Primary and Middle School Resources and Books

A mantra is a short, easy-to-remember phrase that, if you repeat it to yourself, will help remind you how to positively respond to or cope with a specific situation you may find yourself in. This makes mantras excellent tools for helping children to...

Games for the Early Years contains 26 tried and tested games for 3-5 year olds. All the games are photocopiable and can be made easily and then played for years. The games link to common early years themes such as clothes, weather, transport, dinosaurs...

Over 40 photocpoiable sheets for use with 7-11 year olds working mainly at levels 3-5. The activities will help students to acquire the experimental and investigative skills required to conduct successful science investigations.The contexts for the...

43 Team-building Activities provides clearly written lesson plans aimed at improving a range of social and physical skills, as well as stimulating children's imaginations through a series of exciting problems and scenarios. Each lesson plan begins with a...

This book provides readers working in a diverse range of early years settings with the underpinning knowledge required to increase their effectiveness in working with young children. It will explore a wide range of issues including: the roles and...

This wonderful collection consists of 50 assembly stories, all set in Mill Lane Junior School, a fictional school. Children will enjoy getting to know the pupils and staff at Mill Lane and will relate to the moral dilemmas the characters face. Topics...

Teaching vocabulary in context has been proven to be an incredibly effective method to reinforce memorization. Therefore, Ruman introduces its first English Picture Dictionary following this method.  The Ruman English Picture Dictionary is a foldout...

A volume in Contemporary Perspectives in Early Childhood EducationSeries Editor Olivia N. Saracho, University of MarylandResearchers, educators, professional organizations, administrators, parents, and policy makers have increased theirinvolvement in the...

Contemporary Perspectives on Research in Assessmentand Evaluation in Early Childhood EducationEdited by Olivia N. Saracho, University of MarylandA volume in Contemporary Perspectives in Early Childhood EducationSeries Editor Olivia N. Saracho, University...

My Silly Body is a fun book for any young reader. It's a book that will have you and your child interact together. It will get their imagination working while also getting out some of their wiggles. It gives a positive affirmation that will help their...

Lisa's passion is global inquiry education for our younger people. That's why she's proud to be a leading member of our team at TheIBLibrary.com. Lisa is a former 2nd Grade Teacher at Morikami Park Elementary IB World School. She has been extensively...

A volume in Teaching and Learning Social Studies Book SeriesSeries Editor William Benedict Russell III, University of Central FloridaThe world is ever changing and the way students experience social studies should reflect theenvironment in which they...

A volume in Teaching and Learning Social Studies Book SeriesSeries Editor William Benedict Russell III, University of Central FloridaThe world is ever changing and the way students experience social studies should reflect theenvironment in which they...

Bernard Spodek, one of the most important figures in contemporary early childhood education, has been aseminal figure in early childhood education for approximately six decades. He has also been a creativecontributor to contemporary thinking on the...

Cathy Stockton and David E. Gullatt used their combined 75 years in education to create Practical Classroom Management for Elementary, Middle, and Secondary Teachers.Their book identifies theorists and educators who are noted for their research in...

2015 Reprint of 1911 Edition. Full Facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Along with Charlotte Mason, Serl's work is considered one of the more lasting classics on Home Schooling. "Primary Language...

In November 1998, the author arrived in Mascarilla, a small village in Ecuador's predominantly-black Chota Valley, to begin a six-month teaching assignment at the Escuela "Hernando Tquez" (the local primary school). Based both on his own...

Values are core to live a fulfilled life, to make the world a better place, and to live in peace. This book will give you everyday examples of the meaning of living with values.

There are many books on Christian education, but few consider pedagogy with a biblical focus on formation, and a grounding in varied related disciplines. This book seeks to recapture the term pedagogy and place it at the center of the teacher's role--not...

Broadbent describes programs she created and taught to combined first and second grade classes. Chapters include descriptions of programs designed to address a wide range of ages, intellectual levels, and abilities without limits for achievement -...

The Teacher's Closet: Lesbian and Gay Educators in Georgia's Public Middle Schools reveals the intricate and multifaceted process of identity management that lesbian and gay middle school teachers regularly engage in.

