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Sue Palmer

    Sue Palmer is a former primary school headteacher, a literacy specialist, writer, presenter, and 'childhood campaigner.' Her extensive work focuses on aspects of literacy and how best to support healthy child development. Her involvement in campaigns and government task forces underscores her dedication to advocating for a better understanding of childhood.

    Detoxing Childhood
    Toxic Childhood
    Understanding Horse Performance
    Longman Book Project: Doodling Daniel
    • Longman Book Project: Doodling Daniel

      • 24 pages
      • 1 hour of reading

      Designed to fit the National Curriculum, the English 5-14 Guidelines in Scotland and the Northern Ireland Guidelines for English, this is part of the Longman Book Project. The project aims to enable teachers throughout the primary school to teach: language; fiction; and non-fiction. The project also offers practical guidance and in-built record keeping and assessment. It is carefully structured, enabling all teachers throughout the primary school to teach reading and language with success and understanding.

      Longman Book Project: Doodling Daniel
      4.0
    • Understanding Horse Performance

      • 144 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      Whatever level you ride at, the inability to solve a ridden, groundwork or behavioural problem causes frustration. The author reveals how you can determine whether your horse's performance is affected by his behaviour (brain), health (pain) or training, and explains how to overcome difficulties through tried and tested techniques.

      Understanding Horse Performance
      3.7
    • Toxic Childhood

      How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and what We Can Do about it

      • 368 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      Every concerned parent MUST have this book! Children throughout the developed world are suffering, with obesity, dyslexia, ADHD, and other serious ailments on the rise. And it’s not simply that our diagnostic ability has improved—there are very real and growing problems. Top literacy expert Sue Palmer examines the danger zones, from poor diet, lack of exercise, and sleep deprivation to symptoms emerging from our modern lifestyle of TV, computer games, and cell phones. This combination of factors, along with parents’ increasingly stressful lives, means that we are developing a toxic new generation, with its health and brains at risk. Here is the latest research from around the world, with advice for worried parents on protecting their families and ensuring their children emerge as healthy, intelligent, and happy adults.

      Toxic Childhood
      3.9