Creative Schools Creative Schools 2011 Catalogue
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Editorial ‘There is too much teaching that is dull and uninspiring. This means that too many young people are not equipped well enough to make the best of their lives. It is true that we expect more from schools and colleges today, and more from our teachers. But we also know a lot more about how to deliver good, inspiring lessons that motivate and engage children, young people and adult learners. It is vital that teachers are supported to provide them as a matter of course.’ In her now famous remarks about the tedious nature of too many lessons in our schools Christine Gilbert, Head of Ofsted, sent an arrow straight to the heart of English education policy for the last 10 years. After years of national strategies, targets, SATs and league tables the creativity and excitement of learning has been stifled if not snuffed out of the curriculum for many children and, just as importantly, for many teachers. Sir Ken Jones, recently said on Saturday Live, Radios 4’s discussion programme, that whereas Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland had embraced creativity and imagination in their curriculum, England seemed to be moving in the other direction. These two statements have a common provenance; the obsession in England with academic performance that can be standardised and tested. There is much to applaud in the curriculum frameworks in the provinces and Scotland, and some of our writers have produced their books and resources in this new, more open milieu. And there is also plenty to fight for in England in terms of great practice. In the spaces that are being left by the government’s schizophrenic ambivalence towards giving teachers more freedom to teach, and demands to go back to pre-Victorian virtues of pure subjects, ‘taught to children sitting in rows’, there is still room for teachers to drive their own curriculum reforms. In primary schools the return to cross-curriculum project works has been embraced wholeheartedly, with older teachers showing their younger colleagues, how to be creative in developing cross curriculum projects. In secondary schools the new competency curriculum is now well entrenched and the move to team-teaching serious cross-subject in-depth projects is a major part of the curriculum, at least at Key Stage 3. This time round though cross-curriculum projects are more well-thought out and integrated, and the best ones are being designed to be taught through new pedagogic styles which involve drama, group work, investigations, organised discussions and genuine learner-led learning. These new pedagogic approaches are in strong evidence in some of the new packs we are featuring such as A River Child and Who’s Running The Country? the African resources on Gambia and on China. Along with subject skills and subject knowledge, they construct the sort of cognitive skills that can transfer to other areas of the curriculum and life. We mix these cross-curriculum resources with books on how to deploy creative strategies in the more traditional areas of the curriculum, so that they can be given new life, for students and teachers. And what is so interesting is that the impact can be dramatic, on children’s selfconcept as learners, on behaviour, attendance and on academic results. This was the finding of a major independent research study into the work of Creativity, Culture and Education, which organised the Creative Partnerships Programme. What the research also found was that creative and innovative students in science, arts and the humanities, were worth billions to the economy. We hope this catalogue will prove useful in helping teachers deliver the promise that exists within every child. Howard Sharron Managing Director Imaginative Minds Ltd
Contents C
Denotes Cross Curricular Resources
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Humanities Learning About the World
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Literacy and Creative Writing
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Speaking and Listening
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Investigating Maths and Science
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Creativity and Thinking Skills
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Social and Life Skills
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Assessment
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Inclusion
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Learning Through Art and Performance
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Gifted and Talented
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Early Years
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Teaching and Leadership Skills
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Humanities: Learning about the World Exploring the Rain Forest
Beneath Your Feet with CD
Multiple Intelligences and Cooperative Learning Activities By Laura Candler Price: £28.99
By Jane Bayley Price: £24.99 KS1-KS2
KS2-KS3
Working in teams and with classmates, your students will; write letters to conservation agencies, map the rain forests of the world, create and sing tropical tunes, learn about the rain forest products, medical mysteries, amazing animals, jungle secrets, and much more.
Full of original ideas, this brilliant resource encourages children to look at our wonderful Earth and its makeup. Pupils work through a series of study units linked to both geography and science, with an emphasis on caring for the environment. With CD of environmentally themed songs.
Festivals Across the Year 5-7 Festivals Across the Year 7-9 Festivals Across the Year 9-11 Price: £16.99 each
Each book in this series features festivals of all the major religions Christian, Jewish, Sikh, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu and Chinese as they occur in chronological order throughout the school year, providing background information and pupil materials to reflect the traditions and celebrations.
Resources about the environment and culture of St Lucia St Lucia is a mountainous island covered by tropical rainforest and is a favourite destination for many tourists from Europe and America who visit to sample the tropical paradise.
Images of St Lucia CD Devised by Sue Thomas Price: £22.00 + vat
KS2
This CD contains 93 photographs of St Lucia. They aim to provide a strong visual resource for the study of St Lucia as a distant place. The photographs represent life in St Lucia for the people who live there, showing the island landscapes, townscapes and produce grown, as well as a section reflecting the island’s main industry, tourism. Four geography activities that use the photographs are provided. They can be used on a computer, interactive whiteboard or at pupil’s desks. A table linking the photographs is also included, as well as a link to the St Lucia pages of the Geographical Association website.
St Lucia Enquirer Newspaper Supplied in class sets of 15 Price: £15.00 per set
KS2-KS3
The St Lucia Enquirer is a newspaper written specifically to help KS2 pupils learn more about life in St Lucia. Check out the St Lucia Enquirer! It’s perfect for the QCA Units Scheme of work. It’s cheap and it brings St Lucia into your classroom.
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Liling’s School Bag Price: £35.00 + vat
Give your pupils an insight into the life of a Chinese school child with a look into her school bag. The Revealing China resources on pages 12 and 13 introduce you to the character Liling, who appears in the little book Liling Looks Around. Now give your pupils the chance to study the contents of her school bag. She lives in a village near Xian in the province of Shaanxi in central China and daily carries with her to school the following items: • • • • •
Photo album Newspaper Timetable Liling Story Book Liling Story CD
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Chopsticks Chinese mirror Terracotta warrior mask Large shuttlecock (jainzi)
Help your pupils expand their understanding of how children live in other parts of the world and how comparable or different their lives really are.
Fatou’s School Bag Price: £35.00 + vat
The Gambia Resources on pages 6 and 7 provide resources for KS1 and KS2 lessons on Africa. On those pages meet Fatou in Fatou’s First Day, in an enthralling book about a little Gambian girl’s first day at school. Let your pupils gain an insight into her school day by studying the contents of her school bag. The contents of the bag may vary, depending on availability, but in the main will include:
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Money Doll Toothstick Fatou story Book
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Fatou story CD Timetable Newspaper Photo Album
• Necklace Bracelet • Rattle
India Locality Resource Pack Price: £79.50 + vat
These items demonstrate different aspects of Indian life including work, relaxation and day-today living. The India Locality Resource Pack is used to support work on contrasting localities. This pack can be used for both Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 work in both Global Citizenship and Geography. The India Locality Resource Pack includes: • • • • • • • • • •
Wooden lemon squeezer/Balti dish Map of India A3 laminated photos Chickpea Flour (Chana dal) Raffia Chapati plate Child’s dress Ubbha dabba (tall canister) Chapati rolling pin Ankle bells Bangles
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Teaching about a distance place A River Child By Dr. Sue Lyle Price: £60.00
A River Child is full of exciting and original learning activities for children, including: filming their own ‘NEWSROUND’ report, writing their own storybook, designing their own game, map work, studying rivers and water cycles, studying African animals, and designing their own brochure.
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A River Child offers an exciting way forward for schools by using a Geography-led, thematic approach to promoting literacy across the curriculum.
Tried and tested!
Research shows that the pack demonstrates its power to motivate and inspire pupils as well as having a very positive impact on literacy, geographical understanding and student motivation.
The cross-curricular learning activities in this pack engage children with a true story guaranteed to fire their imaginations. This journey into the life of A River Child is perfect for creating a class of Global Citizens. It utilises a ‘common needs’ approach – by asking children to compare and contrast their own lives with the lives of the children in the village of Gashaka.
• Children find out about the life of Mohamed and his family. They discover how his family’s lives depend on the natural world. • Pupils discover the threats made to Gashaka in 1993 and how people from all over Nigeria worked together to prevent disaster. From this children can learn ecological lessons about threats to the natural systems of Africa, which can be applied globally to other at-risk areas. • Pupils find out about ‘Gashaka-Gumti National Park’ as an example of turning a potential environmental disaster into a success story.
“At a time when stories of environmental degradation and destruction are the stuff of everyday news for children, it is important they hear ‘good news’ stories and realise that things can get better if we all work together.” Dr. Sue Lyle
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Cross-Curricular links: Geography, Science, Design and Technology, English, Drama, ICT and Religion.
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Additional resources to support ‘A River Child’ project work One Well: The Story of Water on Earth
Investigating Rivers CD Rom
By Rochelle Strauss Price: £12.99
By Clare Hibbert Price: £19.58 + vat
One Well is a much needed drink for those of us thirsting to help protect our planet’s threatened water supplies. Appropriate for children of all ages, this richly illustrated book provides valuable perspectives on the sources of water, threats to water and offers constructive suggestions for conservation.
This CD-Rom, for whiteboard use, is an electronic version of Investigating Rivers from the hugely successful Step-Up Geography series. The CD is easy to navigate and also offers an interactive glossary and index and website links.
The Girl who Married a Ghost: and Other Tales from Nigeria By Ifeoma Onyefulu Price: £6.99
Onyefulu retells nine of the best Nigerian tales. In The Girl Who Married a Ghost, stuck-up Oglisa discovers that pride goes before a fall; and Why the Lizard Nods His Head has something to say about greed. These magical stories are for generations of city-dwelling children who have moved far, far away from the world of animals and spirits.
Geography Wise: Rivers By Leon Grey Price: £12.99
Encourage children to explore the wonders of the physical world around them, using maps to show locations of features, diagrams to explain processes and dramatic photos to capture the reader’s attention. Includes an interactive project to encourage the practical application of skills such as mapreading.
Raging Rivers By Anita Ganeri Price: £5.99
Geography with the gritty bits left in! You may think that rivers aren’t good for much except meandering along to the sea. But Raging Rivers shows you’re way off course.
Rivers
By Nicola Edwards Price: £6.99
Simple diagrams clearly explain the water cycle and how rivers flow from their source to their mouth. It also describes the types of wildlife that can be found alongside and in rivers, and looks at the people that live and work with rivers.
Ikenna Goes to Nigeria Children Return to Their Roots By Ifeoma Onyefulu Price: £6.99
Abundantly illustrated with photographs and maps, young Ikenna tells his own story of his visit to Nigeria. In Lagos, he plays with his cousins before driving to Onitsha to see other relatives. He meets Great-Uncle Hillary who drove the royal train across Nigeria in 1956, and goes to the Osun Festival at Osogbo, where the sights and sounds of age-old ceremonies and traditions surround him.
Saying Goodbye: A Special Farewell to Mama Nkwelle By Ifeoma Onyefulu Price: £6.99
Seen through the eyes of a small boy named Ikenna, here is a very special account of how a small Igbo community in Nigeria traditionally honours the dead. Ifeoma Onyefulu’s thoughtful photographs and text offer not only a glimpse into African village life, but also a positive introduction to a difficult subject.
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The Gambia Resources
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By Des Bowden and Pam Copeland The Gambia is a small country in West Africa. These resources are a superb addition to your KS1 or KS2 lessons on Africa and your students will love the lessons because you are able to show them genuine artefacts from The Gambia. Designed specifically to support QCA units and the government syllabus, these Africa KS1 and KS2 resources are an ideal way of bringing Africa into your classroom.
African Locality Resource Pack Price: £64.00 + vat
This box contains artefacts sourced from The Gambia, West Africa. It includes a wide range of resources that are used daily by people living in The Gambia. Items such as the following: • • • • • • • • • •
Batik Bracelet Brush Calabash Doll Dress Hibiscus tea Ladle Fan Mask
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Money Necklace Newspaper Plastic kettle Rattle Seedpod Soap Tye and dye cloth Toothpick
These authentic resources are ideal for teaching about distant localities and are designed specifically to help busy teachers in QCA Schemes of Work for Units 10 and 22 in Geography. The artefacts can also be used in a range of cross curricular activities including Art, RE, Design and Technology, History and Global Citizenship.
Gambian Resources: Musical Instruments Price: £75.00 + vat
If you are looking for authentic African musical instruments like drums, rattles and shakers then this package is for you. The African musical instruments pack is an original way to introduce the sound of Africa to your classroom. So if you would like to sample the sounds of Africa then check out these African musical instruments.
Images of the Gambia Photo CD Price: £15.00 + vat
The photo CD contains 30 images depicting daily life, work, travel, going to school and trading and are set against a background of the human and physical features characteristic of The Gambia. The images may be used on a PC for individual work where they could be imported into reports, articles or stories, or for group discussion. Alternatively they could be shown on a white or smart board during an introductory session or plenary. Pupils may be asked to devise questions that explore what the images are portraying whilst beginning to offer them an insight into Gambian life. The images may be annotated, cropped, added to or speech bubbles or captions inserted. Projected onto a large screen these images will enhance the teaching of Units 10 and 22 of the Geography Schemes of Work and bring the learning and teaching of an LEDC (Less Economically Developed Countries) both alive and vibrant in the classroom. Each image is a starting point for discovering the answers to the key questions posed in the units.
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Using the African Artefacts Photopack
Gambian Life Serrekunda Photopack
Price: £20.00
Price: £20.00
KS1-KS3
18 photographs of people using the artefacts in the ‘African Locality Resource Pack’. These are designed to be used alone or to complement the pack. Each photograph has a description of the artefact on the reverse, showing the typical items in daily use. Ideas for classwork include, ‘seeing’, ‘reading’ and ‘interpreting activities’ and each photo has its own suggested activity.
KS1-KS3
‘Serrekunda’ Gambian Life Photopack. Contains 18 photographs and two maps (one of The Gambia and one of Serrekunda) and have been compiled to meet the Key Questions of the QCA Schemes of Work for Units 10 and 22.
The Gambia Files DVD Price: £25.00 + vat
Serrekunda Enquirer Newspaper Supplied in sets of 15 Price: £15.00 per set
KS2
A newspaper written for children following the QCA Scheme of Work for Geography Unit 22. The newspaper presents factual subject knowledge through a variety of stories, pictures, and activities based on the QCA Key Questions. The Serrekunda Enquirer has been an extremely popular choice for teachers. It presents all of the themes that need to be taught at Key Stage 2 such as housing, transport and culture but does so in a way that is easy for young learners to understand.
Fatou’s First Day 6 book pack
The Gambia Files DVD is a multimedia resource featuring video clips, maps, and photographs easily accessible to teachers and children alike. Linked to the QCA Key Questions, The Gambia Files can be used on individual computers or projected on to a whiteboard. Photographs and maps can be printed for use in lessons too.
Fatou Doll Price: £39.99 + vat
A lovely large hand crafted doll made in The Gambia. The perfect accompaniment to the Fatou First Day story pack. Comes with a traditional dress and a school uniform. Approximately 40-50cm tall.
Price: £25.00
Fatou’s First Day is an enthralling book about a little Gambian girl’s first day at school. Gain an insight into her life, family, friends and surroundings. The superb cartoon images bring her story to life. Perfect for group work.
Fatou’s First Day CD Price: £10.00 + vat
This beautifully penned story about Fatou and her life is also available on CD for use with small groups or on the interactive whiteboard.
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Amazon Rainforest Cross Curricular Resources
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Buy these resources individually or purchase them all as one Rainforest Package for £179.00 inc. vat Designed to engage and motivate your pupils to learn more about other cultures, these Amazonian resources encourage active and creative learning. Using the Caboclo River People of the Amazon as a case study and with the use of this great range of products, stimulate your pupils and develop a cross curricular project on rainforests. Enhance children’s historical, geographical and social understanding through making links to other areas of learning and to wider areas of interest and importance.
Amazon Rainforest Locality Resource Pack Price: £79.50 + vat
The Amazon Rainforest Locality Resource Pack is used to support work on the Amazon River and Brazilian Rainforest and the Caboclo River People and includes lots of wonderful things. This is perfect for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 work in both Geography and Citizenship. The Resource Pack has the complete answer to your teaching needs and contains a comprehensive range of artefacts sourced from the rainforest as well as a teacher’s guide and lesson plans to help you. The box contains 10 artefacts and 6 forest products from central Amazonia, including approximately 6 bags of seeds collected from the rainforest (these vary, but typically include Acai, Cinnamon, Annato and other local spices). Also included are: • • • • • • •
Amazonian plant life Photopack Toucan Times and Rainforest Enquirer newspapers Brazil nut pod and cocoa pods A carved balsa wood toucan 3 laminated poster photographs of the rainforest Cut out sloth & cut out rainforest Rainforest Rhythms box containing local musical instruments including: Monkey drum, cha-cha, pan pipes, ocarina and stick which children can play with.
A little bit of the Rainforest in your classroom!
Toucan Times Newspaper Supplied in class sets of 15 Price: £15.00 per set
KS1
A Newspaper written for Key Stage 1 children who are investigating rainforest localities. The paper presents factual subject knowledge through a variety of stories, activities and pictures based on QCA key questions. It can be used in a cross-curricular way to support a creative curriculum. • 15 Newspapers for Key Stage 1
The Rainforest Enquirer Newspaper Supplied in class sets of 15 Price: £15.00 per set
KS2
The Rainforest Enquirer is written for KS2 level children investigating the Amazon Rainforest. The Rainforest Enquirer provides subject knowledge through a variety of engaging stories, activities and photographs. These newspapers provide an understanding of the challenges of life in the rainforest. • 15 Newspapers for Key Stage 2
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Caboclo: A Cross Curricular Scheme of Work A Contrasting Locality Overseas Price: £20.00
This scheme of work has been designed to teach about the Caboclo people in Amazonia. It encourages children to develop a balanced view about life in the rainforest. It is based on an enquiry approach and encourages teachers to involve the children in their own learning, in pairs, groups or teams. Active learning is an important aspect of this scheme and often the children are asked to research, debate or to partake in role play. To ensure this scheme is effective, it has been designed for use in conjunction with: • A range of artefacts for the children to handle, discuss and investigate their use and origin • Secondary sources such as photopacks, DVD footage, CDs and subject knowledge locality newspapers • Maps, globes, plans and websites.
Caboclo Information Booklet for Teachers Price: £20.00
This information booklet for teachers provides background knowledge on the rainforest and the Caboclo people. It outlines the way in which these river people live and provides a locality study with plans and maps. There are outline maps of South America and Brazil, which may be photocopied.
Images of Amazonia Photo CD The Brazilian Rainforest Price: £15.00 + vat
A photo CD containing 25 images of the Brazilian rainforest. They can be used for groupwork or on an interactive whiteboard. The images may be annotated, cropped, added to and speech bubbles or captions inserted.
Caboclo Photopack
River People of the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil Price: £ 20.00
This locality photo pack contains 20 A4 glossy photos including maps of the locality and has been compiled to meet the Key Questions of the Geography QCA Schemes of Work for units 10 and 22. It will support any cross-curricular work on the rainforest.
