Converting curiosity into well-crafted questions is the start of learning. This guide provides tools to encourage students to ask their own insightful questions as they start to inquiry learning.

An elementary book for teachers, helping them to learn why conceptual learning is a natural fit for young minds, strategies for introducing children to conceptual learning, instructional strategies to help students uncover and transfer concepts, and much, much more.

The purpose of this book is provide guidance for how to construct the incubator of normal lessons so that thoughtful minds are naturally grown.

Introducing students to the research process in a range of educational contexts, this updated Second Edition contains everything they need if they are studying on a research methods course or doing a research project for themselves.

Exploring a range of teaching approaches to meet different learning styles, this book helps trainee teachers become confident, reflective teachers of reading.

This practical, up-to-date guide helps trainee teachers understand the theory behind phonics and how children's learning of reading can develop using synthetic phonics.

Encapsulates the broad ideas of the series by presenting the evolving theory behind the construct of academic language, a definition and examples of each of its components, and a template for direct classroom application.

A practical overview of creative teaching and learning for both novice and seasoned primary teachers, updated in line with the new Primary National Curriculum.

This book provides teachers with support, guidance, background theory, examples and practical advice for the teaching of writing at greater depth.

This book offers a critical and thought-provoking exploration of a range of key contemporary debates relating to early childhood (in the UK). With contributions from a range of experts, this book aims to empower students and professionals to engage critically with issues of social justice, children’s rights and the shaping of young children’s lives.