Thinking Child Resource Book: Brain-based learning for the early years foundation stage, Second Edition
In this new edition of a popular resource, the authors provide a wealth of practical suggestions on how to implement the most up-to-date research findings into how children learn best in early years settings. It is fully-updated with reference to all the latest initiatives including the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and Every Child Matters.
Firmly supported by a wealth of research linking children’s mental and physical health to emotional well being, this new edition of the bestselling Dealing with Feeling provides teachers of children aged 5–8 with structured opportunities to develop their emotional literacy. In this second edition, Tina Rae emphasizes the development of empathy, tolerance, resilience, and motivation as well as an emotional vocabulary. The text helps teachers introduce students to a variety of techniques for managing more complex and uncomfortable feelings in a variety of situations. Solution-focused strategies are woven into: - Worksheet tasks - Self-reflection activities - Take-home assignments
Medieval English: Literature and Language, 4th Edition
This new and innovative approach to English Medieval Studies takes what is often judged as two separate fields, Old and Middle English, and unites them under their common linguistic and literary contintuities. An introductory grammar shows the continuous development of Old English to Middle and Early Modern English, with examples taken from a wide variety of carefully annotated texts. This collection will introduce beginning students to the diverse and fascinating world of Medieval English.
The fourth edition of the Environmental Encyclopedia, updated by a team of scientists and scholars, attempts to preserve the structure and relationships established in the third edition with updated information and resources that articulate concerns about global warming, climate change and other environmental perils that have become overwhelmingly clearer since the publication of the third edition in 2002.
The Student Writer: Editor and Critic (7th edition)
Written with the kind of supportive tone found in a writing workshop, this three-in-one rhetoric/reader/handbook puts students in control of developing their own writing processes by teaching them how to become astute critics and editors of their work. Now in full-color, the seventh edition of The Student Writer offers new chapters on research, enhanced coverage of visual rhetoric including a new appendix on document design, new and enhanced coverage of plagiarism, and more.
