Handbooks for Teachers

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The Mixed-Ability Class

Introduction: Teaching a mixed-ability class
Chapter 1: Classroom Management
Chapter 2: Motivating Students
Chapter 3: Catering for different types of learner
Chapter 4: Learner training
Chapter 5: Grading Tasks
Chapter 6: Self access
Chapter 7: Content teaching
Chapter 8: Activities with different responses
Chapter 9: open-ended activities
Chapter 10: Dealing with different learning speeds
Chapter 11: Assessment
Conclusion - Solving the problems
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Developing Resources for Primary

Introduction: Using resources with children
Chapter 1: 10-minute games
Chain games, What’s missing?, Buzz!, Categories, The ‘Pen’ game, Consequences, Cross the road, Anagrams, Flashcard matching, Flashcard categorisation
Chapter 2: Action games
What’s the time, Mr Wolf?, Postman, The circus, The ‘Yes/No’ game, Cat and mouse
Chapter 3: Action rhymes, songs and chants
The farmer’s in his den, One potato, two potatoes, Hickory dickory dock, The wheels on the bus, Here we go round the mulberry bush, Incey Wincey Spider, Nobody loves me, everybody hates me
Chapter 4: Things to make and use throughout the school year
Flashcards, Personal dictionaries, Personal scrapbooks, A class noticeboard, Instant puppets, Simple masks, A weather chart, Children’s personal records
Chapter 5: Simple topic work
Birthdays, Festivals
Chapter 6: Class surveys
Collaborative class surveys, Transfer surveys: graphs, Transfer surveys: Venn diagrams
Chapter 7: Story activities
The enormous turnip, Chicken Licken
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Glossary
Further reading
Index of activities
Index of structures and vocabulary