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Scribe Publications The Gifts of Reading for the Next Generation
Book SynopsisInspired by Robert Macfarlane and curated by Jennie Orchard, an anthology of essays about the joys of giving books to children and young people, from some of the world's most beloved writers. Remember the books that shaped your childhood, sparked your imagination, and ignited a lifelong love of reading? In The Gifts of Reading for the Next Generation, some of the world's most beloved authors share their own transformative reading experiences the books and stories that set them on the path of becoming the readers and writers they are today. Following the success of its first edition, The Gifts of Reading, this heartwarming collection of essays is a testament to the enduring power of books. By exploring the stories that shaped them, our authors provide a powerful guide to fostering a love of reading in the children and young people in your life. With contributions from Tristan Bancks, William Boyd, Shankari Chandran, Horatio Clare, Nicola Davies, Imtiaz Dharker, Ursula Dubosarsky, Maisie Fieschi, Pico Iyer, Wayne Karlin, Colum McCann, JohnMichael McCann, Ann Morgan, Sir Michael Morpurgo, Dina Nayeri, Matt Ottley, Nguy?n Phan Qu? Mai, Alice Pung, Diana Reid, Nilanjana Roy, Nikesh Shukla, Nardi Simpson, Madeleine Thien, Thelma Young Lutunatabua, and John Wood, and an afterword by Julia Eccleshare. All royalties generously donated to the two organisations founded by John Wood, Room to Read, and U-Go, promoting literacy and education for girls and young women.
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Icon Books Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of
Book Synopsis‘Everything about [this] book, which combines a healthy dose of lucid neuroscience with a dash of sensitive personal narrative, delights ... a beautifully balanced piece of popular-science writing’ Boyd Tonkin, Independent 'For people interested in language, this is a must. You'll find yourself focusing on words in new ways. Read it slowly - it will take time to sink in.’William Leith, Sunday Telegraph 'An inspiring celebration of the science of reading.’ P.D. Smith, Guardian 'We were never born to read', says Maryanne Wolf. 'No specific genes ever dictated reading's development. Human beings invented reading only a few thousand years ago. And with this invention, we changed the very organisation of our brain, which in turn expanded the ways we were able to think, which altered the intellectual evolution of our species.' In "Proust and the Squid", Maryanne Wolf explores our brains' near-miraculous ability to arrange and re-arrange themselves in response to external circumstances. She examines how this 'open architecture', the elasticity of our brains, helps and hinders humans in their attempts to learn to read, and to process the written language. She also investigates what happens to people whose brains make it difficult to acquire these skills, such as those with dyslexia. Wolf, a world expert on the reading brain, brings both a personal passion and deft style to this, the story of the reading brain. It is a pop science masterpiece on a subject that anyone who loves reading will be sure to find fascinating.Trade Review‘Everything about her book, which combines a healthy dose of lucid neuroscience with a dash of sensitive personal narrative, delights ... a beautifully balanced piece of popular-science writing’ -- Boyd Tonkin, Independent‘Wolf’s alarm about the spread of semi-literacy among the young is obviously justified, and her book provokes thought about it as only reading can.’ -- John Carey, Sunday Times‘There's a lot of difficult material in here. But it's worth the effort. I kept wanting to read more about how written language changed history, and more about the invention of the alphabet. This is a tribute to Wolf, who could not possibly cram everything in here. For people interested in language, this is a must. You'll find yourself focusing on words in new ways. Read it slowly - it will take time to sink in.’ -- William Leith, Sunday Telegraph‘’Proust and the Squid’ is an inspiring celebration of the science of reading.’ -- P.D. Smith, Guardian‘Wolf is excellent on reading as a supreme accomplishment too often taken for granted precisely because of the achievement of automaticity.’ -- Literary Review‘This is a paean of praise for, and a rewarding exploration of, the creative reciprocities between writing, reading and thinking, it is especially good on dyslexia.’ -- Times'An entertaining, comprehensive, delightfully clear account of how our brain allowed us to become word magicians. A splendid achievement!' -- Alberto Manguel, author of ‘A History of Reading’'Child development Professor Wolf maintains the tone of a curious, erudite friend as she synthesises cutting-edge interdisciplinary research - psychology and archaeology, linguistics and education, history and neuroscience - in a pathbreaking look at the reading brain.' -- Publishers Weekly, Books of the Year‘As booksellers, we don't need to be convinced of the importance of reading, but Maryanne Wolf's sage book goes far beyond what even we imagined. Wolf ... is not content to discuss the cultural significance of reading; she asserts with convincing evidence that this activity has radically changed the very organization of the human brain.' -- Barnes and Noble'Wolf displays extraordinary passion and perceptiveness concerning the reading brain, its miraculous achievements and tragic dysfunctions.' -- Bookforum‘What a timely, passionate meditation on the miracle of reading! Wolf's words provide the very pleasure she describes: we feel the precious excitement that is contact with another mind and are duly illuminated, provoked, steadied, and renewed.' -- Gish Jen‘Wolf’s learned but light-footed work is excavating – with a zest that blends authority and accessibility – the deep mystery of why and how we can read at all.’ -- Boyd Tonkin, Independent‘Her book is a remarkable excavation of something we take largely for granted, and throws up plenty of thought-provoking ideas along the way.’ -- Sunday Times‘A brilliant book about how human beings learned to read and write. There’s a superb explanation of the conditions that cause dyslexia – which Wolf points out, wouldn’t have conferred an evolutionary disadvantage until very recently, and might even have been beneficial to some people.’ -- William Leith, The Spectator
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Oxford University Press Nelsons West Indian Readers Second Primer
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OUP Oxford PM Writing Emergent 23 Playing Football
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H J Cowling The Word Wasp
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OUP Oxford Travel PM Writing 4 Emerald 2526
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HarperCollins Publishers Up and Off
Book SynopsisBig Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that together provide a consistent and highly effective approach to teaching phonics.Follow the emergency services as they take to the skies to save people and animals in danger in this non-fiction book.Pages 14 and 15 contain an I Spy feature with a specific phoneme focus, which uses visual support to help children embed phonic knowledge.Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.
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HarperCollins Publishers Scrap
Book SynopsisBig Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that together provide a consistent and highly effective approach to teaching phonics.Meet Scrap! He is on a mission to reduce rubbish. Learn how recycling, upcycling and re-using rubbish can help the planet. See how we can take inspiration from nature to transform our trash into treasure in this encouraging non-fiction book.
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OUP Oxford PM Writing Emergent 23 My School
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Taylor & Francis Avoiding Potholes in Translation
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OUP Oxford In the Garden PM PLUS Magenta 1
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OUP Oxford The Jungle Frogs
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OUP Oxford Artistic Elephants PM Writing 4 Emerald 2526
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Transworld Publishers Ltd Today Everything Changes
Book SynopsisAbandoned as a baby, Andy McNab''s start in life was tough. Growing up in South London with foster parents, and surrounded by poverty, he attended seven schools in as many years, disillusioned and in remedial classes. It wasn't long before his life descended into petty crime. By the age of sixteen, he was in juvenile detention. Recruited into the Army from there, it soon became apparent that he had the reading age of an eleven year old. The next six months in the Army education system changed his course of his life forever. Today Everything Changes is the inspiring story of when life changed for Andy McNab.
