CORPORATION NEWS
ATOM Awards
New resources for Success in Literacy
Little Books of Big Ideas
Professional resources for teachers
Australian Teachers of Media
Curriculum Corporation enjoyed significant representation at the recent 2004 Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM) Awards held in Melbourne. With several resources nominated in a range of categories we are delighted to announce that the science@once and more science@once books and CD-ROMs received the ATOM award for the category of Best Primary Educational Resource.
Larissa Brenner
Middle primary teacher reference
1 86366 727 8 | $59.95 | 88 pp book and single-user CD-ROM
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more science@once
Andrea Leeder
Middle primary teacher reference
1 86366 727 X | $59.95 | 88 pp book and single-user CD-ROM
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science@once pack
Andrea Leeder
$119.90 Includes science@once and more science@once books and 2 single-user CD-ROMs Site licences are also available for these products. Contact the Curriculum Corporation Sales team on 03 9207 9600 or at sales@curriculum.edu.au
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New resources for Success in Literacy
Recipes for Success in Literacy is based on the simple premise that children learn more if they are having fun. The Śrecipes' are a rich variety of activities that encourage all students to achieve success.
Students take responsibility for their own learning as they work through the activities independently, set their own goals and feel valued as active members of the classroom.
The activities are flexible and can be used for small group work in learning centres or as whole class activities.
The focus of the series is English, with activities grouped into the categories: Viewing, Reading, Writing, Speaking & Listening, ICT and Conventions.
Titles include:
Recipes for Success in Literacy: Environment and the world
Serena Brodie-Hall & Olivia Mottram
Upper primary teacher resource
1 86366 736 9 | $36.95 | 112 pp
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Recipes for Success in Literacy: Environment and the world addresses the values and principles associated with democracy, social justice and ecological sustainability.
Recipes for Success in Literacy: Fairytales and picture storybooks
Serena Brodie-Hall & Olivia Mottram
Upper primary teacher resource
1 86366 739 3 | $36.95 | 112 pp
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Recipes for Success in Literacy: Fairytales and picture storybooks presents opportunities for students to compare and contrast ideas, and better understand the interactions within or between written and visual texts.
Recipes for Success in Literacy: Values and days of recognition
Serena Brodie-Hall & Olivia Mottram
Upper primary teacher resource
1 86366 737 7 | $36.95 | 112 pp
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Recipes for Success in Literacy: Values and days of recognition provides students with an understanding of the values we share in a multicultural society.
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Little Books of Big Ideas is a series of practical teacher resource books that aims to support teachers committed to lifelong learning. Each title in the series provides teachers and students with strategies to increase skills and competencies, and allow for successful participation in a range of life experience. Developing student responsibility and planning for a diversity of learners is vital for learning, but this takes time and preparation. These books provide ideas for setting up a classroom for practical student-centred activities that facilitate and motivate learning. Topics covered include Cooperative Learning, Questioning, Learning Centres, Contracts, Assessment, Conflict Resolution, Resilience, Learners at Risk and more.
How to Succeed with Cooperative Learning
Kath Murdoch & Jeni Wilson
Teacher resource
1 86366 756 3 | $29.95 | 64 pp
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How to Succeed with Questioning
Sally Godinho & Jeni Wilson
Teacher resource
1 86366 755 5 | $29.95 | 64 pp
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How to Succeed with Contracts
Lynda Cutting & Jeni Wilson
Teacher resource
1 86366 741 5 | $29.95 | 64 pp
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How to Succeed with Learning Centres
Robyn English & Jeni Wilson
Teacher resource
1 86366 754 7 | $29.95 | 64 pp
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Professional resources for teachers
Curriculum Corporation is now distributing Stenhouse professional resources in Australia. With titles covering all aspects of literacy, reading and writing, these resources will support teachers with practical solutions and strategies for achieving success in the classroom. For the full range of Stenhouse publications available from Curriculum Corporation visit www.curriculum.edu.au/catalogue/stenhouse
Nonfiction Matters:
Reading, writing and research in grades 3-8
Stephanie Harvey
Year levels 3-8
1 57110 072 5 | $48.00 | 248 pp
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Nonfiction Matters provides practical tools to help students explore nonfiction and reach a more complete understanding of the real world. Harvey shows how students can read expos-itory text, engage in research and write authentic nonfiction that is captivating, visual and full of voice. The inquiry projects require in-depth learning: topic selection, question development, research exploration, reading for content, organisation, synthesis, writing to convey meaning and presenting findings.
Help Me Learn to Write:
Strategies for teaching struggling writers
Debbie Lesure & Katie Richardson
Year levels K-3
1 884548 40 7 | $48.00 | 208 pp
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Do you have a student who has difficulty holding a pencil? Or a struggling writer who uses the same tired words over and over again? Are some of your students unable to organise sentences into a coherent writing piece or brainstorm writing topics? This book is a strategy-packed guide to assist you with helping struggling writers achieve success. Using a wealth of student writing samples and teacher reflections, the authors identify, analyse and offer strategies for dealing with the challenges many struggling writers face.
Writing as a Way of Knowing
Lois Bridges
Year levels K-4
1 57110 062 8 | $42.00 | 144 pp
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Help your students become flexible writers who understand all that writing can do and how it can be used to serve their own purposes. Explore the many ways to show young writers how to: run a writers' workshop; implement effective mini-lessons; conduct thought-provoking writing conferences; handle revising, editing and publishing; and recognise and use the qualities of effective writing.
Choice Words:
How our language affects children's learning
Peter H. Johnston
Year levels K-8
1 57110 389 9 | $34.95 | 120 pp
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Choice Words shows how teachers can use language to build healthy learning communities. The author provides examples of ordinary words, phrases and uses of language that are pivotal in the orchestration of the classroom. The book demonstrates how the things we say (and don't say) have surprising consequences for what children learn and for whom they become as literate people.
Are They Really Reading? Expanding SSR in the middle grades
Jodi Crum Marshall
Year levels K-8
1 57110 337 6 | $45.00 | 184 pp
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Find out if your students are using sustained silent reading (SSR) time wisely and what to do if they're not. This book describes how to support middle-grade readers who need it the most, while embracing a research-proven need to increase independent, self-selected reading time for students. Teachers will appreciate the clear direction on how and why to implement an SSR program. Administrators will appreciate the guidance for establishing a schoolwide literacy block that substantially improves student motivation and learning.
Literature Circles: Voice and choice in book clubs and reading groups (2nd
ed)
Harvey Daniels
Year levels K-12
1 57110 333 3 | $49.95 | 272 pp
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This title provides practical and concrete suggestions, strategies, structures, tools and stories that show you how to launch and manage literature circles effect-ively. It includes:
- four different models for preparing students for literature circles
- many variations on the basic version of student-led book clubs
- new models and procedures for primary and secondary levels
- new materials for assessing and grading literature circles
- an inventory of common management problems and solutions
- ideas for using literature circles with nonfiction texts across the curriculum.
EQ Spring 2004 © Curriculum Corporation