Product Description: This exciting and accessible book offers techniques for introducing some of Shakespeare's plays to children between the ages of nine and twelve.

Product Description: "We believe that every young person should experience the world beyond the classroom as an essential part of learning and personal development, whatever their age, ability or circumstances. Learning outside the classroom is about raising achievement through an organised, powerful approach to learning in which direct experience is of prime importance...read more

Product Description: Despite being dead for nearly 400 years, Shakespeare's plays and plots are very much alive in the modern curriculum. For many of those required to study him, however, their enthusiasm is dead and buried.Aimed at those teaching Shakespeare to students aged from 11-16, Fred Sedgwick provides tried-and-tested lessons accompanied by photocopiable and downloadable resources to enable teachers to develop their practice and inspire their students...read more

Written for people considering taking an initial teacher training course, this book takes you through several stages of choosing a course, preparing for training and completing the course itself. It covers working with children, developing professionalism, and surviving the job with least stress.

Product Description: This title contains one hundred ideas for assemblies in the primary school suitable for ages 5 to 11. Some assemblies will be religious and some will be secular, the former will contain stories from many religious traditions. Each assembly will carry an element of surprise, a story or a poem and an element of prayer or reflection...read more

Provides lists ranging from preparing for an interview and organizing the classroom to dealing with difficult students and selecting an appropriate wardrobe.

Provides teachers with a variety of tips and strategies to deal with problems they encounter in the classroom.

Product Description: Continuum has repackaged some of its key academic backlist titles to make them available at a more affordable price. These reissues will have new ISBNs, distinctive jackets and strong branding. They cover a range of subject areas that have a continuing student sale and make great supplementary reading more accessible...read more

Product Description: Plenty of people want to write poetry - yet while it is not necessarily difficult to write poetry badly, it is harder to write it well. In this guide Fred Sedgwick explains - with numerous examples from successful poets - how the creative process works, from the initial impulse to write all the way through to the crafted and expressive poetry at the end...read more

Product Description: Too often the teaching of poetry is divided into the reading of poetry and the writing of poetry. This division is strange and illogical because the two activities are not only linked, but intermeshed. This book will be an attempt to show how indispensable reading poetry is to writing it and vice versa...read more

In this, Sedgwick's latest book, he aims to help all those involved with children and their learning through poem-writing improve their practice. He argues that through poetry, children can learn about the whole curriculum, including history and science. The book begins with an introduction outlining the importance of poetry, and defining it. It discusses poetry in terms of children's learning and the imagination. Case studies are used to show how children learn about themselves - first, their bodies, and second, their thoughts and emotions - through the writing of poetry. Using many examples of childrens work he considers how children learn about their environment and the relationship between themselves and their environment. Finally, he discusses his techniques for getting children to write and provides recommendations for further reading. Fred Sedgwick is a freelance lecturer and writer specialising in children's writing, art and personal, social and moral education and has been described as 'the nearest thing I've seen to the Pied Piper'. Previously a headteacher in primary schools for 16 years, he has published books of poetry for both children and adults.

Product Description: This is a book about the power of poetry to speak about the central themes of what it is to be a human being. The first part is an anthology of specially selected poems. The second part provides detailed notes for teachers on how to use these poems in the classroom...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: At the heart of this book is an emphasis on helping children to learn about themselves, their world and their relationships, through drawing. It also shows how teachers can use drawing as an in road into art, language, literacy, and other aspects of the curriculum; how children can improve their writing through drawing, concentrating on draftsmanship, the lines of letters, words and sentences; and how children can improve the quality of their drawing; with four basic rules that have been proven to raise standards throughout school...read more

Product Description: "The teaching of literacy is a high priority for teachers and for governments, yet some of the approaches commonly used are very limiting, joyless and, ultimately, ineffective. In contrast, Fred Sedgwick shows how literacy can be combined with, and promoted through, a love of reading and children's ability to think and write creatively...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Writing to Learn looks at how poetry can be used as an enjoyable way to teach literacy across the curriculum. It includes remarkable poems and stories by children as well as clear descriptions of how to teach creatively within the framework of the National Literacy Strategy. The book goes through the primary curriculum, subject by subject: *Poetry and Science and Maths *Poetry and Personal, Social and Moral Education *Poetry and Art and Music *Poetry and Religious Education *Poetry for its Own Sake. The author includes: *advice on different ways children can compose their writing and how computers can be a valuable aid to children's writing *examples of published poetry and how it can be used to stimulate good writing *advice on bringing writers into schools and publishing school anthologies. This book will prove invaluable to teachers and parents keen to teach writing whilst seeing children as active and critical learners. It shows that if we expect great things from children in writing, we get them.

Product Description: Thinking About Literacy discusses the literacy of children in the infant years. The author takes the view that the child is an active learner when he/she arrives in school, and that it is the school's job to build on what the child already knows...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book aims to enable primary school teachers to take steps to make Personal, Social and Moral Education (PSME) central to the work of their schools, across the whole curriculum. Links to the National Curriculum are implicit and explicit throughout the book.

Product Description: Addresses the place of the expressive arts in primary schools in the years around and beyond the implementation of the National Curriculum. Case studies on the language arts, painting and drawing, dance, drama and music suggest how to teach these arts to children between four and eleven...read more

Product Description: An account of one year in the life of a primary school, seen from the perspective of a head teacher. It is a book about managing a real primary school - but, unlike most management books it places the child at the centre of the exercise...read more