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Provides teacher instructions for a school year's worth of elementary writing instruction.Newly revised and updated for ease of use! When used along with the Student Workbook, Writing With Ease, Level 1 Instructor Guide provides scripted teacher guidance plus all of the copywork assignments, comprehension questions, and reading passages needed for a year of writing instruction.Using passages and sentences from classic children’s li...

A new religion curriculum from the team that brought you The Story of the World.These lesson plans, designed to accompany the weekly lessons laid out in Telling God’s Story, Year One (available separately), provide coloring pages, craft projects, and group activities to fill out an entire week of home school or private school study; a core set of activities is also provided for the use of Sunday school teachers. Coloring pages accompany each lesson and accurately r...

Provides teacher instructions for a school year's worth of elementary writing instruction.Newly revised and updated for ease of use! Writing With Ease Level 2, Revised Instructor Guide provides teacher instruction. Use alongside of Writing With Ease 2, Revised Student Workbook, which contains all copywork assignments and comprehension questions needed for a year of writing instruction.Using passages and sentences from class...

Teach yourself how to play keyboard with our easy electronic keyboard lessons for beginners.***Comes with online access to free keyboard videos and audio for all examples. See and hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along with the backing band. Also includes music score and keyboard animation for easy music learning.***"What an amazing book! I recently bought it for my son and he loves it. Starting with the basics, you learn keyboard ess...

Jumpstart! Storymaking is a collection of games and activities to develop the creative process of ‘storymaking’. It focuses upon 'storytelling for writing' as well as creating a whole school culture of storytelling, reading and writing. Storymaking is the process of retelling, innovating and creating new stories.Like the best-selling Jumpstart! Literacy, this book contains imaginative ‘quick-fire' ideas that could be used as creative warm-ups and starters or devel...

Drama Sessions for Primary Schools and Drama Clubs is an indispensable guide designed to help you run effective and enjoyable drama sessions in your primary school for a whole academic year.The author outlines thirty-three practical and user-friendly sessions, each one built around developing the social skills needed by children to become effective and positive communicators. Each session has guided time allocations and thorough explanations of what each exercise should ac...

Each session in this practical book offers an imaginary situation, followed by a series of questions to encourage children to challenge key philosophical ideas such as values and ethics, gender and identity, and existence and beauty. All the enquiries have been tried and tested, and a handy star system is included to indicate the difficulty level of each one. With a comprehensive introduction and key sections on the philosophy behind the experiments, this book also includes an online teach...

Teach yourself how to play guitar with our easy metal guitar lessons for beginners.***Comes with online access to free guitar videos and audio for all examples. See and hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along with the backing band. Also includes music score animation for easy music learning.***"Excellent! When I bought my distortion pedal I didn’t know what to play. This book showed me how to ‘sound metal’ and now I write my own songs....

Throughout the 20th Century theorists and teachers argued about the best way to teach reading. In California, when the whole language approach was in vogue, many teachers were forced to ignore phonics. I said forced and this was true. Either they had to teach phonics secretly or they would be insulted, degraded, and intimidated to teach using whole language. I ignored it like I had every other dictate that came from above that I knew was the latest way to teacher-proof the curriculum. Many...

*Children enjoyed it so much they didn’t realise they were being worked so hard.*Jo Miles, Learning Support Assistant at Manor Farm Community Junior School, Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire*Great speaking and listening activity-setting-up ideas for the Big Write. The games extended the children’s vocabulary. Purposeful learning – love it!*Liz Pilgrim, Senior Teacher at Manor Farm Community Junior School, Hazlemere, BuckinghamshireEducational games played in groups or pairs help d...

Understand the value of connecting animals and childrenFrom family pets and wild animals to toys, stuffed animals, and media images, animals are a central part of every child’s landscape. This book examines the reasons why children should interact and connect with real animals, and it identifies the rich learning that results. You’ll find heaps of foundational support and practical ideas to create authentic experiences that bring children and all kinds of species of animals togethe...

Young at Art is a practical guide to playbuilding for teachers working with students at an upper primary and secondary level. Focusing on an area often neglected in traditional drama text books, the book covers the process of devising drama, and the teacher’s role in facilitating students to collectively become playwrights, actors, designers, directors and critics of their ensemble work. The playbuilding process is covered in a structured manner, which includes:...