New Books
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Computers,
thinking and learning: inspiring students with technology |
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Author: |
David Nettelbeck |
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LB1028.5 N48 |
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"Computers,
thinking and learning provides teachers with successful
strategies for implementing the full potential of ICT in
middle and upper school humanities classrooms. It is a
practical and innovative resource that has the authentic
voice of a teacher."
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Learning to teach English: A practical
introduction for teachers |
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Author: |
Peter Watkins |
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PE1128 A2W38 |
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"This book is designed to help people who
want to become teachers of English. It has been written as an accessible,
easy-to-use introduction for those with little or no previous teaching
experience.
Learning to Teach English is ideal for use
before or during a Cambridge CELTA course, a Trinity College London Certificate
in TESOL course and any other pre-service training. It will be a useful
reference for language assistants and those teaching English while travelling
abroad.
Learning to Teach English is also ideal
for teachers who are preparing for the Cambridge TKT (Teaching Knowledge Test).
The book is highly practical. Many classroom
activities are described and analysed, and there are questions and activities to
engage the new teacher throughout the book. There are detailed commentaries
after every chapter."
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Classroom Literacy Assessment: Making
sense of what students know and do |
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Editors: |
Jeanne R. Paratore, Rachel L.
McCormack |
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LB1576 C5636 |
"What a wonderful book! Paratore and McCormack have
assembled a collection of 'must-read' chapters that hone in
on best practices in classroom literacy assessment, cutting
through the fog of testing mandates and poor practice with
the clarifying intensity of a laser. These pages are packed
with checklists, vignettes, exemplars, rubrics, insights,
good ideas, and helpful findings. Readers may not agree with
everything they read here, but it's hard to find a page that
doesn't help one to better make sense of children's learning."
- Timothy Shanahan, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago
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Visual Approaches to
Teaching Writing |
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Authors: |
Eve Bearne and Helen Wolstencroft |
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LB1576 B418 |
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"This is an
excellent book which is grounded in exciting and innovative classroom practice.
Bearne and Wolstencroft draw on their wealth of experience to offer clear and
detailed guidance on using multimodal texts in the classroom, from planning
through to assessment. Their book will enable teachers to provide opportunities
for children to become competent readers and authors of both off-screen and
on-screen multimodal texts. This groundbreaking book is an essential read for
all teachers and students who want their literacy curriculum to be relevant and
appropriate for the 21st century."
- Jackie Marsh, University of Sheffield
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How to Teach Writing
Across the Curriculum at Key Stage 2 |
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Authors: |
Sue Palmer |
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LB1576 P256 |
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"How to
Teach Writing Across the Curriculum at Key Stage 2 provides a practical,
accessible teaching sequence to help teachers of junior classes
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teach about the organization and language features of the
six non-fiction text types (recount, report, instruction, explanation,
persuasion and discussion)
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link non-fiction writing to pupils' work across the
curriculum, so they can use content learned in other subject areas as the
basis for writing in a particular text type
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develop pupils' ability to organize their non-fiction
writing appropriately, in terms of text-type, layout and paragraphing
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focus on significant language features of the text-types."
The teaching sequence is also designed to develop pupils'
appreciation of the underlying structures of non-fiction texts, thus linking the
acquisition of literacy skills to "thinking skills" in general."
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Teaching Text Structures:
A Key to Nonfiction Reading Success |
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Author: |
Sue Dymock and Tom Nicholson |
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LB1573.7 D96 |
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"Everyday,
students who are bright, enthusiastic, and eager to learn experience difficulty
comprehending expository, or nonfiction, text. Students do not intuitively grasp
this kind of writing, as its structure tends to be less familiar to them than
that of narrative forms.
In this book, Drs. Sue Dymock and Tom Nicholson share their
research-based, field-tested approach for helping students identify and analyze
the most common expository text structures in order to better comprehend the
nonfiction they read.
Dymock and Nicholson believe that text structure holds the
key to comprehension, because it gives students a way to navigate a "sea of
words". Their book includes everything you need to provide your students with
valuable experience recognizing descriptive, sequential, problem-solution, and
cause-effect patterns in texts."
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Using Phonics to Teach
Reading and Spelling |
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Author: |
John Bald |
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LB1573.3 B35 |
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"Are you
looking for practical advice on how to teach phonics?
By giving the reader a basic introduction to teaching reading
and spelling using phonics, this book provides lots of ideas for use in the
classroom. Following on from the recommendations of the Rose Report, the author
explains why teaching phonics works, and how to present irregular as well as
straightforward features of English."
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