James Carter

Want to travel in a rocket? Search for a grumpy dragon? Make your very own monster? Visit a higgledy-piggledy farm? Well, hop into Zim Zam Zoom – for fun and adventures galore! Colours, animals, space, music, fairytale fireworks...! Here is a collection of poems especially written for performance. With delightful illustrations by a talented new illustrator, this is a brilliant introduction to poetry for young children.

Study Guide and Devotional on mentoring and discipleship. For small groups and individual study.

Once upon a star there were no stars to shine no Sun to rise no Sun to set no day no night nor any time Discover the origins of the universe and how our solar system was formed. The narrative verse takes the reader on an immersive journey through space and time, illuminated by striking, dynamic illustrations. The worlds of poetry and non-fiction collide to create a beautiful, unique picture book about our Sun.

The Level 7 pack contains 6 books, one of each of the following titles: A Mammoth Task, Extinct Giants, The Lightning Key, Safe in a Storm, Survival in the Arctic, What Do We Need to Survive?. Oxford Reading Tree Explore with Biff, Chip and Kipper is a series of paired fiction and non-fiction books linked by curriculum-related topics that children will be learning about in the classroom. Each pair consists of an engaging story featuring well-loved characters and a compelling non-fiction book. These topic-linked pairings encourage children to read and relish both text types from an early age, develop and deepen their reading comprehension and foster a love of reading. All the books in the series are carefully levelled, so it is easy to match every child with the right book and enable them to progress. These books are phonically decodable featuring a small number of pre-taught, non-decodable words to enrich the texts and support language development. Each book contains inside cover notes to help adults read and explore the content with their child. Free teaching notes and help with childrens reading development is available on Oxford Owl at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.

The Level 7 pack contains 36 books, six of each of the following titles: A Mammoth Task, Extinct Giants, The Lightning Key, Safe in a Storm, Survival in the Arctic, What Do We Need to Survive?. Oxford Reading Tree Explore with Biff, Chip and Kipper is a series of paired fiction and non-fiction books linked by curriculum-related topics that children will be learning about in the classroom. Each pair consists of an engaging story featuring well-loved characters and a compelling non-fiction book. These topic-linked pairings encourage children to read and relish both text types from an early age, develop and deepen their reading comprehension and foster a love of reading. All the books in the series are carefully levelled, so it is easy to match every child with the right book and enable them to progress. These books are phonically decodable featuring vocabulary to enrich the texts and support language development. Each book contains inside cover notes to help adults read and explore the content with their child. Free teaching notes and help with children’s reading development is available on Oxford Owl at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.

Have you seen lightning? What about hail? Find out how to keep safe in stormy weather in Safe in a Storm. The fiction book that accompanies this title is The Lightning Key. Oxford Reading Tree Explore with Biff, Chip and Kipper is a series of paired fiction and non-fiction books linked by curriculum-related topics. Each pair consists of an engaging story featuring well-loved characters and a compelling non-fiction book. These topic-linked pairings will develop and deepen their reading comprehension and foster a love of reading across both text types. This book is one of six titles at Oxford Level 7, which are phonically decodable featuring vocabulary to enrich the texts and support language development. All the books in the series are carefully levelled, so it is easy to match every child with the right book and enable them to progress.

Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right level Wolves are fascinating, beautiful – and often misunderstood. Find out how wolves are adapted to life in harsh climates, how they live and work together in packs, how humans have mistreated them in the past, and how humans and wolves might live alongside each other more peacefully in the future. Diamond/Band 17 books offer more complex, underlying themes to give opportunities for children to understand causes and points of view.Text type – An information book.The book is organised into short chapters to help children practise the skills of locating and identifying important information.The glossary and index on pages 30 and 31 can be used to develop children's information retrieval skills further.Curriculum links – Science

Songs of work and worship - A collection of hymns and tunes for devotional and evangelistic meetings is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

This unique and comprehensive text offers an original approach to teaching creative writing by exploring ideas, giving advice, and explaining workshop activities and has many contributors from some of today's most popular children's authors including: Jacqueline Wilson, Roger McGough, Philip Pullman, Malorie Blackman and David Almond.Creating Writers is a practical writing manual for teachers to use with upper primary and lower secondary level pupils that covers poetry, fiction and non-fiction.