Images of Brazil Photo CD Price: £15.00 + vat
The photographs on this CD offer an insight into life in Brazil. They highlight the vastness and variety of the country and contrast its major modern cities with the primitive Amazonian rainforest, including images depicting the landscape, buildings, wildlife and people.
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ARCTIC STORIES
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A major KS2-KS3 cross curriculum project to promote children’s communication, thinking and ICT skills with strong emphasis on literacy, geography, science and the environment, history and global citizenship
Only £60.00
Introducing the Arctic Stories Project
Ann Lloyd, Head Teacher, Glynncollen Primary School, Swansea.
Arctic Stories consists of three parts, each of which tells stories which unfold to give children a deep understanding of life in the Arctic, past and present. The activities can form the basis of a cross-curricular or subject-based approach in Geography and Science, with links to History, Global Citizenship and Sustainable Development. The pack is designed to develop active and experiential learning. Children explore ideas and discuss issues to develop their understanding of the world. The pack develops thinking and communication skills. Each of the three parts has important ICT components to build children’s ICT capacity. Drama plays an important role in building speaking and listening skills and to develop empathy. Many of the activities require children to work collaboratively in pairs or groups, where they are encouraged to take responsibility for their own learning and that of others.
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“Arctic Stories has been so successful in our school that we have re-structured our schemes of work to ensure Year 5 are using the pack during inspection week next year.”
• Detailed guidance handbook for teachers • DVD of specially recorded stories • Powerpoint presentation and additional activity sheets
STORIES
The pack includes the following:
ARCTIC
What’s included in the pack
Teachers’ Handbook
A thematic approach to the curriculum for children age 9-12 By Sue Lyle and Maggy Roberts
• Book of photocopiable masters to support many of the activities • 2 copies of a full-colour culturegram depicting Arctic life • 5 copies of the story book, ‘The Gifts of Kaila’ • Set of animal cards
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Additional thematic resources to support the Arctic Stories Project
LIVING IN THE ARCTIC
ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC
By Michael Kusugak Price: £14.99
By Allan Fowler Price: £6.99
Price: £6.50
Enter MY ARCTIC 1, 2, 3 and explore a world of animals and adventure in the Arctic Circle. On each two-page spread, discover counting and creatures, and learn who’s predator and who’s prey. Each scene includes the depicted number in English and Inuktitut. For those wanting more Inuit information, a special end section by Arctic-native Kusugak recounts his experiences living in the north along side the animals featured in the book.
This colourful, fact filled Geography book brings young readers on an exciting field trip to the Arctic. It describes the region’s land, vegetation, people and wildlife.
MY ARCTIC 1,2,3
Discover how people live and work in these lands of ice and snow. All aspects of life, fauna, flora, people and environment are covered in amazing photographic detail. Brilliant for homework and school projects.
POLAR BEAR, WHY IS YOUR WORLD MELTING? WALK WITH A WOLF By Janni Howker Price: £6.99 For readers aged: 5+
OUT ON THE ICE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BAY By Peter Cumming Price: £14.99
Little Leah knows she is not to go outside – there are polar bears nearby. Even so, she sneaks out to explore a nearby iceberg. Sure enough, an equally curious polar bear cub is also out on the ice and it is not long before they find each other in the setting sun. Soon the worried parents – human and bear alike – discover their missing young and set out to find them. “One of the best picture books around”.
Come on a spellbinding journey to the far, wild north, to the Yukon territory of north-western Canada, and meet one of the world’s most magnificent, yet misunderstood, creatures: the wolf. Be part of the pack and walk, run, howl, hunt, eat, sleep and dream like a wolf. A non-fiction picture-book with an accompanying CD.
By Robert Wells Price: £10.99
The heat of the sun is trapped by the “greenhouse” gases that surround Earth - carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and water vapour. If there is just the right amount of these trapped gases, the air is warm enough for plants, animals, and people to thrive. But now there is too much greenhouse gas, especially carbon dioxide. Polar bears, and all of us, are in trouble. What we can do to help keep Earth cool?
ICE BEAR By Nicola Davies Price: £5.99 For readers aged: 5+
Emotive, atmospheric illustrations bring the icy grandeur of the Arctic to life and with accurate information; this book is suitable for classroom projects and activities.
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Revealing China: Cross Curricular Resources
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Buy these popular resources individually or purchase them all as one China Package for £179.00 inc. vat By Des Bowden and Pam Copeland
Revealing China Photopack Beijing, Shanghai and Xian Price: £20.00
The revealing China Photopack focuses on three significant cities in China; Beijing, Shanghai and Xian. It has been developed to stimulate children’s curiosity about the lives of other people in a different part of the world. The photographs aim to provide an understanding of people’s relationships both with their built and their physical environment and how this has shaped their past and will define their future. The photopack and associated resources are designed to help teachers provide opportunities to meet some of the learning outcomes identified in the historical, geographical and social area of learning in the new primary curriculum. The photopack aims to give a representative view of these three very different cities. The photographs are an open-ended resource and are planned to be the catalyst for further discussion and investigation into China as a modern super power. They will raise issues of sustainability, population growth, links with the wider world, trade, tourism and culture. The revealing China Photopack is a starting point for the development of a cross-curricular topic that can be approached through history, geography, citizenship, art and music, it will also support thematic studies and address specific areas of learning.
Revealing China: A Cross Curricular Scheme of Work
Revealing China Information Booklet for Teachers
New Primary Review Areas of Learning
Price: £20.00
This booklet is designed to provide teachers with factual background information on China and the three cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Xian. China has a history of civilisation stretching back over 7,000 years yet in the last 20 years it has developed and changed faster than any country in the world.
Price: £20.00
The ‘Revealing China’ scheme of work has been designed for students to begin to explore important cities in China, encouraging them to question the lives of other people in a different part of the world and investigate the world around them, from the local to the global. It is a starting point for the development of a cross curricular topic on China. The lessons: All lessons use the historical, geographical and social understanding of learning as the starting point. Each lesson is then accompanied with a series of cross curricular activities/ opportunities. The lessons could be delivered as stand alone, or if the timetable allows, be grouped together to allow for an area of learning/cross-curricular ‘Revealing China Focus Week’! To ensure the scheme of work is effective, it has been designed for use in conjunction with a range of resources that have been written on the ‘Revealing China’ theme.
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China is a varied diverse country with a long and complex history which an introductory book can only outline. We have tried to include basic information, which primary school teachers may find useful as they use the resources to excite and challenge their pupils about China. Includes: • • • • • • • •
Facts about China Landscapes and Resources China’s History Travel and Transport Schools in China Shopping in China Chinese Food Further Information
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China Locality Resource Pack Price: £79.50 + vat
The China Locality Resource Pack is packed full of items of interest from China. The China Box contains 16 artefacts representing items that the Chinese really use. These demonstrate different aspects of Chinese life including work, relaxation and day to day living. The China Locality Resource Pack is used to support work on contrasting localities and a variety of cross curricular and creative projects. This box can be used for both Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 work in both Global Citizenship and Geography. The China Locality Resource Pack includes a variety of insightful artefacts:
The China Resource Pack - a box of related chinese artefacts
Abacus, The China Enquirer Newspaper (an English language newspaper written for KS2 children), Chinese Child’s Traditional Outfit, Chinese Lantern, Authentic Chinese Newspaper, Chopsticks, Traditional Woven Farm Workers Hat, Paper Fan, Jade Horoscope (a piece of Jade jewellery related to one of the years on the Chinese Horoscope), Paper Kite, Replica Chinese Money, Parasol, Rice Bowl (China or porcelain), Jainzi - Large Shuttlecock (used for playing keepy uppy game with feet), Traditional Chinese Spoon, Model Terracotta Warrior (Approx 12-30cm tall depending on stock). Occasionally items may be substituted depending on supply from China.
Revealing China Images CD Images of Beijing, Shanghai and Xian Price: £15.00 + vat
The photographs on this CD offer an insight into three significant cities in China, namely Beijing, Shanghai and Xian. They highlight the modernity and rapid development of this vast and diverse country that is home to 1.3 billion people. The images may be used on a PC for individual enquiry work where they can be imported onto reports, articles or stories. Alternatively they could be used on an interactive white board during an introductory or plenary session and act as a stimuli for discussion. Use the presenter tools view to enable you to see the notes while displaying the images to the children. Pupils may be encouraged to explore what the images are portraying. The images may be annotated, cropped, added to and speech bubbles or captions inserted.
Liling Looks Around CD Price: £15.00 + vat
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This beautifully penned story about Liling and her life is also available on CD for use with small groups or on the interactive whiteboard.
The China Enquirer Newspaper Supplied in class sets of 15 Price: £15.00 per set
A newspaper written for KS2 children investigating China. The newspaper presents factual subject knowledge through a variety of stories, activities and pictures based on QCA Key Questions.
Liling Looks Around 6 book pack Price: £25.00
KS1
Liling is a little girl who lives in a village near Xian in the province of Shaanxi in central China. The story tells of her adventures as she travels from her home, to Beijing and Shanghai to meet her grandmother and her friend Chi. The cartoon characters are skillfully drawn around photographs, which reveal aspects of real China. Six copies plus one set of notes, which can be used for small group reading.
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Literacy and Creative Writing The Literacy Toolkit:
Primary Literature:
Improving students’ speaking, listening, reading and writing skills By Amanda Sara Price: £24.99
This very popular resource includes, 50 generic practical literacy strategies for the classroom, whole school strategies which need to be addressed for literacy to flourish and a selection of generic tools to be used for assessing literacy. The Literacy Toolkit provides an understanding of literacy, its impact upon our schools and the practical and creative strategies we can use to ensure that every pupil’s literacy skills progress rapidly in all subjects. It embraces the fundamental concept that literacy skills need to be addressed by all policy makers, school leaders and teachers, irrespective of their specialism, for students to succeed. This highly regarded resource also contains a free CD of the worksheets needed to carry out the exercises and activities.
Writing and Reading Mysteries Price: £22.99
Higher Level Thinking Questions By Laurie Kagan Price: £19.99
Expand your youngsters’ minds with higher-level thinking questions on classic tales. You will find hundreds of questions on primary literature selections such as: The Three Little Pigs, The Little Mermaid, Stone Soup and Pinocchio, plus 11 others! The questions are designed to engage and develop the range of higher order thinking skills: • Did Jack have the right to take things from the giant’s house? • If you were the wolf, how would you get the three pigs out of the brick house? • What do you think Pinocchio learned from his experiences? Questions are provided in convenient photocopiable question card format, perfect for the engaging activities provided. Also includes hours and hours of timesaving questions and activities to develop your students’ critical and creative thinking skills using primary literature!
KS2-KS3
When students read and write mysteries, they have opportunities to form and test hypotheses, evaluate clues, and conduct research. Activities are provided for whole class, small group, and individual instruction. Sections include: Mysteries at home and in history and clues and cues and many more.
Inspiring Children to Read and Write for Pleasure: Using Literature to Inspire Literacy Learning for Ages 8-12 By Fred Sedgwick Price: £21.99
By Mary Mason Price: £19.99
Don’t be fooled into thinking that this is a standard classroom dictionary - it’s much more. This best-selling dictionary recognises the growing importance of actively teaching grammar and punctuation as an integral part
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The lack of interest in reading for pleasure amongst large numbers of primary age pupils, is a cause for major concern. Inspiring Children to Read and Write for Pleasure uses the context of literature to inspire
Questions Dictionary of Grammar
of literacy development. Mary Mason has developed a range of methods for teaching grammar that children find enjoyable and rewarding. The dictionary provides definitions of key grammatical terms and concepts in a way that demonstrates their usefulness and validity.
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children to a love of books. Aimed at Year 4, 5 and 6 primary pupils, but also significant as a transitions text to teaching secondary school pupils, this book shows how children’s fluency in language - their thinking, their talking, their reading, their listening and their writing – can be greatly improved and enriched through contact with literature placed in an understandable context. By using case studies, schedules of work and practical classroom applications as well, primary school children can enjoy reading and writing again. With a number of sample passages to use, teaching guidelines and examples of children’s work, this book will be of great interest to literacy coordinators, practicing Primary PGCE and Key Stage 2 teachers and those on BA Primary/B’Ed courses.
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Intermediate Literature:
In Full Bloom:
Higher Level Thinking Questions
A Thinking Approach to Teaching Literature By Tina McDougall Price: £29.95
KS2-KS3
This resource gives teachers of the middle years the tools to help students become strategic and independent readers. It outlines a literacy programme based on strategies of Benjamin Bloom’s six levels of cognitive thinking and contains interactive literacy tasks to capture students’ interests and develop in them a lifelong love of reading. Including assessment suggestions and checklists to record which activities have been completed, this book is designed to engage even the reluctant reader and students with learning difficulties.
Language Arts:
Higher Level Thinking Questions By Christa Chapman, Laurie Kagan, Kimberly Vincent and Arthur Lopez Price: £19.99 KS2-KS4
Integrate higher-level thinking into your language arts curriculum with this powerful collection of readyto-use questions. You will find hundreds of use-again questions to promote thinking, writing, and discussion about: Adventure Stories, Book Reviews, Poetry, Story Characters, Story Plot, Story Setting, Story Structure, Vocabulary, and many more! Questions are provided in convenient, photocopiable, question card format, perfect for the activities provided. Watch in awe as your students lead themselves through carefully crafted questions guaranteed to promote critical and creative thinking. Also includes photocopiable prompts for journal writing and activities for student-generated questions.
Storyteller By Pie Corbett Price: £30.00
KS2
Storyteller provides a wealth of activities supporting oral story telling, reading and writing stories. The teacher’s notes by best-selling author Pie Corbett take each story from Dragonory and other stories for 7-9 year olds and provides: • A history of the story activities for reading the story. • Techniques for telling it and re-telling it out loud. • Activities that encourage the children to write their own versions. This teacher resource is accompanied by a children’s anthology, Dragonory and other stories for 7 to 9 year olds, that includes a free audio CD, with each story read aloud!
By Judith Dillingham, Christa Chapman and Laurie Kagan Price: £19.99 KS2-KS3
Use your students’ favourite literature books to develop their higher-level thinking skills. Includes over two hundred questions on favourites such as: Charlotte’s Web, James and the Giant Peach, Little House on the Prairie, The Great Kapok Tree, and Sarah, Plain and Tall, plus 11 others! Stimulate your students’ range of thinking skills with these ready-to-use questions: • Name the three most important reasons the animals gave the man not to cut down the Kapok tree. • Why did you choose those three? • If Charlotte had been a city spider instead of a farm spider, how would her life have been different? • What might happen in the sequel to the story? Questions are provided in convenient, photocopiable, question card format, perfect for the cooperative questioning activities provided. Also includes activities for student-generated questions and photocopiable prompts for journal writing.
Teaching Children’s Literature:
Making Stories Work in the Classroom By Diane Duncan Price: £26.99
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Drawing on a series of classroom workshops and live interviews with the authors, this inspiring book examines five popular children’s authors: Philip Pullman, J.K. Rowling, Michael Morpurgo, Anthony Browne, Jacqueline Wilson and the genre of comic books. Four genres are explored in detail: the picture book, written narrative, film narrative and comic books. Detailed literary knowledge about the chosen authors and genres with clear, structured guidelines and creative ideas helps teachers, student teachers and classroom assistants make some immensely popular children’s books come alive in the classroom. Includes a variety of discussion, drama, writing and drawing activities, with ideas for Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning which can be used to plan a unit of work or series of interrelated lessons for pupils aged between seven and fourteen. This book shows teachers how pupils can be encouraged to become more critical and knowledgeable about screen, picture and comic narratives as well as written narratives. Plan inspiring and enjoyable lessons, and be encouraged to teach children’s literature in an entirely different and inventive way.
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Visual Talk/Writing Target Cards Visual Talk / Writing Target cards are a product which develops target setting from Nursery – Year 6. Written targets are often inappropriate for EYFS pupils. The approach begins with oracy and then develops into writing within a WHOLE SCHOOL framework. The pack contains 51 cards each of which have a simple graphic image with a fixed meaning. E.g. Picture of a rainbow on card = use colour words. The pack covers punctuation, sentence types, connectives, paragraphing, creative writing, story openings and endings etc. The cards add a new visual dimension to target setting: with Nursery and Reception pupils the cards can be used with wordless picture books – simply hold up a visual target card when a pupil is ‘telling’ a picture and the symbol on the card promotes a sharply focused talk target.
Here’s what teachers are saying about this exciting product:
At World’s End Junior School, Birmingham the target card approach has been used to develop a broad range of sentence types. Writing was levelled at the start and end of the project using WEJS PSS levelling guides. Pupils at 2a at the start of the project improved to (between) 3a and 4c. The average PSS points progress in a term was 5.4.
“Easy to use when setting improvement targets in A.F.L. marking – children become enthusiastic about the use of symbols and a clear sense of ownership promotes their use…impressively, without prompting, pupils began to use the symbols when peer assessing work!’
Used across a whole school, sustainable measurable progress will be even greater!
Jon Lymer – Mill Lane Primary School, Stockton-on-Tees.
With older pupils the cards are used in writing across the curriculum. All cards are numbered and pupils use them to criteria-based self assess their writing, adding the number of the card to their first draft wherever they have met a target. They are also ideal for peer assessments.
Price: £15 + vat per pack
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‘Staff report overspill into reading with pupils noticing and commenting on authorial techniques, even in Year 3’. Lynn Houston – Anglesey Primary School, Birmingham.
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Get Your Head Around Punctuation ( … and how to teach it!) By Alan Peat Price: £15.00
Alan Peat helps to demystify some of the rules of punctuation, sharing a broad range of tried and tested, practical class-based ideas. Be more confident in your approach to teaching punctuation! “At last – advice that actually helps teachers to teach pupils how to use punctuation effectively, rather than simply correct it!”
Writing Exciting Ghost Stories: Age 9 plus Ghost Story Plot Skeletons By Alan Peat and Julie Barnfather Price: £15.00
Writing Exciting Ghost Stories: Ghost Story Plot Skeletons, provides teachers with 25 vivid plot outlines, together with stunning illustrations, to use with children to inspire them to produce enjoyable, effective narrative writing. The book provides both simple and more complex story structures and helps even the most reluctant young writers to produce their own excellent examples of this ever-popular genre. Pupils will also develop an holistic understanding of narrative writing and ‘story sense’.
Writing Exciting Sentences: Age 7 Plus By Alan Peat Price £15.00
Writing Exciting Sentences provides teachers with 25 sentence types and teaching tips to help pupils to use a varied range of sentence types at appropriate points in both their fiction and non-fiction writing.“…We’ve taught many of Alan’s sentence types and all pupils, including boys, reluctant writers and those with special educational needs, quickly found success and were eager to build upon their newly developed skills.”
