This book will guide trainee teachers through each step of the teaching training process, from initial stages of planning and research, through to how to analyse data and write up a research project.

This book explores the ways in which reading for pleasure is changing in the era of globalisation and datafication. Raising the next generation of engaged readers requires knowledge of the enduring characteristics of engagement and markers of quality in books and e-books.

This book is designed to help pre-service teachers through one of the most important aspects of their education: their school experience placements.

This book supports trainee teachers to explore the complex relationships between literacy achievement and social background.

A comprehensive primer on major educational theorists, building on Aubrey & Riley's main book and offering a practical, theoretical and critical overview of more challenging theorists, including many with a strong sociological focus.

Inspiring and supporting students to become an insightful, creative and professional teacher of primary English.

This popular and widely recommended book outlines all of the requirements of the Literacy Skills Test, explaining the essential subject knowledge candidates need to know. This fifth edition also includes a full practice test, more practice questions and more question and answer commentary.

This book looks in detail at the knowledge, understanding, skills and attitudes that children need to enable them to come to phonics teaching ready to learn and with a good chance of success.

This student reference A-Z book supports trainee teachers to learn the 'language' of schools and teaching. It covers a wide range of terms used in schools and education in the UK.

Teacher wellbeing, or a lack of it, is a major concern for the teaching profession. Research shows that there is a recruitment and retention crisis with over a third of the school, FE and HE profession expecting to leave by 2020. This new text supports teachers to be aware of themselves and the pressures they face at work.