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Oxford University Press Read Write Inc. Phonics Book Bag Books Yellow Set
Book SynopsisThis pack contains one copy of each of the Read Write Inc. Phonics Book Bag Books Non-Fiction at Yellow level, a total of 10 books.Read Write Inc. Phonics Book Bag Books are engaging texts to support children with additional reading practice outside the classroom. They have been specifically designed for children to take home after school, in order to share their reading journey and celebrate their achievements with parents and carers. The books are closely matched to the existing Read Write Inc. Phonics Storybooks to reinforce children''s classroom learning of phonics at the appropriate level, helping them to make even faster progress in reading. Read Write Inc. Phonics Book Bag Books fit into the existing Read Write Inc. Phonics timetable, providing an additional opportunity for reading practice and celebration of reading achievement with parents and carers. Book Bag Books are part of the Read Write Inc. Phonics programme, developed by Ruth Miskin and used in over 4000 schools. The p
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Stenhouse Publishers The CAFE Book: Engaging All Students in Daily
Book SynopsisFor the past ten years, Gail Boushey and Allison Behne worked with hundreds of teachers and students nationwide to gain insightsinto the best practices for reading instruction. Using their findings, they developed The CAFE Book, Expanded Second Edition: Engaging All Students in Daily Literacy Assessment and Instruction to share what their research has proven - that reading instruction is not about the setting or the book level, but rather effective reading instruction is based off of what the student needs in that moment.With the release of The CAFE Book in 2009, the CAFE system (Comprehension, Accuracy, Flluency, and expanding Vocabulary) has been implemented in classrooms all over the world. It changed the way educators assess, teach, and track student information and has positively impacted the way students learn, practice, and talk about reading.The CAFE Book, Expanded Second Edition builds on the same research-based, student-centered foundations, but now includes: Seven Steps from Assessment to Instruction to plan data-driven classworkThe Instruction Protocol - a framework to guide your teaching and planning CAFE's Essential Elements resource to guide your understanding of student-focused instructionA revised CAFE menu and a checklist of skills vital for emerging readersReady Reference Guides that include when to teach the strategy, options for differentiating methods, and partner strategiesSignificantresources to help with lesson planning, assessments and goal setting, and parent involvementNew and improved forms for bothonline conferring notebook and a pencil/paper notebookto support more effective conferring with studentsThe CAFE Book, Expanded Second Edition offers a variety of tools to structure your literacy block and create an environment where your students are engaged readers and writers with resources that set them up for success. The CAFE system is all you need to support, guide, and coach your students toward the strategies that will move them forward.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter One: What Is CAFE?; Chapter Two: The CAFE Conferring Notebook: Accountability for Our Teaching and Student Learning; Chapter Three: Assessment: The Foundation of Intentional Instruction; Chapter Four: The Instruction Protocol: Designing Student-Centered Lessons; Chapter Five: Getting Started; Chapter Six: Frequently Asked Questions
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HarperCollins Publishers Little Wandle at Home More Phonics Flashcards for
Book SynopsisBig Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic books that together provide a consistent and highly effective approach to teaching phonics.Dimensions: 117x77mm (Cards)A set of 43 phonics flashcards to support children who are using Little Wandle for Letters and Sounds Revised at school and the perfect tool to support phonics learning at home.The Little Wandle complete systematic synthetic phonics programme has been developed for schools by schools, and is fully validated by the Department for Education.For further advice and videos visit collins.co.uk/LittleWandleAtHome
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OUP Oxford Kitty Cat PM PLUS Level 3 Red
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OUP Oxford Sams Race PM PLUS Level 4 Red
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OUP Oxford Little Terriers PM Writing 1 RedYellow 56
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OUP Oxford Pet Budgies PM Writing 1 YellowBlue 89
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OUP Oxford How Gliders Fly PM Writing 2 GreenOrange 1415
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OUP Oxford Living in the City PM Writing 2 TurquoisePurple 1819
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Multilingual Matters Diverse Critical Literacies
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HarperCollins Publishers Crocs and Rocks Band 06Orange Collins Big Cat
Book SynopsisCollins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 16 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding vocabulary.This photographic non-fiction book invites you in to experience the activities, animals, art and natural beauty of Kakadu National Park in Australia.Orange/Band 6 offers varied text and characters, with action sustained over several pages.The focus sounds in this book are: /ee/ e, y, e-e /j/ g, ge /f/ ph /l/ le /z/ se /igh/ y /w/ wh /ai/ a /ch/ tch /v/ ve /s/ sePages 22 and 23 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall.Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and wo
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HarperCollins Publishers Will it sink
Book SynopsisBig Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that together provide a consistent and highly effective approach to teaching phonics.Predict which objects will float and which will sink in this photographic non-fiction book.Pages 14 and 15 contain a fun I Spy Letters and Sounds activity, which uses visual support to help children embed phonic knowledge.Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.
