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Transitions to School
University of NSW Press 2006; US$ 49.95Transition to school is an important process for all involved: children, parents, educators and others. This book presents comprehensive research from the Australian Starting School Research Project and other sources that should be of great value to researchers in early childhood education, practitioners in this field and early childhood teacher education... more...
Language Education in the Primary Years
University of NSW Press 2005; US$ 41.95This book is intended as a textbook for teacher education in the primary years. Drawing on much recent research into language and literacy, especially Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, it provides basic principles for understanding the teaching of the English language. more...
Current Topics in Early Childhood Education, 5
ABC-CLIO 1984; US$ 49.95The chapters in this volume are divided into three sections. In the first section, the authors provide a framework for the reader by setting ethnography in context. Chapters cover definitions of ethnography, its basic underlying principles, and propose ways in which it can be useful to education. The second section presents a range of ethnographic... more...
Literacy, Gender, and Work
ABC-CLIO 1993; US$ 49.95This is the first in-depth study of gender issues in early literacy learning. It provides vivid portraits of the difficulties that both boys and girls experience in learning to read and write at home and in classrooms due to gendered divisions of labor in families and schools. The portraits are based on data from a three-year ethnographic study, in... more...
Jamie
Stenhouse Publishers 1997; US$ 14.40"It is remarkable how people's lives intertwine. People move in and out of our world, affecting us as we affect them, and we often don't know it until we look back on what has happened. What amazes me is the exquisite timing of these moves, which help shape our growth and the course of our lives.". "When I think of the people I've known and the events... more...
Reading with Meaning
Stenhouse Publishers 2012; US$ 22.50"In the second edition of Reading with Meaning, Debbie Miller shares her new thinking about comprehension strategy instruction, the gradual release of responsibility instructional model, and planning for student engagement and independence. more...
Complexities of Teaching
RoutledgeFalmer 1997; US$ 57.50Illustrates how, contrary to popular belief, child centred teaching can be positive, supportive and guiding. The author shows how child-centred teachers can successfully combine the best elements from traditional and modern practices. more...
Inventing a Classroom
Stenhouse Publishers 2006; US$ 16.80Inventing a Classroom is the story of how ?the Sunshine room,? Caryl Crowell?s third-grade classroom, invents itself and how in this process the children themselves are continually inventing oral and written language, culture and curriculum. Caryl, with co-author Kathryn Whitmore, carries readers through several critical events in the life of this... more...
Wordplay
McGraw-Hill 2003; US$ 12.95Finally a fun way for children to learn to read and write. Learning can and should be fun. Yet many students struggling to develop their reading and writing skills are discouraged by the sheer boredom associated with learning. Wordplay 's unique game approach shows parents how to help their children discover the joy of reading and writing while having... more...
Developing Teaching Skills in the Primary School
McGraw-Hill Education 2007; US$ 210.00Teaching is a complex process which involves the development and utilization of subject knowledge and teaching skills. Containing reflective and practical skills, this book supports such development, focusing specifically on teaching skills, considering what they are, how they develop and how they differ between age and subject. more...









