User Friendly Resources is an educational publisher based in New Zealand. The publisher specialises in creating and developing high-quality supplementary curriculum and teacher support materials. They are designed with diverse learners in mind and provide engaging and innovative ideas to supplement teaching programmes.

Outside the Box Learning Resources began collaborating with User Friendly Resources in 2008 and have continued to offer their superb publicatios since then to educators in Ireland, the UK and Europe.

75 Positive Behaviour Activities

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This book contains practical and easy to implement strategies and ideas that can be mixed and matched according to individual student needs or classroom situations.

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About Algebra

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About Geometry

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About Statistics

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Acting Locally, Thinking Globally

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The aim of this topical resource is to provide teachers of senior primary and junior secondary students with material about “saving the environment” in a practical way, suitable for the students to actually use.

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Active Comprehension

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Active Comprehension is a collection of comprehension activities that encourages a hands-on approach to engaging with texts.

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Advanced Research Skills

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This follow-up by Naomi Roche to her popular resource ‘Research Wise’ is designed to teach students progressive research skills they can take to the “real” world.

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All That I Can Be!

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Alligators To Zebras

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Applied Literacy

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Art Eyes

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Art Works

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Astronomy Book

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Atlas Challenges

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The first section of this resource covers essential background terms and skills related to atlas maps. This is followed by questions and activities related to aspects of the whole world.

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Awesome Atlas Activities

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Awesome Atlas Activities provides engaging high interest challenges, quizzes and puzzles that support students in using the atlas.

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Awesome Auditory Activities

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This book is composed of over twenty detailed, varied and easy-to-use exercises designed to improve auditory memory skills.

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Beating the Blues!

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Rob Long’s Beating The Blues !is designed to help students to better understand the emotions that can overwhelm them in their teenage years, take ownership and look for ways to resolve their own emotional problems.

Blends Book, The

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The Blends Book is aimed at those children who already have confidence with initial sounds. Each of the consonant blends featured is accompanied by a creative activity and two fun reading activities designed both to consolidate blend recognition and use and to extend children’s knowledge in a stimulating way.

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Book for All Seasons, A

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This practical photocopiable resource provides exciting ideas and activities for early childhood practitioners. It includes display ideas and poems as well as art, language, cultural and physical activities. All the activities in this book have been developed with young children in mind. This resource offers early childhood educators broad themes based around times of the year.

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Brain Benders

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Brain Benders for Beginners!

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Brain Benders for Beginners! has been developed to enrich higher-order thinking skills in young children and build on their natural excitement for learning. Underpinned by the work of Bloom, Gardner, Dalton and Vygotsky, this lively book has been designed for children who are in their first years of school, although the open-ended nature of most of the problems makes them suitable for use with a wide variety of ages.
There are 30 topics each with 3 types of task:
  1. Sit and Think
  2. Go and Find Out
  3. Make and Create

This resource helps children develop skills in critical and higher-level thinking, inquiry process, communication and presentation.

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Brain Friendly Revision

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Building Resilience

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This comprehensive resource offers a proactive, preventative approach within an educational paradigm that is based on the premise that resilience can be taught and that factors can be altered to facilitate resiliency among at-risk students.

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Bully Off!

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Classroom Quiz Time

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Climate Change

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Computer Word Puzzles

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The computer-focused puzzles in this photocopiable book are ideal for students who are fascinated by how computers work and have a passion for the hardware aspect of information technology.

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Cool Kids!

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Developed for the first three years of school, Cool Kids provides junior teachers with practical guidance and strategies for ways to work with children on anger issues.

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Creative Frameworks

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Creative Frameworks is a two-book series which focuses on creative thinking, problem-solving and creative writing.

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Creative Maths Problems

 20.00 35.00

Darcy the Brave

 14.95

This children’s book is a story of bravery and of believing in who you are – Darcy the Brave shows that sometimes to show the greatest courage you need to forget about battling dragons and monsters and face the fears that no one else can see.
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Design and Technology in Process

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This Design and Technology in Process series consists of six comprehensive units of work across two books. Each unit is prefaced by teacher support material, ideas for classroom organisation, equipment notes, starter activities and assessment suggestions. Choose a book option below to LOOK INSIDE:

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Digital Pencil, The

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The Digital Pencil describes the emergence and use of one-to-one computing programs within education.

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Drama 7-11

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This book is a practical guide to teaching drama and provides a clear and coherent framework together with a theoretical underpinning that will allow teachers to create their own drama lessons from an informed standpoint and maximise their learning potential.

Drama Ideas Bank, The

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This photocopiable resource book provides teachers who are non-specialists with an accessible introduction to using improvisation and mime with students.

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Drama Themes

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Drama Themes is a two-book series focusing on eight high-interest areas that will help students to develop skills in choral dramatisation, communication skills, group participation, movement, interpretation and much more. Choose a book option below to LOOK INSIDE.

Dramatic Events

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Through the use of process drama, students are provided with a safe environment to learn about human behaviour and develop an understanding of how and why people react in particular ways to given situations.
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Dramatic Shorts: An Anthology of Plays

 25.00 90.00

Written by playwright, Susan Battye, the Dramatic Shorts: An Anthology of Plays series focuses on a collection of short stage plays that can be easily staged in a school or drama club setting. This progressive series is packed with activities that will encourage teenage students of English and Drama to read, present and respond to plays

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Dúcheisteanna Mata

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ECE Drama: Are You Invited To Ms. Ladybird’s Afternoon Tea Party?

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This follow-up to Felicity Williams’ previous ECE drama book contains ten splendid drama games, each with its own song on the accompanying CD.
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ECE Drama: Who is Hiding Under The Bridge and are you Afraid to Look?