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HarperCollins Publishers How to Draw Cat and Dog
Book SynopsisBig Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that together provide a consistent and highly effective approach to teaching phonics.Shoo Rayner, creator of the successful Cat and Dog series, shows you step by step how to draw the much-loved characters yourself in this non-fiction instruction book.Pages 22 and 23 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall.Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.
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OUP Oxford Star and Patches
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OUP Oxford Big Wheels and Little Wheels PM Writing 1 RedYellow 56
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OUP Oxford A School Concert PM Writing 2 GreenOrange 1415
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Oxford University Press Australia Language Literacy Early Childhood Education
Book SynopsisLanguage,Literacy and Early Childhood Education, fourth edition, focuses on language and literacy development in children from birth to age eight, with a particular emphasis on four- to eight-year-olds.It describes pedagogical practices that will allow pre-service teachers to plan for play-based learning while also employing other approaches such as explicit teaching, collaborative learning and learning though exploration and discovery. Making explicit links to the Early Years Learning Framework and the Australian Curriculum, this book is based on current research and theoretical perspectives and includes practical strategies and activities to equip pre-service teachers with the knowledge and skills they need to effectively support young children''s learning of language and literacy.This book is recognised for making sense of the complex process of children becoming literate in early childhood. It addresses the five key areas of literacy: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabularTable of Contents1: Introduction to Literacy: Definitions and Theoretical Perspectives PART 1: YOUNG CHILDREN, LANGUAGE AND LITERACY 2: Children's Literature 3: Understanding Oral Language 4: Oral Language: Perspectives and Phases 5: Early Childhood Settings and Oral Language Learning and Development 6: Key Early Childhood Learning Contexts for Oral Language 7: Learning Experiences and Activities for Speaking and Listening 8: Language, Thinking and Learning 9: Assessing Speaking and Listening PART 2: YOUNG CHILDREN AND READING 10: Understanding Reading 11: Phonological Awareness 12: Grapheme Phoneme (Letter-Sound) Knowledge and Word Identification 13: Vocabulary for Reading and Writing Toolbox of Vocabulary for Reading and Writing 14: Strategies for Teaching Reading 15: Reading for Comprehension Toolbox of Comprehension Strategies 16: Developing Reading Fluency Toolbox of Fluency Strategies PART 3: YOUNG CHILDREN AND WRITING 17: Introduction to Writing 18: Writing Purpose and Text Organisation 19: The Writing Conventions: Grammar and Punctuation 20: Spelling and Handwriting 21: Key Strategies for Teaching Writing 22: Writing Experiences and Activities 23: Assessing and Evaluating Writing PART 4: FRAMING LANGUAGE AND LITERACY LEARNING 24: Critical Literacy and Visual Literacy 25: Digital Technologies and Literacy 26: Connecting with Families 27: Planning for Language and Literacy
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Transworld Publishers Ltd On The Rock
Book SynopsisThis is the call he is always ready for. They've had word of a planned attack. That's why he's back here, opposite some suit who's trying to tell him what he needs to do. But he knows exactly what's required.Four men. Plain clothes. Eyes peeled.Three targets. Two cases. One car.Gibraltar isn't an ideal location. Too many people. Too many blind alleys. But then again, he's not the terrorist. Who knows what goes through their minds? Well, he will soon. If everything goes to plan.
