Putting Research into Practice in Primary Teaching and Learning

Chapter 1 Introduction, Suzi Clipson-Boyles; Chapter 2 Managing positive behaviour, Sonia Blandford; Chapter 3 1.Parts of this chapter first appeared in the British Journal of Special Education 17(1), 31-4, and these are reproduced with the kind permission of the editor of that journal., Deborah Lucas, Gary Thomas; Chapter 4 Catching up with reading: from classroom research to national project, Diana Bentley, Dee Reid; Chapter 5 Reading and writing arithmetic, Alison Price; Chapter 6 Science: the need for an environmental focus, David Mancey; Chapter 7 An antidote for diffidence in teaching art to children at Key Stage 2, Penny Fowler; Chapter 8 Design and technology: raising the profile of teaching method, Alan Cross; Chapter 9 Developing language and literacy through drama, Suzi Clipson-Boyles; Chapter 10 Understanding, making and using maps, Michael Brown; Chapter 11 Telling the truth? Using stories to teach history to young children, Peter Vass; Chapter 12 Information and communications technology: investigating new frontiers, Jonathan Allen; Chapter 13 Motivating the musically disaffected, Mary Kellett; Chapter 14 Demystifying the core strands in the National Curriculum for physical education, Chris Carpenter; Chapter 15 Researching skills common to religious education and citizenship, Nick Mead;