Just Imagine is an exciting, unique and versatile resource that provides teachers with practical and stimulating creative writing activities for fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Taking three different, but interconnected media by which to generate and explore creative writing ? ?Text and Themes?, ?Images? and ?Music? ? the book/CD offers inspiration for a wide range of creative writing workshops. The books is organised into three sections: Texts and themes: 8 theme-based sections that use a variety of texts, interview clips and discussion points to explore such topics as memories, dreams, school life, friendships, outsiders, journeys, time and the wild; Images: a gallery of photographs and illustrations in a range of styles and forms, encompassing a range of themes including characters, landscapes, events and objects; Music: a CD which features instrumental tracks and soundscapes of different styles, moods and tempos. This second edition includes three brand new tracks on the CD as well as many new images, texts and also interview clips with high profile children?s authors. Sets of activities and teachers? notes accompany each of the selected pieces and stimuli throughout, all of which can be easily adapted according to the needs of individual classes. Just Imagine offers a wealth of material to help children develop confidence with their writing, deepen their understanding of the creative process and, above all, enjoy their creativity. It will appeal to Primary and Secondary English Teachers, as well as students studying on undergraduate and postgraduate initial teacher education courses in primary English/Literacy, PGCE Secondary English and Undergraduate courses in Creative Writing.

platser, museum och så vidare. Den här skriften är framtagen av interpretationskonsulten James Carter på uppdrag av Riksantikvarieämbetet, som en del i myndighetens arbete med att utveckla kompetens och förhållningssätt till interpretation. James Carter anlitades som expert och workshopledare i ett interpretationsprojekt som Riksantikvarieämbetet initierade och genomförde tillsammans med Statens fastighetsverk och Centrum för Naturvägledning vid världsarvet Birka och Hovgården.

"A dreamer?Me? Err, You bet, The world's greatest space cadet!"Join poet James Carter on a journey through space and time: meet everyone from a Viking warrior to a crazed cat - and travel from planet Earth to the very edges of the universe...This wonderful collection is the perfect way to get children interested in poetry.

An exciting and creative approaches that links literacy and oracy in a way that children will enjoy. Performing poetry is also proven to boost self-esteem.Includes:* Audio downloadable resources with recordings of published poets and children performing their own work* Activities to develop speaking and listening skills* Model poems from which to work* Guidelines for progressing through the writing and performance process* A three stage model: preparation -- writing -- performing

Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right level Electric guitars have made a massive contribution to music over the last century. It’s hard to imagine today’s music without them! But how were they invented, who were (and are) the greatest guitarists and what makes this amazing instrument so versatile and exciting? Read this book to find out! Diamond/Band 17 books offer more complex, underlying themes to give opportunities for children to understand causes and points of view.Text type: An information bookCurriculum links: History

Collins Arabic Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 3 to 11. The series is structured with reference to the learning progression of Arabic at nursery and primary schools researched especially for Collins. This carefully graded approach allows children to build up their reading knowledge of Arabic step by step. Level 7 books include story lines with more episodes in time sequence, and may include imaginary happenings in the context of familiar experiences. There is still repetition but more variation in pattern and more new words are introduced than in lower levels. Non-fiction titles bring in simple non-fiction tools, such as diagrams, labels and captions. Additional vowel marks that encourage the flow of pronunciation are introduced at this level. Verbal sentences of up to 8-10 words with repeating and accessible actions appear at this level. Double spacing is used between words to ensure children see where each new word in a sentence begins and ends. This imaginative journey round the world based on material by the poet James Carter recounts a journey to some exotic and far-flung locations. Anne Wilson's beautiful collage-style artwork captures the atmosphere of India, China and Africa. This book is the perfect springboard for discussion of travel, transport, other countries and cultures.

The true story of two teenage boys who explore the mountains of Southern Oregon looking for the Port Orford Meteorite and discover gold at the bottom of a waterfall. This is an account of their trials and tribulations of getting to the bottom of the pool under the waterfall.