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Pearson Education Word Study for Phonics Vocabulary and Spelling
Book Synopsis About our authors Donald R. Bear is Professor Emeritus in Literacy Studies at Iowa State University and the University of Nevada, Reno, where he directed reading centres and taught at all levels. He is a former classroom teacher and an author and co-author of numerous articles, chapters and 17 books, including Word Study. He is involved in innovative professional development activities, and his work in assessment and word study is used widely. Donald is involved in studies that examine literacy learning, particularly studies of orthographic development in different and second languages. He has received several awards for teaching and service and was recently a board member of the International Literacy Association. Marcia Invernizzi is the Henderson Professor Emerita of Reading Education at the University of Virginia. She is the primary author of Virginia's state-wide literacy assessment program, Phonological Awareness Literacy ScrTable of Contents Chapter 1: Developmental Word Knowledge Chapter 2: Getting Started Chapter 3: Word Study Principles and Practices Chapter 4: Word Study for the Emergent Stage Chapter 5: Word Study for the Letter Name–Alphabetic Stage Chapter 6: Word Study for the Within Word Pattern Stage Chapter 7: Word Study for the Syllables and Affixes Stage Chapter 8: Word Study for the Derivational Relations Stage Chapter 9: Implementation of Word Study Instruction: Schedules, Routines and Materials Appendices
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Library and Information Sciences: Trends and
Book SynopsisThis book explores the development, trends and research of library and information sciences (LIS) in the digital age. Inside, readers will find research and case studies written by LIS experts, educators and theorists, most of whom have visited China, delivered presentations there and drafted their articles based on feedback they received. As a result, readers will discover the LIS issues and concerns that China and the international community have in common.The book first introduces the opportunities and challenges faced by the library and information literacy profession and discusses the key role of librarians in the future of information literacy education. Next, it covers trends in LIS education by examining the vision of the iSchool movement and detailing its practice in Syracuse University.The book then covers issues in information seeking and retrieval by showing how visual data mining technology can be used to detect the relationship and pattern between terms on the Q&A of a social media site. It also includes a case study regarding tracing information seeking behavior and usage on a multimedia website.Next, the book stresses the importance of building an academic accreditation framework for scientific datasets, explores the relationship between bibliometrics and university rankings, and details the birth and development of East Asian Libraries in North America.Overall, the book offers readers insight into the changing nature of LIS, including the electronic dissemination of information, the impact of the Internet on libraries, the changing responsibilities of library professionals, the new paradigm for evaluating information, and characteristics and functions of today's library personnel.Table of ContentsPart I Information Profession and Information Literacy.- Chapter 1 Career and Professional Opportunities and Challenges for Librarians and Other Information Professionals Specializing in Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning.- Chapter 2 So What’s the Big Deal With Information Literacy in the United States?.- Chapter 3 A Group Discussion on Information Literacy.- Part II Trends of Library and Information Sciences Education.- Chapter 4 iSchools & the iSchool at Syracuse University.- Part III Information Seeking and Retrieval.- Chapter 5 Visual Data Mining in a Q&A based Social Media Website.- Chapter 6 Information Seeking Behaviour and Usage on a Multi-media Platform: Case Study Europeana.- Chapter 7 Exploratory Search: a Critical Analysis of the Theoretical Foundations, Systems Features, and Research Trends.- Part IV Informatics.- Chapter 8 Scientific Datasets: Informetric Characteristics and Social Utility Metrics for Biodiversity Data Sources.- Chapter 9 Knowledge Discovery of Complex Networks Research Literature.- Chapter 10 Bibliometrics and University Research Rankings Demystified for Librarians.- Part V Development of World Libraries.- Chapter 11 The Development of East Asian Libraries in North America.
