Offers ideas to involve your children and demonstrate the potential of creative teaching to develop children's knowledge, skills, understanding and attitudes. Under-pinned by theory and research, this book offers informed and practical support to students in initial teacher education, and practising[...]

The perspectives of children, teachers and professional writers are often absent in the pedagogy of writing. Highly Commended for the UKLA Academic Book Award 2013, Writing Voices: Creating Communities of Writers responds to such silent voices and offers a text which not only stretches across primar[...]

'A ground-breaking book. For years educationists have sought evidence of genuine partnerships between schools and homes - reciprocal partnerships where schools are as keen to foster home practices relating to literacy and learning as they are to tell families 'this is what we do' and ask that they s[...]