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This is one from a series of study guides written by experienced teachers and educational writers who have adopted Tony Buzan's mind maps to help students study and revise more effectively. ... Read more

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Specially compiled for use throughout the GCSE German course, this compact study and revision aid aims to help the student achieve a better grade. Each of the chapters in the book covers a distinct topic area. The cassette and book are also available as a pack. ... Read more

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A handy filofax-sized guide to this key subject, to prepare the student quickly and painlessly for GCSE. ... Read more

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This series is designed to help students shorten revision time, remember more and obtain higher grades. This text covers themes, settings and characters, and contains questions to develop a personal view of the text, essay practice and mind maps which summarize what students should know. ... Read more

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Specially compiled for use throughout the GCSE French course, this compact study and revision aid will help the student achieve a better grade. It includes 4 main sections on listening, speaking, reading and writing giving emphasis to both the spoken and written language. ... Read more

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Specially compiled for use throughout the GCSE mathematics course, this compact study and revision aid helps the student achieve a better grade. Within each chapter, concise units present the mathematics clearly and simply, with an emphasis on understanding the basic concepts and techniques. Advice on study methods, coursework and exam preparation is also included. ... Read more

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This English literature revision guide for GCSE English students discusses William Golding's "Lord of the Flies". It features "mind maps" which summarize the entire work, icons, symbols, diagrams, cartoons and storyboards. ... Read more

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How to Teach Fiction Writing at Key Stage 3 is a practical manual to help teachers of 11-14 year-olds to develop effective modeling and scaffolding strategies for the teaching of narrative writing. Using a step-by-step approach, based on the 'word/sentence/text level' convention, the book shows how teachers can help pupils to build work in various genres and to move out from these to more complex writing. Each section has a workshop approach that leads into a narrative writing activity, giving pupils the chance to complete a fully realized piece of work at the end each time.

The workshops focus on genre features, the craft of the writer, and specific year-related needs (taken from the KS3 Framework).

The book has a clear progression through KS3, and extension and support activities for the most and least able pupils are provided as an integral part of each section. ... Read more

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A handy filofax-sized guide to this key subject, to prepare the student quickly and painlessly for GCSE. ... Read more

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This GCSE German revision guide uses educational psychology to show students how to do less work, shorten revision time and still get a higher grade. It uses mind maps to visually display information in a way that is easy to follow and learn, and uses cartoons and tips to make revision fun. ... Read more

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This "Teach Yourself" guide to geography is exclusive to WHSmith until further notice. ... Read more

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How to Teach Fiction Writing is a practical manual to help teachers of junior classes to focus on the key aspects of developing children's storywriting. The book presents a series of essential writing workshops full of creative ideas and fun activities. It also offers a range of advice including how to set up and run an effective workshop and how to monitor NLS links. Workshops focus on capturing stories, characterization, creating settings, skilful paragraphing, writing in a variety of genres from myths and fables to adventures and science fiction, and writing style. ... Read more

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This "Teach Yourself" revision guide to GCSE English is exclusive to W.H. Smith until further notice. ... Read more

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This series is designed to help students shorten revision time, remember more and obtain higher grades. This text covers themes, settings and characters, and contains questions to develop a personal view of the text, essay practice and mind maps which summarize what students should know. ... Read more

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How to Teach Story Writing at Key Stage 1 is a practical manual for teachers, to be used directly in the classroom. The book begins with a series of language games, designed to warm up creativity and strengthen the imagination. This is followed by a series of creative story workshops, based on the writer's own experience both as a teacher and poet running workshops in schools. These workshops focus on growing the roots of story writing through story telling and reading, and begin with the importance of learning a few well-known tales. There are ideas for drama, role-play and art, and a few model stories are provided for story telling. Other workshops explore simple ideas for creating new stories, based around simple familiar patterns. The book also offers advice on how to organize an effective workshop for younger children, and demonstrates how to teach story writing in a dynamic, creative and imaginative way in relationship with the KS1 national literacy framework.

Workshops include the story of our lives; stories that make a circle; stories about problems; days of the week tales; humbug, stuff and nonsense stories; quests; repetitive tales; wishing stories; warning stories; and cooking the story soup. ... Read more

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This English literature revision guide for GCSE English students discusses Thomas Hardy's "Far from the Madding Crowd". It features "mind maps" which summarize the entire work, icons, symbols, diagrams, cartoons and storyboards. ... Read more

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This revision aid to GCSE computer studies has been designed to be used throughout the GCSE course. The fully illustrated guide contains exercises, project work and instructions which give the necessary information and advice on how to study in order to obtain the best results. ... Read more

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This series is designed to help students shorten revision time, remember more and obtain higher grades. This text covers themes, settings and characters, and contains questions to develop a personal view of the text, essay practice and mind maps which summarize what students should know. ... Read more

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This is one from a series of study guides written by experienced teachers and educational writers who have adopted Tony Buzan's mind maps to help students study and revise more effectively. ... Read more

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Specially compiled for use throughout the GCSE chemistry course, this compact study and revision aid will help the student achieve a better grade. Advice nn practical work, coursework, study methods and exam preparation is also included. ... Read more