The Crowstarver

The Crowstarver
Author: Dick King-Smith
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2017-07-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0141378395

A beautiful story for older readers written almost twenty years ago in which bestselling author Dick King-Smith creates a fascinating picture of rural life at the time of the Second World War. Discovered as a foundling in a lambing pen, Spider Sparrow grows up surrounded by animals. From sheep and horses to wild otters and foxes, Spider loves them all, even the crows he must scare away from the newly sown wheat. Crowstarving was the idea job for Spider - he was on his own, yet never alone for all around him were animals of one sort or another. Amazingly, every animal who meets Spider implicitly trusts the young boy. This magical rapport is Spider's unique gift, but nothing else in his tough life is so easy.

Our World

Our World
Author: Herbert Sherman Houston
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1684
Release: 1923
Genre:
ISBN:

A Guided Reader to Early Years and Primary English

A Guided Reader to Early Years and Primary English
Author: Margaret Mallett
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2015-10-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317451163

A Guided Reader to Early Years and Primary English draws on extracts from the published work of some of the most influential education writers to provide insight, guidance and clarity about key issues affecting early years practitioners and primary English teachers. The book brings together key extracts from classic and contemporary writing and contextualises these in both theoretical and practical terms. The extracts are accompanied by a summary of the key ideas and issues raised, questions to promote discussion and reflective practice, and annotated further reading lists to extend thinking. Taking a thematic approach and including a short introduction to each theme, the chapters cover: Models of and approaches to early years and primary English; Speaking and listening in English lessons: story-telling, drama, ‘booktalk’ and debate; Reading and responding to texts in English lessons; Writing in English lessons: finding a ‘voice’; Knowledge about language: grammar, spelling, punctuation and handwriting; The rich landscape of children’s literature; Non-fiction in English lessons; Planning, assessing and recording children’s progress: the learning cycle. Aimed at trainee and newly qualified teachers, those working towards Masters level qualifications and all those involved in the teaching of early years and primary English, this accessible, but critically provocative text will be an essential resource for those that wish to deepen their understanding of early years and primary English education.

Spider Sparrow

Spider Sparrow
Author: Dick King-Smith
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: England
ISBN: 9780517800447

Spider, a baby abandoned on an English farm, grows up to be mentally slower than other children but manifests a remarkable talent for communicating with animals as he comes of age during World War II.

The Old Stag

The Old Stag
Author: Henry Williamson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 370
Release: 1927
Genre: Animals
ISBN:

Writing Under Control

Writing Under Control
Author: Judith Graham
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135694036

Now in its third edition and reflecting changes in the Primary National Strategy, this best-selling textbook introduces primary teachers to key issues in the teaching of writing. Strongly rooted in classroom practice, the book includes: the history, theory and practice of teaching writing children writing in and out of school EAL and gender issues in writing the development of writing across the years of the primary school planning classroom routines and organising resources balancing the composition and transcription elements in writing monitoring and assessing writing meeting individual needs managing specific learning difficulties in writing, such as dyslexia With its companion Reading under Control (also in its third edition), this book provides undergraduate and postgraduate teachers with comprehensive guidance for the teaching of literacy.