Books, TV programmes and other teaching materials
Since starting work on Toxic Childhood in 2000, much of my writing has time has been spent researching and publishing books for the general market, published by Orion and Floris. Previously, I worked in educational publishing and wrote so much before 2000 that I can’t remember all the titles and dates.
Upstart: the case for raising the school starting age and providing what the under-sevens really need (Floris Books, 2016)
Toxic Childhood [second edition, updated] (Orion Books, 2015)
21st Century Girls (Orion Books, 2013)
Foundations of Literacy [fourth edition, updated] (Featherstone Press, 2013)
Speaking Frames: how to teach talk for writing [8-10 yrs] and [10-14 yrs] (David Fulton, 2010)
How to teach writing across the curriculum [6-8 yrs] and [8-14 yrs] (David Fulton, 2010)
21st Century Boys (Orion Books, 2009)
Detoxing Childhood (Orion Books, 2007)
You Can Teach Your Class to Listen (Scholastic, 2007)
Toxic Childhood: How the modern world is damaging our children – and what we can do about it (Orion Books, 2006)
The Complete Skeleton Book for non fiction text types (TTS, 2006)
Foundations of Literacy, with Ros Bayley (Featherstone Press, 2004)
More
2003 Literacy: What Works? with Pie Corbett (Nelson)
How to teach writing across the curriculum at Key Stage 2 (David Fulton)
Skeleton Poster Books for writing genres with Pie Corbett – 6 books (TTS)
Skeleton Poster Books for grammar – 6 books (TTS)
2002 Skeleton Poster Books for non-fiction text types – 6 books (TTS)
2001 How to teach writing across the curriculum at Key Stage 1 (David Fulton)
Big Book Spelling with Michaela Morgan – five book series + teachers’ books (Ginn)
Look and Read Spelling Strategies – three TV programmes + teachers’ notes, copymasters and poster pack (BBC Worldwide)
2000 A Little Alphabet Book (Oxford University Press)
Pre-2000
Harcourt (i.e. Ginn, Heinemann)
Ginn Big Book Phonics with Michaela Morgan – four books + teachers’ notes (1997)
Heinemann Big Book Grammar with Michaela Morgan – six books + teachers’ notes(1999)Masterpieces: Punctuation, Lower Junior and Upper Junior with Charles Butchart (Ginn, 1998)
BBC Educational Publishing
English Express: Language Knowledge – four TV programmes + teacher’s notes.
The Magic Pencil Alphabet Rhymes – one book for each letter of the alphabet + one big book
Words and Pictures Phonics Special poster pack (includes posters of 10 phonic poems)
Words and Pictures Year 2 poster pack (includes posters of 10 phonic poems)
Words and Pictures Big Book of Phonic Poems
Oxford University Press
The Oxford Word Box
Also several teachers’ books for the Oxford Connections series, for which I was the consultant, and some support materials for The Oxford Reading Tree.
Addison Wesley Longman
Sue Palmer was general editor of all the Longman Book Project materials (1994-5), and author of:
- Water in the House, written with Ron Murphy (non-fiction book on plumbing)
- Fiction 1, 2, 3, 4 Teacher’s Resource Books, written with Wendy Body
- 12 Read On Specials, written with Wendy Body (first reading material)
All the Language Strand materials
- Meet the Beeps written with Michaela Morgan*
- The Beeps ABC written with Michaela Morgan*
- All Together Now written with Michaela Morgan*
- Language 1 song tapes: The Beeps ABC and All Together Now written with Michaela Morgan*
- Language 1 Teacher’s Resource Book (contributions from Michaela Morgan)*
- Handwriting and phonic workbooks 1,2,3,4 written with Avril Barton*
- Language 2 materials: 2 pupil’s books, 4 spelling and handwriting workbooks and a teacher’s resource book
- Language 3 materials: 2 pupil’s books, 4 spelling and handwriting workbooks and a teacher’s resource book
- Language 4 materials: pupil’s book, 2 spelling and handwriting workbooks and a teacher’s resource book*
Mind Your Language, Books 1, 2, 3, 4 and teacher’s notes, written with Peter Brinton (first published by Oliver and Boyd 1985-6, revised 1998)
Mind Your Spelling, Books 1, 2, 3, 4 (first published by Oliver and Boyd 1987-8, revised 1998)
The Starter Book of Joined Up Writing
Spelling: A Teacher’s Survival Guide (first published by Oliver and Boyd, 1988)
Words Borrowed from Other Languages written with Eugenia Low (Longman Pelicans, 1999)
A Simple Rhyming Dictionary (Longman Pelicans, 1999)
I See What You Mean Books 1 and 2, written with Alison Kilpatrick and Patricia McCall (Oliver and Boyd, 1980) – cross-curricular literacy, the genesis of skeletons
Cliffhangers Books 1, 2, 3, 4, written with Alison Kilpatrick and Patricia McCall (Oliver and Boyd, 1982) – children’s fiction and speaking/listening activities
English through Topics – Food, Weather, Minibeasts, Transport, written with Avril Barton and Peter Brinton (Oliver and Boyd, 1990-1992) 5 pupil’s books per topic (one for each National Curriculum level) + teacher’s guides + copymaster packs
Scholastic
Term by term phonics (1997) – originally six workbooks, but latterly a rather useful compendium of photocopiables in one book
Owl Babies Read and Respond
12 ill-fated Ten Steps home-learning books (Scholastic 1998-9)
I’m now very ashamed of writing these books (and the Letts books below) for the parental market (see this 2019 article for TES) but fortunately they were really badly marketed so didn’t sell very many.
Letts Educational
Ready to Read (1996) Start to Read (1996)
Hodder and Stoughton
Presenting Poetry, Books 1, 2, 3, 4, written with Patricia McCall (first published by Oliver and Boyd 1983, revised, with contributions by Gordon Jarvie 1996)
Dorling Kindersley
Phonic Cards: Crack the Sound Code
Teachers notes for various DK home learning packages, and a video about getting your children off to the best start
My First Phonics Book
LDA
Brickworks Wordbuilding Games and Dictionary
PCET (Pictorial Charts Educational Trust)
Words at Work and Complex Sentences: The Jigsaw of Meaning – posters about grammar The Origins of English frieze wallchart
Ten Ways to Remember a Tricky Spelling wallchart