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Both the process and product of students' writing are covered in this book, which looks at writing skills and strategies and provides an overview of genres such as journal writing, narrative writing and persuasive writing. Practical strategies for planning classes and managing classroom projects are provided, with a focus on individual student needs, such as struggling writers and English learners. Chapter topics include writing strategies and skills, teaching children to write, writing workshops, and assessing children's writing. Adapted from publisher's description.

With an explicit focus on standards of professional competence, this resource supports professional development by linking the NSW Professional Teaching Standards and the NSW Quality Teaching Model. Focus questions, teaching suggestions and professional learning activities using the Quality Teaching Model are provided for classroom teachers, their supervisors, and school leaders to develop effective teaching practices. Adapted from publisher's description.

This book provides teachers with the background knowledge required to understand the role linguistics plays in literacy development. It fits the linguistics for teachers course, a topic that is front and centre of the field's need for pre-service and in-service teachers to understand language development and the role morphology, pragmatics, semantics, and syntax play in literacy development and language acquisition. Topics include an overview of linguistics, language change and variation, language disorders and impairment, and language planning and policy. Adapted from publisher's website.

English is learnt in many parts of the world, and is widely spoken in business and academic contexts. These topics are relevant to this text, which focuses on young children's acquisition of spoken and written English in both monolingual and bilingual contexts. Also covered are the issues surrounding English in schools and colleges, and the often controversial nature of the English curriculum in different parts of the world. Chapters on English as a first language, English for non-native speakers, and academic uses of English are also included. Adapted from publisher's description.

Designed to provide pertinent information for conducting investigations informed by previous research, this handbook contains chapters relevant to mathematics education researchers and other educators working within mathematics, and could be used as a textbook for graduate research seminars. The text provides those outside the mathematics education community with perspectives on the nature of mathematics education and the relevance of its research findings to those outside the community. Sections include Foundations; Teachers and Teaching; Influences on Student Outcomes; Students and Learning; Assessment; and Issues and Perspectives. Adapted from publisher's description.

The issues that educators, policy makers and parents of linguistically diverse children face when teaching in, administrating or choosing an international school are outlined in this text. Guidelines, best-practice suggestions, and checklists are proposed to ensure that all children in a school's multicultural society benefit from an inclusive curriculum, regardless of their linguistic and cultural origins. Chapter topics include power strucures in international schools, research theory and practice, and ESL parent involvement. Adapted from publisher's website.