Mark Allen imprint: 136 books
by Steve Way
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Make the teaching of Maths a more exciting and creative cross-curricular experience! This new series provides original and fun stories, sketches and poems to use as the basis for teaching objectives from the Mathematics Programme of Study. The stories are supported by differentiated lesson plans and...
Exploring Emotions
How you can help children to recognise and talk about their feelings
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
This practical book from Ros Bayley is designed to enable every practitioner to help children manage their emotions. This title looks at the whole range of emotions that children feel and enable any practitioner to help children recognise these emotions and talk about them. Brimming with ideas for...
Supporting Children's Social Development
Positive Relationships in the Early Years
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
This book offers practical examples and informed advice about: how even very young children form close relationships with each other, the ways that observant adults can nuture possible friendships, understanding social play and skills from the children's perspective, young children who may have special...
How Children Learn - Book 2
An Overview of Theories on Children's Literacy, Linguistics and Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
A readable discussion of the key ideas of child development and theory, including how children acquire language, the meaning of intelligence and creativity, as well as how best to teach children to read and write.
by Pat Hollingbery
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Thinking skills are a key feature of learning. These brilliant titles in the series will help you develop intellectual skills in children, such as reasoning and enquiry, information processing, creative thinking and evaluation skills. The ability to think effectively and to use ICT competently are two...
Parents as Partners
Positive Relationships in the Early Years
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
It is a widely acknowledged fact that if parents are involved in their child's early learning there is a positive impact on development and later school achievement. This title looks at how to build a positive relationship with the parents of children in your care, whether you work in a group or home...
Enabling Environments in the Early Years
Making provision for high quality and challenging learning experiences in early years settings
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
This title focuses on how to ensure your setting's physical space and equipment provides the most challenging and interesting environment for children in your care. This book covers: Assessing and improving the learning environment, making the most of your outdoor space and inclusive settings.
Special Educational Needs in Practice (Revised Edition)
A step-by-step guide to developing a SEN inclusion policy and delivering the requirements of Early Years Action Plus
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Special Educational Needs in Practice has been revised so as to consider all professionals involved with working with children with special needs. This edition covers the role and responsibility of the SENCO, but also outlines procedures and suggests numerous strategies for everyone working in the field....
by Kathryn Porter
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
This highly practical text aims to provide the newly qualified dental nurse with with a basic guide to dental nursing issues. The Dental Nurse Survival Guide adopts the same Q&A format that has proven so successful with the best selling Staff Nurse Survival Guide. Each guide is a collection of...
by Rachel Baker
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
This is a practical, informative guide on how to care for young children with epilepsy. It is aimed at professionals working in child-care, but may also be of use to parents and anyone else wishing to know more about epilepsy. The book includes: a description of the condition, its causes and treatments,...
by Mary Mountstephen
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
When working with children whose development is causing concern, it can be difficult to know how best to help. This practical guide to Dyspraxia and Neuro-Developmental Delay has been written to support all early years' professionals, as well as the non-specialist practitioner and parents or carers....
What Does it Mean to be One?
A Practical Guide to Child Development in the Early Years Foundation Stage
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
What Does It Mean To Be One, from child psychologist Jennie Lindon, will give you the tools you need to ensure that your work with children, whether in a school, nursery or home setting, is relevant to their individual stages of development.This books looks at the six areas of learning in the EYFS and...
Play and Learning in the Early Years
Practical activities and games for the under 3s
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
This book is a comprehensive resource for practical activities and games for the under threes. As well as providing a wealth of activities for pre-school children, this book maps out exactly how each activities relates to the child's development.This book approaches the years of 0-1, 1-2 and 2-3 of a...
What does it mean to be two? Revised edition
What every practitioner needs to understand about the development of two-year-olds
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
This revised and updated edition helps practitioners to understand the distinction in the 2012 revised EYFS between the prime and specific areas of development for two-year-olds. It considers key issues in a well-rounded assessment of individual twos. It also includes an invaluable checklistto help practitioners prepare for the new progress check.