The Complete Phonic Handbook is an essential reference for all teachers responsible for the language development of children. Presented in a format that will assist quick and easy reference. Features: Teacher resource for all years. Will help to improve student understanding of graphophonics and spelling. Colour coded for easy identification of words and activities. Easy-to-follow information on common spelling for sounds, compound words, and more. Includes ideas for class activities. View More...
The Little Mouse and the Big Hungry Bear are known and loved by millions of children around the world. Little Mouse loves strawberries, but so does bear ... How will Little Mouse stop the bear from eating his freshly picked, red, ripe strawberry? This set includes both the soft cover book and the related game cards. This set focus' on the Key Learning Areas: Sequencing, Memory, Comprehension, Early Reading and Association. In The Game Box: 4 sets of 12 cards correlating to the story. Each card includes a picture from the story on one side and abridged text from the story on the other. Only 1... View More...
One of the most influential teaching guides ever updated! Teach Like a Champion 2.0 is a complete update to the international bestseller. This teaching guide is a must-have for new and experienced teachers alike. Over 700,000 teachers around the world already know how the techniques in this book turn educators into classroom champions. With ideas for everything from classroom management to inspiring student engagement, you will be able to perfect your teaching practice right away. The first edition of Teach Like a Champion influenced thousands of educators because author Doug Lemov's teaching ... View More...
The 11th print edition of Eric’s best-selling book, Reflections on Classroom Thinking Strategies: How to create your thinking classroom with 42 practical and engaging thinking tools. You may notice Reflections (11th edition) is sporting a charming new front cover, featuring Eric's beautiful 10-year-old granddaughter, Grace. She is a vibrant, proactive learner – just the kind of student we all want to nurture and support as teachers. About this book: Eric’s Reflections on Classroom Thinking Strategies has sold 35,000 copies and remains a trusted and inspiring resource for teach... View More...
The Sound Waves Foundation Toolbox is essential for all Foundation Teachers. What you'll find in the Sound Waves Foundation Toolbox: Let's Sing the Sounds CD. Foundation Flashcards. Foundation Sound Cards (Both A4 & A5 size). Sound Cards A5 (Words and Graphemes). All packaged in a sturdy carry case. View More...
Maths handbook for teachers and parents explains in detail the content of the Australian Mathematics Curriculum from Years 3–9 and in some cases beyond. It also includes a brief coverage of the content from early childhood up to Year 2. The authors, all experienced mathematics educators, give the simplest explanations of how to tackle maths problems, providing background information and clearly-worked examples. If you are not sure of the steps such as those required to teach students how to create and read a graph, complete a calculation or solve an equation in algebra, then this book is ... View More...
Middle schooling is on the educational agenda of every state and territory and is seen as vital to the overall cognitive and affective well-being of all students. Learning in the Middle Years: More than a Transition takes up the varying perspectives of teachers, students and administrators and uses relevant Australian research to address challenges faced in teaching and learning in the middle years. The book falls into two main sections: the first focuses on students and their learning in the Middle Years, while the second considers the professional learning of teachers working in the Middle Y... View More...
University of Melbourne - Graduate School of Education EDUC90862: Evidence-based Practice In November 2008, John Hattie's ground-breaking book Visible Learning synthesised the results of more than fifteen years research involving millions of students and represented the biggest ever collection of evidence-based research into what actually works in schools to improve learning. Visible Learning for Teachers takes the next step and brings those ground breaking concepts to a completely new audience. Written for students, pre-service and in-service teachers, it explains how to apply the principl... View More...
This pack includes both the Letters and Sounds Beginners Book and the Letters and Sounds Alphabet Song and Activities CD. Letters and Sounds Beginner's book Queensland teaches: Basic movements and patterns for handwriting. Names of upper case and lower case letters. Letter family groups. Initial sounds of letters. Spatial awareness. Phonic awareness. Listening to verses and jingles. Reading (CD). How to write/tracing. Speaking. Recognition of numerals. Pronunciation. Reading jingles. The Letters and Sounds Alphabet Song and Activities CD is a fun way for children to learn upp... View More...
English Skills Practice. English skills practice is a series of six workbooks linked to the requirements of the Australian National Curriculum for each stage of primary school. The aim of the series is to provide comprehensive and structured daily practice of already-taught literacy and language skills in spelling, word study, punctuation and grammar in order to consolidate and develop a student's ability and confidence to use English. Each workbook has 150 days of questions, organised into 15 units of 10 days followed by a set of revision questions for each unit. The number of daily que... View More...
Shortlisted for the 2013 Nursery World Awards! This is a focused text on early years' language and literacy for all students studying for degrees and foundation degrees in early childhood, early years and related disciplines and for candidates on EYPS pathways. It discusses language acquisition and development and covers development theory, talking with babies and the factors that affect development. Practical guidance on how to support children's language acquisition through rhymes, songs, story books and storytelling helps students see how theory links to practice. The text also examines the... View More...
This new edition of Secondary Schooling in a Changing World continues to provide a comprehensive framework for teachers' understanding of secondary schools, their focuses and practices. It challenges ideas about secondary schooling and offers positive strategies for addressing difficult problems. As well as incorporating the latest research and ideas, this valuable text provides an accessible forum for pre-service educators to debate issues that will impact upon their future careers. View More...
Reading Box Blue has been designed by experienced teachers to support students in Years 2 to 4. It is a comprehensive multi-level, multi-text type, reading comprehension kit. It has been created and written by a team of very experienced Australian primary school teachers and headmasters. Reading Box Blue aims to provide students with a broad range of high-interest texts that will engage even the most reluctant reader. The kit also provides the teacher with another means to enhance the operation of reading groups within a literacy block. The beauty of all Reading Boxes is that students genuinel... View More...
Reading Box Green has been designed to help senior primary students and lower secondary students strengthen their comprehension skills. Older readers are faced with more complex reading decisions, with the difference between text types becoming more subtle. The challenges presented by Reading Box Green help students to develop and strengthen their skills for negotiating and comprehending these textual forms, as well as provide strong examples for them to follow when expressing their own ideas in clearly defined formats. High-interest subject matter and beautiful illustrations complete each car... View More...
Reading Box Red has been created by a team of experienced Australian primary school teachers to sit between, and support, Reading Box Blue and Reading Box Green. It is designed for students in Years 4 to 5/6 and is a complete reading comprehension kit in a box. The box contains 150 carefully levelled cards that provide graded texts and related exercises.
The questions found on Reading Box Red cards are carefully cultivated to give students valuable practice at literal, interpretive, inferential and critical levels. Question types include multiple choice, true-false, sequencing, cloze pass... View More...
Reading Box Yellow is designed for students in Years 1 and 2. Just like Reading Boxes Red and Blue, Reading Box Yellow includes 150 high quality illustrated cards over a span of 15 expertly graded levels. Reading Box Yellow also functions as a self-managing classroom resource. Reading Box Yellow : Is suitable for Years 1 and 2. Covers reading levels 6 to 27+. caters for reading ages 5.6 to 11. Is designed to cater for all reading abilities in infant school classrooms, from emergent readers to highly capable readers. Is the first Reading Box to feature six-frame illustrated cards. These six-fra... View More...
Mantle of the Expert is an education approach that uses imaginary contexts to generate purposeful and engaging activities for learning.
Mantle of the Expert works by the teacher planning a fictional context where the students take on the responsibilities of an expert team. As the team, they are commissioned by a client to work on a assignment, which has been planned to generate tasks and activities that will involve them in studying and developing wide areas of the curriculum.
For example, a class of students are cast as a team of archaeologists excavating an Egyptian tomb for the Ca... View More...
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