Elementary category: 2214 books

This stimulating text shows how primary mathematics can be creative, exciting and enjoyable. Offering teachers a dynamic and different perspective, it enables them to see and teach in creative ways that will develop their pupil’s mathematical thinking potential. Creative Teaching: Mathematics...

Have you had a bad experience with your childs allergies? If yes, then this book is for your little one! Do I Have Allergies? is an easy-to-read book for children two years and up. It helps them recognize an allergic reaction and seek help. Common triggers like nuts, latex balloons, pollen, animal...

To prepare to teach the new Primary National Curriculum, you need more than just the Programmes of Study.  You need a resource to help you understand, plan for, teach and assess the curriculum.  This is it!  Your guide to planning the 2014 primary national curriculum. This book explores...

Developed in conjunction with Lesley University, this engaging resource for third grade provides effective, research-based strategies to help teachers differentiate problem solving in the classroom. It includes: 50 leveled math problems (150 problems total), an overview of the problem-solving process,...

This is an essential text for all primary trainees, covering the fundamental issues for learning and teaching in primary schools today. It motivates and challenges trainees at the same time as guiding them through the Standards for the Award of QTS. Chapters explore the major themes in teacher education,...

This book helps trainees to build skills and focus on developing their professional practice through understanding, reflection and experimentation. Its practical structure and learning features help readers to recognise their own learning needs and set their own targets. The book takes the Teachers'...

Every primary school teacher needs to ensure that they meet the criteria set out in the Teachers’ Standards. However translating what this means in the classroom isn’t always easy, especially when you're starting out your career in teaching.  This book directly looks at the standards providing...

This book enables teachers to effectively meet the needs of their most able mathematicians. Using a tried and tested set of principles developed and used by The Able Children's Education Unit at Brunel University, the author demonstrates how to: identify high mathematical ability in a pupil, plan...

You were born into this world to live your own life story. No other person on earth is exactly the same as you. You were given your own special body and mind to achieve something great in life. Every important decision that you make along the way is how your own life story will be written. In this...

33 Ways to Help with Writing equips teachers and teaching assistants with a wide range of practical resources to help children who are having difficulties learning the basic skills of writing. Offering a range of activities and games to engage children and encourage motivation in the classroom,...

A rabbit and a turtle's race story. Once upon a time on a bright sunny day in a forest, a Rabbit was digging for a carrot. Meanwhile, the Fox was hunting to catch the Rabbit. - Will the Rabbit escaped from the Fox?

Still the biggest concern for many on initial teacher training courses is the acquisition of subject knowledge and the ability to translate that into effective teaching. This book addresses this - building on the core subject knowledge covered in the Achieving QTS series and relating it to classroom...

**Why should we foster creativity in primary English? ** A practical and accessible text that demonstrates how creative thinking and learning can support primary English teaching. With chapters mapped to the Teachers' Standards and links to the new National Curriculum, each chapter provides...

This is a practical book for pupils, designed to teach the basic skills of scientific investigation and problem solving. With an emphasis on skills not facts, it is practical in approach, describing over 100 activities. No specialised apparatus is required and the investigations it covers are flexible enought to relate to any science course.