Pat Thomson

How might educational leaders and teachers improve literacy achievement in schools serving communities experiencing high levels of poverty? This question is the focus of Literacy, Leading and Learning. Drawing on long-term case studies of four primary schools located in these communities, this book describes the difference between what is commonly practised and those practices that have a greater chance of...

Revision is often taken as a largely instrumental process which happens after the real work of writing is done – it is an unavoidable and tedious process. Refining by contrast is imaginative work; it requires craft, connoisseurship, and courage, and builds knowledge about academic writing purposes and practices. Refining Your Academic Writing will help you complete your writing project and...

Michel hatches a plan to join the resistance in Nazi-occupied France in this thrilling WWll drama, edited to a reading age of 6.5. The Nazis have occupied France. Michel knows that there are Resistance fighters in his town and he's desperate to join them. Will his mother agree to it? After all with his father AWOL, she needs a man...