50 Ways to Retell a Story: Cinderella By Alan Peat and Julie Peat Price: £19.99
50 Ways To Retell A Story: Cinderella does exactly what it says on the cover – retells the favourite fairytale Cinderella – in fifty brand new ways! As a haiku, a recipe, a text message, a story written in ‘pig Latin,’ a diary entry, a ghost story and forty-four other innovative ways. The language play involved will interest any avid reader, but the book has, predominantly, been written with the Primary and Secondary school classroom in mind. The book provides teachers with 50 literacy lessons, starter sessions or extension activities which ensure a creative, engaging approach to the teaching of literacy. While the familiar format of an old favourite like Cinderella can encourage reluctant writers to ‘have a go’, more able pupils will relish the challenges of completing the more complex re-tellings. And all of the approaches exemplified in 50 Ways To Retell A Story: Cinderella can be applied with any other traditional tale.
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Teaching Poetry with 4-8 Year Olds By Alan Peat Price: £17.95
Foundation-KS2
This book includes a broad selection of exciting and enjoyable poems that can be used to develop enthusiasm for poetry, reading and writing. For ease of use each poem is specifically linked to both a ‘Key Objective’ and accompanying ‘Teachers’ Notes’. All of the poems in this book have been used successfully in school workshops with 4-8 year olds. Most are written by Alan Peat, but the collection also includes poems by Wes McGee and Andrew Taylor. A broad range of poetry styles is included, and related ‘language play’ activities are discussed. This book is a companion volume to the popular Teaching Poetry with 7-12 Year Olds.
Teaching Poetry with 7-12 Year Olds By Alan Peat Price: £17.95
KS2-KS3
Many teachers are devoting substantial amounts of time searching for resources to effectively teach poetry. This pack has been specifically developed to link poems with key objectives and a wealth of practical teaching ideas. A ‘Notes for Teachers’ section accompanies each poem and includes both suggestions for using the poem with either a whole class or a group, and extension activities. All of the poems in the pack have been used on school workshops with 7-12 year old children – most are written by Alan Peat, but the collection also includes poems by Colin McNaughton and Michael Rosen. All poetry styles are covered, including rhyming and non-rhyming, haiku, expanding/contracting poems, shape poems, rap and free verse. Alan Peat also provides five writing frames to help children to structure their responses to poems effectively. Here is the first verse from a poem called Cliff, which is included in the book. It illustrates an example of a Key Objective: To write poems based on personal or imagined experience, linked to poems read.
Cliff
It was really unexpected, it was somewhat of a shock When my brother, who was just aged five, turned into a rock. We wanted to include him, brothers shouldn’t be left out, So we put him in a wheelbarrow and pushed the lad about. We pushed him to a disco but his dancing skills were weak, We wanted him to talk to girls but found he couldn’t speak, Then people started joking and they never seemed to stop, ‘Say is that your brother? He’s a real chip off the block.’ And I think they thought it funny but I knew he was alone, It really cannot be much fun to be a lump of stone.
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First Poems for Thinking By Robert Fisher Price: £14.99
Foundation-KS2
This book explains ways of using poems to promote thinking, literacy and philosophical discussion. It includes discussion plans and thinking activities related to each poem.
Poems for Thinking By Robert Fisher Price: £14.99
KS2
This book shows how poetry can be used to stimulate thinking, learning and literacy skills. With discussion plans and thinking activities for each poem.
First Stories for Thinking Robert Fisher Price: £14.99
Foundation-KS2
An introduction to ways of using stories to promote children’s thinking and learning, and doing philosophy with children.
Stories for Thinking By Robert Fisher Price: £14.99
KS2
Thirty multi-cultural stories for children aged 7-11 to enjoy and think about, with discussion plans and activities related to each story.
What children say...
‘A good game is like a good lesson’ ‘What’s the point of a story unless you think about it?’
‘... I’ve never seen children so captivated’
Senior teacher, Hampshire
Games for Thinking By Robert Fisher Price: £14.99
KS2 upwards
One hundred and twenty easy-to-play games for ages 7 to adult. This book shows ways to use games to promote thinking and learning, with discussion plans and thinking activities related to each game. Sections include: • language games • logical mathematical games • visual, spacial and kinaesthetic games
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By David Walton and Sylvia Lancaster KS1-KS2 C Use this fantastic cross curricular resource to stimulate your pupils imaginations in literacy, history, geography, ICT, art and craft. This fabulously imaginative cross-curricular pack enables teachers to fulfil many requirements of the English National Curriculum, using as its focus Rosemary Sutcliff’s classic re-telling of the Beowulf legend into a gripping children’s historical novel.
Creative, Flexible Teaching
Beowulf the Dragonslayer focuses on English at National Curriculum Level’s 3, 4 and 5 (KS1-2), and contextualises in an exciting way the learning of grammar, comprehension and research, as well as creative writing.
Creating a Dragonslayer environment
“Create an appropriate environment within the classroom. A particularly effective way of setting the scene is with life size figures. It will enhance the effect if the room is as dark as possible, with one focal light source”… Now the storytelling can begin!
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The pack is organised into an A4 folder with 250 sheets. It covers grammatical themes such as sentences, nouns, plurals, verbs, adjectives, speech marks and commas, providing a host of related English activities such as play writing, story telling, handwriting and poetry. Each learning activity has been carefully designed to stimulate children’s minds and make learning fun. Worksheets are photocopiable and lavishly illustrated with black and white line drawings and motifs on every page. The range of activities includes: • Games and quizzes with sound educational objectives. • Arts and Crafts tasks: to build a model of a Viking longboat, or make your own Viking Helmet. • Drama and Performance, with twelve exciting character masks provided. • Learning to read and write in runes. • Solving Celtic riddles.
Differentiated Learning
Whilst all pupils have access to the same content, the level of difficulty of the tasks can be appropriately tailored for each child, as the pack provides worksheets suited for children with mixed abilities at National Curriculum Level’s 3, 4 and 5. The Teacher’s Record Keeping Sheet makes it easy to record what has been taught and at what level. Alongside this, pupils are also given the chance to keep their own records and evaluate their own work in the Pupil Notebook.
A copy of BEOWULF: DRAGONSLAYER By Rosemary Sutcliff Also available in class packs of 15 A5 paperback books at £65.00.
Beowulf: Dragonslayer is a thrilling retelling of the mighty warrior’s most terrifying quests: against Grendel, against the hideous sea-hag and, most courageous of all, his fight to the death with the monstrous fire-drake. Beowulf: Dragonslayer is an easy to read tale of fantasy perfect for young readers’ imaginations to get lost into. It’s a captivating folk tale full of adventure and battles the likes of which inspired J R R Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. Sutcliff’s version breathes new life into the famous historical fiction and makes the story irresistible to active young imaginations everywhere.
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Watch their faces light up as you tell them they can study their favourite film, TV, and book characters during class time! Enjoyment is a crucial part of the learning process and this is why Literacy Resources, Please Mrs Butler and Heard it in the Playground points out:
“The word ENJOY appears at the head of most activities in this book.” The Literacy Resource books look at work by three of the most prolific children’s writers of the last century: Allan Ahlberg, Roald Dahl and Jacqueline Wilson and are written by teachers, for teachers, in the hope of easing the workload of busy, stressed educators. Each book provides schemes for:
• Both individual and group work at differentiated learning levels. • Text, sentence, and word-level work – a popular activity among children.
Differentiated Literacy Resources Danny the Champion of the World English Resource Pack Compiled by Linda Evans Price: £17.99 KS1
Roald Dahl’s powerful use of language and imagination has made him a favourite amongst children and adults alike. His characters are well known and loved, and make any English activities centred on them feel more like fun than work. This resource book maximises the potential of Danny the Champion of the World as a stimulus material, with differentiated resources.
The story’s narrative, based around an endearing father-son relationship and the outwitting of a rich, greedy neighbour is used as a basis for activities designed to develop children’s research skills, and their use and understanding of language and creativity. Designed for use alongside shared or individual reading of the book, the worksheets contain a variety of activities, including cloze exercises, crosswords, sequencing, discussion topics, descriptive writing and a play for six characters called Mr Hazell’s Come-Uppance!
Teachers who see a need for differentiated tasks often lack the necessary resources: These worksheets are an attempt to provide work for children of varying abilities and aptitudes, in an interesting and varied way, which will enhance the reading of the book rather than elicit cries of: “We haven’t gotta WRITE about it have we, Miss?”
“I had to read some of it standing up because I could not sit still and read it at the same time!” A 9-year-old Danny the Champion of the World reader.
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Please Mrs Butler C and Heard it in the Playground Literacy Resources Complied by Michael and Kate Lockwood Price: £17.99 KS2
Allan Ahlberg’s clever, timeless, humorous poems about school life have been a favourite in Primary School classrooms for years. The familiarity of the subject matter attracts pupils’ attention, and the activities in this resource reflect the playful spirit in which Ahlberg’s poems were written.
Activities and Teacher’s notes based on the poems of Allan Ahlberg’s Please Mrs Butler & Heard it in the Playground include: • Work on theme, language, mood and form. • Feature prompt analysis of the poems, and the messages they convey. • Clearly mark whether an activity is for Reading, Writing or both. • Cover cross-curricular topics for ICT and PSHE.
The Story of Tracy Beaker Literacy Resources Compiled by Liz Ross Price: £15.00
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This resource book is specifically designed to appeal to less able/motivated readers because the heroine of Jacqueline Wilson’s award winning tale has behavioural problems herself. Narrated by a real life, believable 10 year old, Wilson’s novel offers a thoughtprovoking insight into life in a children’s home and the resource book follows Wilson’s sensitivity when dealing with troubling social problems such as bullying.
The Story of Tracy Beaker activities:
• Are designed to develop children’s reading skills and extend their comprehension of the text. • Offer creative writing activities to appeal to even reluctant writers. • Provide topic ideas linked to other curriculum areas such as Art, History, Design & Technology and Maths. • Supply Prompt Sheets for less able children, and Extension ideas for the more able.
Rap It Up, A Modern Approach to Poetry Book and CD Rom
Compiled by James Carter Price: £19.99 KS2-KS3
The best way to have fun with rhyme, rhythm, narrative, alliteration and assonance is through rap! James Carter offers an innovative slant on the Literary Curriculum and allows you to teach poetry like never before. The contemporary nature of rap is popular with children and will allow them to express themselves in their own dialect.
Activities within the book and CD Rom:
• Explore the form and content of Rap Poetry by contemporary, popular children’s poets such as Valerie Bloom and Brian Moses. • Practise aspects of creative writing such as brainstorming, improvising, and redrafting. • Develop performance skills. • Practise the creation of synonyms in words and phrases. • Explore the African history of Rap and Rap Poetry.
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Speaking and Listening
LISTEN, THINK, TALK Children are inundated with verbal and visual information at school, and teachers need to make sure this information doesn’t go in one ear and out the other! This is why the National Strategies recognise the importance of listening skills. The following sets of resources are brilliantly put together to equip teachers with activities specially designed to develop children’s listening and concentration skills.
LISTEN UP! Using Listen Up! regularly will help pupils improve their concentration span, practice visualization techniques, improve memory and develop their thinking skills – all of which are vital ingredients for successful learning.
“We are convinced that excellent teaching of speaking and listening enhances children’s learning and raises standards further.” QCA Primary National Strategy: Speaking, Listening, Learning, Working with Children in KS1 and KS2
Listen Up! Book 1 By Linda Evans Price: £29.50
KS2-KS3
Listen Up! is an innovative resource full of activities usable for individual, group, and class work, with Record Sheets and Certificates to reward children’s progress. The 25 activities: • Each feature a script for the teacher/T.A. to read with a corresponding photocopiable sheet for pupils to work on. • Offer stimulus for creative writing. • Include a CD Rom with five activities performed by professional actors enriched with music and sound effects.
Listen Up! Book 2 By Linda Evans Price: £29.50
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Listen Up! Book 2 follows the successful format of Listen Up, but with a strong focus on Citizenship and PSHE. Five creative scenarios are used to guide pupils through the work: ‘The New Student’, ‘The Oil Spill’, ‘The Garden’, ‘The World Foods Factory’ and ‘The Bullies’. Listen Up! Book 2 contains: • Activities designed around debate and creative writing. • Opportunities for role-play. • A CD Rom with five activities performed by professional actors enriched with music and sound effects.
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Listening Skills Listening Skills - Early Years Listening Skills - Key Stage 1 Listening Skills - Key Stage 2 By Sandi Rickerby and Sue Lambert Price: £19.99 each
The Listening Skills books have proved a huge success in helping teachers develop effective listening skills with children of a range of abilities.
Games to improve concentration and attention
Clear, photocopiable worksheets for the children are accompanied by detailed step-by-step instructions for the teacher to read out once and once only. By reading these once, the teacher underscores the importance of listening and is able to establish how much the child has remembered and understood.
Maths Listening Skills - Early Years Maths Listening Skills - Key Stage 1 Maths Listening Skills - Key Stage 2 By Sandi Rickerby and Sue Lambert Price: £19.99 each
Create a class of Maths Wizards! These books follow in the style of Listening Skills, and the enjoyable tasks in these packs train children to listen and practice mental arithmetic at the same time. Again the teacher reads the step-by-step instructions once only for the children to act upon and then gauge how good their listening skills really are.
Improve numeracy by improving listening
Thinking Together By Lyn Dawes, Neil Mercer and Rupert Wegerif Price: £22.95 KS2
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Encourage children to form opinions and debate with each other. The acclaimed Thinking Together is a programme of activities designed to develop excellent communication and critical thinking skills. All ideas and materials in this book have been successfully trialled in UK schools, with standards being raised as a result. The approach in Thinking Together can help pupils develop language and reasoning skills across the curriculum, in every subject area. What’s included: • Talk lesson plans - where children learn to reason and collaborate together. • ‘Talk Diary’ and Assessment Plans – encouraging pupils to assess their own progress. • ICT skills focus – useful for setting up links with other schools. • Photocopiable sheets to support group work. • Cross-curricular links to: English, Maths, Science, Geography, Environmental Education and Citizenship.
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Investigating Maths and Science Maths Adventure Games By Alan Parr Price: £17.99 each
KS2
Each pack draws on the creative and interactive features of adventure games, and applies them to a series of exciting and imaginative learning exercises, based on a common theme or challenge. Children have to undertake a number of maths tasks to complete the game. The fun challenges are easy, straightforward and ideal for children at KS2 who find maths difficult. The tasks are fully in keeping with the spirit of the National Curriculum and represent good practice as encouraged by Non-statutory Guidance, HMI, OFSTED inspectors, etc.
The Haunted School
A mathematical adventure for upper junior children The Haunted School is one of a series of mathematical adventures for Y5/Y6 children. This adventure has a focus upon tasks such as those pupils meet in Key Stage 2 Tests. Completing the adventure itself takes a total of two to three hours, but many additional ideas are included for follow up work. The problems are linked by a framework – two ghosts must be coaxed to move to another school. The problem-solving theme is highly motivating and typically children will be genuinely excited as they progress through the adventure and eventually complete the final problem.
“It was very challenging but at the same time interesting. Superb, fabulous, brill, wicked and really fun.” Pupil Teachers often find specially impressive such factors as children’s extended commitment, high levels of persistence and achievement from all pupils including the less able and the opportunity to make observations of children in the process of solving problems:
“I love watching them work on one puzzle for a long time and am constantly amazed how determined they are not to give up... How many other maths lessons do the children hug each other when they’ve finished?” “Talk about encouraging perseverence – ‘Aw, do we have to stop?’”
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The House on the Hill
A Numeracy Adventure for Children in Year 5 and 6 and an INSET Activity for Teachers The House On The Hill is a mathematical adventure written for Y6 children, who work in groups solving problems which all have a numeracy focus. It has also been used successfully with classes from Y4 to Y8. Completing the adventure itself takes a total of perhaps three hours, but many additional ideas are included for follow-up work. Suggestions are included for using the adventure as a staff development exercise for teachers and assistants.
ALAN PARR A numeracy adventure for upper KS2 children and an INSET activity for staff
The problems are linked by being set in a framework in which the children have to explore a haunted house. The problem-solving theme is highly motivating, and typically children will be genuinely excited as they progress through the adventure and eventually complete the final problem.
❖ Enhances problem solving skills ❖ Fully photocopiable ❖ Easy to administer - no special equipment needed ❖ Includes answer grids and certificate of achievement
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The Great Jewel Robbery
A mathematical adventure for upper Key Stage 2 children The Great Jewel Robbery is a mathematical adventure for Y5/Y6 children, who work in pairs solving problems drawn from all National Curriculum attainment targets in mathematics. The problems are linked by being set in a Victorian detective story á la Sherlock Holmes; each problem brings a piece of information which contributes to the overall solution. The problem solving theme is highly motivating and typically children will be genuinely excited as they progress through the adventure and eventually complete the final problem. What do the children say?
ALAN PARR A numeracy adventure for upper KS2 children and an INSET activity for staff
❖ Enhances problem solving skills ❖ Fully photocopiable
“..it was exciting and enjoyable.” “I loved it so much I just didn’t want it to stop.”
❖ Easy to administer - no special equipment needed ❖ Includes answer grids and certificate of achievement
“We had a great time puzzling over them and when we finished we were really pleased with ourselves.”
Other books in the series by Alan Parr include: Blackbeard’s Treasure It’s 1720 in the Caribbean, and a group of pirates are about to launch an expedition to find Blackbeard’s Treasure. Players have to purchase a ship, hire a crew, kit them out, find the island and the hidden treasure – and finally share out the loot! There are eight tasks to be completed by children working in pairs.
Asteroid X
All priced at
£17.99 each
It’s 2099, and on a visit to Asteroid X, disaster strikes – the spaceship has a major malfunction. Players have to undertake a hazardous journey back to Earth. They need to plan the journey, select supplies they will need, choose the best survival craft and work out how to deal with the dangers ahead.
S.A-N.T.A. C.L.A.U.S. Santa is under pressure to supply exciting gifts for children at Christmas – and needs some bright new employees. Children who wish to apply are given a problem to solve in each of the toy-making departments: The Main Office, The Dining Room, The Christmas Card Shop, The Loading Warehouse, The Purchasing Department The Stables, The Map Centre and, The Scheduling Section.
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Improving Numeracy Through Spreadsheets By Bob Sykes Price: £15.99
KS2-KS3
The photocopiable worksheets in this book will help to improve pupils’ numeracy skills, while teaching them some of the basic skills of using spreadsheets. The worksheets can be used to enhance or introduce topic based work in mathematics.
Open-Ended Maths Tasks By Kate Emry, Lyn Lewis and Clare Morfett Price: £24.99
Questions prompt thinking. In order to get better thinking out of our students, we need to ask better questions. This book focuses on the use of open-ended questions in the maths classroom.
Cooperative Learning and Mathematics
Maths in Stories By Judith Stevens Price: £32.99
Young children are just enthralled by stories and picture books; they love both old favourites and modern tales. This book shows you how to use stories to help children develop their understanding in maths. Provides contexts for problem solving and numeracy skills.
