Jumpstart! History, Whitehouse

Providing teachers with a range of practical ideas and strategies to promote active learning in Key Stage 2, the activities in this book will help students to:

• create plans for investigations and assignments;
• improve their organisational skills: time management and teamwork;
• collect data using methods such as observations, surveys and interviews;
• develop their reading and notetaking skills;
• engage in meaningful discussions and develop their talk skills;
• advance their computer skills to sift and record data;
• create strategies for revising and preparing for tests;
• analyse data and draw conclusions;
• improve their ability to write reports;

• evaluate their own achievements and identify future targets.

Jumpstart! Study Skills is an essential classroom resource that will encourage children's development and help teachers to deliver effective lessons that promote active learning in Key Stage 2.

Specifically written to help teachers with the direct teaching of talk skills required by the National Curriculum, activities in the book encourage children to:

- participate in group and class discussions

- use exploratory talk and share a range of points of view

- use talk imaginatively to develop understanding

- develop individual presentational talk

- take part in active drama sessions

Jumpstart Talk for Learning includes a range of classroom activities that can be used in literacy lessons and integrated across the curriculum. This essential resource will help teachers develop children's use of talk to understand one another and get things done together.

The authors show how developing such skills within the context of a wellbeing agenda aids children's motivation, their ability to concentrate and their willingness to explore, investigate and question, bringing huge benefits for children's sense of achievement, self-confidence and resilience. Drawing on a wealth of practical activities that include both creative and critical ways of thinking, chapters cover:

• Wellbeing in the Classroom;
• Emotional Resourcefulness;
• Relaxation and Meditation;
• Mindfulness and Reflectiveness;
• Being Well.

Jumpstart Wellbeing is a treasure trove of fun activities and ideas for building wellbeing and its constituent skills into the curriculum.

Specifically written to help teachers work within the guidelines of the new curriculum, activities in the book will help pupils to explore and learn a wide range of problem solving and independent thinking skills in an atmosphere of fun, mutual support and tolerance.

Sections within the book reflect key areas of the new curriculum and offer a treasure trove of ideas for building problem solving and thinking skills into daily teaching.and provide tried and tested methods of helping children 'learn how to learn'.

Areas include: -

• Building problem solving confidence
• Thinking and problem solving in literacy
• Thinking and Problem solving in science
• Problem solving in philosophy
• Emotional resourcefulness and life skills

Jumpstart Thinking Skills and Problem Solving will celebrate the joy of critical and independent thinking and become a vital resource for all classroom teachers at Key Stage 2 and 3.

The book opens with a range of innovative ideas to help you set the scene in your language classroom. These are followed by a feast of short and simple activities designed to help you make quick starts with your students and hold their attention. The focus throughout is on communicative action, bringing languages alive with all activities presented in two languages: French and German. Specifically written to help teachers work within the guidelines of the new curriculum, activities in the book will help pupils to: -

- Listen, respond and understand key elements of the target language
- Speak in phrases and sentences with appropriate pronunciation
- Express and communicate simple ideas with clarity
- Write phrases and short sentences
- Develop an understanding of basic grammar
- Learn songs and simple poems in the language studied
- Engage in active learning through a range of varied activities.

Jumpstart French and German celebrates the joys of language and will help you to find just the right words or phrases to express what you want to say.