Literacy: Commas, colons, connectives (How to Teach) (Phil Beadle's How to Teach Series)

Literacy is important and this book is about getting it right. The author, Phil Beadle is an expert in teaching children how to speak and write well, and has transformed the oral and written communication skills of many thousands of students. In this comprehensive book, he shares with you how he does it, what he knows about this most important of all learning skills and what every teacher needs to know to radically transform literacy standards across the curriculum. The stories, anecdotes and insights into the many practical activities in this book are, in turn, and often in the same sentence, heartbreaking, inspiring, shocking as well as funnier and more readable than an education book has any right to be.