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| 50 Ways to Retell a Story: Cinderella | This book provides teachers with 50 literacy lessons, starter sessions or extension activities, which ensure a creative, engaging, approach to the teaching of literacy. And all of the approaches exemplified can be applied with any other traditional tale. More information |
| Able Writers in Your School | A Practical Guide for Teachers passes on ideas, practical advice and lesson plans that have been found to work especially well with groups of able writers. Over 70 inspirational examples show how the ideas work in practice. More information |
| Adventure Stories for Reading, Learning and Literacy | Each story is linked explicitly to moral and social values, and can be used to reinforce citizenship, PHSE and SEAL initiatives in primary schools. More information |
| Alps Storymaker | Alps Storymaker utilises children's enjoyment of fiction and exploits narrative structures to allow students to understand and practice the techniques of accelerated brain-based learning. More information |
| ARCTIC STORIES | This pack is built around the stories of Arctic peoples and has been designed to promote the skills based curriculum with a particular focus on thinking and communication skills, also covering aspects of ICT and drama. More information |
| Balanced Literacy - Through Cooperative Learning & Active Engagement | Elementary teachers and literacy coaches have pooled their experience to bring you these tremendously comprehensive guides covering Comprehension, Word Study, Fluency, Writing, and Vocabulary. More information |
| Beowulf the Dragonslayer | A dynamic resource to develop literacy skills and creativity More information |
| Boys and Writing | Packed with tried and tested ideas, this book looks at how students' writing can be improved through a thinking skills’ agenda. More information |
| Brave Tales: Developing Literacy Through Storytelling | Literacy Through Storytelling gives you the tools and tips to develop your own storytelling technique, which will in turn help children to develop their listening skills – the all important gateway to literacy. More information |
| Circuses and Pirates | Create a world of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, this book is full of ideas to generate writing tasks for primary aged children. More information |
| Communication, Language and Literacy | Communication, Language and Literacy contains over 150 literacy activity ideas, grouped by topic. These practical suggestions will give children a sound grounding in early literacy skills. More information |
| Cooperative Learning Reading Activities | Reading comes alive through exhilarating cooperative learning. This book includes all new, step-by-step,literature-based, reading activities for each of two dozen cooperative learning structures. More information |
| Cooperative Learning and Language Arts | These step-by-step cooperative learning lessons integrate listening, speaking, reading, and the writing process across a variety of genres: fairy tales, fables, poetry, nonfiction, and autobiography. More information |
| Cooperative Learning Writing Activities | Students love writing with these fun and exciting, step-by-step, cooperative learning writing activities. More information |
| Covering the Curriculum with Stories | Covering the Curriculum with Stories is an exciting and unique resource, presenting a set of six delightful, cross-curricular play-based projects that deliver outstanding learning experiences. More information |
| Danny The Champion of the World English Resource Pack | Based on Roald Dahl’s classic children’s story, this resource offers a refreshingly new approach to differentiation. More information |
| Descriptosaurus | Provides children with a comprehensive resource with which to expand their descriptive vocabulary, experiment with language and sentence structure and build up narratives. More information |
| Discovering Genres: Fantasy and Folktales | A wide range of standards-based lessons help students recognize each genre, develop vocabulary, learn reading strategies, practice writing skills, make grammar connections, use graphic organizers,assess what they have learned, and complete culminating projects. More information |
| English From Rhymes | Helping younger children to learn English. Suitable for the Literacy Hour. More information |
| Escape Story - How a young girl survived the Holocaust | As a young girl Eva Erben was suddenly forced by the Nazis to leave her home in Prague to join, with her parents, one of the transports to the Theresienstadt Ghetto. The nightmare that followed is told by Eva as a young girl struggling to cope with the fear and danger that becomes part of her world. This child’s view of the Holocaust is a unique and moving story as well as an important historical record. More information |
| First Poems for Thinking | Thirty poems, old and new, for children aged 4-8 to share, think about and respond to More information |
| Flying High with Literacy | This book shows you how you can build on existing teaching skills to link with the National Literacy Strategy. More information |
| Flying Start with Literacy | This book tells parents and carers of three to seven year olds all they need to know about how to give children the best possible start in literacy. More information |
| Get Your Head Around Punctuation | Packed full of terrific teaching tips encouraging childrento discuss, rehearse and select appropriate vocabulary andpunctuation. More information |
| Grammar Survival: A Teacher's Toolkit | This book is for anyone who finds teaching grammar an uphill struggle.Focusing on what teachers need to know for the classroom, this book provides the essential knowledge to teach grammar effectively. More information |
| Improving Story Writing at Key Stages 1 & 2 | This book provides the busy classrooom teacher with a wealthof practical ideas to improve story writing. More information |
