23 very well-known people from the arts, sport, and business worlds talk about how dyslexia affected their childhood, how they were able to overcome the challenges and use the special strengths of dyslexia to achieve great success in adulthood. Darcey Bussell CBE, Eddie Izzard, Sir Richard Branson, Meg Mathews, Zoe Wanamaker CBE, Richard Rogers, Benjamin Zephaniah, Steven Naismith, Lynda La Plante CBE, Sir Jackie Stewart OBE, Sophie Conran and others share their stories, and their advice.

Promoting Effective Group Work in the Primary Classroom, 2nd ed. is designed to enhance teachers’ and teaching assistants’ confidence in engaging their children in effective group work, allowing for more active participation, more on-task focus and higher levels of achievement.This accessible second edition is packed full of valuable strategies for teachers and fun activities for children, offering guidance on how to create an inclusive and supportive classroom by developi...

What is the nature of children’s social life in school?How do their relationships and interactions with peers, teachers and other school staff influence their development and experience of school? This book, written by leading researchers in educational and developmental psychology, provides answers to these questions by offering an integrated perspective on children’s social interactions and relationships with their peers and teachers in school. Peer interactions ...

Coding and computational thinking (the ability to think like a computer) are among the skills that will serve students well in the future. Coding goes beyond websites and software – it’s an essential component in finding solutions to everyday problems. Computational thinking has many applications beyond the computer lab or math class –it teaches reasoning, creativity and expression, and is an innovative way to demonstrate content knowledge and see mathematical processes in action.

"How to Count Coins" will show your child pictures of coins and teach them how to: - Recognize US coins - Learn the value of each coin - Learn how one coin value compares to others - Learn how to count coins of the same type - Learn how to count multiple coins In "How to Count Coins" kids will meet Joe who helps guide them thru the book. You will use this book many times. Although this book was written for children, adults who are learning about the American culture or studying for citizen...

Maths Problem Solving - Year 1 is the first of six books in the Maths Problem Solving series. The books have been written for teachers to use during the numeracy lesson. They cover the ʻsolving problemʼ objectives from the numeracy framework. This first book contains four chapters; Making decisions, Reasoning about numbers or shapes, Problems involving ʻreal lifeʼ, money or measures and Organizing and using data. The books are designed in such a way that each section has six stages of ques...

Everyone knows that reading makes you smarter.But did you know listening to Audiobooks doesn’t just make you smarter, it makes you smarter, quicker, and increases your intellect and recall as well?If you want to discover why audiobooks are the coming rage, this is the book for you. If you want to learn more, faster than ever before this book is for you too. Even if all you want is to understand the dynamics of increasing your learning speed and your mental access pathways, ...

This highly practical book shows how staff in early years settings can implement simple changes to make positive behaviour a reality for all. Based on his vast experience in the field, the author provides an array of positive behaviour strategies that can be successful with the widest variety of children, whatever the reason for their behaviour.Designed to appeal to and be accessible for all early years practitioners, this book includes strategies and advice on:how to...

Based on classroom experience, this easy to read book is perfect for the busy teacher who wants to laugh a little while learning the quickest way to incorporate movement in the classroom. She infuses humor while providing simple and quick examples that can make anyone feel successful! Stacey is an Action Based Learning Certified Trainer, with the first kinesthetic classroom in the nation. Her goal is to change today’s classroom into one that incorporates movement to enhance learning for al...

Meet Max - a boy with Tourette syndrome (TS). Max invites readers to learn about Tourette's from his perspective, helping them to understand what tics and triggers are and what it feels like to have TS. He explains how living with TS can sometimes be difficult, and how people around him can help him to feel happy and accepted.This illustrated book is ideal for young people aged 7 upwards, as well as parents, friends, teachers and other professionals working with children with TS. I...

The EPILLAW Paradigm is a practical method for developing writing skills. It consists of an original nine-level taxonomy and sequential methodology of listening, speaking, writing and reading. In this method, the development of writing precedes the development of reading. The work consists of two books. In the introductory book, the author explicates the first six levels. The behaviors involved in EPILLAW train the student how to think consecutively and logically. The first three levels es...

Concise encyclopaedia of mathematics (152 pages) - from basics (age 9) up to GCE Advanced Mathematics (age 18), is comprised mainly of material extracted from our comprehensive course material. Over and above material extracted from our existing courses our author designed more specifically for inclusion in the Encyclopaedia. This book is ideal as a ready reference for examination revision.Maths, math, algebra, simultaneous equations, trigonometry, geometry, statistics, graphs, qua...