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In Learning Outside the Primary Classroom, the educationalist and writer Fred Sedgwick explores in a practical way the many opportunities for intense ...
Part of a series of books whose aim is to place art at the centre of a child's learning experience, this book is intended to help primary school teach...
Shakespeare and the Young Writer presents fascinating and impressive accounts of primary school children encountering Shakespeare's work for the first...
This title contains one hundred ideas for assemblies in the primary school suitable for ages 5 to 11. Some assemblies will be religious and some will ...
Too often the teaching of poetry is divided into the reading of poetry and the writing of poetry. This division is strange and illogical because the t...
A Dictionary of Word Origins
An invaluable guide to the fascinating origins of everyday words crafted into pithy annecdotes and facts....
Originally published in 1993, this book addresses the issue of the place of the expressive arts in primary schools in the years around and beyond the ...
Originally published in 1994, this book enables primary school teachers to take steps to make Personal, Social and Moral Education (PSME) central to t...
A Year in the Life of a Primary School
Originally published in 1989, this is a book about managing a real primary school – but, unlike most management books, it places the child at the ce...
Shakespeare's words belong to all of us. This book offers 87 lessons full of practical advice on how to teach Shakespeare to young children, with the ...
Despite being dead for nearly 400 years, Shakespeare's plays and plots are very much alive in the modern curriculum. For many of those required to stu...
And Get it Published
Plenty of people want to write poetry - yet while it is not necessarily difficult to write poetry badly, it is harder to write it well. In this guide ...
Young Children, Poetry and Learning
In this, Sedgwick's latest book, he aims to help all those involved with children and their learning through poem-writing improve their practice. He a...
Life: A Guide - Poems for Key Stage 2 with Teaching Notes
This is a book about the power of poetry to speak about the central themes of what it is to be a human being. The first part is an anthology of specia...
The Creative Approach
"The teaching of literacy is a high priority for teachers and for governments, yet some of the approaches commonly used are very limiting, joyless and...
A Practical Guide to Overcoming Classroom Crises
Provides teachers with a variety of tips and strategies to deal with problems they encounter in the classroom....
Lists range from the practical, such as preparing for an interview, organising your classroom and dealing with difficulties to the fun, such as how th...
Using Literature to Inspire Literacy learning for Ages 8-12
"A marvellous book of great practical value" – James Carter The lack of interest in reading for pleasure amongst large numbers of primary age pupils...
Poetry and Literacy across the Primary Curriculum
Writing to Learn looks at how poetry can be used as an enjoyable way to teach literacy across the curriculum. It includes remarkable poems and stories...
A Guide for Prospective Student Teachers
If you are interested in a career in teaching but not sure where to start, this book is the perfect guide. Written for anybody considering taking an i...
At the heart of this book is an emphasis on helping children to learn about themselves, their world and their relationships, through drawing. It also ...
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Young Children and Their Language
Thinking About Literacy discusses the literacy of children in the infant years. The author takes the view that the child is an active learner when he/...
Poems for Young People
Being born; falling in love (though not, please not, with Jenny); dancing the locomotion; fighting on the playground; being a little frightened: all h...
Designed to fit the National Curriculum, the English 5-14 Guidelines in Scotland and the Northern Ireland Guidelines for English, this is part of the ...
Designed to fit the National Curriculum, this is part of the Longman Book Project. The project aims to enable teachers throughout the primary school t...
A Creative Approach
The book covers the teaching of literacy to children aged 5-14, with the emphasis on 5-11. (The material for older students means that the book applie...
Poems for Children
a collection of poems for infants
Fun with Form : from Riddles to Epitaphs
General Editor: Sue Palmer Fiction Editor and Language Consultant: Wendy Body The Longman Book Project for ages 4-11: *Inspires children with an unpar...
A Collection of Poems for Juniors
Shows how children's drawing skills can be developed within the National Curriculum in tandem with their growing awareness of the physical world, worl...