QGP Ltd are pleased to support and promote the following books:
Every Child Included by Rona Tutt
Rona Tutt is a Past President of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) and works as an SEN consultant, writer and researcher. Rona is also a member of the QGP Editorial Board and has written the section on Special Educational Needs and Disability in the QGP publication The Support Staff Little Pocket Book.
Looking at the Every Child Matters agenda and the government's strategy for special educational needs (SEN), this book moves beyond the debate about specialist provision to explore the exciting developments that are taking place in both mainstream and special schools, as they join forces to provide for pupils with increasingly complex needs. It provides examples of innovative ways forward that will help all schools develop their own strategies to support those pupils who find it hardest to learn.
Topics covered include:
- successful strategies for supporting pupils in mainstream schools
- the benefits of co-located schools, federations and partnerships
- the developing role of day and residential special schools
- the changing nature of support and advisory services
The book is essential reading for school leaders and senior management teams, and will be of interest to governors, policy makers and all those involved in the training and professional development of the school workforce.
To find out more about the book, please visit the Sage Publications website at: www.sagepub.co.uk/education
Grimble Thimble’s Wet Day by Ruth Stoker
Scope
Grimble Thimble is the first book in a series of books written for parents and children to read together at home. The world of Grimble Thimble is an imaginary world, set in the garden of a large house with two children Abby and Jay who are always looking for fun and adventure with creatures found in their garden. The illustrations throughout the text set a child’s imagination whirling into their world which parents can talk about as their children take their first steps into reading for themselves.
Contents
Grimble Thimble stories came from stories told at bedtime many years ago. Today these stories have been remembered and re-told again but in a unique and ground breaking way. Teachers teach children in their early years at primary school to read supported by the National Literacy strategy and a phonics programme. It is important that reading taught at school is supported by parents reading to children at home. Grimble Thimble stories are fun, colourful and imaginative, holding parent’s and child’s interest alike. But Grimble Thimble goes a step further and allows the child to read a story with the parent. Although the emerging child reader is not aware, their story, set at three levels, follows the National Literacy Strategy and the phonics programme with supportive text for parents that explains the importance of phonics in the home setting.
Readership
Parents, grandparents, older children in the family, aunts and uncles, friends and baby sitters but above all, the emerging readers (4 years to 7 years) who are alive to the written word, captured by illustrations and are curious about reading, learning and life.
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