The Evaluator's Cookbook - Exercises for Participatory Evaluation With Children and Young People

Participation is a vital element of working with children and young people - ensuring that services are meeting their needs as well as promoting citizenship, resilience and general well-being. "The Evaluator's Cookbook" contains 21 participatory evaluation exercises for use with children, young people and families/community groups.

Chess for Children

With this charming book, children will delight in learning the basic moves of chess - the most popular and challenging strategy game of all. All the rules of chess are clearly explained, step by step, assuming no prior knowledge. The lessons are reinforced by the inventive tales that George is told by his pet alligator Kirsty, self-proclaimed Grand Alligator of chess. Chess is recognized in many countries as a useful tool for developing creative thinking in children. Although chess can be regarded as a rather complex and mysterious game, the rules themselves are straightforward. It doesn't take long to learn how the pieces move, and even children as young as five can enjoy exciting games.

Day-to-Day Dyslexia in the Classroom

Day-to-Day Dyslexia offers advice to teachers on how they can recognize specific learning difficulties and give practical help to children in class. Written in jargon-free language, it provides guidelines on the way dyslexic children learn language, literacy and numeracy. It also includes chapters on handwriting, study skills and classroom management, while bearing in mind the demands made on class teachers.

The Medusa Stone

In the tiny African nation of Eritrea, the American spy satellite Medusa has crashed but not before its sensors revealed an underground kimberlite pipeline, the telltale sign of a huge load of diamonds. The mine turns out to be King Solomon’s Lost Mine, but with it is a tale of heartbreak—it was children who worked and died in the mine for 400 years, leading to many local myths of curses.
 

Born to Be a Butterfly (Level 1 - Beginning to Read)

Born to Be a Butterfly follows the life cycle of a caterpillar as it transforms into a beautiful butterfly.
In Born to Be a Butterfly, children will witness the magical transformation as a newly hatched caterpillar becomes a beautiful Red Admiral Butterfly. For children who are just beginning to read and who have a limited vocabulary, these 32-page Level 1 books-about everything from tadpoles to puppies-use word repetition and simple sentences to convey meaning. Picture dictionary boxes with word labels "show" the meanings of words. These books contain between 400 and 450 words each, and they are 80 percent pictures and 20 percent text.