Discover the transformative journey of healing and hope in Gold Scars. When faced with profound loss and trauma, it often feels like there's nowhere to turn, and the words of well-meaning loved ones too often fall short. But is there a way to mend the shattered pieces of one's life and uncover the beauty within their scars? Join grief specialist Sylvia Clements Myers as she offers guidance through the seven pivotal areas of life where one may feel shattered. Drawing inspiration from the art of Kintsugi, she reveals how people can heal and grow stronger by filling their wounds with gold. With courage, acceptance, and a touch of humor, you'll learn to embrace your scars and reclaim joy, health, hope, and experience God’s holiness.
A complete resource to teach children key vocabulary skills. * A huge variety of activities and posters in each book. * A range of word learning strategies. * Detailed background knowledge and teachers' notes. * Linked to the Renewed Literacy Framework. * The CD-ROM contains interactive activities for your whiteboard, perfect for starter or plenary activities.
The activities in 'Realistic Stories (7-9) enable children to: *identify characteristic features of realistic story writing *understand narrative structure: opening, conflict, development, resoluti *choose an issue to write about *to develop the issue through the inclusion of dialogue *create strong believable characters who encourage empathy.
ALL NEW SCHOLASTIC LITERACY SKILLS CD-ROM AND BOOK PACKS will recreate this best-selling series for the current market. Each book will be accompanied by a CD-ROM offering posters, interactive activities and photocopiable sheets to download. There are three mini-series within this series: Comprehension; Spelling; Grammar and punctuation SPELLING YEAR 5 provides teachers with a complete resource to teach children key spelling skills. The book and CD-ROM provide teachers' notes and background knowledge on the skills and a focus on writing. As well as photocopiable pages and interactive activities.
50 Shared Texts is a series of anthologies for shared reading - one title for each year. Each title contains 50 photocopiable extracts covering the year-appropriate range of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Each extract is supported by teacher's notes and an annotated mini-version of each extract to show how it can be worked in the lesson. Teacher's notes show how text can be used to teach multiple objectives and ideas are given for reading and writing activities. The range of texts in Year 3 includes extracts from: * stories with familiar settings * playscripts * poems based on observation and the senses * shape poems and humorous poems * reports and instructions * myths, legends, fables, parables and traditional stories * performance poetry from different cultures * alphabetic texts such as directories and glossaries * extracts from adventure and mystery stories * letters * extracts from stories by the same author.
Bright Ideas books bring the fun back into teaching and promote children's enjoyment in learning. The books in the series are specifically designed so that the practical activity ideas they contain are quick and easy to use - a must for busy teachers. The instant activity ideas can be easily slotted into your current teaching whether as part of long term planning or at short notice. Titles in the series reflect the needs of teachers and help to solve everyday problems. Grammar and Punctuation Lifesavers provides great ways to teach the essential skills of sentence level work. The activities show how lots of different teaching approaches can be used to introduce and reinforce the essentials of grammar and punctuation. Chapters include: * Parts of Speech * Sentence construction * Punctuation * Grammatical awareness.
Exercising the brain helps learning - so get your children's brains in shape with these mind-stretching problems. * Quick and easy ways to cover the five thinking skills. * Ideas to use anytimeo provide a change of pace whenever you want to get children thinking! * Grouped by learning style so you can choose the most appropriate activity for the moment. * Brainteasers for every subject.
This new edition provides Renewed Framework writing activities for every genre. Now with interactive resources on CD-ROM! * Inspire even the most reluctant writers with these creative resources. * Activities to teach your children crafting, drafting and editing, as recommended in _Grammar for Writing_. * Get interactive with on-screen writing activities, writing frames and more. * Develop their understanding of writing genres using example texts and invaluable definitions. * Quick-fire and week-long projects to fit into your day.
Follows the new assessment outcomes and the APP approach to assessing literacy. * Contains the three main types of assessment. * Levelled activity sheets. * Easy ways to integrate and introduce APP. * Covers the blocks and units of the Renewed Framework and can link to _100 Literacy Framework Lessons_.
The books in this series contain 50 photocopiable extracts covering the year-appropriate range of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Each extract is supported by teacher's notes and an annotated mini-version of each extract to show how it can be worked in the lesson.
NEW Read and Respond is back by popular demand and ready for the 21st Century. The completely new text provides teachers with everything they need to teach these classic children's books. Notes and activities reflect the way that teachers teach now and include shared texts, guided reading notes, reading activities, speakin and listening activities, writing projects and assessment guidace. Over a third of each book is filled with invaluable photocopiables - all illustrated by the original children's book illustrators. ** Everything the teacher needs to teach a classic book ** Based on best-selling children's books ** Speaking and listening activities ** Assessment guidance ** Photocopiable pages NEW READ AND RESPOND KATIE MORAG AND THE TWO GRANDMOTHERS provides teachers with a wealth of resources to teach Katie Morag and the Two Grandmothers by Mairi Hedderwick. Notes and activities reflect the way that teachers teach now and include shared texts, guided reading notes, reading activities, speaking and listening activities, writing projects and assessment guidance. Katie Morag and the Two Grandmothers is a delightful picture book about families and island life.
In her investigation of the social history of the common British soldier in the era of the American Revolution, Sylvia Frey has extensively surveyed recruiting records, contemporary training manuals, statutes, and memoirs in an attempt to provide insight into the soldier's "life and mind." In the process she has discovered more about the common soldier than anyone thought possible: his social origins and occupational background, his size, age, and general physical condition, his personal economics and daily existence. Her findings dispel the traditional assumption that the army was made up largely of criminals and social misfits. Special attention is given to soldiering as an occupation. Focusing on two of the major campaigns of the war—the Northern Campaign which culminated at Saratoga and the Southern Campaign which ended at Yorktown—Frey describes the human face of war, with particular emphasis on the physical and psychic strains of campaigning in the eighteenth century. Perhaps the most important part of the work is the analysis of the moral and material factors which induced men to accept the high risks of soldiering. Frey rejects the traditional assumption that soldiers were motivated to fight exclusively by fear and force and argues instead that the primary motivation to battle was generated by regimental esprit, which in the eighteenth century substituted for patriotism. After analyzing the sources of esprit, she concludes that it was the sustaining force for morale in a long and discouraging war. This book is a contribution to our understanding of the eighteenth century and should appeal not only to military historians but also to social and economic historians and to those interested in the history of medicine.
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