jacquelinerichards
jacquelinerichards
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Please find attached a number of short stories for your perusal - the culmination of 4 year's work. The idea to break down barriers to learning and draw out basic skills (specifically maths and English spelling) from everyday things to build kids' confidence by highlighting maths in the world around us - featuring things that are familiar - a simple look at mathematical concepts.
A teacher, specialising in english, maths and science, the author originally started writing when living in a developing country - telling stories to illiterate school children - which then progressed as a hobby. She attributes her imaginative yet, fun, informal literary technique to teaching english as a foreign language whilst using limited resources in village settings. These educational short stories hope to address subjects, often thought by schoolchildren to be boring in new, fun and innovative ways - galaxy throwing a party for the Sun, but the planets all get jumbled up, a bookworm who munches his way through classic literature, an astronaut who can't countdown and so on. It is unique because it is a broad ranging anthology - a pot pourri of stories to appeal to a diverse audience - short in length to appeal to a suitable younge, more easily distracted readership. It is intended to be a light hearted look at the world that teachers with their pupils, parents with their children can enjoy. The idea is to actively involve children in their own learning, loosely related to school environment - a teacher with creature features, an oxygen molecule who travels around the body - as well as appeal to their sense of adventure. Some stories have so far been accepted for publication on the world wide web where they can be viewed at www.eslbase.com and www.poetry.com. I do hope that you like them - please fell free to comment on their suitability for publication and give editorial feedback.
The educational materials are referenced from foundation to key stage 4 curriculum found in the DFES reports :
"Primary National Strategy - Core Learning By Year" (2008)
"Primary National Strategy - Core Learning By Strand" (2008)
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For speeches, reports, educational leaflets and other pieces of commissioned work, the author can be contacted at jjacquir@aol.com.
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