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£6 (FREE postage) There are different prices for different quantities (as low as £3.25 per copy) |
NEW ... NEW ... Observe and record children's progress. Trackers Plus displays all the Development Matters within each Area of Learning (very much like the guidance), but here's the benefit – alongside each of these we have provided prompts or examples of the skills, understanding or competence to look out for. |
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£5 (FREE postage) |
Designed to help you
track children’s progress throughout the EYFS. Observe and
record children’s progress in a consistent way throughout
your early years setting. Usable by everyone – staff, and
parents – Trackers make the whole process much easier. They are
widely used (over 80,000 already sold).
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Making the EYFS Work for You (0-36 mths) £12.50 (FREE postage) |
144 pages of practical hints, tips, sample activities and proformas so that you can develop a consistent approach. This practical, well laid-out manual will also help you: 1) record spontaneous events in a consistent format; 2) evaluate your planning; 3) identify gaps to be addressed in your children’s development. |
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Making the EYFS work for you (30-60+ mths) £12.50 (FREE postage) |
Draw up activity planners . . . practical hints, tips, sample activities and pro-formas so that you can develop a consistent approach. This will also help you: record spontaneous events in a consistent format; evaluate your planning; make relevant comments each time an activity is carried out to keep other practitioners informed; further identify gaps to be addressed in your children’s development by transferring observations made to developmental Trackers.
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The EYFS Handbook
£5.75 (this is an online resource and is emailed to you) |
Linking all your policies, welfare
requirements and how they fit in with the themes within the Framework can be
quite daunting. This book shows how one group of nurseries has managed to do
this successfully – you will be able to take what has been developed and
adapt it to your setting. There are charts for staff, parents and outside agencies that will help you ensure that all outcomes in Every Child Matters are covered in your setting’s curriculum, policies and procedures. This is an online resource. See the entire book (all 64 pages) before deciding to buy. |
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£18.50 (FREE postage) |
The Government's Every Child a Talker initiative focuses on speech, language and communication. Stories for Talking will help you set up a programme to support the early development of language.
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Getting to Grips with Word Problems
£12.95 (FREE postage) |
Many students struggle with
areas of basic maths such as decimals, fractions, percentages, averages,
money, measurement and so on. The difficulties are only compounded when
calculations are presented in a written context, or as word problems. This book provides a structured route to help those who are struggling to first understand the concept and then tackle the word problem. |
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Helping Children Hang On To Your Every Word £10 (FREE postage) |
This book aims to make classroom experience more accessible to all learners, and highlights the links between behaviour and hidden language processing difficulties. Based on tried and tested activities, strategies and self-help skills, you will find answers to these questions and ways of improving attention and concentration linked to a simple troubleshooting guide. |
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Bullying: Managing fear in young children £6 (FREE postage) |
When a child is suffering because of persistent teasing or where a child has been bullied, the adults in their lives are often left feeling ‘if only I could do something to help...’. This book provides one method of giving such help using techniques taken from cognitive behavioural therapy and NLP (Neuro-linguistic Programming). |
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Education in the Early Years Series Special Offer
Buy the full set of 13 books and get the entire set for half-price
(total cost £40.50 ... normally £81) |
A fantastic range of books
from leading authors dealing with topics such as behaviour, inclusion,
AD/HD, autism and literacy. More details
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Trackers Plus (available
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Coming soon
Active Listening for Active Learning: Strategies and resources to promote self-help skills and improved understanding in the classroom by Maggie Johnson and Carolyn Player
Four in a Row: Time and Money by Ian Ward |
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QEd Publications
I could start by writing about how many years the business has been going, how reliable we are etc etc ... but this is much more fun:
"It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens." (Woody Allen)
"I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them." (George Bush)
"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity." (Albert Einstein)
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying." (Woody Allen)
"I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine." (Spike Milligan)
What kind of resources are you going to find at QEd Publications?
Early years, Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and pre-school resources
If you work in a nursery setting, if you're a childminder, or a reception class teacher, you will find some very useful books. Everyone seems to be incredibly busy nowadays. So the last thing you need is a great, weighty tome, with 300 pages of complex jargon. You've got a child who is causing concern and you need to find out pretty quickly what you can do about it ...
So we produce books that are easy to read and give some very practical advice ... things you can try immediately.
Observe and record children's progress in a consistent way throughout your setting - use Trackers 0-5. With the Early Years Foundation Stage now well established, the EYFS Trackers will help you observe and record children's progress and help in the planning and evaluation of what you're doing. Incredibly popular ... over 80,000 copies sold.
A number of early years settings asked us to produce a more detailed version of Trackers ... and we have been working on Trackers Plus. At 120 pages it is almost twice the size of its predecessor. It doesn't cost much more and it's getting rave reviews from the settings where it was trialled. It will be available at the end of this month (May). More details here.
Need some practical tips about making the Early Years Foundation Stage work for you? We have just brought out two manuals to help you. We also have an online EYFS handbook that you can look at before ordering.
Need to know about autism, specific learning difficulties (dyslexia), emotional literacy, mathematical development, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD), or gifted children? There are easy-to-read books on these issues and many more.
