Gordon Winch

Your literacy guide to take into the profession, Literacy: Reading, Writing and Children's Literature, Sixth Edition, is the most comprehensive text for pre-service teachers to learn how to teach literacy. It covers the whole literacy curriculum: reading, writing, speaking, listening and viewing, and illustrates how pre-service teachers can use theory in their classrooms. This new edition has been completely revised and streamlined to create stronger links from education to professional practice. The accessible text is rich with practical examples, classroom scenarios, and revision questions to help readers put theory into practice. Teaching examples highlight effective assessment practices and demonstrate how to teach to a range of learning abilities from beginner through to accomplished.

Search for an echidna, a powerful owl, a frog and many more animals hidden on every page. Patrick Shirvington's striking illustrations hide each one of the animals just enough for the guessing to begin.

Following on from the award-winning Can You Find Me?, Can You Find 12 Busy Bees? brings children closer to nature and their environment. In this elegant picture book children will enjoy learning to count with gorgeous fauna and wildlife on every page.

Literacy: Reading, Writing and Children's Literature, Fifth Edition is most comprehensive text in English Education for pre-service teachers. It covers the whole literacy curriculum: reading, writing, speaking, listening and viewing and illustrates how pre-service teachers can use theory in their classrooms. This accessible text is rich with practical examples, classroom scenarios, and revision questions help readers to put theory into practice. Teaching examples highlight effective assessment practices and it demonstrates how to teach to a range of learning abilities from beginning through to accomplished.

The Grammar Handbook is an essential reference for English grammar, punctuation and usage. It is ideal for undergraduate students seeking additional assistance with their grammar. The functional grammar section includes models of text types divided into literary text types and factual text types and grammar is introduced in a logical sequence so that students will understand the meaning of terms. The easy-to-use contents list and page tabs provide a handy reference to support any language activity from word, phrase and sentence level through to text level. This Handbook provides students the answers to everyday English usage questions.