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.

Unlocking the Reader in Every Child

Author:

Susan Elkin

ISBN:

9781841679709

Price:

£14.99

No. of Pages:

236

An essential book for teachers, special needs co-ordinators and all those who support children in schools, and the perfect book for parents who want to help develop their child’s reading skills at home.

This book helps parents and teachers unlock the reader in every child. It provides a basic, quick-to-read guide to teaching reading, drawing on best practice over the years and avoiding ‘here today, gone tomorrow’ fashions.

But this book is not just a guide. It’s a toolkit, too. Each section contains practical activities, games and ‘try this’ ideas to help develop reading skills and overcome obstacles. It tackles age-old topics in new ways.

Every page offers some fresh perspectives to try – either at home or in the classroom – all with a very practical focus. There are games and activities to

• build phonological awareness
• turn decoders into real readers
• help strugglers
• overcome reluctance to read
• harness visual literacy and children’s passions
• meet individual needs (including children with specific learning difficulties)
• achieve literacy outcomes without even teaching ‘literacy’.

With plenty of reading suggestions too, it’s the book you can’t afford to be without.

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.