Creativity in Literacy (Belair - A World of Display) (Paperback)

These books are ideal resources for busy teachers who want to create an engaging, colourful atmosphere that is conducive to learning in just a few lessons. Using basic materials, simple techniques and a cross-curricular approach, teachers will love to put these ideas into practice, or will at the very least be inspired just through flicking the pages, to create their own educationally stimulating and interactive environment. --Martine Horvath, EYE Volume 9 No 12, April 2008<br /><br />The Belair range of books on classroom display will be familiar to many teachers in primary schools. Divided into sections on fiction and non-fiction, the book explores a series of topics, with ideas for literacy work, display, and supplementary activities from Maths to Dance, Science to PSHE. [Teachers] will find a wealth of ideas for adding colour and practical creativity to the study of texts in their classrooms. --Darren Coult, Write Away, April 2008<br /><br />These books are a valuable resource for active teachers, providing experienced and new teachers fresh and original ideas. The majority of the contents are written to complement the revised literacy outline and includes speaking and listening, and reading and writing activities. It is a valuable resource for literacy coordinators aiming to improve creativity and cross-curricular planning although class teachers would surely benefit for some extra help. --Yasmin Galea, TES, March 2008

...Like many other schools, we are aiming towards a more exciting curriculum in which we link subjects together using themes. This book is ideal for this approach as it takes a book or several books and then shows you how to link other areas of the curriculum together. Being a KS1 teacher I was excited to find Where the Wild Things Are featured, as it is one of my favourites. The book gave me further ideas about how I can use this story in maths, art and science lessons. I also loved the non-fiction section on 'Exploring Colour and Shape', which draws on the artwork from Gustav Klimt and Kandinsky, together with the music of Saint Saens, and links them with Literacy, Maths and PE. --Melani Tavenner, Teach Primary!, September 2008

These books are a valuable resource for active teachers, providing experienced and new teachers fresh and original ideas. The majority of the contents are written to complement the revised literacy outline and includes speaking and listening, and reading and writing activities. It is a valuable resource for literacy coordinators aiming to improve creativity and cross-curricular planning although class teachers would surely benefit for some extra help. --Yasmin Galea, TES, March 2008

This book contains colourful ideas for delivering a creative curriculum through literacy. Useful for ages 5-11 years, this is a new title from the best-selling "World of Display" series. This book provides teachers with fresh ideas for delivering exciting literacy lessons using popular fiction and non-fiction texts. The book is written to compliment the revised literacy framework, with themes including speaking, listening, reading and writing activities - all key focus areas for teachers at the moment. The themes are designed as complete topics, to be used across a number of literacy lessons and then extended into a variety of areas of the curriculum through fun, practical activities. Display ideas are given in each theme.This book is a valuable resource for literacy co-ordinators aiming to improve creativity and cross-curricular planning in their schools. This book contains: 17 exciting themes presenting ways for delivering a creative curriculum through a variety of fiction and non-fiction texts; a wealth of literacy ideas covering a variety of objectives from the revised primary literay framework; ideas for cross-curricular activities with links to Maths, Science, History, Art, Design and Technology and more. Example themes include: Favourite Stories, Dinosaurs, Weather, Ancient Eygpt and My locality. Each theme contains: a list of fictions or non fiction textsWhole class starting points; a variety of display ideas; practical literacy activities; and, cross-curriculum links.