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Orion Publishing Co Star Sullivan Quick Reads S
Book SynopsisMaeve Binchy''s highly successful Quick Read.''She is the Queen of Fiction and one of the funniest and best-loved storytellers in the world . . . once you read Maeve you are hooked for life'' IRISH TIMES''Maeve Binchy''s work continues to inspire ... thought-provoking, warm and funny in equal measure'' WOMANMolly Sullivan said that the new baby was a little star. She was no trouble at all and she was always smiling - so she became known as Star and no one remembered that her name was Oona.Star Sullivan just wanted everyone to be happy - her father to stop gambling, her mother not to work so hard, her brother to stay out of trouble, her sister to stop worrying about every little thing she ate. Then the Hale family moved in next door, and from the moment Star saw 23-year-old Laddy Hale, everything began to change - until Star was no longer the sweet, thoughtful girl everyone loved and no one worried about...Trade ReviewWarm, witty and with a deep understanding of what makes us tick, it's little wonder that Maeve Binchy's bewitching stories have become world-beaters * OK MAGAZINE *Reading her books is like gossiping with old friends * DAILY EXPRESS *She is the Queen of Fiction and one of the funniest and best-loved storytellers in the world . . . once you read Maeve you are hooked for life * IRISH TIMES *What is Maeve Binchy's magic? Every time she publishes a novel the race is on to the armchair or the poolside seat, telephones fall eerily silent . . . Her great gift is to suck her reader into the drama of everyday lives without fuss . . . She relies on dialogue and on keeping up a cracking pace * DAILY MAIL *Maeve Binchy is a master storyteller * NEW YORK TIMES *Binchy . . . is a class act * DAILY EXPRESS *
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HarperCollins Publishers Pop it on
Book SynopsisBig Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that together provide a consistent and highly effective approach to teaching phonics.Children dress up in a variety of fancy-dress costumes in this photographic non-fiction book.Pages 14 and 15 contain a fun I Spy Letters and Sounds activity, which uses visual support to help children embed phonic knowledge.Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.
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OUP Oxford Bugs for Breakfast
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Gift
Book SynopsisThe gripping new twisty psychological thriller from international bestselling author, Sebastian Fitzek. Milan Berg is standing at a set of traffic lights when a car stops next to him. In the back seat he sees a frightened young girl. Desperate, she presses a piece of paper against the window. Milan can't read it - because he suffers from alexia, the inability to read or comprehend the written word. It's a secret that he's managed to hide for most of his life, even from friends and loved ones. But he understands the meaning of the note: the girl is in mortal danger. Milan's search for the kidnapped girl brings a cruel realisation: sometimes the truth is too terrible to live with - and ignorance is the greatest gift on earth. With a twisty non-linear storyline that charts one man's descent into a real-life nightmare, The Gift is perfect for fans of Chris Carter and Lars Kepler. Reviewers on Sebastian Fitzek'Fitzek's thrillers are breathtaking, full of wild twists.' Harlan Coben'F
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HarperCollins Publishers Year 2 Reading Comprehension Targeted Practice
Book SynopsisLevel: KS1Subject: English Reading ComprehensionTargeted practice for every topic taught at school!When it comes to getting the best results, practice really does bring progress! Matched to the National Curriculum, this Collins Year 2 Reading Comprehension workbook is designed to improve comprehension skills. This book contains relevant and engaging texts including fiction, non-fiction and poetry and covering a range of styles and eras from well-known classics to modern authors.Using a repeated practice method that is proven to work, this book improves performance in school, as well as in tests and assessments. Questions are organised into levels of increasing difficulty while progress tests throughout check children's understanding along the way. Children can record their own results too, supporting awareness and boosting confidence. A handy answer section is also included to ensure every child can succeed in Year 2. We've got a Year 2 Maths Targeted Practice Workbook (9780008179007)
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HarperCollins Publishers Pots Cans Cups
Book SynopsisBig Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that together provide a consistent and highly effective approach to teaching phonics.Join a family as they clean up the rubbish along a river in this non-fiction book, written by Clare Helen Welsh.Pages 14 and 15 contain a fun I Spy Letters and Sounds activity, which uses visual support to help children embed phonic knowledge.Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.
