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Get it between 2025-11-04 to 2025-11-11. Additional 3 business days for provincial shipping.
Product Description This is both a theoretical and practical book giving a complete pathwayto teaching children how to write and read in Classes 1 and 2 (equivalent UKYears 2 and 3.) This book provides teachers with appealing, easy-to-use plans,and practical activities for immediate use. It also sets out fundamentalprinciples of Steiner Waldorf pedagogy. It shows how this dovetails with thebest of both mainstream primary approaches and specialist dyslexia-friendlymethods. Teachers can use these principles to become confidentin creating their own activities and resources. The book showcases the holistic, creative aspects ofthe Steiner Waldorf literacy approach. The teaching of writing before reading isprioritized so as to engage children’s creativity in learning. Developing thechild’s own voice through writing and storytelling, to lead over into reading, ishighly effective for motivation and success. About the Author Abi Allanson, MA (Cantab.) Teacher and Consultant at Steiner Academy Frome, specialisingin literacy, differentiation and teacher training, Abi was formerly a LearningSupport and Class Teacher at the Rudolf Steiner School Kings Langley and StPaul’s Steiner School, London. Nicky Teensma, SMT, Lower School Lead and Class Teacher at Rudolf Steiner School KingsLangley, originally trained in Zeist and worked at the Johannes School in Tiel,Netherlands. A trained and qualified specialist dyslexia teacher, she taught aparallel SEN class (Tobias) at RSSKL for five years.