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These enchanting 15-minute drama games allow children and teachers to visit and explore imaginary worlds, while at the same time providing robust and energetic physical activities as a complement to the existing academic classroom programme.
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Eco World Savers

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English A to Z

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Enigmathics

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Essentially Fit!

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Essentially Fit! is a two-book physical education series providing comprehensive ideas and directions for daily fitness activities that can be used throughout the school.
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Everyday English

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Explore Design Make

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This resource contains fun and humorous challenges presenting opportunities for problem-solving, ingenuity, cooperative work, making links and coming up with workable solutions. It aims to introduce children to Design and Technology.

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Fair Play!

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Finding Your Way , The

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Finding Your Way around Maps

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Find your Way Around Maps contains a wealth of fun and challenging activities that will help your students to become expert map readers!
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Finding your Way with Information

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Finding Your Way With Information is aimed at supporting students to develop and use effective information literacy skills.
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Fundamentally Music

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Getting Started with Reading & Moving on with Reading

 30.00 55.00

This fabulous two-book beginning reading series is based on basic emergent words from Levels 1-3, PM Readers (Getting Started with Reading) and the most frequently used words from Levels 3-14, PM Readers (Moving on with Reading). Choose a book option below to LOOK INSIDE:

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Go Figure

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Historical Challenges

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These two photocopiable resource books provide information and engaging activity-based challenges that will enable students to develop an understanding of a range of key historical topics, movements and events. Each topic is presented as a question. Choose a single book option below to LOOK INSIDE.

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Inclusion Toolkit

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Inspiring Success

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The Inspiring Success! series has been developed as support material for teachers who are working with students on improving self-esteem and motivation as a pathway to improving learning. Choose an individual book to LOOK INSIDE.

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Introducing Drama

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This two-book series provides the first steps into drama for young primary school students at the junior and middle primary levels.

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Introducing English for Speakers of Other Languages

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This ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) resource provides both written and oral exercises that are designed to provide natural learning experiences to expand and extend English vocabulary.

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Just Being Me

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Just Being Me is a two book resource series that provides support material for teachers and students in the area of mental health and well-being.

Keep Cool!

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Keep Cool provides teachers with practical guidance and strategies for helping students to understand what anger is, where it comes from and how to deal with it.

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Learning Matters

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Let’s Measure Up!

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Library Quiz Quest

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Lift-Off

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Managing Anxiety at School

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This book contains a series of 18 topics that can be used to support students in developing a repertoire of responses for managing feelings of anxiety and fear before they get out of control.

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Maths Motivators

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Maths Reinforcers

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More Fair Play

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My World

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Numbers for Nippers

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Numeracy In Action

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Planning to Succeed

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Quiet Times: A Safety Valve for Student Stress

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Quiet Times will not only get students thinking about what is important to them but will also allow them a welcome chance to recharge and refresh in the midst of busy and often stressful day-to-day classroom learning.

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Quirky Quizzes for Lively Libraries

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Quizzes & Puzzles for use by Teachers in Library Time. Choose a book option below to LOOK INSIDE:

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Quiz Quest!

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Rainbow of Colour

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Rainbow of Colour is a theme-based resource that provides easy to pick up and use activities.

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Reading Dialogues

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Each book in the Reading Dialogues series contains a series of ‘dialogues’ or short plays which are intended to be read aloud in small groups, and then discussed. The dialogues are tailored to different language levels in both books and are interesting, challenging and above all, fun.

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Science Matters Series

 20.00 35.00

The Science Matters series provides a wealth of photocopiable stimulating worksheets that will liven up any science lesson. There are two books in the series: The Astronomer Investigator and The Biology Investigator.

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Setting your Sights

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Shockingly Electronics

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Show Me the Words

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This book provides a supportive narrative programme to students between the ages of 8 to 11+.

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Smart Programme: The Birth to 2 Years Handbook

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This resource is designed to assist practitioners to establish a workable programme for children from birth to 2 years.
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Smart Reading Programme

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This programme for building literacy skills is a ‘What – Why – How’ resource to encourage and develop a love for oral language for stories and games for young children.
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Speak Easy

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This is a collection of activities that help to promote oral language in students who are very new to English.

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Speaking Ideas Bank

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Spell Well

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Studentspeak

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Studentspeak is a New Zealand resource and draws on the stories of 8 teenage international students to provide a basis for a range of ESOL learning activities.

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Super Starters

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Tales with a Tip

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Talking In Pictures

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Counselling Techniques for Children and Adolescents who find it Difficulty to Talk

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Teaching Health in the Junior School

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Teaching Health in the Junior School is a flexible two-book resource series intended for use in the first two years of school.
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Teaching Students with ADHD

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This comprehensive photocopiable book provides users with comprehensive in-class support materials for working with students who have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

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Telling Tales

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Thinking Fitness

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This photocopiable book provides a complete learning module on fitness for Physical Education students.
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Thinking Maths! Series

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Thinking Themes

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The Thinking Themes Series provides flexible, theme-based activities that support the development of thinking skills.
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What a Relief!

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Where I Belong

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Where I Belong is a well-organised resource to promote a sense of belonging for children and their families.

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Word Puzzles for Speakers of Other Languages

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The 50 crosswords and word searches in this photocopiable book provide new speakers of English with opportunities to practise and reinforce new words and phrases.

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Work it Out

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Writing Frameworks

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Writing Reports

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Writing Reports will take the grind out of end-of-term or end-of-year report writing.

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Writing Workbook for Speakers of Other Languages

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For many students, presenting their own ideas and discussing issues have not been significant in their first language education. This workbook has been developed to help teachers address this challenge.

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