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HarperCollins Publishers Tap it Tad Band 01APink A Collins Big Cat Phonics
Book SynopsisCollins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 16 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding vocabulary.Tad the tadpole is bored. What will happen when he taps the lilypad above him?Pink A- Pink A/Band 1A offers emergent readers very simple, highly predictable texts and provides direct support through illustrations.The focus sounds in this book are:/s/ /a/ /t/ /p/ /i/ /n/ /m/ /d/Pages 14 and 15 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall.Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.
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HarperCollins Publishers Aimee and the Tablet
Book SynopsisBig Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that together provide a consistent and highly effective approach to teaching phonics.Aimee is keen to play a game on her mum's tablet, but will she know what to do when an error message appears? This sweet story, written by Childnet International, highlights internet safety to a young audience.Pages 14 and 15 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall.Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.
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Penguin Books Ltd The Uses of Literacy
Book SynopsisWhen a society becomes more affluent, does it lose other values? Are the skills that education and literacy gave millions wasted on consuming pop culture? Do the media coerce us into a world of the superficial and the material - or can they be a force for good? When Richard Hoggart asked these questions in his 1957 book The Uses of Literacy Britain was undergoing huge social change, yet his landmark work has lost none of its pertinence and power today. Hoggart gives a fascinating insight into the close-knit values of Northern England''s vanishing working-class communities, and weaves this together with his views on the arrival of a new, homogenous ''mass'' US-influenced culture. His headline-grabbing bestseller opened up a whole new area of cultural study and remains essential reading, both as a historical document, and as a commentary on class, poverty and the media.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Building Communities of Engaged Readers
Book SynopsisReading for pleasure urgently requires a higher profile to raise attainment and increase children's engagement as self-motivated and socially interactive readers. Building Communities of Engaged Readers highlights the concept of Reading Teachers' who are not only knowledgeable about texts for children, but are aware of their own reading identities and prepared to share their enthusiasm and understanding of what being a reader means. Sharing the processes of reading with young readers is an innovative approach to developing new generations of readers. Examining the interplay between the will and the skill' to read, the book distinctively details a reading for pleasure pedagogy and demonstrates that reader engagement is strongly influenced by relationships between children, teachers, families and communities. Importantly it provides compelling evidence that reciprocal reading communities in school encompass: a shared concept of what it means to Trade Review"This book is essential reading for all those who have an interest in teaching reading in schools. It should be on all initial teacher education programme reading lists and should be at the centre of professional discussions on how to encourage reading for pleasure in schools. In addition to demonstrating how children can come to recognise the pleasures of reading, there are plenty of issues to debate and mull over. I cannot recommend it enough." - Andrew Lambirth, British Journal of Educational Studies (Vol 63, Issue 2, 2015) "The authors of Building Communities of Engaged Readers formulate an important and empirically valid argument for the significant impact of pedagogical practice and reading repertoires on pupils’ reading engagement in reading and their academic achievement. It is an important signal for policy makers and practitioners not only in the UK. I highly recommend Building Communities of Engaged Readers not only to those who teach reading in schools, but also to educational policy makers to help them to see reading as multidimensional practice." - Zofia Zasacka, National Library, Poland, International Research Society for Children's Literature Table of Contents1. Introduction : Setting the context 2. Reading for pleasure and reader engagement: Reviewing the research 3. The UKLA Projects: Teachers as Readers and Building Communities of Readers 4. Teachers’ knowledge and use of children’s literature 5. Enhancing teachers’ knowledge of children’s literature and other texts 6. Reading Teachers: Teachers who read and readers who teach 7. A Reading for Pleasure Pedagogy 8. Reader relationships within and beyond school 9. Influencing children’s attitudes, motivation and achievements as readers 10. Conclusion: Building communities of engaged readers
