The Thinking Child - Brain-based learning for the early years foundation stage  Nicola Call with Sally Featherstone

In this book Nicola shows how practitioners can use brain-based techniques to enrich learning in the early years setting. The theory of how the brain works and how young children learn is explained clearly and with reference to the most up-to-date brain research. Practical examples, case studies, and numerous illustrations and suggestions help the reader to decide where to start. The fictional children, George, Carrie, Samantha and Kishan, from a brain-based setting, add a 'real life' context to the text.

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The Thinking Child Resource Book Nicola Call with Sally Featherstone

This book is carefully structured to help practitioners build upon the theoretical and practical advice given in The Thinking Child. Nicola Call and Sally Featherstone combine their knowledge and experience to give a wealth of practical suggestions about how to implement brain-based learning techniques in the early years. This book can either be used independently or as a companion to The Thinking Child.

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The ALPS Approach  Alistair Smith and Nicola Call

This book takes the research collected by Alistair Smith and shows how it can be used to great effect in the primary classroom. Furthermore, Nicola Call provides lots of practical and accessible examples of strategies based on this research, which she has used in recent years at a UK primary school where the SATs performance has shot up as a result. Recently featured in Child Education for its focus on classroom strategies that could invigorate the literacy hour, this book provides a wealth of practical ideas to raise achievement in primary schools.

Now in its third edition and available in the UK edition in both hardback and paperback. 

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The ALPS Approach Resource Book  Alistair Smith and Nicola Call

A follow-up to the best-selling Alps Approach, this book provides photocopiable resources for teachers to use in the classroom. It is structured carefully to extend the theoretical and practical advice given in the alps approach and provides hands-on materials for classroom teachers and for those who teach children outside of the classroom. The authors have produced over 1000 useful ideas for teachers to accelerate the learning of their children.

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Accelerated Learning - the ALPS approach. The USA edition  Alistair Smith and Nicola Call

Now available from Kagan Press at www.kaganonline.com.

ALPS StoryMaker  Stephen Bowkett

Now available from Network Educational Press. This book is a  practical guide about using storymaking to accelerate children’s  learning. The teacher's book is supported by The Double Dare  Gang, a series of children's fiction.

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