What do we mean by Active Learning? How can you inspire children to engage fully in their learning? How can you plan and organise a curriculum that ensures that children are actively involved in the learning process? This brand new text not only explores and examines the concept of active learning, but demonstrates how every teacher, new or experienced, can translate theory into practice and reap the rewards of children actively engaged in their own learning in the classroom. Central to the book is the series of extended case studies, through which the authors highlight examples of effective teaching and learning across the whole primary curriculum. They provide practical examples of planning, teaching and assessing to encourage, inspire and give confidence to teach in creative, integrated and exciting ways.

Primary teachers looking for effective ways to implement the Literacy Hour will welcome this focused publication which demonstrates how the prescribed range of work and teaching objectives can be met through the use of well chosen fiction and poetic texts. It provides practical advice underpinned by up-to-date theory and research, which can easily be built into a teacher's current practice. In addition, this book offers appropriate activities at whole text, sentence and word level, provides a clear explanation of the grammatical terms used in the National Literacy Project, and offers a range of practical ideas to help teachers organize and plan their Literacy Hour with confidence.

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and Francis, an informa company.

• What do we mean by Active Learning?
• How can you inspire children to engage fully in their learning?
• How can you plan and organise a curriculum that ensures that children are actively involved in the learning process?

This brand new text not only explores and examines the concept of active learning, but demonstrates how every teacher, new or experienced, can translate theory into practice and reap the rewards of children actively engaged in their own learning in the classroom.

Central to the book is the series of extended case studies, through which the authors highlight examples of effective teaching and learning across the whole primary curriculum. They provide practical examples of planning, teaching and assessing to encourage, inspire and give confidence to teach in creative, integrated and exciting ways.