£39.99
Pan Macmillan Reading With Patrick
Book SynopsisReading with Patrick is the true story of a teacher, a student who lost his way and the redemptive power of books.Trade ReviewReading with Patrick [is] Michelle Kuo's rich memoir of her literary friendship with a student in a small town in the Mississippi Delta * TLS *Remarkable . . . Honest, generous, humble and wise, Reading with Patrick will endure as a defining story for our times, and, abidingly, a testament to the power of language and of books. -- Claire Messud, author of The Emperor’s Children and The Woman Upstairs'Honest, thoughtful, and humane, Kuo’s book is not only a testament to a remarkable friendship, but a must-read for anyone interested in social justice and race in America. Thoughtfully provocative reading.' * Kirkus Reviews *This book is special and could not be more right on time. An absorbing, tender, and surprisingly honest examination of race and privilege. -- Wes Moore, author of The Other Wes MooreRiveting . . . An empathetic story of connection: between a dedicated teacher and her student, between history and our current times, and between literature and life. It is hard to imagine a more inspiring testament to the transformative power of reading. -- Elliot Holt, author of You Are One of ThemA gorgeous, urgent and heartbreaking memoir. -- Darcy Frey, author of The Last ShotI delighted in this book and read it in a single weekend. Reading with Patrick is a significant work that could swell the ranks of highly motivated and qualified teachers—people who understand they are not just transferring information but transforming lives -- Bill Moyers[A] tender memoir. * O, the Oprah Magazine *Table of ContentsIntroduction - i: Introduction Unit - 1: Part I Chapter - 1: A Raisin in the Sun Chapter - 2: The Free Write Chapter - 3: The Fire Next Time Unit - 2: Part II Chapter - 4: The Death of Ivan Ilyich Unit - 3: Part III Chapter - 5: Crime and Punishment Chapter - 6: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Chapter - 7: He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven Chapter - 8: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Chapter - 9: I Have Read Everything on This Paper (The Guilty Plea) Chapter - 10: To Paula in Late Spring Unit - 4: Part IV Chapter - 11: Easter Morning Section - ii: Author’s Note Acknowledgements - iii: Acknowledgments
£15.29
Pearson Education Language Development An Introduction Global
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsBrief Contents The Territory Describing Language Neurological Bases of Speech and Language Cognitive, Perceptual and Motor Bases of Early Language and Speech The Social and Communicative Bases of Early Language and Speech Language-Learning and Teaching Processes and Young Children First Words and Word Combinations in Toddler Talk Preschool Pragmatic and Semantic Development Preschool Development of Language Form Early School-Age Language Development School-Age Literacy Development Adolescent and Adult Language Appendix A: American English Speech Sounds Appendix B: Major Racial and Ethnic Dialects of American English Appendix C: Development Summary Appendix D: Computing MLU Appendix E: Background Grammar Glossary References Author Index Subject Index
£59.99
HarperCollins Publishers Not Junk Band 02ARed A Collins Big Cat Phonics
Book SynopsisCollins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 16 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding vocabulary.Zap, the overly helpful house robot is clearing up junk in Jazz's bedroom. But some of it is not junk and belongs to Jazz!Red A/Band 2A offers emergent readers predictable text with familiar objects and actions, combined with simple story development.The focus sounds in this book are: /nk/ /th/ /z/ /x/ /sh/ /y/Pages 14 and 15 contain a fun I Spy Letters and Sounds activity, which uses visual support to help children embed phonic knowledge.Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.
£7.89
Penguin Books Ltd Listen to Your Child
Book SynopsisLearning to talk is probably the greatest milestone in a child''s development: a deeply moving and often hilarious experience for all parents. In this charming and informative book, Britain''s leading expert on the English language talks you through every stage in your child''s language development. Over thirty years after its original publication, this new and updated edition of Listen to your Child shows us that while the world our children are growing up in may have changed, one thing has not: parents still need to listen. Gathering decades of research from psychologists and linguists, Professor Crystal shows how the more we know about language acquisition - from ''cooking'' and ''babbling'' to melodic ''scribble talk'' and simple words and then to incessant chatter - the more there is to delight in.From birth to the early school years, Listen to your Child provides a painless introduction to the study of child language acquisition as well as invaluable advice for parents.
£11.07
