In recent years, cultural commentators have sounded the alarm about the dire state of reading in America. Americans are not reading enough, they say, or reading the right books, in the right way. In this book, Alan Jacobs argues that, contrary to the doomsayers, reading is alive and well in America. There are millions of devoted readers supporting hundreds of enormous bookstores and online booksellers.
Dyslexia at College offers the most comprehensive and well researched guide for students and tutors to all aspects of coping with dyslexia and supporting dyslexic students at college. The style is very accessible and there is plenty of practical advice for students on how to choose, prepare for and adapt to the demands of further and higher education courses. For tutors, the book offers a wealth of insight and experience, especially in describing different approaches to common problems and in its emphasis on supporting self-esteem.
Communication, Language and Literacy (Supporting Develop Early Yrs Foundation Stage)
Communication, Language and Literacy introduces this area of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Supporting children aged between 0-5 years to develop their communication, language and literacy skills is introduced within the context of the EYFS. A balanced approach to the Early Learning Goals is encouraged ensuring that key principles of good early years practice are maintained and developed, and the holistic development of the child is promoted.
Supporting Literacy: A Guide for Primary Classroom Assistants
Classroom assistants are increasingly relied upon to support the most needy pupils, and they have had significantly less training than their colleagues with qualified teacher status. It is clear that these assistants need some very practical materials. This book provides photocopiable resources so that classroom assistants can get to work.
The book covers all they need to know about literacy, it explains in very simple terms what is expected from them.
Danielle Steele would be hard-pressed to concoct a juicer tale than the scandalous life of 19th-century French writer George Sand (1804–1876), revisited in this perceptive and original biography by novelist Harlan (Footfalls, Watershed). Sand, née Aurore Dupin, left her husband and two children in provincial France and successfully launched herself as a self-supporting writer in Paris, donning men's clothing to ease passage into the professional world and taking a pseudonym to protect her aristocratic family's name.