Maths All Week
A maths week sourcebook By June Loewenstein Price: £32.99
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This book will help you set up and run a successful and creative maths week or event in your school. It contains detailed advice on planning, notes on how to involve parents and the community, a range of mathematical and cross-curricular activities and suggestions for the evaluation of your maths week. This is a truly creative approach to maths learning, where excellence and enjoyment are guaranteed. Includes; case studies, planning and an A-Z of ideas.
Primary
By Beth Andrini Price: £32.50
KS1-KS3
This classic includes 179 activities and 23 complete step-by step cooperative learning lessons to teach number, measurement, geometry, patterns and functions, statistics, probability, logic and algebra.
Cooperative Learning and Mathematics
Maths Outdoors By Carole Skinner Price: £32.99 Foundation-KS1
We know that young children can learn maths during outdoor play - but how do you actually make it happen? Maths Outdoors provides you with the answers you need. Now you can encourage and provide for mathematical development outside!
High School Activities By Dina Kushnir Price: £32.99
KS3-KS4
Finally, a cooperative learning book specifically for secondary school mathematics teachers. Includes a rich array of activities for all levels of secondary school mathematics. With numerous activities and photocopiable master sheets for pre-algebra, algebra 1, geometry, algebra 2, trigonometry, and precalculus and more.
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Let’s Pretend Maths By Helen Williams and Christa Chapman Price: £32.99 Foundation-KS1
As children play at shop keeping, fly around as a superhero or re-enact a favourite story, you can help them develop their maths ideas and vocabulary, using the clear, practical guidance offered in this book.
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Discovering Decimals Through Cooperative Learning By Laura Chandler Price: £22.99 KS2-KS3
This book has ready-to-use cooperative activities and photocopiable masters for teaching every decimal concept. Understanding, reading and writing, comparing and ordering, placing, rounding, estimating, adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, converting decimals into fractions and percents, and solving real-life decimal problems. Base 10 manipulatives are incorporated in the activities to teach for understanding.
Fraction Fun Through Cooperative Learning By Laurie Kagan Price £22.99
This book is a complete fraction curriculum! Your students will delight in “building” answers to fraction problems with concrete manipulatives and then “connecting” their work to the symbols we call numbers. You teach for understanding, introducing every fraction concept first at the concrete level, then at the connecting level, and finally at the symbolic level. Loaded with photocopiable masters, fantastic explorations, and classbuilding activities. 94 pages.
Count Us In! By Ruth Rowley, Sandra Garner, Marjorie Thornley, Alison Forrest, Hilary Standen and Jill Higginson Price: £15.00 Foundation-KS1
These games for nursery and Key Stage 1 children aim to give practical and enjoyable experiences as a sound basis for understanding, leading to successful and effective mathematics. By playing and replaying games, children can practise or reinforce skills and gain concepts in an enjoyable way. Topics covered include matching, ordering, patterns, counting, number bonds, mathematical language, shape and place value.
Mathematics: Higher Level Thinking Questions By Robyn Silbey Price: £19.99 each Available in Primary or Secondary school editions
The mathematics standards call for moving beyond memorisation, rote learning, and application of predetermined procedures. The standards call on teachers to work towards a deeper conceptual understanding and to foster mathematical reasoning. How do we foster such a deep understanding of mathematics concepts? With deep-thinking maths questions, of course. Here, you’ll find questions for sixteen mathematics topics to promote mathematical thinking and interaction in your class.
Primary
GAMES COUNT Books 1 and 2 By Sandra Garner, Pat Gould and Lesley Woodward Price: £15.00 each Foundation-KS1
These games and activities are centred on early mathematical ideas and concepts. By playing and replaying games, children can practice or reinforce skills in an enjoyable and lively way. Not only will these games improve children’s attitudes towards learning maths, but they will use and extend mathematical language. Book One contains games which focus on visual discrimination, colour, sequencing, comparing, ordering, matching, spatial awareness and counting to six. Book Two contains games which focus on matching numerals to quantities, ordering, spatial awareness, shape, counting, addition, subtraction, multiplication and money.
Question topics: Problem Solving, Patterns, Place Value and Numeration, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Money, Time, Fractions and Decimals, Linear Measurement, Capacity, Weight, Geometry, Data and Graphing, Probability.
Secondary
Question topics: Problem Solving, Number Patterns and Relationships, Whole Number and Decimal Place Value, Decimal Operations, Fraction Concepts, Fraction Addition and Subtraction, Fraction Multiplication and Division, Percents, Relating Fractions, Decimals and Percents, Ratios, Rates and Proportions, Statistics, Data Analysis and Graphing, Algebra, Integers and Integer Operations, Algebra, Solving Equations and Inequalities, Geometry Concepts, Geometry and Measurement, Probability.
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Structures for Success in Chemistry
Write! Science
Multiple Intelligences and Cooperative Learning Activities
High School Activities
By Virginia DeBolt Price: £24.99 KS2-KS4
Students get a deeper understanding for science issues by writing about it! Working cooperatively with teammates on activities like, prioritising science problems, writing about how industry affects the environment and coming up with a new invention.
Cooperative Learning and Science High School Activities
By Michael Michels, Angela Manzi and Janina Mele Price: £32.50 KS3-KS4
Don Plumb Price: £32.50
Chemistry is a beautiful subject that enriches our understanding of the world and is central to so many scientific endeavours. But it can also be a difficult concept for many students to grasp — until now! With exciting explorations and cooperative, interactive structures, your students will “react” to chemistry like never before. In addition to the cooperative structures for chemistry, you’ll find ready to use activities and photocopiable masters for the most common themes in chemistry: • • • • • •
Matter and Reaction Structure and Bonding States of Matter Chemical Calculations Water and Solutions Energy and Chemistry
Make the science of matter really matter to your students. 256 pages.
Learning science content has never been so fun and interactive! This book features cooperative learning ideas such as: Find Someone Who, Pairs Check, Corners, Mix-N-Match, Word Webbing, and Give One Get One, to make science learning motivating and memorable. You’ll find loads of age-appropriate activity ideas and readyto-use photocopiable masters for each of the following science classes: biology, chemistry, earth science, physical science, general and lab science. Your secondary science class will be humming with excitement and interest.
Science Buddies Cooperative Science Activities By Laura Candler Price: £19.99 KS2-4
Students and parents share the excitement of science discovery with simple and safe send-home investigations. Each activity has a teacher page – complete with an overview, ideas for introducing the activity, answers, and cooperative classroom follow up ideas – and a send-home photocopy with step-bystep directions, activity illustrations, and discussion questions. Perfect for parental involvement and in-class success. Science investigations are also terrific for the classroom. 75 pages.
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KS3-KS4
Biology: Higher Level Thinking Questions By Angela Manzi and Michael Michels Price: £19.99 KS3-4
Your secondary students will explore biology topics and themes like never before with this giant collection of ready-to-use biology questions. You’ll find questions for sixteen biology topics and themes: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Animals Biochemistry Bioenergetics Biotechnology and Ethics Body Systems Cells Classification Ecology Evolution Fungi Genetics Methods and Tools Monera Plants Protista Viruses and Diseases.
Promote thinking and interaction in your biology class. 160 pages.
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Physical Science: Higher Level Thinking Questions
Nurturing the Naturalist Intelligence By Dr. Wan Inn Loh and Dr. George Jacobs Price: £32.50 KS2-KS4
By Miguel Kagan and Christa Chapman Price: £19.99 KS2-KS4
Light up your students’ minds with these “electrifying” questions. You’ll find hundreds of ready-to use thinking questions on sixteen of the most popular physical science topics such as: • • • • • • •
Astronomy Electricity Force and Motion Inventions Matter and Energy Simple Machines Technology and many more!
Sky rocket your students’ thinking into outer space with these provocative questions: • “Why do you think people believed that the Earth was the centre of the universe? • How does a door wedge work to keep a door open? • If gravity pulls things down, why don’t aeroplanes fall from the sky?”
Why don’t spiders stick to their own webs? Why do animals play hide and seek in nature? Who are nature’s cleaners and what do they do? Develop students’ eighth intelligence: the naturalist intelligence. This giant collection of hands-on, minds-on interactive lessons will give you plenty of content and ready-to-use activities and photocopiable masters to awaken students’ inquisitiveness about the natural world. Units cover cooperation and interdependence, pollinators’ role in the web of life, nature’s recycling process, food, trees, water, animal survival and adaptation, spiders, and individual uniqueness. Whether you’re looking for a complete natural science curriculum or want to supplement your curriculum to nurture students’ budding naturalist intelligences, this is your source.
Questions are provided in convenient photocopiable question card format, perfect for the engaging cooperative questioning activities provided. Also includes photocopiable prompts for journal writing and activities for student-generated questions.
Life and Earth Sciences Higher Level Thinking Questions Miguel Kagan and Christa Chapman Price: £19.99 KS2-KS3
Science Fact or Science Fiction? Books 1 and 2
This collection of life and earth science higher level thinking questions includes sixteen popular topics and themes:
By John Stringer Price: £14.50 each Book 1: KS1 Book 2: KS2
Why do plants need water? Why isn’t flour a liquid? When helping children learn about science, we need to start with what they already know and challenge their misconceptions. Engagingly written, these resources will help teachers work through a range of key science concepts, distinguishing fact from fiction, and dealing with the ideas that children commonly bring to the classroom. Each unit is based around a common question or misconception and has photocopiable resource sheets to help you work towards building children’s understanding.
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Animals Bugs Environment Health and Nutrition Human Body Oceans and many more!
Bring science to life with this whole world of questions guaranteed to get your students thinking: • Why are people living longer today than ever before? • If you could have one sense, which sense would you choose and how would you use it? • Should cosmetic research and medical testing be done on animals? • Why or why not? Questions are provided in convenient photocopiable question card format, perfect for engaging in the cooperative questioning activities provided.
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Cooperative Learning and Hands-on Science
Cooperative Learning and Wee Science
Laura Candler Price: £28.99
By Laura Candler Price: £28.99
KS2-KS3
The best cooperative learning and science book for the infant and junior classes! Use cooperative learning to teach both science content and process skills. The book includes a complete overview of cooperative learning and co-op structures, cooperative process science, and 15 fantastic step-by-step, hands-on cooperative learning lessons. Loaded with curriculum and literature links, science journal ideas, activities, and ready-to-use photocopiable masters.
Foundation – KS2
This is the book on cooperative learning and primary science! Let your primary students learn science by doing science! Your students will classify, communicate, experiment, identify, infer, measure, make models, observe, organize data, and make predictions with these excellent cooperative learning science lessons. Lessons cover popular primary science topics such as: rainbows, magnets, senses, leaves, electricity, rain forest, seeds, sounds, fish, helicopters, rocks, temperature. Proven step-by-step cooperative lessons for primary science with photcopiable masters.
Science Words By Mike Fowler and Tony Wainwright Price: £12.99 KS2-KS3
Learning science involves getting to know a very specific vocabulary. This text of crosswords is based around the requirements of the science curriculum at Key Stage 2 or as a revision activity for students at Key Stage 3. It should help children to become familiar with and practise using a range of new science words. The puzzles are ideal for use in the classroom or to handout as homework activities. Handy to reproduce and fun to do, they provide a very enjoyable way of consolidating children’s learning in science.
Daily Times Tables Teasers for Ages 7-11 By John Dabell Price: £20.00
KS2-KS3
A huge range of imaginative strategies for teaching times tables in a flexible and creative way. Daily Times Table Teasers helps you to reinforce and teach times tables across the different learning styles enabling you to address different pupils’ learning styles. This multi-sensory approach encourages creativity, flexibility and thinking, transforming the learning of multiplication facts into a fun and exciting experience! Anytime ideas to start the day provide a change of pace, whenever you want to get children thinking! Grouped by learning style so you can choose the most appropriate activity for the moment.
Independent Science Challenges:
Fascinating Science Projects to Challenge and Extend Students
Understanding Primary Science
By Charlotte Samiec Price: £24.99 KS2-KS3
This is an excellent science resource that incorporates a high-level, thinking skills approach to over 40 interesting and sometimes controversial topics such as: Global warming, cloning, nuclear power, weapons of mass destruction, tsunamis, evolution, GM food and much, much more! These science challenges are great learning experiences because they can be differentiated to suit your students using multiple intelligences and learning styles. Independent Science Challenges is overflowing with curriculumrelevant, creative ideas that cover a balance of scientific disciplines and is user-friendly for both students and teachers!
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By Roy Phipps Price: £22.99
Foundation-KS1
Subject knowledge and sample lesson plans for Key Stages 1 and 2. Many primary teachers need help with their personal subject knowledge in science. This book provides practical help in the form of sample lesson plans together with linked background subject knowledge for each of the science topics in the primary national curriculum. Each chapter has sample lesson plans for four different age-groups: Reception, Years 1-2, Years 3-4 and Years 5-6.
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THE FAMOUS SERIES Learning from the lives of Key Thinkers.
£15.00 each
KS2-KS3
Breathe life into key curriculum theories by introducing children to the stories of the people behind them. Nick Gibb, DfE’s Minister of State, recently announced that teachers need a curriculum which helps them ensure that every child has a firm grasp of the basics and a good grounding in general knowledge. The Famous series of books (for teachers or parents) are a dynamic way to provide key curriculum coverage at KS2/3 that is solidly contextualised with general knowledge. Each book includes: • A study of ten key thinkers. • Illustrated Biographies specifically written for children to read themselves. • A word bank of essential vocabulary after every chapter. • Activities suitable for differentiated learning. • Opportunities for class, group and independent work. • Suggestions on how to support lower ability children. • Ideas for extension work for higher ability children. • Suggestions for homework.
Famous Mathematicians By John Davis C In what way is a piece of seventeenth century equipment called Napier’s Bone linked to the modern electronic calculator? Who coined the famous phrase – cogito ergo sum? Make complicated maths theories easy! Famous Mathematicians explains the background behind each theory and its creator and then, using problem solving and investigative activities, allows you to try out each theory. Activities in this book: • Encourage children to think in terms of maths activities away from the usual classroom environment. • Enable children to become more versatile in the way they reason, make deductions and apply their mathematical knowledge and skills. • Are cross-curricular and cover Maths, History, Science, Philosophy, and Astronomy.
Famous Scientists and Inventors
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By John Davis
Who grew over 30,000 versions of the same plant, so that he could study their characteristics? Who was locked up in his house for the last ten years of his life because of what he wrote? Famous Scientists and Inventors seeks to illustrate to children the part played by science and technology in the development of the useful technology and medicine we use today, and is designed to boost teachers’ confidence in the delivery of a science curriculum. Activities in this book feature: • ‘Hands-on’ experiments and investigations in both domestic and environmental locations. • Easy to collect resources, equipment and materials. • Cross-curricular tasks covering Science, ICT and Design & Technology.
Famous Ancient Greeks C By Joy A.Palmer
Which philosopher is said to have walked barefoot all year long but never feel the cold? Which Ancient Greek Statesman was born with a head so long he was only ever painted in portraits wearing a helmet designed to distract from the odd shape of his head? Bring the Past to life and meet ten of the most important Ancient Greeks! By studying the life, work and influence of these thinkers, children can grasp how their influence and legacy has reached beyond the geographical limits of Ancient Greek society. Featured in this book are: • Cultural insights with practical tasks exploring relevant aspects of life and society. • Cross-curricular activities covering History, English, Geography, Science, Art and Music.
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Creativity and Thinking Skills 20 Thinking Tools
Improving Concentration Skills
By Philip Cam Price: £29.50
20 Thinking Tools takes students from the early years of schooling right through to the senior secondary school, and is illustrated throughout with examples from the classroom, supporting exercises and activities.
A Journey into Children’s Minds
By Mike Lake and Marjorie Needham Price: £69.99 inc. vat KS1-2
This resource offers a structured programme for working with children individually, which aims to help them to, listen better, be able to concentrate, learn to focus on what is relevant, improve their reasoning and to transfer what they learn to subject lessons.
Philosophy for Children DVD Directed by Dr Sue Lyle Price: £25.49 + vat
This DVD is about children, teachers and schools and how they learn to think together. Philosophy for Children starts with children’s questions. In the DVD we find out what questions the children want to ask. “It’s like a dive into a whole new world!”
The Thinking Team: Local Solutions for the Global Environment By Sandy Tasker Price: £14.99
By Rosalind Curtis, Maiya Edwards, Fay Holbert and Margaret Bishop Price: £17.50 5–7 Year Olds Price: £17.50 7–9 Year Olds Price: £17.50 9–11 Year Olds
The Thinking Strategies for the Successful Classroom series provides activities to enrich and extend the thinking strategies of the entire class, with in-built opportunities to challenge the skills of the highest achievers.
KS2-KS3
Students work through specific tasks for each topic using a set process to achieve a solution. Each person takes on a certain role that dictates how he or she should approach the task. These roles are aligned with de Bono’s thinking hats principles.
Learning Without Limits 1 By Tony Hurlin Price: £65.00 inc. vat
Using art to develop critical and creative thinking. How to challenge and involve pupils of all abilities by teaching the key skills of critical and creative thinking through paintings, pictures and prints.
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Improving Memory Skills Successful ways to develop memory skills and improve learning capacity By Mike Lake and Angie Steele Price: £85.00 inc. vat KS1-2
Improving Memory Skills helps a teacher or classroom assistant to work with children on their powers of memory. In simple steps of increasing difficulty, the programme provides practice in the basics of active memorising and organising information.
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Mind Maps for Kids
An Introduction - The Shortcut to Success at School By Tony Buzan Price: £14.99
KS2-KS3
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Using clear and relevant examples, Tony Buzan explains how Mind Mapping can be used in every subject. This is one of the most appealing books available to children and teachers on the useful art of Mind Mapping. The illustrations are informative and delightful.
Asking Better Questions By Norah Morgan and Juliana Saxton Price: £24.99
This book recognises that both thought and emotion are essential components of a classroom that respects and encourages questions. It is committed to helping teachers ask the right question at the right moment, within the give and take of classroom talk and activity.
Thinking Through Primary Teaching
Teaching Thinking
Philosophical Enquiry in the Classroom (3rd edition) By Robert Fisher Price: £19.99
This book illustrates how philosophical discussion can help to promote critical thinking as well as the moral and social values essential for citizenship in a democratic society. It also shows how a community of enquiry can be created in any classroom.
Arctic Stories By Dr Sue Lyle Price: £60.00
KS2-KS3
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Arctic Stories seeks to ask moral questions about the impact of the developed world on the Arctic, both in the past and the present and this pack is built around the stories of Arctic peoples. It 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. When children are invited to learn about the world through narratives they become emotionally engaged.
By Steve Higgins Price: £29.50
This book is an excellent starter for teachers who want to integrate thinking skills into their schemes of work. The strategies outlined in the book can be used within normal planning and teaching routines but also provide challenging activities to stimulate pupils’ thinking.
Thinking With Rich Concepts
Changing Children’s Minds
Rich Concepts include: Happiness; Choice; Ownership; Identity; and 10 more that lead students into thoughtful, guided discussion. Student warm-ups to start ideas flowing then move through various exercises and respond to different statements to really grapple with each concept.
