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Positive Parenting
£2.50
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Raising children has never been more in the
public eye than in recent times. It is just about one of the most difficult
tasks that we face. Children do need guidance. They also need freedom to
develop their personalities and independence and finding the right balance
is important.
Parents are increasingly recognised as the key
to enabling their children to learn socially acceptable behaviour.
Relationships are seen as central to providing children with an
understanding of how to behave. Positive Parenting has some simple,
practical strategies for parents which will enable them to develop and
improve relationships with their children. It will also provide
professionals with ideas they can pass on to parents.
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Bullying: Managing
fear in young children
£6
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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).
Suitable for professionals and parents who are concerned that a
child is vulnerable to bullying and/or teasing, this book
provides a discreet approach for helping the child to cope
better. The ‘talk-through’ approach aims to provide a practical
framework for you to ‘get started’.
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Fireworks:
Managing anger in young children
£5
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Do you have a
child with a very short fuse? A child that overreacts in most
situations?
Based loosely on cognitive behaviour therapy and using a
‘talk-through’ approach, you will be able to help the child to
think about his/her feelings in a different way and feel more in
control of them.
There are twelve, clearly laid out practical sessions that use
fireworks as a model for understanding and working on strategies
to manage anger – the initial spark that lights the fuse, the
speed at which the fuse burns, and the explosive firework.
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Worry Box:
Managing anxiety in young children
£5
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A practical
framework to help adults provide emotional support to young
children aged 4 to 11. It can be used at home or at school.
There are 12 practical sessions with the emphasis on involving
the child in each. There are useful activities for working on relaxation
techniques, comments from adults who have used the approach and a list of
further resources to help.
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So, I've got Dyslexia ... now
what?
Understanding what specific
learning difficulties mean to you
£6
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What does it mean to have
dyslexia? How does a young person diagnosed with dyslexia make
sense of what it is all about?
Often adults are uncertain of the implications themselves and
unsure about what to tell children. This book will help all
those involved get a much better understanding of dyslexia and
what to expect in terms of support.
Suitable for children from about 7 to 14 years old, the book
provides a framework that will enable an adult and child to work
through the sections together, remove some of the mystery that
often surrounds dyslexia, and take a pragmatic approach to
dealing with it.
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Autistic Spectrum Disorders
£8
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This is a guide for practitioners
and parents.
An introduction includes a
'frequently asked questions' type section; chapter two discusses diagnoses
and labelling; there is a chapter on understanding autistic spectrum
disorders, and others covering educational goals and specialist approaches,
working with parents, building communication skills, developing social
understanding and play and, finally, managing behaviour.
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An A-Z of Tricky Behaviours in the Early Years
£5
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Imaginative ideas for dealing with
some of the more common difficult behaviours that you might have to deal
with from biting to swearing. The book is divided into two sections - a
short section offering a set of principles for managing children's
behaviour, followed by an A-Z of typical problem behaviours, with real-life
examples and suggested solutions.
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Behaviour Management in the Early Years
£6
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What is ‘typical’ behaviour in
young children? How do you set about changing problem behaviour?
What do we mean when we talk about behaviour management? How do
I draw up a Behaviour Policy for the nursery? What is the best
way of observing and assessing behaviour?
What sort of interventions should I try, and what happens when
those don’t seem to be working? How should we support parents
who have a child with challenging behaviour?
You'll find the answers in this
easy-to-read guide.
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AD/HD and Attention Difficulties
£6
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In this book
the author concentrates on
planning and supporting the individual needs of children with attention
difficulties. There are useful pointers to help in
identification; examples of developing, implementing and monitoring
programmes and activities; working with other professionals; and working in
partnership with parents.
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Word Problems: The Language of Maths
£12.95
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You've come
across this ... children can do calculations – the mechanical
aspect – but put the problem into a written context and you will
frequently hear, ‘Is it an add or a take away?'