| Improving Thinking Skills Through the Literacy Hour | Twelve fully worked out lesson plans, complete with original source materials and ideas for whole-class and small-group activities. More information |
| In Full Bloom: A Thinking Approach to Teaching Literature | This resource gives teachers of the middle years the tools to help students become strategic and independent readers. More information |
| Inspiring Children to Read and Write for Pleasure | Inspiring Children to Read and Write for Pleasure uses the context of literature to inspire children to a love of books. More information |
| Intermediate Literature:Higher-Level Thinking Questions | Use your students' favourite literature books to develop their higher-level thinking skills. More information |
| Jenny Kissed Me | This book approaches an often sensitive subject with a clever mix of humour and observation. More information |
| John and the Alien | Improve comprehension and story-writing skills More information |
| Jumpstart! Poetry | Games and activities for ages 7-12. The book contains a bank of ideas that can be drawn upon when teaching poetry but also at other times to provide a source for creative writing that children relish. More information |
| Jumpstart! Storymaking | Games and activities for ages 7-12. More information |
| Language Arts - Lessons for Little Ones | This is the most popular primary cooperative learning book in the world! It makes teaching language arts fun and easy! More information |
| Language Arts:Higher Level Thinking Questions | You will find hundreds of use-again questions to promote thinking, writing, and discussion about: Adventure Stories, Book Review, Poetry, Story Characters, Story Plot, Story Setting, Story Structure, Vocabulary, and many more! More information |
| Language at My Level | Language at My Level is aimed at supporting teachers and teaching assistants in delivering speaking and listening programmes through whole class teaching. There are also ideas for small group and one to one work. More information |
| Let's Think Through Literacy! 9-11 | Let’s Think through Literacy! 9-11 supports teachers in developing children’s literacy skills by improving their ability to think logically, enquire,reason and process different kinds of information. More information |
| Literacy Strategies for Improving Mathematics Instruction | This book explains how to teach students the vocabulary and comprehension skills that are essential to understanding maths. More information |
| Media Literacy in Schools | This book is for secondary English, Media, and ICT teachers who want to develop practical media work and media literacy across the curriculum. More information |
| Model Texts for the Primary Classroom Book 1 | Model texts for the Primary Classroom Book 1 is a comprehensive selection of fiction and non-fiction texts, designed to provide models for children’s own writing.In addition, there are self/peer assessment sheets so the children can assess their own attainment. More information |
| Mrs Ockleton's Rainbow Kite & Other TalesThinking Through Literature - Teacher Resource Book | Through the various activities in this fully photocopiable book, teachers will have the opportunity to develop their students’ multiple intelligences in relation to the use and understanding of English literature. In addition, the activities will develop students’ analytical thinking skills and creativity and improve exam performance. More information |
| Mysteries for Writing and Critical Thinking | Each of the seven mysteries presented in the book requires students to break down the clues and filter through the evidence using everything from deductive reasoning to maths and science skills. More information |
| Playscripts for Primary Schools | Written to help teachers stage a production, this pack moves beyond the traditional end-of-year or Christmas production, and shows that working together with variously sized groups is a valuable curricular activity. More information |
| Please Mrs Butler & Heard it in the Playground - Reading and Responding | This resource is ideal for teachers to integrate these well-known poems into the literacy lesson to teach elements of poetry such as theme, language, mood and form. More information |
| Poems for Thinking | Thirty two poems from a variety of cultures to enjoy and think about More information |
| Primary Literature: Higher Level Thinking Questions | Expand your youngsters' minds with higher-level thinking questions on their favourite literature. More information |
| Pupils as Playwrights | An innovative and exciting approach to drama and to developing the literacy skills of children from the ages of 6 to 12. More information |
| Rap It Up - A modern approach to poetry | This unique book and CD-ROM is an ideal way to connect with today’s children and teach literacy skills in a fun and interesting way. It presents an anthology of rap poems by popular and contemporary poets, in a range of voices, tones and subject areas. More information |
| Rap it Up! | The best way to have fun with rhyme, rhythm, narrative,alliteration and assonance is through rap! James Carteroffers an innovative slant on the Literary Curriculum and allows you to teach poetry like never before. More information |
| Read All About It! | Aimed at 10-14 year olds, Read All About It! is the ideal resource to introduce children to the exciting and challenging world of newspapers. It encourages enterprise by including suggestions and guidelines for children to produce their own school or class newspaper. More information |
| READING WITH IMAGINATION - PHASE 1 | Part of the Reading With Imagination Programme of Real Phonic Reading. The books of Reading with Imagination provide plenty of practice on the sound most recently taught, while at the same time giving opportunities for revision of previously learned sounds. But crucially, they offer extended practice on material which is interesting and will arouse imaginative interaction from the students. The programme can be used to enhance existing work with phonics programmes or in its own right. More information |