By Howard Sharron and Martha Coulter Price: £16.50
Reuven Feuerstein’s work underpins almost all of current research and practice in thinking skills. This book is one of the few non-academic accounts of his work available in English.
By Clinton Golding Price: £32.95
Thinking treasures for philosophical thinking in the classroom. Provocative topics that really make students use all the thinking tools and strategies at their command.
Complete with practical teacher’s notes, sample discussions and evaluation tools.
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In Full Bloom: A Cognitive Approach to Teaching Literature
Thinking Skills and Problem Solving An Inclusive Approach
By Tina McDougall Price: £29.95
A Practical Guide for Teachers in Primary Schools By Belle Wallace, June Maker and Diana Cave Price: £20.99
KS2-3
In Full Bloom gives teachers the tools to help students become thoughtful, strategic and independent readers. It outlines a literacy programme based on Benjamin Bloom’s six levels of cognitive thinking, and contains interactive literacy tasks to capture students’ interest and develop in them a lifelong love of reading. Designed to engage even the reluctant or disinterested reader, this flexible resource explores story structure through children’s literature and encourages students to use critical thinking skills when interacting with a wide range of texts.
Improving Thinking in the Classroom By Ralph Pirozzo Price: £32.95
Discover and develop your pupils’ strengths across the multiple intelligences by improving their problem-solving skills. This book will: • Tell teachers all they need to know about multiple intelligences and problem solving. • Provide a bank of problems that can be integrated into any lesson plan. • Help teachers to identify gifted and able pupils. • Guide schools on how to organise their curriculum using example curriculum plans.
How To Teach Habits of Mind
KS1-2
The rationale behind Improving Thinking in the Classroom is to give teachers useful and practical strategies that will enable them to provide all their children with an engaging, exciting and challenging learning environment.
By Jean Edwards Price: £28.95
At last! A practical book on How to teach the Habits of Mind. Based on Art Costa’s Habits of Mind theory, this handbook gives enough information to get your class started today. The book also includes:
Topics include: • Building depth and rigour using Bloom’s Taxonomy. • Engaging students with Multiple Intelligences.
• A section with Professional Development for staff for a whole-school approach to Habits of Mind.
• Integrating graphic organisers and visual tools in the classroom.
• Assessment worksheets; a scope-and-sequence chart. • Chart of Tools and Prompts for infusing Habits of Mind into your teaching practice... even photocopiable posters for your students to complete – and more. What are you waiting for?
• Transferring the knowledge to the real world.
How to Have a Beautiful Mind By Edward de Bono Price: £8.99
KS1-2
People spend a fortune on their bodies, their faces, their hair, their clothes. Everyone’s trying to be more attractive. But there’s an easier way to become a beautiful person. No matter how you look, if you have a mind that’s fascinating, creative, exciting – if you’re a good thinker – you can be beautiful. In clear, practical language, de Bono shows how applying lateral and parallel thinking skills to your conversation can improve your mind. By learning how to listen, make a point, and manoeuvre a discussion, you can become creative and more appealing – more beautiful.
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This series is based on Edward de Bono’s Thinking Hats concept Thinking Hats By Anna Forsyth All books priced at £14.99 each Thinking Hats - Book 1 Ages 5-7 Thinking Hats - Book 2 Ages 7-9 Thinking Hats - Book 3 Ages 9-11
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Creativity is the wealth of tomorrow. Developing laterality in approach to issues is exciting, challenging and critical learning. World-renowned Edward de Bono’s concept of ‘Thinking Hats’ has proven itself to be an excellent way to ensure that students consider problems and issues from different perspectives; ‘actively thinking’. This series of three books teaches the use of Edward de Bono’s six thinking hats; white for facts and information, yellow for optimism, green for creativity, blue for the overall picture, black for negative, red for emotions. A series of 40 lessons in each book spans almost all the curriculum areas so that students practice using thinking hats in many contexts. Includes content CD for easy printing and whiteboard use.
Imaginative Education
Teaching Literacy
Teaching as Storytelling
By Kieran Egan Price: £18.99 Foundation - KS2
By Kieran Egan Price: £9.50 Foundation - KS2
For teachers charged with the great responsibility of helping students achieve basic literacy, delivering instruction in stimulating and engaging ways is not an ideal – it’s a necessity. Recognizing this, Kieran Egan puts the fun in fundamentals of literacy by helping teachers stir students’ imagination and emotions.
An eminently practical guide, Teaching as Storytelling shows teachers how to integrate imagination and reason into the curriculum when planning classes in social studies, language arts, mathematics and science. Children’s imaginations are the most powerful and energetic learning tools.
An Imaginative Approach to Teaching By Kieran Egan Price: £16.99
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In this book, the author shows how we can transform the experience of KS1-4 students and help them become more knowledgeable and more creative in their thinking. At the core of this transformative process is imagination, which can become the heart of effective learning if it is tied to education’s central tasks.
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Making Meaning By Brin Best, Anthony Blake, John Varney and Jenny Knight Price: £35.00
Suitable for all key stages
Making Meaning provides unique guidance for teachers and other professionals in education, equipping them to use many practical and creative thinking methodologies. It deals with the teaching and use of thinking skills through the perspective of making meaning. Making Meaning encourages participation in active enquiry, irrespective of preferred learning styles and personalities, makes thinking processes more visible, helps learners, teachers and managers deal with complexity and diversity and facilitates constructive and creative learning relationships. For learners, it: • activates higher levels of thinking • produces understanding through discovery • develops social and communication skills in small group and plenary work. For teachers, it: • improves lesson design • supports facilitation of higher order thinking • gives structure to enquiry and exploration. For educational managers, it supports: • making sense of complex issues • articulating purpose and vision • developing strategies and plans. Rich and varied case studies show the range and depth of applications. The 18 exemplars cover various parts of the curriculum, assessment studies and management issues. They also demonstrate making meaning in individual, small group, class and large group settings.
Designing a Thinking Curriculum By Dr. Susan Wilkes Price: £28.50
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This practical, first-hand account of the experiences of teachers and curriculum ACER consultants in Australia shows how teachers have: • Developed strategies to assist students with the development of higher order thinking skills • Created ways of accommodating a variety of learning styles • Ensured that students achieve deep knowledge and understanding • Generated higher order thinking through technology, creative thinking, the visual arts and mathematical and scientific ideas. Designing a Thinking Curriculum will inspire, inform and motivate teachers looking to implement a thinking curriculum in schools.
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Mysteries for Writing and Critical Thinking By Leif Hanson C Price: £22.99
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Motivate students with writing prompts and critical thinking exercises based on mysteries. 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. Students then write their conclusions about the guilt or innocence of the parties involved. Some may write a persuasive argument from the perspective of an attorney. Others may write a narrative story from the viewpoint of a suspect. Still others may write an investigator’s expository presentation of the facts. Lively discussions and lots of learning are sure to take place. An answer key is provided, but students who become involved in higher-level thinking may come up with other ideas!
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Let’s Think!
By Philip Adey, Anne Robertson and Grady Venville Complete Set: Price £180 + vat Teacher’s Guide: Price £92.00 Resource Pack: Price £92.00 + vat
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Let’s Think! is an innovative programme designed to develop the thinking abilities of 5 and 6 year olds. It contains 30 fun and motivating activities which encourage pupils to recognise and develop the way in which they think. Let’s Think! improves children’s ability to solve problems, enabling them to apply their enhanced thinking to all aspects of their learning. It has been extensively trialled to ensure each activity will work effectively for you and your pupils. It is straightforward to administer, engaging to use and it is easily incorporated into the school year. The different ways of thinking covered are: • • • • • •
Seriation Classification Time sequence Spatial perception Causality Rules of a game.
Each complete set contains: • Teacher’s Guide • Resource Pack • 3D materials.
Top Ten Thinking Tactics
TOP TEN THINKING TACT I C S A Practical Introduction to the Thinking Skills Revolution.
Effective thinking and learning means active learning By Mike Lake and Marjorie Needham Price: £55.00 KS2
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“What I hear, I will forget. What I see, I may remember. What I do, I understand.” Chinese Proverb
Introducing the best-selling programme for getting children to become active learners.
The exploration of cognitive functions and mental resources needn’t be time-consuming or daunting, as within this pack some of the greatest, and most powerful ideas from the Thinking Skills Movement have been pulled together and condensed down into ten key tactics. Children who absorb these Ten Tactics, (including ‘Systematic Searching’ and ‘Setting My Own Targets’), are well on the way to becoming independent learners. The aim of the pack is to get children involved in their own learning by discussing and thinking about the tactics they might use to solve problems and improve their work. Top Ten Thinking Tactics provides extensive guidance for teachers on how to use the pack and how to effectively teach thinking skills.
Narratives engage our emotions and our imaginations The activities in this pack, based on eye-catching cartoon narratives, ensure that the Ten Tactics advance from being consciously used strategies to invisible, automatic processes utilized by children for everyday learning. Many teachers find that study in ‘Thinking Skills’ is as rewarding for themselves as their pupils. Pupils will finish this programme of learning as more competent learners, able to use their newly developed thinking skills across the whole curriculum and beyond!
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Thinking, Talking, Exploring Analyse It!
10 Minute Activators By Jean Edwards Price: £24.50
KS2-KS3
Brilliant 10-minute analysis activators! Teach and sharpen those analysis skills with these warm-ups. Students use classifying skills and Venn diagrams to develop critical thinking skills. Students love it because they can see their scores improving.
Developing a Thinking Classroom: A workbook for professional learning teams
By Clinton Golding Price: £26.50
Unless teachers know and understand the theory of thinking, it is likely to be difficult for them to model it for their classes. This book provides teachers with information and activities they need to develop a thinking culture in their classrooms.
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Thinking, Talking, Exploring! By Jean Edwards Price: £26.50
KS2-KS4
At least 20 statements on each topic are given which can easily be cut apart and handed out, for pairs or groups of students to discuss and then organised under the headings ‘True’, ‘Need More Info’, or ‘False’. This activity encourages lively and thoughtful class discussion and analytical higher-level thinking.
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How to Teach Thinking Skills By Jean Edwards Price: £32.50
KS2-KS3
A practical guide full of ready to-use activities and worksheets to switch on the ideas in your students! This book includes enough theory for thorough comprehension, as well as a toolbox of ready-to-use activities to get your class really thinking!
Creativity Starters By Jean Edwards Price: £29.50
KS2-KS4
Ready-to-go creative thinking exercises; they can be used as ten-minute class oral activities or as individual written activities. Encourages lateral thinking, problem solving, and piggybacking of ideas. Great for future problem solving too! Suitable for all ages.
Big Contexts for Inquiry Learning By Elaine le Sueur Price: £32.50
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Using an Inquiry Model by Elaine Le Sueur called INQUIRE, here are 8 authentic problems, issues or contexts to encourage student understandings. Although there are a number of Inquiry Models, the contention of Elaine Le Sueur’s resource is that the effectiveness of the approach is highly dependent on the authenticity of the topic to the lives of the students, the level of questioning, and the teacher’s knowledge of appropriate interventions for providing the requisite skills. Contexts include: • • • • • • • •
Conflict/Change Connecting With The Past Exploring Identity Heroes & Heroines Interesting Insects The Rainforest Toys Water – A Precious Resource
H.O.T. Units - Higher Order Thinking Units By Elaine Le Sueur Price: £24.50 each Book 1 – KS1-2
34 topics including ‘Dinosaurs’, ‘The Bush’, ‘Amazing Animals’, ‘Birthdays’, ‘Food’… Book 2 – KS2-3
37 topics including ‘A Class Museum’, ‘Anzac Day’, ‘Women at Work’, ‘Elections’, ‘Fractured Fairy Tales’… Book 3 – KS3-4
Topics include: ‘Ticket To Freedom’, ‘Attitudes & Stereotypes’, ‘Current Events’, ‘Change’, ‘Collecting Things’, ‘Communicating Through Art’, ‘Entrepreneurs: Pioneers of Change’, ‘Fashions & Fads’, ‘Human Rights’, ‘Mistakes Happen’, ‘Sustainable Futures’, ‘Tourism and its Impact’ ....... 33 topics in all! Plug these hot units right into your classroom. There are three books in this series, chock full of Bloom’s based units to extend your class units. A wealth of activities to easily incorporate higher-level thinking into your curriculum.
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Intelligent Learning Motivating students to become independent and effective learners. By Steve Williams Price: £235.00 + vat
Acclaimed by the NUT What sort of teaching allows students to take ownership of their own learning? What will motivate and excite children’s curiosity and haul them out of passivity? What style of teaching will develop their intellectual skills to the point that they can become effective agents of enquiry in any field? How can we make lessons exciting and creative for students and teachers? These questions are the golden grails of modern teaching. The government has sought to address them by numerous initiatives… But none of these initiatives have succeeded as they might have done because they ignore the key question: ‘What sort of teaching is needed to achieve these goals?’ Intelligent Learning is a teaching practice course, executed through six half hour video sessions, which address in detail the changes in pedagogy you and your school need to introduce to start addressing the issues of motivation and becoming a thinking and learning community. The central theme of the course is to give students the skills to ask more and searching questions. …it’s the questioning skills, not of the teacher but of the student that really counts in developing their cognitive abilities and engagement. Their questions dominate the learning agenda and the ownership of learning follows. At the end of the course teachers will have the skills and practical strategies to: • • • • •
facilitate more and more sophisticated student questioning support children in using concepts to organise their thinking manage dialogue and discussion to develop children’s ideas plan lessons and study programmes that promotes questioning and dialogue create communities of enquiry in their classroom
In the pack are: • Six half hour videos on DVD • Supporting guides for each video, written by programme users in schools themselves • A CD of supporting articles and materials to stimulate professional development and curriculum design All for less than the cost of one consultant for one day…or one teacher on a one day course! Is there a better CPD spend than this? If you subscribe to an Imaginative Minds magazine/website, please contact Customer Services on 0121 224 7578 for special offer prices.
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An invaluable resource for developing thinking skills at KS2 Thinking Together offers the following: Talk lesson plans, which encourage children to reason and collaborate together An assessment section, with suggested ways for pupils to assess their own progress An ICT skills focus – particularly useful for setting up links with other schools Photocopiable activity sheets to support group work Curriculum links to: English, Maths, Science, Geography, Environmental Education and Citizenship - all outlined in a useful table
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talking pictures Thinking through photographs By Åsa Andersson, Sara Liptai, Radmila Sutton, Steve Williams and Catherine Fehily
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Digital photography and scanning encourage creative exploration – pupils can view their images straight away and experiment with new ideas. Talking Pictures grounds this creative empowerment in the analysis and evaluation of images through critical thinking and classroom discussion. The result is an exciting pack of resources to enliven lessons in Art, ICT or English. This pack contains: • A 64-page guide for teachers on discussing and making photographs with pupils • Sixteen laminated images for instant classroom use • A CD with 42 photographers’ images for printing or viewing via computer/whiteboard, examples of pupils’ photographs, articles on digital photography from world-famous photographer Pedro Meyer and printable templates for image analysis. The activities and materials in the Talking Pictures pack have been tested, with impressive results, in schools.
Realise the creative potential of digital photography at KS2–KS3
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Marcelo Staricoff and Alan Rees Suitable for KS1-2 £22.99 Make an immediate difference to teaching and learning in your school. Start Thinking will bring enjoyment, creativity and challenge to your classroom and improve the thinking skills of your pupils. Inspiring education often grows from simple routines. When teachers at Westbury Park School in Bristol wanted to challenge their pupils to think, enquire and reach beyond standard expectations, they introduced daily thinking-skills starters. These mini-challenges had built-in requirements for pupils to exercise their minds through essential thinking processes such as questioning, comparing, prioritizing, recognising patterns and thinking methodically. The teachers were amazed at how much children enjoyed the starters and benefited from them. Some children turned starters into projects lasting months – all completed in their own time. Children seemed to grow in confidence, persistence and enthusiasm for learning.
Start Thinking Daily starters to inspire thinking in primary classrooms
Start Thinking collects more than 90 thinking-skills starters, tried and tested by teachers at Westbury Park School. The starters are arranged into chapters on Words, Numbers, Science, Creativity and Philosophy so you can easily choose the most appropriate challenges for your pupils. Detailed guidance notes are provided.
If you could grant the world five wishes, what would they be?
What questions can you think of that do not have an answer, or that have more than one answer?
What are the similarities and differences between blood and ketchup?
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Social and Life Skills Cooperative Learning and Social Studies
Raising Self-Esteem in Primary Schools: A Whole School Training Programme
By Tom Morton and John Myers Price: £28.99 KS2-KS4
Each of the 24 cooperative strategies in this book includes an in-depth description, activity ideas to use the strategy with other social studies content and lessons with ready-to-use photocopiable masters. Lessons include, how to get started in social studies, how to manage the class and what to do for assessment and evaluation.
Social Studies Higher-Level Thinking Questions By Miguel Kagan Price: £19.99
KS2-KS4
Use the hundreds of open-ended higher-level thinking questions in this book to venture beyond the basic facts of social studies. Watch as your students voyage into a whole new realm of thinking and learning.
By Margaret Collins Price: £30.99
Children with low self-esteem will have difficulty in joining in classroom lessons and succeeding. If we want to help children in the primary school achieve the positive outcomes set out in the Every Child Matters agenda, we need to ensure students all have a healthy self-esteem. This book seeks to give adults in schools, tools to look at the way they could enhance self-confidence in children. The book comes with a CD-Rom that contains: • Inset sessions for all adults in the school. • Workshops specifically aimed at non-teaching personnel, including mid-day supervisors. • Sessions for teachers and classroom assistants. • Classroom lessons and activity sheets for the children, which can form part of your school’s personal, social and health education (PSHE) programme. This book is a whole school training programme for raising selfesteem and is essential reading for all those working in primary education.
Global Citizenship for Young Children
Write! Social Studies
Multiple Intelligences and Cooperative Learning Writing Activities By Virginia DeBolt Price: £24.99
Values for Thinking By Robert Fisher Price: £14.99
KS2-KS3
This book includes an introduction to citizenship education, illustrated with examples of stories, poems, pictures and popular culture to stimulate discussion about moral and social values.
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By Margaret Collins Price: £19.99 Foundation – KS2
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Students delve into social studies issues as they work cooperatively with team-mates on activities like writing the correspondence of two historical characters, publishing and sharing political cartoons, discussing and writing about famous historical quotations.
KS1-KS2
This is an exciting age appropriate practical resource for children aged 4-9 that widens the concept of citizenship so that it incorporates global issues. Citizenship education equips children with the skills necessary to play an active part in society and act as socially and morally responsible citizens. The book explores six topics: • Basic needs • Exploring various cultures • Environmental issues • Democracy • Fairness • Global issues. Each section has an introductory page and ideas for resources, followed by activities on the same topic differentiated for younger and older primary pupils. Clear guidelines are provided for discussion and activities that could take place in Circle Time. At the end of each section there is a story for children to consider accompanied by developmental activities and activity sheets, as well as a page of reflections related to the global challenges we all face.
