The more teachers understand about how children learn to talk, the more they can help children become avid, joyful readers and writers. Drawing on a large body of research and her own volunteer work at a family shelter, Lindfors concisely identifies several important commonalities across oral and written language. Taking the compelling perspective that it's all language, she traces children's emergent literacy from infancy through the early school years. The book incorporates abundant examples from a diverse range of children engaged in authentic literacy experiences. ...
This second book focuses directly on the classroom, on the challenges individual teachers face in classroom-based assessment, and how these challenges have been and are being met in a range of international contexts.
The Hot English Method consists of two interlinked products: Hot English magazine & The Skills Booklets. The Skill Booklets offers a syllabus that provides language-learning structure. The Skills Booklet is full of useful and essential language for everyday communication, and come with speaking activities for students to engage in. Each Skills Booklet consists of approximately 100 pages divided into units.
Montessori: A Modern Approach has been called the single best book for anyone -- educator, childcare professional, and especially parent -- seeking answers to the questions: What is the Montessori method? Are its revolutionary ideas about early childhood education relevant to today's world? And most important, especially for today's dual-career couples. Is a Montessori education right for my child? Paula Polk Lillard writes both as a trained educators and as a concerned parent -- she has many years as a public school teacher, but it was her enthusiasm for the education her own child experienced in a Montessori school ...
"Reading" Practice book introduces children to a wide range of both informative and humorous text types including fiction, fact and poetry. The structure of each unit follows the same pattern, making the course accessible and easy to use for both teachers and pupils.
