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Nikki Cunningham-Smith
A fresh perspective on behaviour management, detailing honest, real-life classroom experiences and the sense of humour it takes to deal with them. Drawing on anecdotes from her time as a teacher in alternative provision settings, plus stories from fellow professionals, Nikki Cunningham-Smith provides practical strategies and tips for dealing with difficult behaviour and keeping your cool in testing situations. Publishes 28th September 2021 PB • 216 x 138mm • 176pp • 9781472984487 • AU$29.99 NZ$32.99
Teaching for Realists
Omar Akbar
A funny, open and honest guide to surviving and thriving as a newly qualified teacher – no matter what the education system throws at you! Many new teachers enter the profession unaware of the challenges facing the sector and often either quit because of them or spend years struggling to keep their heads above water. Omar Akbar explores the issues facing the profession and gives a wealth of hard-won advice for becoming a happy, healthy and successful teacher in spite of it all.
Publishes 28th September 2021 PB • 234 x 156mm • 160pp • 9781472985286 • AU$26.99 NZ$29.99
The Art Teacher's Guide to Exploring Art and Design in the Community
Ilona Szekely
An exuberant, theoretically underpinned guide to support teacher educators to develop engaging, relatable programmes, building connection in diverse classrooms. Drawing on an abundance of examples from around the world, including the NYC 2nd Ave Subway, the Detroit’s Heidelberg Project, the Favel Painting Foundation and bicycle rack sculpture, Szekely inspires readers to look beyond the classroom walls to develop meaningful art experiences for students. She shows the myriad art forms, media expressions, and design professions that have the influence and potential to shape the local environment, reaching far beyond the traditional museum and gallery venue.
She also shows that innovative and exciting art lessons don’t need large amounts of funding, transportation or even a museum within the local community. Each chapter includes photographs, talking points and key lesson ideas along with links to further resources. Publishes 2nd December 2021 PB • 246 x 189mm • 208pp • 9781350096295 • AU$49.99 NZ$54.99
Mastery in Reading Comprehension
Kala Williams
Make teaching reading comprehension simple, enjoyable and impactful with this proven mastery approach. Learn what works and why it works, take ownership of your teaching practice with outstanding results. This book is the perfect guide for any primary teacher looking to solidify their reading comprehension practice and maximise their pupils' abilities.
Publishes 28th September 2021 PB • 246 x 189mm • 128pp • 9781472980953 • AU$39.99 NZ$45.00
Reading Recharged
Alex Barton
Looking to reignite your guided reading sessions? Alex Barton shares a wealth of tips, ideas and resources for teaching fun and creative guided and whole-class reading activities. Complete with lesson plans and photocopiable activity sheets, this book offers a fresh and imaginative approach to helping children develop key reading skills.
Publishes 2nd November 2021 PB • 297 x 210mm • 144pp • 9781472984869 • AU$49.99 NZ$55.00
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Phonics at Home
Kate Robinson
Phonics at Home provides all the tools needed to understand phonics and how it’s taught in school, and then presents a wealth of fun, multi-sensory games and activities to help any child develop their phonics skills at home. Kate Robinson demystifies phonics with clear explanations of terminology and stepby-step instructions to help practitioners, parents and children make the most of every activity. What’s more, the easy-to-play games work with any phonics scheme and use items that are readily available in any setting or home.
Out Now • PB • 244 x 169mm • 96pp • 9781472955159 • AU$22.99 NZ$24.99
ISLAND HOPPING
What’ s the game? In this game, imaginary dangers and physical activity add excitement and help learning. Your child blends spoken sounds into words, and splits spoken words into sounds, preparing them for blending sounds into words for reading and splitting words into sounds for spelling.
You will need ➡ A few objects with names that are short, simple words (for a list of common short, simple words, see the Word List on page 89). ➡ A box. ➡ Some sheets of paper cut to look island-shaped.
Before you play � Choose a room or open space to play. Identify a ‘home area’ on one side, such as a chair or cushion, to represent the mainland. � Spread the sheets of paper across the space, each about 50 cm apart, so that they end at the home area/‘mainland’. � Hide your objects in the box.
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Start at the paper island furthest from the ‘mainland’. Explain to your child that they are stranded and must hop from island to island to reach the safety of the mainland.
Tell your child that they must leave a gift at each island before moving on. Say that you have the gifts hidden and they can have them if they guess the names from your sound clues.
At the first island, sound out the name of one of the objects in your box, phoneme by phoneme (e.g. ‘p – a – n’). If your child can name the object correctly, give them the object to leave on the ‘island’ and tell them to hop to the next island.
Continue with the name guessing and island hopping until your child reaches the ‘mainland’.