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Who’s Running the Country?
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By Kerrie Sharron KS2-KS3
This Democracy Project is a KS2-3 citizenship scheme of work introducing students to different forms of government and the values underlying them. It introduces pupils to the ‘big’ themes of politics through an experiential, talk-based approach.
government and gives the opportunity for them to apply their learning about values, processes and concepts from previous lessons and develop their own beliefs. This pack is successful in its simplicity. By focusing only on basic concepts students can take away firmer and deeper understandings of meanings.
The project is structured around the class creating its own country. The class then live a story of events that happen to their country and through newspaper articles and leaflets; they are part of an evolving story of change. Students must use their imaginations to be part of this world – and to participate in the changes happening to them.
Creative thought is critical to the unit. The pack comprises of:
Using debate, scenario-based role-play and problem solving, students empathise with the experience of different types of government. This process helps students to develop the necessary tools to debate issues arising in the political sphere.
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Assessment An innovative, photocopiable resource that enables you to evaluate and develop pupils’ self esteem Insight Primary Insight Secondary By Elizabeth Morris Assessing and Developing Self-Esteem
Available at two levels, Insight Primary and Insight Secondary both use a self-esteem indicator to explore the three key elements of a pupil’s self-esteem: their sense of self, belonging and personal power. Each resource also helps you to plan and deliver age-appropriate intervention programmes.
Purpose: Insight helps you to assess and develop self-esteem at primary and secondary levels and provides follow-up activities for intervention. Created by one of the UK’s leading practitioners in the building of selfesteem in young people.
Benefits: • Quick and informal assessment and re-assessment • Age-related activities designed for individuals and whole classes, trialed in a variety of education environments • Insight Secondary is suitable for use in EBD schools and Pupil Referral Units Insight Primary covers ages 5-11 years Insight Secondary covers ages 11-16 years
Suitable for: Teachers, SENCOs, Educational Psychologists and Private Tutors.
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Emotional Literacy: Assessment and Intervention Emotional Literacy 7-11 and Emotional Literacy 11-16 Edited by Adrian Faupel Primary and Secondary packs available Emotional Literacy: Assessment and Intervention identifies the status of pupils’ emotional literacy and provides follow-up activities for intervention where necessary. The assessment covers elements of emotional literacy including self-awareness, emotional resilience, motivation and handling of emotions and relationships.
Purpose: Provides teachers, pupils and parents with a measure of a child’s emotional literacy, and offers ideas for intervention in the classroom and at home. Now accompanied by an interactive CD-ROM with full audio support and switch accessability. This means that the Checklists can now be accessed by all those who may find paper-based assessments problematic, as well as supporting those with additional educational needs. The production of simple, clear printable score profiles will prove invaluable for the busy teacher.
The resource: • Provides teachers and SENCOs with diagnostic tools to understand and develop a pupil's emotional literacy. • Can positively enhance a pupil's behaviour and learning. • Provides ready-made, age-appropriate activities that save time and effort when planning intervention. • Helps you plan support for individual intervention programmes. • Includes a facility for reassessment that allows you to monitor progress and gauge impact of an intervention.
Suitable For: Teachers, SENCOs and Educational Psychologists
Each pack is priced at £97.50 + vat
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Myself as a Learner Scale
A short, effective measure of pupils’ perceptions of their abilities and approaches to learning By Robert Burden Price: £40.00
Reprinted by Imaginative Minds – one of the most acclaimed self-perception tests ever produced! Myself as a Learner Scale develops the use of pupil participation in their own learning and in general fits into the whole ‘pupil voice’ context, helping pupils to devise their own learning programmes and in that respect helping with their personalised learning. MALS is a short, effective measure of pupils’ perceptions of their abilities and approaches to learning. In its evaluation of pupils’ concepts of themselves as thinkers and learners, it identifies areas where individuals need more help. The scale is a 20-question test that is quick and easy to administer. Young people’s perceptions of themselves as learners and problem-solvers have been shown in numerous research studies to be a key element in their learning progress. MALS has been constructed to provide a readily available technique, which can be used by teachers, psychologists and researchers to gain access to this important aspect of learning development.
The Author Robert Burden is Professor of Applied Educational Psychology and former Head of the School of Education at Exeter University.
MALS is easy to administer, score and interpret and can be used for gaining information on large cohorts of students or for more clinical purposes with individuals. It is a valid and reliable scale that can provide a valuable addition to any school’s assessment programme or educational psychologist’s repertoire of assessment techniques. The pack contains a user guide, a photocopiable questionnaire and a scoring overlay.
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Inclusion Supporting Children with Dyslexia
Supporting Children with ADHD
By Garry Squires and Sally McKeown Price: £19.99
By Kate Spohrer Price: £19.99
This book focuses on the practical difficulties facing dyslexic pupils every day in the classroom and provides teachers and parents with strategies to support and enable them to access the curriculum with a minimum of fuss and upheaval. The pupil’s perspective is also considered, with a section devoted to encouraging children to be positive about themselves and become independent learners.
Four Times Harder By Miranda Preston, with Jill Hayes and Mick Randal Price: £8.50
As students with dyslexia enter further and higher education, colleges and universities are faced with new challenges concerning access, provision and support. Four Times Harder looks at the experiences of six students, highlighting their individual problems and the strategies used to help them succeed.
The Dyscalculia Toolkit Supporting Learning Difficulties in Maths By Ronit Bird Price: £32.99
This collection of 200 teaching activities and 40 games to use with pupils who struggle with maths is based on the author’s years of experience in schools, working with dyslexic, dyspraxic and dyscalculic pupils - but all the suggested strategies are equally suitable for teaching the basics of numeracy to any pupil aged 7 to 14. The toolkit covers: • • • •
early number work with numbers under 10 basic calculations with numbers above 10 place value times tables, multiplication and division
The activities and games provided can be used with individuals, pairs or small groups of pupils and the CD-rom accompanying the book contains printable and photocopiable resources.
This is a collection of practical suggestions and materials to use with pupils who have ADHD or demonstrate ADHD type behaviour. This book provides a variety of materials to help the child get to know their own personality and mind and in doing so, become more able to control their own feelings, thoughts and actions. This edition includes a chapter on the theory, medication and alternative therapies for ADHD, useful for anyone wanting to know more about the condition; and also explaining what the teacher can do, including case studies, an Individual Education Plan (IEP) writing guide and reflective questions for the teacher about the child and teaching strategies.
What’s the Alternative? By Jean Edwards Price: £28.95
KS2-KS3
Help your students to make up their mind about various problem situations that commonly occur, such as Late For School; Friends; In trouble with parents; Put-Downs. Three sequential steps (Think Outside the Square, Underlying Problems, and Forming criteria) provide activities to show students (and adults) that there are often alternative solutions to problems - the skill is in seeing them! Activities can be done orally or as worksheets; supports creative thinking and problem-solving skills, as well as aiding in vocabulary development. This is also excellent for ESOL students and students with learning difficulties.
Inclusion Pocketbook By Niki Elliot, Elaine Doxey, Val Stephenson and Phil Hailstone Price: £7.99
Moving from clear definitions of inclusion to ways of supporting, developing and monitoring policies and practices in schools and classrooms, this extensively illustrated pocketbook offers a concise overview of the issues, which face headteachers, senior managers and classroom teachers. Ways to create an inclusive ethos are covered, how to set up supportive management structures, manage performance information, monitor systems and map provision.
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A Solution Focused Approach to
Anger Management With Children
By Berni Stringer and Madan Mall Price: 27.50
Based on solution focused brief therapy, this manual presents a range of exercises, which can be photocopied for use with groups or individuals. The exercises help children to explore their own knowledge and perception of their difficulties and emphasise their ability to do something about it. Sessions cover everything from setting up a group, establishing ground rules and assessing individual needs, to recording progress and celebrating success. Includes
• Tried and tested exercises developed over recent years • Highlights specific problems whilst offering practical solutions • Encourages children to become aware of the effects of their actions, thoughts and behaviour • Designed to be used by those with no prior knowledge of the technique A Solution Focused Approach to Anger Management This manual is designed for use with groups of children who share a difficulty and who are willing to try to begin a journey which will lead to a solution. The solution may feel a long way off – as though it needs a miracle. But each child will determine what that miracle will look like!
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Creative Approaches to Physical Education: Helping Children Achieve Their True Potential By Jim Lavin Price: £19.99
Rob Long’s Intervention Toolbox For Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties
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KS2-KS3
Creative Approaches to Physical Education provides guidance on how to develop innovative new approaches to the delivery of each area of the National Curriculum for PE at Key Stages 2 and 3. The ideas have all been successfully developed in schools where every child has been encouraged to find success and to express themselves in new ways that surprise and delight teachers. Pupils feel ownership of their learning and pride in their achievements, fostering interest, creativity and motivation Ideal for non-specialist and specialist PE teachers and trainee teachers alike, this book: • explores the PE curriculum in a much wider sense than traditional approaches allow • covers the key areas of physical education such as games, dance and gymnastics • inspires us to look afresh at how we can exploit the learning potential of the outdoors • shows how children use skills to express themselves creatively • gives innovative suggestions for the use of ICT in PE teaching to encourage independent, personalised learning • examines how physical education can be linked with other subjects in a creative way. Childhood obesity is a growing concern and there are worries that young people have few purposeful leisure interests. This book offers teachers and all those who work with young people alternative approaches and activities that allow young people to express their creative side through physical activity and discover active healthy interests that will last a lifetime.
Rob Long’s Intervention Toolbox is written for education practitioners who support young people with problem behaviours that act as barriers to their successful engagement with school. Taking a multi-dimensional approach, the Toolbox provides solutions to deal with the multi-faceted nature of challenging behaviour. There are 6 compartments to the Toolbox: • • • • • •
Physiological Feelings Behaviour Cognitive Social Happiness
For each compartment there are a number of tools (interventions) that may be used depending on the age and level of understanding of the young person. As all problem behaviours have many component parts, the Toolbox enables practitioners to employ several interventions to comprehensively tackle challenging behaviours. There are specific sections on both Asperger’s Syndrome and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders with In Class Behaviour Plans for these learners, as well as an accompanying CD Rom including resources for putting strategies into practice. The CD Rom also provides PowerPoint slides for training staff in using the Toolbox.
Supporting Children with Multiple Disabilities in Mainstream Schools Supporting Children with Autism in Mainstream Schools By Diana Seach, Michele Lloyd and Miranda Preston Price: £19.99
It is increasingly common for children with autism to attend mainstream schools. In this book, the authors use their expertise and considerable experience of working with and observing pupils with autism to exemplify the challenges faced in the classroom. Most importantly, they suggest practical strategies for successfully meeting pupil’s learning needs. The case studies bring to life the everyday concerns of young people, their parents and teachers, and provide different contexts for the demonstration of good practice.
By Michael Mednick Price: £19.99
The education of children with multiple disabilities is concerned with improving their quality of life and finding ways to overcome and remove barriers to learning. The law indicates a move towards equal opportunities and inclusive education for all pupils. Those with complex needs have the right to receive appropriate education alongside their peers: • To become enlightened. • To become enabled and empowered. Supporting Children with Multiple Disabilities addresses the growing needs of professionals in a variety of educational settings, and provides a practical support framework for children, professionals and parents. This easy-to-read guide aims to bring about good practice, raise achievement and aid the effective inclusion of multiple disabled children.
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Learning Through Art and Performance Hands on History
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By Rebecca Carnihan Price: £16.99 Foundation-KS2
This book explores popular primary history themes through original and creative art and design technology activities. The emphasis is on original 2D and 3D childled activities. Example themes include: Tudor shoe making, My Own Sarcophagus, A Victorian Classroom, 3D Anglo Saxon homes and Aztec stone carving.
Dramatically Different Classroom:
Multiple Intelligence Activities Across the Curriculum By Christine Laitta and Mark Weakland Price: £28.99 Suitable for all Key Stages
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Make a dramatic difference in your classroom! Learning is more engaging for all students, and definitely more memorable. Includes terrific classbuilders and energizing brain breaks. You’ll love these innovative ways to present your everyday curriculum. Make maths, language science and social studies lessons come alive through creative dramatics! 100+ activities.
Environmental Art By Hilary Ansell Price: £16.99
Curricular Projects that Teach Literacy and Thinking through Dramatic Play By Sharon Ginnis and Paul Ginnis Price: £24.99 Foundation-KS1
Covering the Curriculum with Stories is an exciting and unique resource, presenting a set of six delightful, cross-curricular playbased projects that deliver outstanding learning experiences. Designed for children aged 3–7, these projects will make major contributions to your pupils’ literacy and literary skills, teach a whole repertoire of thinking skills and deliver many features of the Foundation and KS1 curriculum in an integrated, cross-curricular way. Each project: Is based on an original story. Uses dramatic and kinaesthetic techniques. Capitalises on children’s natural instinct to play. Lays down important conceptual foundations for later learning. • Promotes emotional intelligence, learning-to-learn and citizenship. • • • •
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This book shows how exciting displays and activities can be by using the environment as a starting point. It aims to demonstrate how reusable objects can be used wherever possible and includes themes for outdoor and indoor spaces.
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A Work of Art
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By Joan Chambers, Molly Hood and Michael Peake Price: £16.99 Foundation-KS2
82 colour photographs of artists’ paintings, children’s work and classroom displays provide fantastic inspiration for cross-curricular work and themed classroom displays.
Display a Creative Curriculum C By Noel McHugh and Steve Springett Price: £16.99 Foundation-KS2
Display a Creative Curriculum provides practical and inspirational ideas to deliver a creative curriculum across all areas of the school, offering displays and activities with links to literacy, PSHE, art and more.
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Art of Recycling By Hilary Ansell Price: £16.99
By Claire Tinker Price: £16.99
Foundation-KS2
Practical ideas for classroom display. Includes creative and cost effective ideas for developing art and design using reclaimed materials. Transform throwaway materials such as paper, plastic, fabric, metal and glass into exciting creations and displays. There are activities for individuals and small groups, together with whole-school projects for special occasions. Example themes include: Handmade Paper, Decoupage Frames, Plastic Bottle Flowers, Victorian Dome Jars, Class Rug and Bubble Wrap Sun-Catchers.
Art of Different Cultures
This title contains 17 chapters, with themes linking musical starting points to art and display, including over 100 full colour photographs with easy to follow instructions. Each chapter contains a wealth of practical activities linked to a musical focus with the outcomes mainly through art and design and design and technology. • The chapters cover different areas of the Music Curriculum, including: Music and Animals, Fashion and Music, Music and Seasons, Music and Water and Music for Festivals. • Each theme also contains suggestions for listening and practical musical activities. • Ideas are original and suitable for whole class or small group work. • Uses popular musical themes and allows for a crosscurricular approach.
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By Lillian Coppock Price: £16.99 KS1-KS2
Imaginative art and craft project ideas for 7 to 11 year olds, inspired by history and cultures from around the world, using a varied range of 2D and 3D techniques. Developing children’s appreciation of the art of other cultures is a rewarding and worthwhile objective. Looking at similarities and differences will help to develop open mindedness and understanding.
Display For All Seasons
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By Judith Makoff and Linda Duncan Price: £16.99 Foundation-KS2
Practical ideas for classroom display. Includes 53 seasonal topics across the curriculum, each topic has ideas for artwork and classroom display. 53 seasonal topics including: frogs, Easter bonnets, going on holiday, bees, wheat harvest, autumn leaves, Christmas food. Each topic has suggestions for observation, discussion, science, language work, art and craft, stories, poems and music. Every topic has a photograph or line drawing of a classroom display.
Making Music in the Primary School: Whole Class Instrumental and Vocal Teaching
Edited by Nick Beach, Julie Evans and Gary Spruce Price: £21.99
Making Music in the Primary School is an essential guide for all student and practising primary school teachers, instrumental teachers and community musicians involved in music with children. It explores teaching and learning music with the whole class and provides a framework for successful musical experiences with large groups of children. Striking the perfect balance between theory and practice, this invaluable text includes case studies and carefully designed activities to try out in the classroom, as well as a range of triedand-tested teaching strategies to help you support and develop children’s musical experience in the classroom. Grounded within a practical, philosophical and theoretical framework, the book is structured around the four key principles that underpin effective music teaching and experience: Integration – how can we join up children’s musical experiences? Creativity – how can we support children’s musical exploration? Access and Inclusion – how can we provide a relevant experience for every child? Collaboration – how might we work together to achieve these aims? Written in a clear, accessible and engaging style, Making Music in the Primary School will give you all the confidence you need when working with whole classes, whatever your musical or teaching background.
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Original musicals for schools and youth theatre groups These shows are written for large casts of mixed age and ability and for groups on a limited budget. They are designed to challenge the performers and entertain audiences. Director’s packs include a photocopiable script and score, rehearsal and performance CDs.
Aharr! Main Musical Director Pack
New at the Zoo Mini Musical Director Pack Price: £48.00
When a creature turns up at the zoo he tries to find his cage, meeting all of the other animals along the way. Nobody seems to know quite what he is or where he belongs until he discovers an empty cage with a sign: ‘New At The Zoo’. He assumes that he is a ‘Newatthezoo’ and settles into his new home. For children aged 4 to 8 One Act (Running time approx 20 mins) This musical is suitable for young performers due to the repetition and simple songs. Perfect for supporting curriculum studies.
Price: £75.00
Aharr! Curse of Danger Island is the perfect show for primary schools. A group of school children embark on a challenging Pirate project. When one of them asks their Dad to help it is certain that his former life as a pirate on the high seas will come in very handy with the project! The children are drawn into the story and act out the adventure on Danger Island unearthing cursed treasure and battling with rival pirate ships. A humorous musical to engage both male and female performers. For children aged 7 to 12 One Act (Running time approx 50 mins)
Swarm Main Musical Director Pack
Also Available: Aharr! Mini Musical Director Pack Price: £48.00
For children aged 5 to 8 One Act (Running time approx 35mins)
Musical Director Packs By Angela and Andrew Scullin
Price: £75.00
A B-movie inspired sci-fi youth theatre musical. Perfect for a large cast of mixed age and ability. Plenty of opportunities to improve harmony work if required. Fun, humorous with a serious environmental message; “If the bees die; we die!” Ideal for a high energy cast. This rock musical has music to capture the attention of young performers alongside opportunities to work with puppets. For children aged 8 to 17 Two Acts (Running time approx 80 mins)
Shakespeare for All
By Barrie Wade, Maggie Oates and John Sheppard Price: £17.99 each KS2-KS3 Or buy all three books at our special offer of £30.00
A series of three plays: • A Midsummer Night's Dream • Julius Caesar • Romeo and Juliet
Use these famous plays to include all abilities.
