Closing the Vocabulary Gap
By: Alex Quigley
4.38
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
As teachers grapple with the challenge of a new, bigger and more challenging school curriculum, at …
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1. The Wolves in the Walls
By: Neil Gaiman , Dave McKean
4.04
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
Lucy hears sneaking, creeping,crumpling noisescoming from insidethe walls. She is sure there are… read more
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"Anyway, you know what they say about wolves," said her father. "If the wolves come out of the walls, it's all over." "Who says that?" asked Lucy. "People. Everybody. You know," said her father, and h…"-Neil Gaiman, The Wolves in the Walls
"But eventually everything was back the way it had been before, except for Lucy's father's second-best tuba, which had sustained severe jam damage. So Lucy's father sold his second-best tuba and bough…"-Neil Gaiman, The Wolves in the Walls
2. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
By: Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None
4.30
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in En… read more
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- nonfiction
- teaching
- education
"Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"People educate each other through the mediation of the world."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone"-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
3. Stone Cold
By: Robert Swindells
3.27
Format: 100 pages, Hardcover
'It's like parachuting. Get the first jump over and it becomes routine, but you mustn't get complac… read more
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4. Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom
By: Daniel T. Willingham
4.04
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
Kids are naturally curious, but when it comes to school it seems like their minds are turned off. W… read more
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- nonfiction
- teaching
- education
5. Bringing Words to Life: Robust Vocabulary Instruction
By: Isabel L. Beck , Margaret G. McKeown , Linda Kucan
3.94
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
Exciting and engaging vocabulary instruction can set students on the path to a lifelong fascination… read more
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- nonfiction
- teaching
- education
- language
6. The Secret of Literacy: Making the implicit, explicit
By: David Didau
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
Literacy? That's someone else's job, isn't it? This is a book for all teachers on how to make expli… read more
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- education
- teaching
7. An Inspector Calls
By: None
3.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
The action of the play occurs in an English industrial city, where a young girl commits suicide and… read more
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8. Once (Once, #1)
By: Morris Gleitzman
3.63
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
Onceby Morris Gleitzman is the story of a young Jewish boy who is determined to escape the orphanag… read more
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9. Mathematical Mindsets: Unleashing Students' Potential Through Creative Math, Inspiring Messages and Innovative Teaching
By: Jo Boaler
5.00
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
Banish math anxiety and give students of all ages a clear roadmap to successMathematical Mindsets p… read more
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10. The Wild Robot (The Wild Robot, #1)
By: Peter Brown
4.05
Format: 12 pages, Hardcover
When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild… read more
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11. The Myth of Mars and Venus: Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages?
By: Deborah Cameron
4.34
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
Popular assumptions about gender and communication--famously summed up in the title of the massivel… read more
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12. Reading Reconsidered: A Practical Guide to Rigorous Literacy Instruction
By: Doug Lemov
3.93
Format: 245 pages, ebook
The Must-Have Resource for Teachers to Rethink How They Teach Reading The world we are preparing ou… read more
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13. When the Adults Change, Everything Changes: Seismic shifts in school behaviour
By: Paul Dix
4.31
Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition
You can buy in the best behaviour tracking software, introduce 24/7 detentions or scream 'NO EXCUSE… read more
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- nonfiction
- teaching
- education
14. Tyger
By: S.F. Said
4.17
Format: 304 pages, None
In a strange alternate world, where the British Empire has never ended, a young boy called Adam has… read more
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15. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
By: Katja Hoyer
4.23
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more
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- nonfiction
"Some of the “songs"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
16. The Resilience Project: Finding Happiness through Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness
By: Hugh van Cuylenburg
4.31
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Hugh van Cuylenburg was a primary school teacher volunteering in northern India when he had a life-… read more
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- nonfiction
17. Let Go: It's time for us to let go of shame, expectation and our addiction to social media
By: Hugh van Cuylenburg
4.20
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
If ever there was a time for us to be resilient, it was when a deadly virus emerged and engulfed th… read more
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- nonfiction
- education
18. Contacts
By: Mark Watson
3.69
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
