Written by Tim Seldin President of the Montessori Foundation this is the most fully up-to-date guide on Montessori parenting packed with br&-new advice on children's use of digital media & the neuroscience of child development The Montessori method emphasises learning through discovery with children encouraged to choose their own activities at their own pace outside of formal teaching methods How to Raise an Amazing Child the Montessori Way shows you how to build independence creativity & confidence in your child with exciting preschool activities & educational games to inspire your child at home This essential book also

Includes:: an activity checklist with appropriate activities for children up to 6 years How to Raise an Amazing Child the Montessori Way summarises each of Montessori's pioneering child-centred methods & covers children's first steps in reading writing & maths Understand the science behind the method with neuroscientific & developmental research explaining your child's brain Manage & participate in your child's screen time build their sensory awareness & teach grace & courtesy from a young age with this celebrated parenting guide Previous edition ISBN 9781405312998

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Learn to read with Hiccup! The How to Train Your Dragon Beginner Readers are the perfect way to introduce your child to Hiccup & the magical world of reading Join Hiccup & the gang as they try to train three young Thunderdrum dragons in this Beginner Reader based on a popular episode of Dream Works Dragons Defenders of Berk! Three young Thunderdrum dragons have just arrived in Berk Hiccup does his best to train them so they can stay on Dragon Island but they just won't listen! They're causing too much trouble so Hiccup has to send them away but he knows they won't be safe on their own Is there anything Hiccup & his friends can do to protect the dragons? How to Train Your Dragon is now a major Dream Works franchise How to Train Your Dragon 3 is scheduled for release in 2019 & the TV series Defenders of Berk can be seen on CBBC & Netflix The Beginner Reader series
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With half a million copies in print How to Read a Book is the best & most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader completely rewritten & updated with new material Originally published in 1940 this book is a rare phenomenon a living classic that introduces & elucidates the various levels of reading & how to achieve them-from elementary reading through systematic skimming & inspectional reading to speed reading Readers will learn when & how to judge a book by its cover & also how to X-ray it read critically & extract the author's message from the text Also included is instruction in the different techniques that work best for reading particular genres such as practical books imaginative literature plays poetry history science & mathematics philosophy & social science works Finally the authors offer a recommended reading list & supply reading tests you can use measure your own progress in reading skills comprehension & speed ...

The work done on a play before the first rehearsal the first group reading or even the before the cast have met can be crucial to the success of a production Directors & dramaturgs must know how to analyze understand & interpret a play or performance text if they hope to bring it to life on the stage This book provides a broad range of tools & methods that can be used when reading a text including Lessons from the past What can we learn from Aristotle Stanislavsky Meyerhold Vakhtangov Brecht & Harold Clurman? This section establishes the models & methods that underpin much of a director's work today A survey of current practices in Western theatre A combination of research interviews & observation of practical work addresses the main stages in understanding a play such as getting to know characters sharing ideas mapping the action & grappling with language A workbook setting out twenty one ways of breaking down a play from the general to the particular Contributions reflections & interjections from a host of successful directors make this the ideal starting point for anyone who wants to direct a play or even devise one of their own This wide range of different approaches options & techniques allows each reader to create their own brand of play analysis ...

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A literary master's entertaining guide to reading with deeper insight better understanding & greater pleasure What makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nursery rhyme like Baa Baa Black Sheep be full of concealed loathing resentment & aggression? In this accessible delightfully entertaining book Terry Eagleton addresses these intriguing questions & a host of others How to Read Literature is the book of choice for students new to the study of literature & for all other readers interested in deepening their understanding & enriching their reading experience In a series of brilliant analyses Eagleton shows how to read with due attention to tone rhythm texture syntax allusion ambiguity & other formal aspects of literary works He also examines broader questions of character plot narrative the creative imagination the meaning of fictionality & the tension between what works of literature say & what they show Unfailingly authoritative & cheerfully opinionated the author provides useful commentaries on classicism Romanticism modernism & postmodernism along with spellbinding insights into a huge range of authors from Shakespeare & J K Rowling to Jane Austen & Samuel Beckett ...

Over 2000 years of settlement give London its unique architectural heritage Unlike Haussmann's Paris neither monarch nor politician imposed their will; private ownership & enterprise shaped the city & defined its parts Elegant West End squares & crescents hallmark the Classical townscape that emerged between 1600 & 1830 but medieval Tudor & Victorian enclaves identified by occupation class or guild make their own design statement notably in the City & East End From its renewal after the Great Fire of 1666 as a centre of commerce culture finance & as a railway hub the seat of power & law How to Read London reveals through the built environment how London's domestic civic & commercial landscape has evolved & adapted from imperial capital to global city ...

" How to Read Manga" is a great way to polish your Japanese manga reading skills Learn slang dark humor & the uniquely Japanese comedic rhythm in Yoshio Kawashima&s classic " Gloom Party" a short collection from shonen champion comics Every four-frame strip stands alone pacing the reader at one lesson per page one punch line at a time ...

How to Read New York uncovers & illuminates the rich architectural language of one of the world's truly great cities from its celebrated skyscrapers to its lesser-known treasures Charting both the key technical developments & aesthetic movements that have influenced architecture in the Big Apple this accessible guide ...