Starting points for assemblies - Allison Bond

Scholastic Teacher Bookshop provides a wonderful range of titlesreflecting current issues in education as well as the most popularprimary curriculum areas. Teachers can browse through 'The Bookshop'and choose those titles that meet their particular needs and/ortake their fancy!The varied format of titles in this series enables subjects to becovered in a way that is most appropriate to the content.STARTING POINTS FOR ASSEMBLIES provides a collection of originaltexts that can be used as a focus for assemblies. The collectioncovers a wide range of genres - including stories, poems, letters,newspaper articles, diary extracts, and so on - giving a hugevariety of starting points from which to explore concepts and discussissues. As well as photocopiable texts, the book also includessupport on how to introduce the assembly, guidance for discussion,ideas for extending the text within the assembly - for examplerole play - suggestions for follow-up work back in the classroomand a closing thought.Chapters are included on the themes of: friendship, keeping happyand healthy, change, growing up, being out in the wider world andglobal citizenship.