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Trauma affects the lives of many children who we teach in school. It effects the students, teachers who teach them, the administration, and the school community as it is part of the school environment and culture. Teachers and administrators have great potential to set up an environment and adopt an attitude that can help heal the trauma in the lives of their students. Schools need to become trauma-informed to be able to provide for the growing number of refugee children who have experienced terrorism, crime, war, and abuse, to better help some Indigenous children who due to systemic racism and discriminatory policies have been traumatised and live daily with trauma, and the growing number o...
The mystery of Art Therapy is demystified in this book as the author offers an illuminating glimpse into her therapy practice. The author is deeply immersed in her own creative process and the respect, delicacy, and understanding that she provides her clients shines through. The poems embrace the painful aspects of her clients' lives and show how by working skillfully and creatively with trauma, abuse and mental illness, her clients move forward into joy, well-being and wholeness. Her poetic reflections move us to appreciate how art can be used as an instrument of transformation by travelling through landscapes where words cannot go.
This progressive phonics series helps beginning readers to build reading confidence. Each volume contains an engaging fiction story, accompanied by beautiful illustrations--along with a pronunciation guide to all the sounds in the story. Also included are parent and teacher notes that point out tricky words and offer tips and extended learning activities.
A book of dualities, probing the small spaces between lucidity and madness, desire and ambivalence, the living and the absent. Both an evocation of her love for her husband David Foster Wallace and an act of defiance in the face of devastating loss, Bough Down is a lapidary, keenly observed and composed work, awash with the honesty of an open heart.
Alfie isn't like the other meerkats. He's no good at digging holes or standing on guard duty. He has big dreams and is looking for adventure. So when a film crew arrive in the desert, Alfie decides to take action Is this his chance to become a star?
Alfie the meerkat is fed up of doing what he's told. Life should beabout more than digging holes and standing on guard duty. He wantsadventure and excitement, not babysitting duty! So when a film crew fora nature programme arrives in the desert, Alfie decides to take action.Is this his chance to become a star?Book band: WhiteIdeal for ages: 5+
This book combines a teaching text with exemplary reports of research and a literature review by international scholars.
DK Readers will help your child learn to read and encourage a life-long love of reading whilst learning about Rockets and Spaceships.Encourage your child to read. They will learn all about rockets and spacecrafts, how they get into space and how they orbit the earth. DK Readers are part of a five-level highly pictorial reading scheme, with lively illustrations and engaging stories to encourage reading. Level 1 has simple sentences, limited vocabulary, word repetition, picture dictionary boxes and large type - read them together with children who are just beginning to learn and with early or reluctant readers.
Literary agent Joe Allston, the central character of Stegner's novel All the Little Live Things, is now retired and, in his own words, 'just killing time until time gets around to killing me.' His parents and his only son are long dead, leaving him with neither ancestors nor descendants, tradition nor ties. His job, trafficking the talent of others, had not been his choice. He passes through life as a spectator. A postcard from an old friend causes Allston to return to the journals of a trip he and his wife had taken years before, a journey to his mother's birthplace, where he'd sought a link with the past. The memories of that trip, both grotesque and poignant, move through layers of time a...
Just when you thought it was safe to go into the jungleā¦Alice, ourfavourite anteater, is back for a third adventure! When she discoversthat Cornelius the crocodile is lonely, she decides to find a friendfor him. Alice sets off on her raft withher trusty pink handbag but soon discovers howdifficult it is to find a friend for a crocodile with bad manners andferocious hunger! Will Alice ever succeed in finding a suitablecompanion for Cornelius and prove that she really does know best?