Presenting a range of exciting activities that support the development of creative English lessons within the existing structures of the Foundation Curriculum and the National Curriculum, this book: is packed full of interactive and creative teaching strategies provides guidance on assessing creative work highlights opportunities for creative literacy activities across the curriculum covers ages 3-11.
Ten years ago, Barbara Kingsolver published a first novel that is well on its way to becoming a classic work of American fiction. The Bean Trees is a book readers have taken to their hearts. It is now a standard in college literature classes across the nation and has been translated for a readership stretching from Japan to Romania.
Speaking and listening, along with reading and writing, are essential components of literacy and learning development within the National Primary Strategy. This best-selling introductory text updates teachers on national developments and best practice in speaking and listening in the classroom through: · Speaking and listening issues: a review · Story-telling and drama · Oral and popular culture and media · Planning for talk across the curriculum · The impact of ICT: software, email, internet, computer games
What do stars really look like? Could you live on Venus? Are aliens waiting for us in outer space? What did astronomers study hundreds of years ago? In Exploring Space,you’ll discover answers to these questions and many more. Through pictures, articles, and fun facts, you’ll travel across time, visit outer space, meet fascinating people, and investigate strange and wonderful things.
In this original look at how ethnic literature enters the U.S. classroom and the literary canon, Delia Poey compares the risks facing teachers and interpreters of well-known Latina/o or Latin American texts with those run by the "coyote" who smuggles undocumented workers across the U.S./Mexico border: both are in danger of erasing those cultural traits that made the border crossers important.
