This text is simple & self explanatory with golden rules for success in the classroom. It offers practical guidance on what works now as well as looking to the future &

Includes:: photocopiable resource sheets. Both a Teacher Resource & Professional Development tool it presents comments on all the latest thinking good & bad & on Primary Strategy. It also provides controversial & thought-provoking insight into making literacy teaching work.

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Literacy World is evolving with the renewed Framework to provide all the support you need to deliver Shared Reading & Writing Guided Reading ICT & Speaking & Listening at Key Stage 2/P4-7. A wealth of quality resources exceptional teacher support & complete differentiation makes Literacy World your only choice for fiction & non-fiction at Key Stage 2/P4-7. ...

Literacy World is evolving with the renewed Framework to provide all the support you need to deliver Shared Reading & Writing Guided Reading ICT & Speaking & Listening at Key Stage 2/P4-7. A wealth of quality resources exceptional teacher support & complete differentiation makes Literacy World your only choice for fiction & non-fiction at Key Stage 2/P4-7. ...

Literary Terms & Criticism has long been established as the best-selling guide to the study of English literature. It offers a comprehensive introduction to English poetry drama & the novel complete with practical advice & tips on how to analyse texts & how to make sense of the critical terms we employ in discussing literature. It is also the clearest & most useful of all guides to modern critical theory. There are entries on all aspects of critical thinking ranging from traditional criticism through to postcolonialism & cultural materialism. This new edition also contains updated material a revised further reading list & additional discussion of critical terms & approaches. In so doing it remains the indispensable guide
- providing you with the vital starting-point for whatever text you are studying & giving you ideas you can draw on throughout your course.
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A quarter of a century on from its original publication Literary Theory: An Introduction still conjures the subversion excitement & exoticism that characterized theory through the 1960s & 70s when it posed an unprecedented challenge to the literary establishment. Eagleton has added a new preface to this anniversary edition to address more recent developments in literary studies including what he describes as the growth of a kind of anti-theory" & the idea that literary theory has been institutionalized. Insightful & enlightening Literary Theory: An Introduction remains the essential guide to the field. 25th Anniversary Edition of Terry Eagletons classic introduction to literary theory First published in 1983 & revised in 1996 to include material on developments in feminist & cultural theory Has served as an inspiration to generations of students & teachers Continues to function as arguably the definitive undergraduate textbook on literary theory Reissue

Includes:: a new foreword by Eagleton himself reflecting on the impact & enduring success of the book & on developments in literary theory since it was first published"

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Critical introductions to a range of literary topics & genres. The Literature of Love is designed to introduce students to one of the central themes in literature. Focusing first on different types & aspects of love
- physical emotional spiritual
- it then offers a chronological coverage aiming to illustrate ways in which attitudes to the representation of love in literature have evolved from Chaucer to the present time. Other sections of the book examine particular genres such as the love sonnet the love letter & 'romantic' fiction; & the differing reception of this literature over time is also considered. The book

Includes:: extracts from & a discussion of a range of authors including Chaucer Lady Mary Wroth Shakespeare Jane Austen Thomas Hardy & Tony Kushner.



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After over a decade of independence from the Soviet Union this Baltic country of 4 million inhabitants is hoping to join the European Union & NATO in the near future. A compact grammar section & a pronunciation guide are included along with a phrasebook designed for travellers businesspersons students & diplomats. The bilingual dictionary designates part of speech & case declension & gives crucial everyday vocabulary. ...

David Zinc has it all: Big firm big salary life in the lawyer's fast lane. Until the day he snaps & throws it all away. Leaving the world of corporate law far behind he talks himself into a new job with Finley & Figg. A self-styled 'boutique' firm with only two partners Oscar Finley & Wally Figg are ambulance-chasing street lawyers who hustle nickel-&-dime cases dreaming of landing the big win. For all his Harvard Law Degree & five years with Chicago's top firm Zinc has never entered a courtroom never helped a client who really needed a lawyer never handled a gun. All that is about to change. ...

Oscar Finley: street cop turned street lawyer. Wally Figg: expert hustler & ambulance-chaser. David Zinc: Harvard Law School graduate. Together this unlikely trio make up Finley & Figg: specialists in injury claims quickie divorces & DUIs. None of them has ever faced a jury in federal court. But they are about to take on one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the States. David gave up his lucrative career at Chicagos leading law firm for this: the chance to help the little guy stand up to the big corporations. But if Finley & Figg have right on their side why do his new partners feel the need to carry guns in their briefcases? David thought he was used to cut-throat law from his days at Rogan Rothberg but this is something else. He knows he was right to get out. He just may live to regret his new choice of firm... ...

We are on the cusp of a reading revolution. Increasingly research is uncovering an intimate connection between reading & wellbeing. The seemingly simple act of being read to brings remarkable health & happiness benefits. It stimulates thought & memory encourages the sharing of ideas & feelings hopes & fears. It enriches our lives & minds. This unique book offers a selection of prose & poetry especially suitable for reading aloud
- to your husband or wife a sick parent or child an elderly relative. With short introductions & discussion topics for each piece there's something here for everyone
- from Shakespeare & Black Beauty to Elizabeth Jennings & Bruce Chatwin. All royalties in full will go to The Reader Organisation the leading UK charity for reading & health.

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