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

If you are training to teach, The Trainee Teacher's Handbook is your essential training tool. "This is exactly the book I needed when I was a trainee. It's full of practical advice, it offers great suggestions for reflection and it gives you lots of ideas for developing as a teacher."Sue Cowley, Author and Educator

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.

The complete guide for trainee teachers on planning the Primary National Curriculum.

This book shows trainees what they need to know to teach all areas of primary grammar. It explains how to support more able children and outlines what good teaching of each part of grammar looks like in the classroom.

Full coverage of the content of professional studies modules and goes beyond to support trainees on placements and in their learning on the course.

This text provides trainees, teachers and schools with practice-based advice, informed by current practitioners, relating to the delivery of British Values. It covers many topical themes and supports educational professionals to understand their duties around the PREVENT agenda and goes further to explore why this is important.