Books written by Natalia Kucirkova

Jumpstart! Apps: Creative learning, ideas and activities for ages 7–11

This collection of engaging and simple to use activities will jumpstart students’ learning and help the busy teacher to reinvigorate their teaching through the use of mobile apps and activities that can be used in the classroom.
How and Why to Read and Create Children's Digital Books: A Guide for Primary Practitioners

Stones for Grandpa by Renee Londner is another iBook available for iOS devices from the iBooks Store. The title reveals the main theme of the book: it deals with feelings relating to a grandfather's death. The story is about a young ...
The Routledge International Handbook of Learning with Technology in Early Childhood

The Routledge International Handbook of Learning with Technology in Early Childhood focuses specifically on the most cutting-edge, innovative and international approaches in the study of children’s use of and learning with digital ...
Apps, Technology and Younger Learners: International evidence for teaching

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the challenges, potential and theoretical possibilities of apps and considers the processes of change for education and home learning environments.
How and Why to Read and Create Children's Digital Books: A Guide for Primary Practitioners

Finished books can be shared on the interactive whiteboard and be part of a whole-class discussion. ... Ben, a teacher in a Year 4 Key Stage 2 classroom (nine- to ten-year-olds), created a digital book to accompany his teaching of a ...
Children Reading for Pleasure in the Digital Age: Mapping Reader Engagement

Children in one class took particular delight in knowingly borrowing and revoicing some of Max's phrases, such as 'hip roohay' and 'K.O' and spontaneously inventing their own. Poetry too was often re-voiced and shared amongst friends, ...
How and Why to Read and Create Children's Digital Books: A Guide for Primary Practitioners

Praise for How and Why to Read and Create Children's Digital Books 'This is an exciting and innovative book – not least because it is freely available to read online but because its origins are in primary practice.
The Routledge International Handbook of Learning with Technology in Early Childhood

Dixon, P. and Bortolussi, M. (2016) Measuring literary experience. Scientific Study of Literature 5 (2), 178–182. Evans, J. and Davies, B. (2011) New directions, new questions? Social theory, education and embodiment. Sport, Education ...
The Future of the Self: Understanding Personalization in Childhood and Beyond

In this book, Kucirkova offers a comprehensive account of the effects of digitally-mediated personalization on children’s development of ‘self’.
Reading Teachers: Nurturing Reading for Pleasure

reading. for. pleasure. Reading ma ers. Every tea er knows that. But being able to read and being a keen reader are not the ... social and emotional well-being, broaden their understanding of the world and enri their imaginations.
The Routledge International Handbook of Early Literacy Education: A Contemporary Guide to Literacy Teaching and Interventions in a Global Context

The Routledge International Handbook of Early Literacy Education offers a pioneering overview of early literacy provision in different parts of the world and brings together interdisciplinary research evidence on effective literacy teaching ...
How and Why to Read and Create Children's Digital Books

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Children Reading for Pleasure in the Digital Age: Mapping Reader Engagement

This book explores the ways in which reading for pleasure is changing in the era of globalisation and datafication.
The Routledge International Handbook of Early Literacy Education: A Contemporary Guide to Literacy Teaching and Interventions in a Global Context

The Routledge International Handbook of Early Literacy Education offers a pioneering overview of early literacy provision in different parts of the world and brings together interdisciplinary research evidence on effective literacy teaching ...
Outstanding Early Childhood Practice in ICT

... secondary schools. While the girls opting for IT-related courses did consistently better than the boys, they only made up 44% of those enrolled in all related General Certificate of Secondary Education ... Computer studies/IT related courses.