James Chiltern boards the 23:50 sleeper train from London to Edinburgh with two pork pies, six beer… read more
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"You defined yourself by participating in other people's lives."-Mark Watson, Contacts
"But excuses didn't mean anything in the end. What actually happened in the end was what mattered."-Mark Watson, Contacts
"But excuses didn't mean anything in the end. What _actually happened_ in the end was what mattered."-Mark Watson, Contacts
19. Uncommon Sense Teaching: Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn
By: Barbara Oakley
4.20
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Top 10 Pick for Learning Ladders’ Best Books for Educators Summer 2021 A groundbreaking guide to i… read more
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- nonfiction
- teaching
- education
20. Rosenshine's Principles in Action
By: Tom Sherrington
4.28
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
Bridging research and classroom practice, Barack Rosenshine's Principles of Instruction are widely … read more
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- teaching
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21. Running the Room: The Teacher's Guide to Behaviour
By: Tom Bennett
4.27
Format: 445 pages, Kindle Edition
Good behaviour is the beginning of great learning. All children deserve classrooms that are calm, s… read more
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- nonfiction
- teaching
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22. The Blue Book of Nebo
By: Manon Steffan Ros
4.16
Format: 156 pages, ebook
Prize-winner in three categories of the 2019 Wales Book of the Year Award, The Blue Book of Nebo p… read more
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"Diuen que els vincles de sang no es tornen mai aigua, però els veu que l'aigua es pot tornar sang."-Manon Steffan Ros, The Blue Book of Nebo
"La humanitat és una cosa espectacular, tan preparada per estimar sense conviccions, sense complexos."-Manon Steffan Ros, The Blue Book of Nebo
23. How to Fail
By: Elizabeth Day
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by her hugely popular podcast, How To Fail is Elizabeth Day’s brilliantly funny, painfully… read more
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- nonfiction
"Like many young women, I mistakenly thought that the best way of feeling better about myself was to get other people to like me and to attempt to survive on the fumes of their approbation"-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail
"It's almost as if - in being childfree yourself - you become everybody else's child: someone who needs taking care of, who needs guiding in the right direction, who doesn't quite understand, but bles…"-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail
"Life crises have a way of doing that: they strip you of your old certainties and throw you into chaos. The only way to survive is to surrender to the process. When you emerge, blinking, into the ligh…"-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail
"For so long, we woman have turned our anger inwards, redirecting it towards ourselves and allowing it to manifest as shame. We have told ourselves, instead, that we are sad or hormonal or stressed, b…"-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail
24. Why Knowledge Matters: Rescuing Our Children from Failed Educational Theories
By: E.D. Hirsch Jr.
4.19
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
In Why Knowledge Matters , E. D. Hirsch, Jr., presents evidence from cognitive science, sociology, … read more
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- teaching
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25. Closing the Vocabulary Gap
By: Alex Quigley
4.38
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
As teachers grapple with the challenge of a new, bigger and more challenging school curriculum, at … read more
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- teaching
- education
- language
26. Back on Track: Fewer things, greater depth
By: Mary Myatt
4.24
Format: None pages, Paperback
There are a lot of redundant processes in schools. We need to take a hard look at these and conside… read more
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- education
27. How to teach English literature: Overcoming cultural poverty
By: Jennifer Webb
4.60
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A practical guide to pedagogy in the English classroom, supporting the teaching abstract, classic a… read more
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28. Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The day Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever.… read more
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"I'm no philosopher, and I prefer, in an ideal world, to go uneaten. (p. 111)"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
"What is this rainfall of children? Did I go sailing just to have storms of infants cascading down my sail at me? (p. 74)"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
"Nighthand grunted, and signalled for another bottle of wine. "Are you sure?" said Irian. "Shouldn't we keep our wits about us?" "I see no reason to. I prefer the world drunk. It disappoints me less."…"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
29. Ready to Teach: Macbeth: A compendium of subject knowledge, resources and pedagogy
By: Stuart Pryke
4.81
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
What is the best approach for helping students to understand higher level concepts? How can specifi… read more
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30. The Curriculum: Gallimaufry to coherence
By: Mary Myatt
4.14
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Mary Myatt argues that the solutions to overcoming achievement barriers lie in understanding the cu… read more
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31. After The Adults Change: Achievable behaviour nirvana
By: Paul Dix
4.27
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In After the Adults Achievable behaviour nirvana , Paul Dix explains how teachers and school lead… read more
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