| READING WITH IMAGINATION - PHASE 1 PACK WITH SITE LICENCE | An easy-to-follow synthetic phonics programme providing a series of books which give progressive reading experience, used to enhance existing work with phonics programmes or in its own right. Extensively trialled with children who have reading difficulties and has won fantastic reviews from teachers, parents and children themselves. More information |
| Stories for Thinking | Thirty multi-cultural stories for children aged 7 - 11 to enjoy and think about, with discussion plans and activities related to each story More information |
| Storyteller | Provides a wealth of activities supporting oral story telling,reading and writing stories. More information |
| Storywise | Storywise is a fascinating resource that harnesses the power of familiar stories to open up a space for children's thinking More information |
| Strategies that Work | Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding More information |
| Target English | This well-received Target English series of resources has been designed to give children practice in specific attainment targets of the National Curriculum More information |
| Teaching as Storytelling | An eminently practical guide, Teaching as Storytelling showsteachers how to integrate imagination and reason into thecurriculum when planning classes in social studies, language arts, mathematics and science. More information |
| Teaching Children’s Literature | Drawing on a series of classroom workshops and live interviews with the authors, this inspiring book examines five popular children’s authors. More information |
| Teaching Literacy | Kieran Egan puts the fun in fundamentals of literacy by helping teachers stir students’ imagination and emotions. More information |
| Teaching Poetry in the Primary Classroom | This book offers an accessible, practical and structured programme for the teaching of this sometimes neglected aspect of the English curriculum. As children progress through the primary school they need to be exposed to a rich diet of poetry and encouraged to read, perform and write it themselves. More information |
| Teaching Poetry with 4-8 Year Olds | This book includes a broad selection of exciting and enjoyable poems that can be used to develop enthusiasm for poetry reading and writing. More information |
| Teaching Poetry with 7-12 Year Olds | This pack has been specifically developed to link poems with key objectives and a wealth of practical teaching ideas. All poetry styles are covered, including rhyming and non-rhyming, haiku, expanding/contracting poems, shape poems, rap and free verse. More information |
| Teaching Visual Literacy in the Primary Classroom | This book shows how everyday literacy sessions can be made more exciting, dynamic and effective by using a wide range of media and visual texts in the primary classroom. More information |
| The Interactive Reading Routes | Designed to stimulate children to be active participants inthe reading process, working alongside reading schemes. More information |
| The Literacy Toolkit | Improving students' speaking, listening, reading and writing skills. It embraces what we know about literacy learning and how we can move things forward creatively in the classroom and beyond for KS3 and KS4. More information |
| The Sorcerer's Servant | A terrific Tudor Tale and a set of thought provoking resources for teachers across english and history. More information |
| The Story of Tracy Beaker Literacy Resources | Children will read extracts from the story featuring the character Tracy Beaker, from Jacqueline Wilson’s award-winning tale. More information |
| Thinking Together: A Programme of Activities | A programme of activities for developing speaking, listening and thinking skills for children aged 8-11. A key element of the Thinking Together approach is exploratory talk, which can help children improve their critical thinking and reasoning. More information |
| ThinkPacks | Take popular children's novels that incorporate timeless themes, and use teaching models like Bloom's and Sternberg to stretch student's minds over language, social and environment studies, maths, art, and science. Great as a class unit or as an enrichment activity to challenge more able students. Included is an extensive self-evaluation section. More information |
| Top Ten Thinking Tactics | Best-selling programme for getting young children to become active learners More information |
| Using Phonics to Teach Reading & Spelling | Containing practical examples and activities for teachers, it gives advice on choosing the best resources and looks at how to help the weakest reader. More information |
| Visual Talk/Writing Target Cards | These will add a new dimension to target setting for 4 – 12 year olds. More information |
| Write! Cooperative Learning and the Writing Process | This book provides several ready-to-use writing lessons in each of the writing domains: imaginative, functional, communication, non-fiction/reporting, and opinion-making. More information |
| Writing and Reading Mysteries | When students read and write mysteries, they haveopportunities to form and test hypotheses, evaluate clues, andconduct research. Includes mysteries and poetry, skills and strategies. More information |
| Writing Exciting Ghost Stories: Age 9 plus Ghost Story Plot Skeletons | Plot skeletons make explicit the many and varied plot structures that authors use to produce gripping ghost stories and their use will help pupils to develop an holistic understanding of narrative writing ... and ‘story sense’. More information |
| Writing Exciting Sentences - Age 7 Plus | Provides teachers with 25 sentence types and teaching tips tohelp pupils to use a varied range of sentence types at appropriate points in both their fiction and non-fiction writing. More information |
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