Books by Publisher: A & C Black (Childrens books)
Dyslexia Assessment
By Gavin Reid
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The Dyslexia Assessment is a complete assessment tool for investigating reading, writing and spelling difficulties in learners. Written by leading experts Gavin Reid and Jennie Guise, this practical guide aims to clarify the ambiguities and uncertainties that exist around the dyslexia assessment and is applicable to all education sectors, including...
Mark. Plan. Teach.
By Ross Morrison McGill
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There are three things that every teacher must do: mark work, plan lessons and teach students well. This brand new book from Ross Morrison McGill, bestselling author of 100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Outstanding Lessons and Teacher Toolkit, is packed full of practical ideas that will help teachers refine the...
Creative Approach to Teaching Science
By Nicky Waller
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A Creative Approach to Teaching Science is filled with exciting and innovative ways to teach and meet the objectives for primary physics, chemistry and biology from Years 1-6. Each idea has been tried and tested, used in the classroom with children of the relevant age range, and all are deep...
History of Cycling in 100 Objects
By Suze Clemitson
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A fascinating and quirky look at the history of cycling as seen through 100 objects that changed the bicycle as we know it.
100 Ideas for Primary Teachers: Homework
By Jenna Lucas
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This new addition to the best-selling 100 ideas series is filled with fun and creative activities to support learning in a range of curriculum areas, from quick-fire games to support mental maths and spelling, activities to sustain emotional and physical wellbeing, and more challenging tasks designed to develop children's knowledge...
Edging Towards Darkness
By John Lazenby
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Cricket matches didn't always top out at five days, regardless of a result or not - they used to be `timeless', with play continuing until one team won, no matter how many days that took. The last of these - which took place in Durban in 1939, in a series...
Wisden at The Oval
By Jon Surtees
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The Oval in Kennington, south London - with its instantly recognisable gasholders - is one of sport's most iconic and popular venues. It has played host to an array of blue-ribbon sporting events over the years, including the FA Cup final and rugby's first varsity match. But it is as...
100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Outstanding History Lesson
By Emily Thomas
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100 IDEAS: QUICK - EASY - INSPIRED - OUTSTANDING A new addition to the best-selling 100 Ideas series, offering teachers quick and easy ways to engage students, convey complex knowledge, and build students' history-specific thinking skills. The activities in this book aim to embrace what is mind-boggling, bizarre and extraordinary...
Losing It
By Simon Barnes
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To understand Anna Karenina, Mellors, Molly Bloom, Dante, Romeo, Juliet and Bridget Jones you must also have loved and lost and won. To understand sport in the greatest arenas of them all you too must have played and lost and won, known shame, hope, joy, horror and glory. Simon Barnes...
End of the Road
By Alasdair Fotheringham
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The Tour de France is always one of the sporting calendar's most spectacular and dramatic events. But the 1998 Tour provided drama like no other. As the opening stages in Ireland unfolded, the Festina team's soigneur Willy Voet was arrested on the French-Belgian border with a car-load of drugs. Raid...