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Write dance' is a unique programme with links across the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum. Not only does it help to develop the prerequisite physical skills & co-ordination for writing it also encourages creativity self expression & confidence'
- Chris Dukes Early Years Area Senco. ' Write Dance' is an exciting & innovative programme which uses music & movement to introduce handwriting to children. ' Write Dance' movements are designed to help children feel happy & comfortable with their bodies improving their motor skills & providing a strong foundation for writing. Ranghild A. Oussoren developed the approach in Holland ten years ago & it has gone on to capture the imagination of children & teachers across Europe. In this new edition of " Write Dance in the Early Years" practitioners are provided with a package of songs stories & illustrations as well as guidance on implementing Write Dance in their early years setting. This book audio CD & DVD introduces the nine themes of the Write Dance approach at the appropriate developmental level for the early years. The programme supports the Be Healthy Enjoy & Achieve outcome of the Every Child Matters agenda. It also links to the following aspects within the six areas of learning in the Early Years Foundation stage: Creative Development through imaginative play music & dance; Physical Development through movement using equipment & materials; Communication Language & Literacy through handwriting; & Personal Social & Emotional Development through increasing self-confidence & self-esteem. This programme benefits all children but has also been found very helpful for children with special education needs from learning difficulties to dyspraxia."
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The ability to produce fluent legible handwriting with ease is something that affects attainment in most areas of the curriculum yet many children continue to struggle with this vital skill. Based on holistic principles this programme offers a different approach developing the muscles of the hand
- so that children gain the necessary control to produce letter forms
- alongside the perceptual skills required to orientate & organize letter & words. The programme is effective for mainstream children aged 4-6 years children with developmental co-ordination disorders & older children with mild to moderate learning difficulties. Over 400 carefuly graded exercises & activities develop h&-eye co-ordination form constancy spatial organization figure-ground discrimination orientation & laterality. The package consists of two pupil workbooks & a teacher's handbook.

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This is a handy & colourful illustrated guide to reading writing & understanding ancient Egyptian names epithets titles & phrases. The Egyptians believed that the creator god Ptah brought the world into being by naming everything in it. Names had great power & kings often over-wrote their own names on the monuments of earlier rulers. A persons name was a vitally important part of them & the Egyptians were very concerned that their names should be recorded remembered & spoken. Criminals & those who had fallen out of favour could be punished
- wiped out of history
- by having their names destroyed or defaced. The hieroglyphic script provided a beautiful flexible & expressive means to write the names of humans gods & animals. Angela Mc Donald explains the meanings of Egyptian personal names & how they were made up (Rameses = Ra has given birth to him) & demonstrates how they were written in different ways to convey various shades of meaning. Royal & divine names are always given special treatment. The Egyptians were not always formal & nicknames were common. Even the names of pet animals are recorded in tomb paintings.

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Aspiring young writers will love this fun activity book full of hints tips & handy tasks for writing breath-taking stories. The first half of the book is full of writing tips techniques & methods to make every story a masterpiece with helpful activities on coming up with ideas writing from different points of view & creating characters settings & story lines. The second half of the book is full of story themes to write about from murder mysteries to tales from outer space. With lots of lined space to fill each activity comes with suggestions for characters settings & objects to write into the story as well as questions to prompt the imagination. ...

Vasily Grossmans masterpiece Life & Fate" is rated by many as the greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century. Among its admirers is Antony Beevor the bestselling author of Stalingrad & Berlin. "A Writer at War" is based on the notebooks in which Grossman gathered his raw material. It depicts as never before the crushing conditions on the Eastern Front & the lives & deaths of infantrymen tank drivers pilots snipers & civilians alike. Deemed unfit for service when the Germans invaded in 1941 Grossman became a special correspondent for Red Star the Red Army newspaper. Remarkably he spent three of the following four years at the front observing with a writers eye the most pitiless fighting ever known. Grossman witnessed almost all the major events on the Eastern Front: the appalling defeats & desperate retreats of 1941 the defence of Moscow & fighting in the Ukraine. In August 1942 he was posted to Stalingrad where he remained during four months of brutal street-fighting. He was present at the battle of Kursk the largest tank engagement in history & as the Red Army advanced he reached Berdichev where his worst fears for his mother & other relations were confirmed. A Jew himself he undertook the faithful recording of Holocaust atrocities as their extent dawned. His supremely powerful report The Hell of Treblinka was used in evidence at the Nuremberg tribunal. "A Writer at War" offers the one outstanding eye-witness account of the war on the Eastern Front & perhaps the best descriptions ever of what Grossman called the ruthless truth of war." ...

The love of place is endemic in English literature from the work of the earliest poets & hermits to the suburban celebrations of John Betjeman covering all varieties of the British rural & urban landscape. This book presents an image of Britain as seen by writers of different regions & periods & also illuminates the way in which their work has changed our visual attitudes our taste in landscape & our relation to nature. ...

In a hugely evocative collection of her travel writing & reportage from five decades Jan Morris has produced a unique portrait of the late twentieth century world. Ranging from New York to Venice Oxford to the Middle East & Wales to South Africa Jan Morris was a witness to such seminal moments as the Eichmann trial the first ascent of Everest the fall of the Berlin Wall & the handover of Hong Kong. & as ever she displays her unique & inimitable literary style at once funny wise & sad. ...