These exciting, performance-based packs really make Shakespeare’s plays come alive! These resources have been produced as a response to requests for pupil books that can: They also have a wealth of ideas for: • Be annotated as work progresses. • Be kept for revision purposes. • Provide an attractive record of pupils’ study. Each of the resource books contains key extracts from the text and cast lists, plus summaries of the most important scenes in the play.
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Experiencing the play through performance. Bringing the story to life. Relating to the characters. Understanding Shakespeare’s language. Exploring the message of the play.
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THINK AHEAD!
Developing Thinking Through the Arts: Drama, Music and Visual Arts Series Editors: Ken Gouge and Carolyn Yates – KS3
Think Ahead! Developing Thinking Through Drama 11-14 By Stephen Alty and Lorna Pout
Think Ahead! Developing Thinking Through Music 11-14 By William Evans, Jane Petrie and Harry McLoughlin
Think Ahead! Developing Thinking Through Visual Arts 11-14 By Nigel Leighton and Anne-Marie Quinn
The Think Ahead! series provides you with a programme of lessons that helps students develop their thinking through drama, music and visual arts. Each resource can be used independently or together to create an effective approach to developing thinking across the art curriculum. Each Think Ahead! resource includes 10 motivating group activities that encourage cognitive acceleration through the arts curriculum with pupils aged 11, 12, 13 and 14.
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The development of PLTS is essential for meeting the three National Curriculum aims: becoming successful learners, confident individuals and responsible citizens. Think Ahead! provides the ideal learning opportunities and contexts for the effective development of these PLTS skills. As well as developing pupils’ thinking, the extensively trialled materials provide the opportunity for increased creativity and better interaction, and for every pupil to be fully involved. Skills developed through working together in this way will benefit pupils in their approach to other subjects. Benefits: • • • • •
Easily incorporated into the school year Encourages creativity Motivates and engages students Extensively trialled Supports gifted and talented students
Available separately at
£47.50 each or as a complete pack of all three books at
£115.00
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Gifted and Talented Gifted and Talented Pocketbook
Cooperative Learning and Higher-Level Thinking The Q-Matrix
By Barry Hymer and Phil Hailstone Price: £7.99
By Dr Chuck W Wiederhold Price: £28.99
A pocketful of cutting-edge approaches to a gifted education where all pupils are stretched, challenged and engaged. The book uses cartoons, diagrams, and visual prompts to support the text.
This classic, best-selling book will show you how to get students to generate higher-level thinking on any topic. Students sharpen their thinking skills and dig deep into the content as they ask and answer higher-level thinking questions.
Challenging Minds Enrichment for Able Adolescents
H.O.T. Units for Gifted Readers
By Lynne Kelly Price: £26.50
Using sophisticated picture books By Elaine Le Sueur Price: £21.99
Challenging Minds contains a year’s worth of creative research ideas, critical thinking and communication tasks, debates, blueprints for business and philosophical problems for secondary school students.
KS1-KS2
Challenging and insightful units for those ‘difficult-to-find’ resources for gifted readers. Complete with tic-tac-toe choosing matrix and self-assessment page.
Teaching Able, Gifted and Talented Children
Attribobs
By Clive Tunnicliffe Price: £19.99
By Jean Edwards Price: £14.50
This book follows the structure of a suggested school policy document and provides schools with resources to assist them in developing their strategy for meeting the needs of their more able pupils, in line with ECM and the NRS agendas.
Another disarmingly simple yet challenging card game that becomes as complex as you want it to! Improves vocabulary, analytical thinking, and creativity, often with much laughter! Involves critical & creative thinking - what attributes do the 2 items have in common? Students can play choosing from 2-6 attributes to identify. Fun yet challenging. Your students won’t want to stop playing this game! BUY BOTH Also excellent for ESOL and gifted students.
Attribits By Jean Edwards Price: £14.50
ATTRIBOBS & ATTRIBITS FOR £20.00
A disarmingly simple card game that’s played like dominoes by matching shape attributes (thick/ thin, big/small, colours, hexagonal, vertices, straight sides....). Different levels of matching (2-6 attributes) make Attribits simple enough for juniors, challenging enough for adults. Fun and rewarding at every level and a great brain warmer-upper! Rainy-day bliss too.
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KS2-KS4
Sums For Smart Kids By Laurie Buxton Price: £17.99
This book is packed with illustrated maths problems designed to push the child who always finishes first. The reader can really engage with these problems and extend their mathematical thinking. The problems can be extremely hard, but only basic mathematical knowledge is needed. What is needed is lateral, logical thinking, reasoning skills and the motivation to form generalisations. Includes 25 problems and their solutions. Topics: • Odd and even • Playing with numbers • Logic.
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• Making tables • Visualising shapes
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A Course For Gifted Thinkers Books 1, 2 & 3 Offers students the opportunity to learn and practice creative thinking skills in interesting and stimulating situations.
A Course for Gifted Thinkers: Book 1
A Course for Gifted Thinkers: Book 2
A Course for Gifted Thinkers: Book 3
By David Stephenson Price: £14.99
By David Stephenson Price: £14.99
By David Stephenson Price: £14.99
Yr 2-3
Yr 4-5
Educators such as Edward de Bono maintain that Creative Thinking is a skill that can be taught and developed.
Challenges range from redesigning shoes to describing a world where ants are the size of cats.
The activities within these books provide students with the opportunity to learn and practice creative thinking skills in interesting and stimulating situations.
The activities introduce students to the skills of fluency, flexibility, orginality, elaboration, curiosity, complexity, risktaking and imagination. There are four
Brilliant Activities for Gifted and Talented Children
That Other Children Will Love Too By Ashley Macabe Mowat Price: £15.50
Brilliant Activities for Gifted and Talented Children covers many types of creative and critical thinking skills that will enable children to develop their cognitive processes. The work that the children produce will be extremely different because the activities allow room for creativity and open-ended answers.
Brilliant Activities for Stretching Gifted And Talented Children By Ashley McCabe Mowat Price: £17.50
This book contains refreshing, motivating activities, based on the latest theories and research, to stretch your pupils’ analytical, creative and evaluative skills.
Yr 6+
activities for each skill with notes for teachers on each. This enables students to gain confidence and ability in each skill before using them together to address creative challenges surrounding a theme. Includes contents CD for easy printing and whiteboard use.
Timely Tasks for Fast Finishers: Books 1, 2 and 3 By Philip Clutterbuck Price £16.00 each Book 1: 5-7 Years Book 2: 7-9 Years Book 3: 9-11 Years
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Timely Tasks for Fast Finishers, are essential resources for busy teachers. The books contain hundreds of fun and fascinating activities for filling those odd moments - all tried and tested in the classroom. The activities range from 3-10 minutes and will help to reinforce english, maths, thinking, science and PSHE skills. Answers are included to make your life easier. If you are tired and frazzled, these books will get you back on track with a change of pace and energy. If you are just starting out, these books are the perfect companion.
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Using art to develop creative and critical thinking
Are these two pictures about the same subject? The components of Learning Without Limits – the book, CD and laminated images have been designed as a practical coaching manual that helps teachers and children understand and apply the core principles of critical and creative thinking to lessons they have already planned, within and beyond the National Curriculum.
Price: £65.00 inc vat includes whole school licence so you can place it on your virtual learning environment
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Connect children directly with a picture or painting. Give children a personalised starting point for learning. Get children asking authentic questions (the questions they really want to ask and answer). Encourage exploratory talking and thinking. Start the processes of critical and creative thinking. Build confidence in making judgements, taking decisions and making choices. Explore six techniques in detail and learn how to apply these to lessons they have already planned. Refine and adapt the techniques to meet the needs of specific groups of pupils including able learners.
Learning Without Limits 1 NACE (National Association for Able Children in Education) has described Learning Without Limits as the most important resource published in the last five years.
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Early Years Essential educational theory titles in the How Children Learn series How Children Learn Book 1
From Montessori to Vygotsky Educational Theories and Approaches Made Easy By Linda Pound Price: £16.99
How do children learn – and why do we teach them the way we do? Educational theorists and psychologists have researched the subject for more than 200 years. Their theories still influence the way we teach today. This book summarises the findings and ideas of some of them - famous names such as Montessori and Piaget as well as lesser-known ones such as Dewey and Donaldson. It also looks at the theory behind different approaches to early years education - High/Scope, Steiner, the Italian pre-schools of Reggio Emilia and the early years curriculum in New Zealand.
How Children Learn Book 2 By Linda Pound Price: £16.99
An ideal introduction to the ideas that have shaped modern education from the best-selling author of How Children Learn. This sequel to the best-selling How Children Learn gives an overview of the major questions in educational theory such as: how do children learn to read, write and even speak? Plus, how do you measure intelligence and what does that mean and a discussion on the value of creativity. These complex questions are summarised in Linda Pound’s easy-to-read prose, with each chapter containing succinct critiques of each theory, as well as where to look to find out more.
How Children Learn Book 3
Contemporary Thinking and Theorists By Linda Pound Price: £16.99
Contemporary Theorists and Thinking will help you incorporate cutting-edge modern-day thinking into your practice, enabling you to: ●
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Save time and energy, each of the most influential writers in the early years from Elinor Goldschmied to Tina Bruce are summarised into 23 pages that can be easily dipped into at your leisure Find answers to questions on burning contemporary issues, such as whether boys and girls learn differently, and to what extent the local community should be involved in childcare Engage children with new techniques and ideas, with an extended section on putting theory into practice Ensure your setting is full of great ideas.
About the author: Written by early years consultant, and former Head of Early Years at London Metropolitan University, Linda Pound, these titles are a must-have for anyone studying or working with the early years and wanting to know about the latest developments in how we think about young children's learning and development.
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Cooperative Learning Activities Integrate cooperative learning into any lesson, whatever you are doing! Mathematics – Lessons for Little Ones Cooperative Learning Lessons By Lorna Curran Price: £28.99
Foundation-KS2
This primary cooperative learning maths book, teaches mathematics with your students’ favourite literature. You’ll find 36 step-by-step cooperative lesson plans to teach: counting, patterning, geometry, classifying, graphing, numerical order, addition, subtraction, fractions, measurement, and time. Each maths lesson is based on popular primary literature. Crammed with photocopiable masters, lessons, and Lorna’s proven management tips, this book is guaranteed to transfer a love of literature into a love of mathematics. 285 pages.
Language Arts - Lessons for Little Ones Cooperative Learning Lessons By Lorna Curran Price: £28.99
Foundation-KS2
This is the most popular primary cooperative learning language arts book in the world! It makes teaching language arts fun and easy! Lorna will show you how to organise and manage cooperative learning with your little ones. She incorporates a complete social skills programme, which will make your children polite and helpful while they stay on-task. The book features 36 cooperative lessons based on wellknown primary literature and there are plenty of photocopiable masters. 248 pages.
Cooperative Learning and Wee Science By Laura Candler Price: £28.99
Foundation-KS2
Let your primary students learn science by doing science! Integrate process science with cooperative learning. Your students will classify, communicate, experiment, identify, infer, measure, make models, observe, organize data, and make predictions with these excellent cooperative learning science lessons. Lessons cover popular primary science topics such as: rainbows, magnets, senses, leaves, electricity, rainforest, seeds, sounds, fish, helicopters, rocks and temperature. 229 pages.
Early Years Observation and Planning in Practice
The Early Years Foundation Stage in Practice Revised Edition
By Liz Wilcock and Cathy Hughes Price: £20.83 + vat
Deliver the Early Years Foundation Stage with confidence with this revised edition of the definitive guide to the EYFS. This edition now includes even more must-have advice on: Putting the EYFS principles into practice; Relating each age group to the Early Learning Goals; Delivering the EYFS and the Welfare Requirements. Now with a free CD of self-reflective forms covering essential areas of the EYFS themes and Welfare Requirements.
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By Jenny Barber and Sharon Paul-Smith Price: £16.66 + vat
This title helps practitioners in any setting understand clearly how to plan for and observe learning in the early years. It covers the key aspects of planning and observing, including how to: assess and observe children, put children at the heart of your planning, link observation to planning, and plan for the Early Years Foundation Stage. Also includes a CD full of forms to help structure your own planning and observations and put the best practice examples in this book directly into practice.
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Emotional Literacy in the Early Years
Learning Through Talk in the Early Years Practical Activities for the Classroom
By Christine Bruce Price: £24.99
By Elizabeth Sharp Price: £20.99
This tried and tested practical handbook is packed with ideas and activities to encourage young children to develop their verbal reasoning skills and communicate more effectively.
This book provides clear guidance and lots of practical strategies for how to implement ECM and EYFS in England and the Curriculum for Excellence in Scotland, in your setting. This book looks at ways to promote and develop emotional literacy with young children through: ● ●
Encouraging Positive Behaviour in the Early Years By Colette Drifte Price: £24.99
This book is full of practical strategies, good advice and clear and helpful suggestions, helping you to encourage good behaviour from every child in your setting and suggests ways to support children with special educational needs.
Early Learning Games By Helen Edge and Chris Wragg Price: £17.99
These bright and humorous photocopiable activities are ideal for children who have difficulty with word and number recognition.
Forest Schools and Outdoor Learning in the Early Years By Sara Knight Price: £18.99
Learning outside the classroom is an essential part of early years education, and this book looks at the opportunities the Forest School experience can offer young children for learning outdoors, and how this fits into the early years curriculum.
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Circle Time Outdoor play
• Drama • Storytelling • Active learning • Physical education
Full of case studies of children aged 3 to 8, ideas for practice, photographs, points for reflection and photocopiable materials. This is an indispensable guide for the early years practitioner. It is highly relevant to those looking at the transition from Early Years to Primary education, as well as the social, emotional and behavioural needs of young children.
Creative Art Activities for the Early Years Foundation Stage By Diane Williams Price: £16.50
A book of art activities for children age 3 to 5 that matches Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum work with different media.
How Children Learn: Tutor Resource Pack Price: £108.33 + vat
The How Children Learn: Tutor Resource Pack is designed as a support tool for all early years and childcare tutors delivering courses that cover educational theory. The perfect delivery tool to accompany the must-have student book How Children Learn, the tutor pack is designed to bring the pioneers of educational theory to life. This pack features: Activities focusing on 15 of the foremost pioneers in educational theory with activities geared towards a range of different learning styles to ensure all students are included. A range of video clips demonstrating what theory looks like in practice, with support activities to encourage students to analyse and observe educational scenarios. A photobank of children in learning situations, as well as tools to illustrate learning on each theorist, and the links between them to encourage students to compare and contrast theories. On the DVD are PowerPoint presentations for each theorist which introduce the basic principles of these theories, as well as examples of theory in practice.
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Learning Games 2
Early Learning Games
By Helen Edge and Chris Wragg Price: £17.99
By Helen Edge and Chris Wragg Price: £17.99 Foundation-KS1
These bright, cheerful and humorous photocopiable activities are ideal for children who have difficulty with word and number recognition. In practice these games have proved incredibly helpful in introducing socialisation skills and increasing attention span. They also give the children a sense of independence and aid in language development. The games can be adapted for children of different abilities, with a clear objective of making learning fun!
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A valuable collection of fun-filled games intended to enhance children’s learning, depending on their level of ability. It contains ten different games that can be adapted to suit a variety of abilities, as well as giving children the ability to cope with more complex rules. The flexibility of the games means that they can be adapted to many learning objectives. As teachers become more familiar with the format, they can make their own games and rules.
Spot On Planning a Programme of Precision Teaching By Staffordshire Support Service Price: £17.99 Foundation-KS1
Precision teaching is a valuable strategy to complement other teaching methods – it is a precise method of monitoring a structured teaching programme. All children can learn: the most important thing is to supply the right conditions for that learning to take place. Using games to practice key skills, this book provides all the background, explanation and teaching resources needed to set up precision teaching in the classroom. The book includes a selection of photocopiable speedsheets and timed tests to measure performance. Spot On is both motivating and enjoyable for children and helps to practise key skills and raise self esteem!
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The Four Seasons
Practical, photocopiable worksheets of simple games By Jan Thorne Price: £15.00 Foundation-KS1
Bring an awareness of nature through the seasons to your nursery or classroom! This useful pack was designed for nursery and reception children and contains practical photocopiable activities and simple games on seasonal themes. Cleverly thought out, the games and activities will help to develop: ● ● ●
language and pre-reading skills left to right orientation fine motor skills
…using mazes and tracking activities. Ideal for use by teachers and support staff at school, or parents at home.
Ten Steps to Five
Towards Handwriting
By Gill Mansell, Nola Wilde, Pat Djemli and Norma Francis Price: £15.00 Foundation-KS1
By Lynne Burns, Margaret Carter, Jenny Eaden, June Perry, Pat Scott, Margaret Trigg, Pat Wilkes and Jessie Woods Price: £15.00 KS1
This practical and easy-to-use programme helps teachers observe and record achievement in children up to five years. This record is designed to highlight the child’s strengths and weaknesses, enabling teachers to plan the curriculum accordingly. Because of the informal approach, it requires no extra equipment as children are observed in natural everyday situations, which helps to provide accurate assessment. The programme covers five key areas of development: ● ● ● ● ●
Posture and large movements Vision and fine movements Hearing and speech Social and emotional behaviour Play
Learning to write clearly is an integral part of developing literacy. Mastering the skills of handwriting can be particularly problematic for some children. This book provides sixteen progressive activities designed to help children practise the individual skills needed for progress towards good handwriting. Teachers can easily assess children at each level and use photocopiable worksheets to reinforce skills. This is a highly effective and practical classroom resource.
Record charts are included to give teachers plenty of space to write their comments.
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SALLEY
Structured Activities for Language and Literacy in the Early Years By Diana McQueen, Angela Hurd and Bob Boucher
Price: £121.43 inc. vat + £6.00 p+p SALLEY is a complete multisensory package to prepare nursery-aged children for the demands of the Primary Framework for literacy. The SALLEY programme can be used by any Early Years practitioner, with groups or individuals. Children are taught how to rhyme and sequence sounds using fun games to develop their auditory memory skills. SALLEY is both a prevention and intervention programme designed to teach the phonological awareness skills that are so fundamental to the development of reading and spelling. With SALLEY it is also possible to identify children at risk of dyslexia at a very young age. It has been widely trialled in nursery and reception classes.
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SALLEY is fun, multisensory, uses pure phonics, involves differentiated and errorless learning so all children can take part.
Local Education Authorities give SALLEY their Seal of Approval: Shropshire, Barnsley, Buckinghamshire, Sandwell, Dudley and Hereford & Worcester are just a few who have purchased SALLEY for their schools.
‘We used the “good sitting, good listening and good looking” initially and it worked within days. We now use this routine whenever the children are sitting at together time, circle time or when we have visitors to talk to the children, etc. and it has made these large group gatherings much calmer, the children less restless and more attentive. The children use the terminology themselves and know what is expected of them as the language is simple, short and to the point - with everyone in the nursery using the same language the response has been amazing. I love it!’ Valerie Cushnie – Teacher, Tean Nursery
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Teaching and Leadership Skills Q Tasks:
How to Empower Students to Ask Questions and Care About Answers By Carol Koechlin and Sandi Zwann Price: £24.99
The critical key to improving understanding is through asking questions. This book shows teachers how to develop a questioning culture among their pupils. It presents practical strategies to empower pupils to become critical thinkers and users of information.