Using a
gradual and structured approach, this makes makes a
traditionally difficult aspect of mathematics much more
accessible and comprehensible. This book will also help children
who struggle with sequencing. This is ideal for use in the
classroom as well as at home for parents to work through with
their children.
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Getting to Grips with Word Problems
£12.95
(FREE postage)
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This book follows on from the
previous Word Problems: The Language of Maths - taking the language and
concepts to the next level.
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 word problems.
Because of its structured approach, parents will find this very easy to work
through with a child at home.
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Four in a Row
Special offer applies (£12.95
incl p&p)
usual price £15
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"That's the best £10 I spent last
year" so said a teacher at this year's London
exhibition.
This is a genuinely brilliant idea
and the children will love you for getting it. Give it
a try for just £12.95. If parents are looking for a way to get
their children to do maths at home ... then look no further.
So what is it? It's a 'game' that
reinforces number relationships. It's a game of mental maths
with very simple rules that children get to grips with very
easily. It's suitable for primary and contains 130 photocopiable
master sheets.
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New ... New
Four
in a Row: Time & Money
£12.95
(FREE postage)
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There are many
resources to teach children time and money . . . but not many that are
quite so interesting and unusual as this.
Based on the game Connect 4, this is a genuinely brilliant idea to get
children working with seconds, minutes and hours, relating analogue and
digital times, changing 12 hour times to 24 hour times; adding,
subtracting and dividing coins, working out percentages . . . all in a
simple games format they will play endlessly!
That’s quite a bold claim . . . but we’ve done it before with the
original Four in a Row (see below) and we know just how
successful it was at engaging children. Our customers who are big fans
of Four in a Row prompted us to do a Time and Money version –
hence this edition.
The book is divided into two sections (obviously!), each dealing with
time and money. Each section is broken down into several subsections
designed to improve understanding, gradually increasing levels of
difficulty. Suitable for primary (and children struggling with these
skills in secondary), the book contains hundreds of photocopiable master
sheets (114 pages).
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Quick Cards: Number Operations
Usual price £10
Special offer
£8.50 (post FREE) |
"An excellent way of doing mental
maths."
The advantage of Quick Cards is that the
activity can be carried out independently by pairs of children. Pupils
get immediate feedback on their responses. The pages have been
laid out in such a way that you can photocopy the
sheets, laminate them (if you wish) and cut them into individual cards.
This is also ideal for parents to select a few to do each day to
practise number bonds.
The contents include: doubles and near
doubles within 20; addition within 20; subtraction within 20; doubling
and halving; multiplication to 10 x 10; division with no remainders;
division with remainders; subtract single digit from multiple of 100;
subtract 1 digit from 3 digit number bridging the 100; subtract single
digit from multiple of 1000; adding decimals - whole number answer;
adding decimals - units and tenths.
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Quick Cards:
Time, Money, Approximation, Estimation
Usual price £10
Special offer
£8.50 (post FREE) |
The format is the same as Quick Cards for
Mental Maths: Number Operations (see above).
The contents of this book include:
calendar knowledge; calendar dates; making 60; analogue to digital time;
simple durations; 12 and 24 hour clock times; making £1; rounding to the
nearest 10 (within 200); rounding to the nearest 100 (4 digits);
estimation of 3-digit number divided by 1 digit.
An excellent and very popular resource to
have at home for parents or for teachers in the classroom.
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Target Maths
Special offer applies (£3.99 + VAT
per box)
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1) Target Maths is a real thinking activity that is stimulating, highly
addictive and a handy resource as part of a maths toolkit for parents at
home and teachers at school.
2) All ability levels are catered for.
3) Target Maths is an extremely useful
tool in the teaching of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
It fulfils several needs at very different levels by providing small-step
progress for the less able, by boosting the self-esteem of children who have
emotional/behavioural difficulties, and by challenging the more able
children
and, very importantly, making learning fun! I thoroughly recommend
Target Maths.
Well, we could go on and on
enthusing about this amazing resource, but why not just give it
a try. At the special offer price of just £3.99 + VAT for a box
of 120 double-sided cards (with answer sheet).
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