Add a twist This time, put an object on each of the islands. Explain that your child can only move on to the next island if they can split the name of the object into all its separate sounds (e.g. ‘s – o – ck’).
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Write Like a Ninja
Andrew Jennings and Alan Peat
Packed full of word lists, key grammar points and Alan Peat’s exciting sentences, Write Like a Ninja will help young children give their writing a boost. Designed to be used independently by children, this pocket-sized toolkit is a must-have reference book for classroom and home use.
Out Now • PB • 190 x 156mm • 112pp • 9781472988300 • AU$9.99 NZ$12.99
Vocabulary Ninja
Andrew Jennings
If you’re searching for an exciting and captivating approach to bring rich vocabulary into the primary classroom and see a significant impact on pupil confidence, oracy and test results, look no further than Vocabulary Ninja. This essential vocabulary toolkit will supercharge your pupils and transform them into vocabulary ninjas!
Out Now • PB • 297 x 210mm • 128pp • 9781472964434 • AU$9.99 NZ$12.99
NEW FOR 2021 Vocabulary Ninja Workbooks
Publishes 28th September 2021 PB • 297 x 210mm • 32pp • AU$11.99 NZ$14.99
Vocabulary Ninja Workbook for Ages 5–6
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Vocabulary Ninja Workbook for Ages 8–9
9781472980984 Created by bestselling author Andrew Jennings, Vocabulary Ninja Workbooks are perfect for targeted practice at home, building children’s confidence and developing those all-important literacy skills taught in the classroom. With clear activities and fun colour illustrations, they are effective for improving vocabulary knowledge across the curriculum, boosting confidence in tests, and mastering literacy skills.
Vocabulary Ninja Workbook for Ages 9–10
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Vocabulary Ninja Workbook for Ages 10–11
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Andrew Jennings
Andrew Jennings is the author of the bestselling series Vocabulary Ninja and Comprehension Ninja, which include photocopiable books for teachers as well as workbooks for practice at home. Andrew is an experienced teacher and school leader, while his innovative ninja-themed resources are used in thousands of classrooms all over the world. Follow Andrew on Twitter @VocabularyNinja and www.vocabularyninja.co.uk. Whether you’re looking for traditional or contemporary plays, student guides or critical texts, or some inspirational professional development ideas, our books from Methuen Drama, Oberon Books and The Arden Shakespeare have something to support you and your English and Drama students.
ENGLISH AND DRAMA TEXTS
NEW FOR 2021
The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays Azure D. Osborne-Lee et al
Publishes 15th July 2021 PB • 456pp • 9781350179219
AU$49.99 NZ$54.99
200 Plays for GCSE and A-Level Performance Jason Hanlon
Publishes 12th August 2021 PB • 184pp • 9781350146624
AU$39.99 NZ$43.99
Publishes 12th August 2021 PB • 9781350233744
AU$49.99 NZ$54.99
TEACHER AND STUDENT GUIDES
National Theatre Connections 2021: Two Plays for Young People Miriam Battye, Belgrade Young Company
Publishes 12th August 2021 PB • 144pp • 9781350233492
AU$26.99 NZ$29.99
David Wood Plays for 5-12 Year Olds
The Gingerbread Man; The See-Saw Tree; The BFG; Save the Human; Mother Goose's Golden Christmas
David Wood
Publishes 1st July 2021 PB • 288pp • 9781350174924
AU$39.99 NZ$43.99
Process Drama for Second Language Teaching and Learning Patrice Baldwin & Alija Galazka
Introduces language teachers to a toolkit of 20 drama strategies to maximise learners’ engagement, retention and development of personal and social skills, each backed by relevant educational and psychological theories.
Each strategy is explained in detail and linked to a series of step-by-step, detailed, high quality, exemplar lessons, which may be adapted and used flexibly for different purposes and contexts.
Publishes 16th December 2021
PB • 234 x 156mm • 192pp • 9781350164741 • AU$44.99 NZ$49.99
A Teacher’s Guide to Musical Theatre Kenneth Pickering and David Henson
Despite being one of the most popular forms of performance study, Musical Theatre is often the most difficult to teach due to its part-practical and part-academic approach. A Teacher’s Guide to Musical Theatre enables teachers to plan and deliver courses in Musical Theatre with confidence and flair. The unique structure of the chapters guides teachers through key facts and concepts in musical theatre history and offers practical in-class activities for students. This book is full of practical advice from experienced teachers in the field.
Publishes 18th November 2021
The Arden Performance Editions
Give young performers just enough definition and direction to rehearse and study these timeless Shakespeare plays with concise, facing-page notes for easy reference.
PB • 216 x 138mm • AU$15.99 NZ$18.99
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