Jenny Alexander

Most books about bullying tell children how to act without addressing how they feel. But the usual advice to 'ignore it' or 'say something smart' is doomed to fail, as you can't act brave and confident if you feel stressed and helpless inside. Jenny Alexander's approach is to develop readers' psychological defences. Through an entertaining mix of exercises, quizzes and fictional scenarios, she combines common sense with simple cognitive therapy techniques, to build up children's self esteem. Her tone is humorous and upbeat, but always sensitive to the reader's feelings. This new, updated edition takes account of recent technologies such as texting, MSN and bluejacking, which are increasingly abused by bullies.

Story Street for ages 4-7:Ensures children progress at the right pace with supportive, gradual progression through carefully graded steps. Provides engaging humour and lively fiction plots provided by top authors and illustrators enhance excellence and enjoyment in teaching and learning. Includes varied fiction styles are introduced through fantasy, cliff-hanger, adventure and novelty format titles to motivate and maintain attention. Promotes valuable awareness of community and citizenship as Story Street is modelled round a contemporary multi-cultural community and many titles are ideal for teaching citizenship and PSHE including issues that range from conservation to bullying. Specific assessment activities to help teachers monitor children’s reading progress and simple integration of assessment for learning throughout Story Street Teacher’s Notes ensure children’s reading and writing skills progress at word, sentence and text level. Accessible Teaching Notes and Activity sheets ensure teachers, teaching assistants and parents are all able to contribute to teaching and learning with simple integration of assessment for learning Covers ICT and literacy with vibrant talking books, author video clips and activities on CDROM for ages 5-7.

Story Street for ages 4-7:Ensures children progress at the right pace with supportive, gradual progression through carefully graded steps. Provides engaging humour and lively fiction plots provided by top authors and illustrators enhance excellence and enjoyment in teaching and learning. Includes varied fiction styles are introduced through fantasy, cliff-hanger, adventure and novelty format titles to motivate and maintain attention. Promotes valuable awareness of community and citizenship as Story Street is modelled round a contemporary multi-cultural community and many titles are ideal for teaching citizenship and PSHE including issues that range from conservation to bullying. Specific assessment activities to help teachers monitor children’s reading progress and simple integration of assessment for learning throughout Story Street Teacher’s Notes ensure children’s reading and writing skills progress at word, sentence and text level. Accessible Teaching Notes and Activity sheets ensure teachers, teaching assistants and parents are all able to contribute to teaching and learning with simple integration of assessment for learning Covers ICT and literacy with vibrant talking books, author video clips and activities on CDROM for ages 5-7.

Info Trail for ages 5-11:Enthuses all readers with attention-grabbing titles, engaging humour and inventive topics to inspire excellence and enjoyment in learning. Provides broad and rich cross-curricular content linked to History, Geography and Science with many matches to National Curriculum and QCA topics. Provides excellent models for writing with coverage of all NLS non-fiction text types pupils need to experience and understand. Especially motivates and supports reluctant readers through supportive illustrations and Access texts for ages 9-11. Promotes valuable awareness of community and citizenship through many titles based around community, environment and health. Simple integration of assessment for learning into class teaching is provided in the Teaching Notes which ensure children's reading and writing skills progress at word, sentence and text level. Accessible Teaching Notes and Activity sheets ensure teachers, teaching assistants and parents are all able to contribute to teaching and learning.