Books for Teachers

Improving Literacy in Schools: Issues, Solutions and Strategies

A great new range of books for teachers and specialists. Focusing on the problems and issues surrounding literacy and motivation, as well as key tricky areas in the curriculum, each book offers a fresh perspective, combined with valuable tips, tricks and activity ideas. Each book has a practical focus, making it an essential companion for all those charged with delivering the curriculum.

Effective Literacy in the Classroom

Author:

Susan Elkin

ISBN:

9781841679709

Price:

£14.99

No. of Pages:

104

A basic, quickly read guide to developing literacy. It offers practical ‘try this’ ideas to help teachers transform children into committed, life-long readers.

The book discusses different approaches used in teaching basic de-coding skills, particularly phonics, and sets them in context. Then it moves on to the development of true literacy and ways in which teachers can respond to the individual needs of learner readers.

It is full of ideas for encouraging reading and building reading stamina, and tips for teachers guiding pupils through the transition into ‘real readers’ who will read hungrily for the rest of their lives.

Motivating Reluctant and Struggling Readers

Author:

Stephen Rickard

ISBN:

9781841679754

Price:

£14.99

No. of Pages:

104

Motivating Reluctant and Struggling Readers explores why we have so many children these days who are reluctant to read (or learn to read) and what we can do about it.

Focusing on the problems and issues surrounding literacy and motivation, it looks at the media rich world today’s children inhabit and how books (especially educational ones) so often fall short of their expectations.

The book also highlights the changes that are needed to overcome the seemingly ingrained resistance to reading books and to improve literacy skills.

Finally, a practical focus offers simple, tangible actions that can be implemented to help improve the process of reading with children, break down resistance and motivate reluctant readers.

To See a World

Author:

David Orme

ISBN:

9781841679693

Price:

£14.99

No. of Pages:

130

To See a World looks at the ways in which poetry supports many aspects of literacy by making links with other curriculum areas, as well as providing a huge variety of models for writing, opportunities to consider grammar and punctuation, and to widen vocabulary.

The book offers a wide range of strategies for teaching poetry, as well as practical activity ideas that are broadly arranged in order of difficulty, starting with ideas that work with reception children, with the teacher scribing the children’s ideas, and ending with ideas that will challenge the most able children at the top of the primary school.