Education : Preschool & Kindergarten

This book contains tried-and-tested activities to improve listening, verbal reasoning and language skills in young children and shows how to turn theory into fun, practical ideas for the classroom. The author shows how to link activities to the Early Learning Goals and the National Literacy Strategy and the book includes: olesson activities using puppets, nursery rhymes, story boxes and picture books. osuggestions for using role-play. oideas for organizing your play setting to encourage literacy-related play. oassessment guidelines. ophotocopiable materials. It is a valuable resource for those working with children aged three to eight years. more...

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Learn Basic Sight Words. Book 1 was so popular we have added another book to this series. Book 2 introduces a further 21 basic sight words at the next degree of difficulty to the 24 introduced in Book 1. Book 2 follows the same sequence of activities as Book 1 using large and small motor activities and sentence reading and writing activities with contextual clues to introduce each word. The activities used repeat for each word so that independence is quickly achieved and students can complete the activity on their own as a follow-up activity to instruction. Activities for each word are:. - tracing over a large model of the word. - copying over the word and writing it independently. - cutting out the muddled letters of the word and sticking them in the correct order. - selecting the correct word from a selection of words. - completing a sentence (use basic vocab and picture clues for understanding) with the word and reading the sentences. - cutting out the muddled words of one of the sentences and putting it together in the correct order. These activities are ideal for building into a book that the children can keep and read and re read and take home to share. The importance of being able to retain and instantly recognize the basic sight words to a good start in reading cannot be overstated. This resource will supplement classroom teaching and develop independence and success. more...

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Aimed at non specialist primary teachers, this book offers support for the two attainment targets of the National Curriculum in art: investigating and making, and knowledge and understanding. more...

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`It is, without a doubt, the most absorbing and easily absorbed book we have seen' - Nurturing Potential. This book is written with the needs of the practitioner firmly in mind. It offers advice based on the author's own experience as a practitioner and provides the reader with sound knowledge of the area which will support and inform practice. Useful, practical, realistic and constructive suggestions are made by exploring research and current examples of good practice; and they are supported by individual case studies. more...

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This book critically discusses the issues associated with behaviour problems in the early years, and their implications for practice. Included are checklists and observation and screening procedures. more...

Price: $41.95