Tweak to Transform By Mike Hughes and David Potter Price: £24.95
This book focuses on what heads and school leaders can do to manage change and improve the quality of teaching in a school. This is a practical handbook that seeks to address three questions: What do we know about change? What do we know about learning? What do we know about leading and managing the improvement process?
Team Challenges By Charlotte Samiec Price: £24.99
A brilliant collection of forty exciting, open-ended tasks that require teamwork, imagination and fast thinking. They can be used by teams of all ages and are ideal for enrichment, extension and team building.
The Teacher’s Toolkit
Learning and Teaching in the Primary Classroom By Professor Maurice J. Galton Price: £21.99
Packed with informative case studies and classroom examples, this book explores how learning is conceptualised, direct instruction, interactive teaching, teaching as scaffolding and how to overcome obstacles to learning.
The Competency Curriculum Toolkit By Jackie Beere and Helen Boyle Price: £29.99
This book explores the concept of a competency-based curriculum for KS3 and provides a range of resources for implementing creative learning in schools. An essential toolkit for all those wishing to develop independent learners.
Effective Learning in Classrooms By Chris Watkins, Eileen Carnell and Caroline Lodge Price: £21.99
This book addresses an important, and too seldom addressed issue: learning. Not teaching, not performance, not “work”: this book really is about learning, what makes learning effective and how it may be promoted in classrooms.
Classrooms as Learning Communities What’s in it for Schools?
By Paul Ginnis Price: £28.99
By Chris Watkins Price: £20.99
A book full of useful classroom strategies to make teaching and learning livelier! Many templates for games and other activities that teachers can use with a wide range of curriculum content and a good reference book to have at hand when planning a sequence of lessons.
In classrooms that operate as learning communities, the social and learning purposes advance together through all participants being involved and engaged in building knowledge. This book demonstrates a new way of seeing and managing classrooms.
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Motivating Your Secondary Class
Teamwork Tools
A Revolutionary Approach for Managers and Trainers
By Maurice J. Galton, Susan Steward, Linda Hargreaves, Charlotte Page and Anthony Pell Price: £23.99
By Wendy C. Horikoshi and Yael Schy Price: £34.50
With skyrocketing interdependence and teamwork in the workplace, managers and trainers are clamouring for effective teamwork strategies. This book offers exactly that: tools for successful teamwork.
Why do so many pupils in Years 7, 8 and 9 ‘switch off’ and make very little progress in the core subjects such as English and Mathematics? What can teachers and schools do to improve pupils’ attitudes and motivation?
If you’re a trainer or executive, you will find powerful teamwork tools for teambuilding, enhancing communication skills, knowledgebuilding, skill-building, creative thinking, problem solving, making decisions as a group.
Maurice Galton and his team have collected examples from various schools of what works in re-energising demotivated pupils. This book presents practical advice and strategies for improving lower secondary school classrooms, ranging from reducing class size, to innovative induction programmes emphasising the development of core study skills, and developing effective procedures to train pupils to cooperate rather than confront each other during lessons.
Make teamwork work with Teamwork Tools!
The book is a much-needed resource for all secondary teachers, and is particularly useful for year and subject heads.
Creativity and Education Futures Learning in a Digital Age
NLP for Teachers
By Anna Craft Price: £20.99
How to Be a Highly Effective Teacher By Richard Churches and Roger Terry Price: £22.99
Following extensive use of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) in the training of teachers on the Fast Track teaching programmes the authors provide a perspective on which NLP tools make a difference to teachers. If you want to develop excellence in communication skills or wish to learn how to use powerful tools to support personal and professional goals you will find this book really useful. It covers a wide range of practical tools that will enhance your interpersonal effectiveness and classroom delivery. Find out how language and your internal processing effects the behaviour of others around you, learn some amazing tools and techniques, learn to communicate in ways you never thought possible both inside and outside the classroom and take your communication skills to the next level.
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The extent and rapidity of change means that children today grow up facing uncertainties and possibilities on an unprecedented scale. • What kinds of education are appropriate when the possible futures that exist for children are so uncertain and so rapidly advancing? • Where learning occurs in a Web 2.0 social environment as naturally as it does in the playground, playing field, front room or street? • Where adults may continue to play and experiment far beyond their childhood in ways unimaginable even thirty years ago? • Where creativity is increasingly both possible and expected of young people? Drawing on the ideas of ‘wise creativity’ and ‘collective possibility thinking’, this book explores the changing nature of society, childhood and youth and asks how education might need to change in response. How can education facilitate wise collective creativity, which anticipates and constructs the future? This book discusses approaches to constructing imaginative educational futures that hear all voices, and will be of interest to those engaged in grappling with the messy and difficult task of transforming education, including those developing approaches to creative partnership.
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Thinking for Learning By Mel Rockett and Simon Percival Price: £24.99
This book is a good introduction to the basic principles behind thinking skills. It describes some of the best known approaches to teaching thinking with useful commentary on each approach and practical examples to show what thinking for learning looks like in the classroom. It also presents useful case-studies of school development for thinking skills.
Team Challenges 2 By Charlotte Samiec Price: £29.95
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This useful and fun resource is jam packed with great projects to get students working together and learning about a wide variety of topics from maths and economics to english, history, geography and much more. This resource follows the popular Team Challenges book, and includes the 40 challenges published in Teambuilding Challenges as well as 25 brand new and exciting challenges! Students will greatly enjoy this strange and fabulous compilation of tasks that will have teams thinking, creating, planning, playing, predicting, acting, singing, dancing, racing, imagining, designing, describing, surprising, explaining, entertaining, writing, solving, constructing, invent drawing, modelling, proposing, composing, wrapping each other up in newspaper, laughing and learning.
The Primary Learner’s Toolkit By Jackie Beere Price: £29.99
Here the author does for Primary Teachers what The Learner’s Toolkit does for Secondary Teachers. This is an essential resource for supporting the SEAL framework in primary schools and for all those teaching in primary schools. It contains everything you need to create truly independent learners, confident and resilient in their ability to learn and learn well. Includes lesson plans, teachers’ notes and a CD-ROM in the back of the book which has all the student forms and worksheets necessary for the lessons.
Developing a Thinking Curriculum In Your School: A Handbook for Educators By Michael Pohl Price: £19.99
Developing a Thinking Curriculum in your School: A Handbook for Educators addresses the challenge of embedding a thinking curriculum within and across a school. Michael Pohl outlines a five-step process that will assist schools to implement a wholeschool approach to deliver thinking into the curriculum. It provides a framework for practices designed to ensure that the thinking curriculum becomes an enduring part of the culture of your school.
Creative Teaching & Learning Magazine Incorporating creativity and critical thinking into your school Creative Teaching and Learning is published four times per annum Subscription Price: £40.00 (for an individual) £52.00 (for an institution)
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The school curriculum is changing! Learning, Personal and Thinking Skills are a key part of the secondary curriculum, and cross-curriculum project based work is now central to teaching in primary schools and Key Stage 3. The government wants the endowment of creativity and critical skills in pupils to be a core mission of schools. Creative Teaching & Learning magazine under its old name Teaching Thinking & Creativity, has been providing this for schools for the past 10 years. Recognised as the most cutting edge curriculum magazine in the country, it has championed such approaches as Philosophy for Children, Building Learning Power, Intelligent Learning and Mantle of The Expert. The magazine investigates how the curriculum can be remodelled and explores how thinking skills approaches can be embedded within subject and projectbased teaching. In every issue it has project resource packs which show how project work can be given much more meaning and pedagogic depth. Creative Teaching & Learning magazine is dedicated to promoting critical and creative thinking at both primary and secondary level. Packed with practical information, guidance and jargon free advice, it makes education more imaginative and effective and helps to raise the standards of teaching and learning by developing children’s thinking skills.
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Index 20 Thinking Tools
34
Covering the Curriculum with Stories
54
50 Ways to Retell a Story: Cinderella
17
Creative Approaches to Physical Education
53
A Course for Gifted Thinkers: Book 1
59
Creative Art Activities for the Early Years Foundation Stage
63
A Course for Gifted Thinkers: Book 2
59
Creative Teaching & Learning Magazine
69
A Course for Gifted Thinkers: Book 3
59
Creativity and Education Futures: Learning in a Digital Age
68
A Journey into Children’s Minds: Philosophy for Children DVD
34
Creativity Starters
41
A River Child
04
Daily Times Tables Teasers
32
A Work of Art
54
Danny the Champion of the World English Resource Pack
22
African Locality Resource Pack
06
Designing a Thinking Curriculum
38
Aharr! Main Musical Director Pack
56
Developing a Thinking Classroom
40
Aharr! Mini Musical Director Pack
56
Developing a Thinking Curriculum In Your School
69
Amazon Rainforest Locality Resource Pack
08
Discovering Decimals
29
An Imaginative Approach to Teaching
37
Display a Creative Curriculum
54
Analyse It! 10 Minute Activities
40
Display For All Seasons
55
A Solution Focused Approach to Anger Management
Dramatically Different Classroom
With Children Arctic and Antarctic Arctic Stories
Early Learning Games
11
Early Years Observation and Planning in Practice
62
Effective Learning in Classrooms
67
10, 35
63, 64
Art of Different Cultures
55
Emotional Literacy: Assessment and Intervention Ages 7 - 11
49
Art of Recycling
55
Emotional Literacy: Assessment and Intervention Ages 11 - 16
49
Art Through Music
55
Encouraging Positive Behaviour in the Early Years
63
Asking Better Questions
35
Environmental Art
54
Asteroid X: Maths Adventure Games
27
Exploring the Rain Forest
02
Attribits
58
Famous Ancient Greeks
33
Attribobs
58
Famous Mathematicians
33
Beneath Your Feet
02
Famous Scientists and Inventors
33
Beowulf the Dragonslayer Pack
20
Fatou Doll
07
Beowulf: Dragonslayer A5 book Class Set
21
Fatou’s First Day 6 Book Pack
07
Big Contexts for Inquiry Learning
41
Fatou’s First Day CD
07
Biology: Higher Level Thinking Questions
30
Festivals Across the Year 5-7
02
Blackbeard’s Treasure: Maths Adventure Games
27
Festivals Across the Year 7-9
02
Brilliant Activities for Gifted and Talented Children
59
Festivals Across the Year 9-11
02
Brilliant Activities for Stretching Gifted and Talented Children 59
First Poems for Thinking
19
Caboclo Information Booklet for Teachers
09
First Stories for Thinking
19
Caboclo Photopack
09
Forest Schools and Outdoor Learning in the Early Years
63
Caboclo: A Cross Curricular Scheme of Work
09
Four Times Harder
51
Challenging Minds: Enrichment for Able Adolescents
58
Fraction Fun Through Cooperative Learning
29
Changing Children’s Minds
35
Gambian Life Serrekunda Photopack
07
China Locality Resource Pack
13
Gambian Resources: Musical Instruments
06
Classrooms as Learning Communities: What’s in it for Schools
67
Games Count Book 1
29
Cooperative Learning and Hands-on Science
32
Games Count Book 2
29
Cooperative Learning and Higher-Level Thinking: The Q Matrix 58
Games for Thinking
19
Cooperative Learning and Mathematics Primary
28
Geography Wise: Rivers
05
Cooperative Learning and Mathematics: High School Activities
28
Get Your Head Around Punctuation (…and how to teach it!) 17
Cooperative Learning and Science: High School Activities
30
Gifted and Talented Pocketbook
58
Cooperative Learning and Social Studies
46
Global Citizenship for Young Children
46
32, 62
H.O.T. Units - Higher Order Thinking Units Books 1
41
29
H.O.T. Units - Higher Order Thinking Units Books 2
41
Cooperative Learning and Wee Science Count Us In
70
54
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41
Listening Skills - Key Stage 2
25
H.O.T. Units for Gifted Readers
58
Living in the Arctic
11
Hands on History
54
Making Meaning
38
How Children Learn: Book 1
61
Making Music in the Primary School
55
How Children Learn: Book 2
61
Mathematics: Higher Level Thinking Questions – Primary
29
How Children Learn: Book 3
61
Mathematics: Higher Level Thinking Questions – Secondary
29
How Children Learn: Tutor Resource Pack
63
Mathematics: Lessons for Little Ones
62
How to Have a Beautiful Mind
36
Maths All Week
28
How to Teach Habits of Mind
36
Maths in Stories
28
How to Teach Thinking Skills
41
Maths Listening Skills - Early Years
25
Ice Bear
11
Maths Listening Skills - Key Stage 1
25
Ikenna Goes to Nigeria
05
Maths Listening Skills - Key Stage 2
25
Images of Amazonia Photo CD: Brazilian Rainforest
09
Maths Outdoors
28
Images of Brazil Photo CD
09
Minds Maps for Kids: An Introduction
35
Images of St Lucia CD
02
Motivating Your Secondary Class
68
Images of the Gambia Photo CD
06
My Arctic 1, 2, 3
11
Improving Concentration Skills
34
Myself As A Learner Scale
50
Improving Memory Skills
34
Mysteries for Writing and Critical Thinking
38
Improving Numeracy Through Spreadsheets
28
New at the Zoo Mini Musical Director Pack
56
Improving Thinking in the Classroom
36
NLP for Teachers: How to Be a Highly Effective Teacher
68
In Full Bloom: A Thinking Approach to Teaching Literature
15, 36
Nurturing the Naturalist Intelligence
31
Inclusion Pocketbook
51
One Well: The Story of Water on Earth
05
Independent Science Challenges
32
Open-Ended Maths Tasks
28
India Locality Resource Pack
03
Out on the Ice in the Middle of the Bay
11
Insight Primary
48
Physical Science: Higher Level Thinking Questions
31
Insight Secondary
48
Please Mrs Butler and Heard it in the Playground
Inspiring Children to Read and Write for Pleasure
14
Literacy Resource
23
Intelligent Learning
42
Poems for Thinking
19
Intermediate Literature: Higher Level Thinking Questions
15
Polar Bear, Why Is Your World Melting?
11
Investigating Rivers CD
05
Primary Literature: Higher Level Thinking Questions
14
Language Arts: Lessons for Little Ones
62
Q Tasks
67
Language Arts: Higher-Level Thinking Questions
15
Questions Dictionary of Grammar
14
Learning and Teaching in the Primary Classroom
67
Raging Rivers
05
Learning Games 2
64
Raising Self-Esteem in Primary Schools
46
63
Learning Through Talk in the Early Years
Rap It Up: A Modern Approach to Poetry
23
34, 60
Revealing China Images CD
13
Let’s Pretend Maths
28
Revealing China Photopack
12
Let’s Think! Complete Set
39
Revealing China: A Cross Curricular Scheme of Work
12
Let’s Think! Resource Pack
39
Revealing China: Information Booklet for Teachers
12
Let’s Think! Teacher’s Guide
39
Rivers
05
Life and Earth Sciences: Higher Level Thinking Questions
31
Rob Long’s Intervention Toolbox
53
Liling Looks Around – 6 Book Pack
13
S.A–N.T.A. C.L.A.U.S: Maths Adventure Games
27
Liling Looks Around CD
13
SALLEY
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Liling’s School Bag
03
Saying Goodbye: A Special Farewell to Mama Nkwelle
05
Listen Up! Book 1
24
Science Buddies: Cooperative Science Activities
30
Listen Up! Book 2
24
Science Fact or Science Fiction? Book 1
31
Listening Skills - Early Years
25
Science Fact or Science Fiction? Book 2
31
Listening Skills - Key Stage 1
25
Science Words
32
Learning Without Limits 1
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Index Serrekunda Enquirer Newspaper
07
Think Ahead! Developing Thinking Through Visual Arts 11 - 14 57
Shakespeare for All: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
56
Thinking for Learning
69
Shakespeare for All: Julius Caesar
56
Thinking Hats Book 1
37
Shakespeare for All: Romeo and Juliet
56
Thinking Hats Book 2
37
Social Studies: Higher Level Thinking Questions
46
Thinking Hats Book 3
37
Spot On
64
Thinking Skills and Problem Solving
36
St Lucia Enquirer Newspaper
02
Thinking Strategies for the Successful Classroom Book 1
34
Start Thinking
45
Thinking Strategies for the Successful Classroom Book 2
34
Stories for Thinking
19
Thinking Strategies for the Successful Classroom Book 3
34
Storyteller
15
Thinking Through Primary Teaching
35
Structures for Success in Chemistry
30
Thinking Together
Sums for Smart Kids
58
Thinking, Talking, Exploring!
40
Supporting Children with ADHD
51
Thinking With Rich Concepts
35
Supporting Children with Autism in Mainstream Schools
53
Timely Tasks for Fast Finishers: Book 1
59
Supporting Children with Dyslexia
51
Timely Tasks for Fast Finishers: Book 2
59
Timely Tasks for Fast Finishers: Book 3
59
Supporting Children with Multiple Disabilities in
25, 43
Mainstream Schools
53
Top Ten Thinking Tactics
39
Swarm Main Musical Director Pack
56
Toucan Times Newspaper
08
Talking Pictures
44
Towards Handwriting
65
Teaching Able, Gifted and Talented Children
58
Tweak to Transform
67
Teaching as Storytelling
37
Understanding Primary Science
32
Teaching Children’s Literature
15
Using the African Artefacts Photopack
07
Teaching Literacy
37
Values for Thinking
46
Teaching Poetry with 4 - 8 Year Olds
18
Visual Talk / Writing Target Cards
16
Teaching Poetry with 7 - 12 Year Olds
18
Walk with a Wolf
11
Teaching Thinking: Philosophical Enquiry in the Classroom
35
What’s the Alternative?
51
Team Challenges
67
Who’s Running the Country?
47
Team Challenges 2
69
Write! Science
30
Teamwork Tools
68
Write! Social Studies
46
Ten Steps to Five
65
Writing and Reading Mysteries
14
The China Enquirer Newspaper
13
Writing Exciting Ghost Stories
17
The Competency Curriculum Toolkit
67
Writing Exciting Sentences: Age 7 plus
17
The Dyscalculia Toolkit
51
The Early Years Foundation Stage in Practice
62
The Four Seasons
65
The Gambia Files DVD
07
The Girl Who Married a Ghost: and Other Tales from Nigeria 05
72
The Great Jewel Robbery: Maths Adventure Games
27
The Haunted School: Maths Adventure Games
26
The House on the Hill: Maths Adventure Games
26
The Literacy Toolkit
14
The Primary Learner’s Toolkit
69
The Rainforest Enquirer Newspaper
08
The Story of Tracy Beaker Literacy Resource
23
The Teacher’s Toolkit
67
The Thinking Team
34
Think Ahead! Developing Thinking Through Drama 11 - 14
57
Think Ahead! Developing Thinking Through Music 11 - 14
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