These simple play-based activities are ideal for teachers to copy and give out to parents who want to know how to help their child improve his or her science language skills and have fun at the same time. Activities are linked directly to the school-based Language Development Circle Time sessions, but can also be used independently. There is a clear structure and progression of ideas, with supporting black-line drawings to acts as prompts and simple record - keeping system to support home/...

First Published in 2005. This book builds on the success of Language Development - Circle time sessions to improve communication skills by extending the Spirals programme into the home. All practitioners recognise the importance of family support, and parents and carers often appreciate being given a raft of good ideas for supplementary games and activities that will help their child in nursery and school. This handbook contains a variety of play-based activities that support the key langu...

Building on the successful 'spirals' programme this series of books addresses language development in the three core areas of the curriculum. Linking the work done in school with simple games and activities to be used at home. All activities have been tried and tested - proven effectiveness.downloadable resources contain explanation and demonstration of the programme and its implementation, with commetns from staff who have used it.

Poor literacy skills have been shown to have profound effect on the life chances of children and young people. Now in its third edition, Developing Language and Communication Skills through Small Group Work provides essential information for practitioners working with linguistically struggling children. Using the Spirals language development technique predicated by psychological principles, this book contains a wealth of effective ideas to support children’s language and communica...

Early years practitioners, parents and carers, child minders, health visitors do you need effective ideas for giving your babies and toddlers support to become confident talkers?National research shows that poor language and communication skills have a profound effect on the life chances of children and young people. This highly practical book will enable you to give children in your care the help they need to build their crucial language skills at the earliest poi...

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A simple guide for volunteers, businesses, healthcare practitioners, the police, potential teachers and anyone who wants to run sessions with groups of young people -whatever the message. Based on a successful training model that has been used by the author with a whole range of professional, business and volunteer groups over several years. As the title suggests -it is relevant to the way you engage any audience! It's easy to make a message complicated. It's much harder to make it simple!...

Tall Thomas isn't tall, he just likes telling tall stories. Not everyone appreciates them, though, least of all his next-door neighbour, Mrs. Grumblebix, so she decides to put a stop to them. How? Well, she just happens to be a witch...

This series responds to the increasing awareness of role play as an exciting and effective approach to enhance children's learning. Each book provides a selection of themed drama activities that develop a range of skills while drawing on children's natural ability to play. Through their imaginative engagement with fictional worlds, children acquire new knowledge and understanding.The Teddy Bear's Picnic and Other Stories includes activities on:T...

Game playing is a highly effective way of engaging children and has long been acknowledged as an important means of psychological therapy. This book offers an abundance of fun games that help children to confront personal problems and issues in a light-hearted yet meaningful way.These are games with a difference, as they must be constructed before they can be played. The creation aspect involves collaboration and cooperation within a team, and instils an empowering sense of ownersh...

Thank you for thinking about purchasing this book, I understand that you will exchange some of your hard earned money for this book and so I promise that the pages will hold some important information for finding and holding on to that job. With the catch cry at the moment being 'global crisis', it can be hard to stay positive. But it is very important to believe in yourself. Know that you can do anything you set your mind to and as long as you continue to have an open mind and continue to...

The fifty poems in Billy's Rain chart the course of a love affair, now ended. Its complications, obsessions, evasions, secret joys and emotional pitfalls are explored with all the subtlety and irony of which Hugo Williams, among contemporary poets, is the acknowledged master. These are brilliant, wry and moving elegies for a love affair.