A revised book by Hannah Mortimer Music Makers: Music circle times to include everyone is now available. Music is such a powerful tool - it captures children's attention and holds the interest of children who, in other situations, might experience considerable learning or communication difficulties. Linking into the new Early Years Foundation Stage, Music Makers has over 40 activities to help you to use music effectively to include all children in their learning and development.
Baby signing
Over the last few years baby signing has become big news. There are some who think it's a middle class fad. There are others (and we take this view) that feel that anything that enhances the relationship between a carer and a child, and appears to improve communication at the same time, is worth giving a second look.
Tania Allen, a speech and language therapist, has been giving talks to parents, carers and other speech and language therapists over recent months on accelerating babies' communication, and together we've produced a training pack to aid other presenters. We also supply Joseph Garcia's Sign with your Baby kit (with video, signing book, quick chart etc). New on the market is Garcia's Complete Guide to Baby Signing. Much cheaper than Sign with your Baby, and written especially for British readers, this is worth looking at. Really interesting stuff.
Parenting
This is a tough one ... we don't have the answers ... and I'm sure no one else does. But we've had a pretty good go at it. Seven years ago we produced a booklet called Positive Parenting and sell it for just £2.50 inclusive of postage and packing. The idea being to make it available to as many as possible. It has been fantastically popular ... but I always felt we needed something that dealt more specifically with age ranges - when behaviour (very loosely) shows certain patterns.
Then I came across a project that the educational psychology service in Stockton was working on that did just that. Together we produced three booklets on parenting that are fantastic - Managing your 4-8 year-old; Managing your 8-12 year-old; and Managing your 13-16 year-old. Once again we've kept them very cheap and ensured they are full of good advice. At £2.95 each they are worth a try.
Mathematics
There are so many resources on the market for maths, a lot of them very good. So rather than trying to compete with companies producing similar stuff, we have concentrated on material that is a little different. Of course not all of it is - some are just good ideas brought together in a book. The two Quick Cards books and Mental Maths Starters are a good example - some of the activities you may well have tried before - these simply bring many ideas together.
However, Word Problems: The Language of Mathematics, Four in a Row and Target Maths are different and are worth having a look at. We used these extensively before we produced them ... and they are good (not just my opinion ... they've had very good reviews). Four in a Row and Target Maths can be used both in primary and secondary ... in fact, they are widely used at secondary level to support children who are struggling with some of the basic maths skills. Why not try some of the free samples with the children first? Have a look at these for Four in a Row for example. Following on from the massive success of Word Problems: The Language of Mathematics, we have produced a new book that takes word problems onto the next level. Involving decimals, fractions, percentages, averages, money, measurement and so on, it provides a structured route to help children understand the concept before tackling the word problem. It's called Getting to Grips with Word Problems.
Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties (EBD)
The books we have on EBD and social, emotional and behavioural difficulties (SEBD) are used by many doing degree and post-graduate courses in education. However, it's not all theory ... we still seem to get a lot of orders for these from schools ... so clearly they feel there is some worthwhile practical information. There are three resources - Bullying: Managing fear in young children, Fireworks: Managing anger in young children and Worry Box: Managing anxiety in young children. Both have twelve clearly laid out practical sessions. Based loosely on cognitive behaviour therapy these approaches have been used effectively in both home and school settings.
Speech and language
Do you have children with language difficulties in your early years setting? Or do you have any concerns about speaking and listening skills? We have an excellent programme to help you support children at all levels of language development called Stories for Talking. For primary schools, we have a book on speech and language developed by a group of professionals in Swindon. It is aimed at staff in mainstream schools and will raise awareness of speech and language issues and provides strategies for the classroom. It's finally out and it's brilliant - Helping Children Hang On To Your Every Word by Maggie Johnson. This doesn't fall neatly into any category simply because it's a resource for all teachers. Why is it that children switch off in the classroom? What are the barriers they face and what can you do to help them engage in a way that makes the learning experience rewarding for them? Full of practical help and tried and tested activities, this really is an excellent book.
Sure Start resources
Many of our early years resources have proved very popular in Sure Start centres all round the country. Making the Early Years Foundation Stage work for you is the manual you've all been waiting for ... full of practical hints, tips and sample activities to help you put the framework into practice. Speech and language therapists have found the accelerating babies' communication training pack very useful. The title providing guidelines for a speech and language friendly school is the sort of no-nonsense, practical guide teachers are looking for.
There is a series of five books on setting up parent and carer groups - one on pre-school behaviour (RUMPUS), a book on providing extra support to encourage children's development (Step by Step), one on Music and Play, the fourth titled Baby and Me, all about antenatal support and how to foster positive attachments, and the final in the series, Making Connections, providing ways of improving attachments between parents and their children. These are very practical and, as a result, very popular! There is also a special offer attached to this series.
Special offers
We want you to keep coming back to the QEd site ... it's good for business. To persuade you to do so, we've got special offers always available. These change every week or every fortnight. Some will only be on the site for a day or two.
What about you?
Have you got something that you think is brilliant and should be published? If so, why not contact me? Send me some details at cgallow@qed.uk.com and I promise to give it serious consideration ... unlike Groucho Marx: "From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it."
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