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Each title in this series offers an exciting approach to English literature and will help students achieve a better grade. This book is packed with detailed summaries and commentaries, snappy advice, fun facts, and an extended resources section.

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'No home, no school, and especially no library should be without this story and this book' - Michael Morpurgo'Original, surprising and compassionate without being earnest . . . Frank's book left me enraged, informed and moved' - Sathnam Sanghera'This clarion call about the loss of delight and safety in children's lives is also a reminder of the sheer magic of reading' - Guardian During his time as Children's Laureate, the bestselling author Frank Cottrell-Boyce travelled the country, meeting children and young people where they were: in schools and libraries, in young offenders' institutions and prisons, many of them living in extremely precarious conditions.As he met these children, he began to reflect on stories from his own childhood and on children's lives in Britain during his lifetime - the imaginative connections we make and the sense of community that are so vital to our future adult selves.A British Childhood tells the story of what it means to be young in modern Britain. It is at once a searing condemnation of our failure to look aftfter the nation's most vulnerable citizens, and a call to arms to all of us to protect the innocence, and the imagination, of childhood.'Especially powerful on poverty, reading and imagination' - The i

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This updated edition is designed to support students in study and revision for the new GCSE (9-1) English Literature exams.  

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In this controversial new book, Daisy Christodoulou offers a thought-provoking critique of educational orthodoxy. Drawing on her recent experience of teaching in challenging schools, she shows through a wide range of examples and case studies just how much classroom practice contradicts basic scientific principles.

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In this follow-up to the groundbreaking Teaching WalkThrus Vol 1, Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli team up with 10 experienced educators to present 50 new WalkThrus, covering key areas of teaching: behaviour and relationships; curriculum planning; explaining and modelling; questioning and feedback; practice and retrieval; and Mode B teaching.

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Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli team up to present 50 essential teaching techniques, each with five clear and concise illustrations and explanations. It forms a truly unique repository of key teaching methods, valuable to any classroom practitioner in any setting. The book covers important practical techniques in behavior and relationships; curriculum planning; explaining and modelling; questioning and feedback; practice and retrieval; and Mode B teaching. Each technique is simply explained and beautifully illustrated in five short steps, to make sense of complex ideas and support student learning.

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Tom Sherrington and Oliver Caviglioli team up to present 50 essential teaching techniques, each with five clear and concise illustrations and explanations. It forms a truly unique repository of key teaching methods, valuable to any classroom practitioner in any setting. The book covers important practical techniques in behavior and relationships; curriculum planning; explaining and modelling; questioning and feedback; practice and retrieval; and Mode B teaching. Each technique is simply explained and beautifully illustrated in five short steps, to make sense of complex ideas and support student learning.

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The home of trusted English learner's dictionaries for everyday language learning.

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In Teaching Secondary Science: A Complete Guide, Adam Boxer breaks down the complex art of teaching science into its component parts, providing a concrete and comprehensive set of evidence-informed steps to nurturing brilliant science students. Adam hopes that you finds this book interesting, but his main aim is for you to find it useful.

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Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, this book questions the category 'woman' and examines 'the masculine' and 'the feminine'. It considers gender as a reiterated social 'performance' rather than the expression of a prior reality.

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YORK NOTES FOR GCSE - THE ULTIMATE GUIDES TO EXAM SUCCESS!

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Full of analysis and interpretation, historical background, discussions and commentaries, York Notes will help you get right to the heart of the text you're studying, whether it's poetry, a play or a novel.

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York Notes for GCSE offer an exciting approach to English Literature and will help you to achieve a better grade.  This market-leading series has been completely updated to reflect the needs of today's students.  The new editions are packed with detailed summaries, commentaries on key themes, characters, language and style, illustrations, exam advice and much more.  Written by GCSE examiners and teachers, York Notes are the authoritative guides to exam success.

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