Coordinate Colleges for American Women explores the history of coordinate colleges―a separate school of higher learning for women connected to an older, all-male institution. Using examples in the Midwest and New York, the author shows they were created...

Critical Language Pedagogy: Interrogating Language, Dialects, and Power in Teacher Education demonstrates how critical approaches to language and dialects are an essential part of social justice work in literacy education.

PAR EntreMundos: A Pedagogy of the Americas challenges the standard narratives of "achievement" to think about how Latinx students can experience an education that forges new possibilities of liberation and justice.

Through the artful science of portraiture, The Pedagogy of Teacher Activism presents the stories of four teacher activists-how they are and have become social change agents-to uncover important pedagogical underpinnings of teacher activism.

The Shifting Landscape of the American School District offers a new perspective on the American school district.

Riding the Fifth Wave in Higher Education: A Survival Guide for the New Normal charts the dimensions of the Fifth Wave challenge and offers numerous general and specific suggestions for surfing the wave and surviving its tsunami-like impact.

The pedagogical project discussed in Disrupting Gendered Pedagogies in the Early Childhood Classroom examines the tensions associated with one teacher's attempts to rethink gendered narratives and childhood sexuality in her own classroom.

This book gives voice to unsung heroes and the often overlooked view of the adolescent perspective to address the question of how one can endure and thrive in the midst of hardship and tragedy.

Going Inward is a pragmatic text for faculty in all disciplines who desire to deepen their reflection on teaching. Through the culturally introspective writings of faculty in a variety of academic disciplines, readers will gain a deeper understanding of...

Re-engaging Disconnected Youth profiles a program that succeeds in doing so, one that can serve as a model for others. Drawing on Adult Transformative Learning Theory, the book is an in-depth, qualitative study of the ways the program transformed adult...

Voices of Early Childhood Educators presents powerful, living stories of early childhood students and practitioners. Susan Bernheimer clearly shows the importance of their stories for understanding the challenges now facing our field, including valuable...

Learning from Bad Practice in Environmental and Sustainability Education illuminates the notion of bad practice from the perspective of environmental and sustainability education (ESE) and how it is possible to learn from it in order to avoid the...

A Curriculum of Wellness seeks to encourage a deeper discussion about teaching our children how to be healthy and live well. It makes a significant contribution to the field of education as it features influential curriculum concepts nuanced with action...

The book explores the historical failure of testing and grading; the theoretical and philosophical arguments against testing and grading; the negative influence of tests and grades on social justice, race, class, and gender; and the role that they play...

Counterstorytelling Narratives of Latino Teenage Boys presents an ethnographic portrait of the experiences and counterstories of nine Latino teenage boys representing different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds attending a high school in North...

People Need to Know follows a group of students as they study the defining event in their community's history - a 1930 lynching that was captured in one of the century's most iconic and disturbing photographs. Through the stories, the book develops an...

Every Person Is a Philosopher gathers essays by classroom and community educators deeply influenced by radical educator, Hal Adams' educational work and vision, and several essays by Hal Adams. They explore diverse ways this humanizing pedagogy can be...

Teaching with Disney, the first comprehensive volume on Disney as cultural pedagogy and classroom praxis, explores what it means to teach, learn, and live in a world where many familiar discourses are dominated by The Walt Disney Company.

Learning from Counternarratives in Teach For America utilizes multiple frameworks to analyze the depth and range of TFA corps members' experiences. This book ultimately advocates for a more honest, contextualized, and egalitarian approach to reform - one...

Storying Learning in Early Childhood documents philosophical, research, and critical questions about notions of childrens' experiences and learning potential that heavily influence the profession. This book brings into focus policy issues, economic...

This is a collection of narratives that will transform the teaching of any faculty member who teaches in the STEM system. The book links issues of inclusion to teacher excellence at all grade levels by illuminating the critical influence that racial...

Place, Being, Resonance brings insights from the hermeneutic tradition, ecopoetics and indigenous epistemologies of place to bear on education in a world of ecological emergency.

The Souls of Yoruba Folk explores the spiritual lives and experiences of sixteen Africans of Yoruba descent in Canada, and investigates how they make meaning of their Indigenous heritage within the geopolitical space of Eurocentric Canadian culture.