Christmas. It's not until Little Raccoon gets help from an unexpected friend that she discovers the meaning of Jesus's birthday, His love, and that everyone is invited! Beautifully illustrated by Lee Holland, this picture book will offer young children a fun, relatable story of a quirky raccoon who feels a bit different from everyone else, and how the best part of Christmas is finding the warmth of Jesus's love and friendship.

First Published in 2005. This is Volume 41 of the Theory Into Practice series, with focus on Transforming School Counseling, featuring guest editor Susan Jones Sears. This issue showcases a close examination of educational practices in schools serving low-income and minority students with disturbing trends. The articles discuss the findings that students in high-poverty and high-minority schools see little connection between what is being taught and a better future for themselves. Also contained are a variety of proposed reasons to explain why many school counselors are not considered to be change agents.

The basal ganglia are involved in complex brain functions, from voluntary movement control to learning and reward processing, and they are implicated in numerous neurological and psychiatric disorders. Information from the cerebral cortex and thalamus is conveyed to basal ganglia nuclei via glutamate release, while dopamine from the midbrain is released in close proximity to glutamate. At the heart of both function and dysfunction of basal ganglia circuits is the interaction of these two neurotransmitters, dopamine and glutamate.

Elucidating the relationship between their molecular and cellular effects and behavioural significance has been challenging, but in the past 5 10 years, improved labeling, imaging, recording, and genetic manipulation approaches have yielded new information on how dopamine and glutamate interact to generate the circuit activity underpinning basal ganglia function. Dopamine Glutamate Interactions in the Basal Ganglia synthesizes this recent research from the level of receptor molecules all the way to complex behaviours and disease.

Current insights from research on individual neurons and synapses, detailed circuit analysis, and learning and action functions of the basal ganglia are presented against a historical perspective. The book also discusses compromised dopamine glutamate interaction in disorders of basal ganglia function, including Parkinson s disease, Huntington s disease, and drug addiction.

The basal ganglia are involved in complex brain functions, from voluntary movement control to learning and reward processing, and they are implicated in numerous neurological and psychiatric disorders. Information from the cerebral cortex and thalamus is conveyed to basal ganglia nuclei via glutamate release, while dopamine from the midbrain is released in close proximity to glutamate. At the heart of both function and dysfunction of basal ganglia circuits is the interaction of these two neurotransmitters, dopamine and glutamate. Elucidating the relationship between their molecular and cellular effects and behavioural significance has been challenging, but in the past 5-10 years, improved labeling, imaging, recording, and genetic manipulation approaches have yielded new information on how dopamine and glutamate interact to generate the circuit activity underpinning basal ganglia function. Dopamine-Glutamate Interactions in the Basal Ganglia synthesizes this recent research from the level of receptor molecules all the way to complex behaviours and disease. Current insights from research on individual neurons and synapses, detailed circuit analysis, and learning and action functions of the basal ganglia are presented against a historical perspective. The book also discusses compromised dopamine-glutamate interaction in disorders of basal ganglia function, including Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, and drug addiction.

A charming children's book to remind us of God's great gift at Christmastime. The forest friends are excited to decorate their community's tree in a very special way. In a sort of show and tell, each animal will add an ornament on a certain day until the tree is covered with beautiful handmade ornaments. But these aren't just any ornaments-the animals have been asked to bring an ornament that shows something amazing they know about Jesus. As more and more ornaments adorn the tree, Little Mouse begins to panic about her turn. It seems like all the answers are taken! It's not until she looks deep inside that she sees the greatest miracle of all-that Jesus came for her . . . and every one of us. A Christmas Tree for Jesus is the follow-up to the heartwarming Christmas storybooks, A Birthday Party for Jesus, Everyone Is Invited to Christmas, A Christmas Pageant for Jesus, and A Christmas Journey for Jesus. This picture book will offer young children a fun, relatable story of forest friends who discover how special they are to God and that the greatest gifts can't be wrapped.

Introduction and Notes by Susan Jones, St Hilda's College, Oxford. First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Set in the Malay Archipelago, the novel not only provides a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an exotic tale of the East. Its themes also challenge the conventions of nineteenth-century adventure fiction, confirming Conrad's place in literature as one of the first 'modernists' of English letters. Lord Jim explores the dilemmas of conscience, of moral isolation, of loyalty and betrayal confronting a sensitive individual whose romantic quest for an honourable ideal are tested to the limit. In this novel, Conrad draws on his background as Polish emigre, as well as his first-hand experience as a seaman, to experiment radically with the presentation of human frailty and doubt in the modern world.

This is the first published edition of John Sinclair, Susan Jones and Robert Daley's research on collocation undertaken in 1970. The unpublished report was circulated amongst a small group of academics and was enormously influential, sparking a growth of interest in collocation amongst researchers in linguistics. Collocation was first viewed as important in computational linguistics in the work of Harold Palmer in Japan. Later M.A.K. Halliday and John Sinclair published on collocation in the 1960s. English Collocation Studies is a report on empirical research into collocation, devised by Halliday with Sinclair acting as the Principal Investigator and editor of the resultant OSTI report. The present edition contains an introduction by Professor Wolfgang Teubert based on his interview with John Sinclair. The introduction assesses the extent to which the findings of the original research have developed in the intervening years, and how some of the techniques mentioned in the report were implemented in the COBUILD project at Birmingham University in the 1980s.

This book looks at an issue which is at the heart of every classroom the role that talk plays in childrens learning. Drawing on a substantial research base, the book provides useful suggestions to facilitate successful talk between teachers and children to improve learning and raise standards..

. Through analysing the talk that goes on in primary school classrooms, the book examines the process of talk and learning in detail and shows how teachers questions, instructions and statements can support and extend childrens learning. It highlights the central influence of teacher talk on developing childrens learning and looks at international perspectives in the field, including the work of Shirley Brice Heath, Douglas Barnes, Gordon Wells, Neil Mercer and Robin Alexander. .

. This innovative book provides ideas, techniques, and practical suggestions for making classroom talk effective. It is key reading for student and qualified teachers who are interested in improving learning by generating higher levels of participation and interactive talk in their classrooms.. .