After a lifetime of adventure, award-winning writer Bob Cox tells his own thrilling life story. Travel with him from Santa Monica, to rural Idaho, to a stretch in Japan with the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War, befort he settles in Southern California. Enjoy with him a passion for skiing and the joys of writing about the winter sport, mostly in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Experience with him the challenges of teaching elementary and middle school classes, as well as his transition to school administration, capped by a year as Interim Superintendent for a small school district. Share his joy of playing and coaching sports, and raising three kids. Fight the challenges of addiction and cancer with him in this first-person story.

FOR WHERE YOU GO I WILL GO - Destination Coloradois an historical account of the Castello family as they traveled from Spain and Ireland to America during the Revolution. Involved in mining from the beginning, the family ultimatel lived in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Missouri before ending up in Colorado during the Gold Rush of 1859. The story, based on fact, with some imagination included is, as the author says, "All fact, except those parts that are made up.

In the course of his educational consultancy work, Bob has seen many teachers successfully use the scope and depth which literature can offer to inspire high standards, mastery learning and, above all, a love of language in its many forms. Schools using the ''opening doors'' strategies told Bob they led to:More teacher empowerment and confidence.More knowledge building for pupils and teachers.A growing confidence with literature, including poetry.Planning from the top becoming a norm.Planning for mastery learning becoming a norm.Improved comprehension skills.Improved quality writing and associated excitement.They also asked Bob for further examples of inspiring, quality texts, and more ways in which all abilities can access them. Bob was only too happy to oblige.These 15 units of work cover poetry and prose: each unit provides exciting stimulus material, creative ideas for writing projects, and differentiation and support strategies, meaning all pupils can achieve the quality writing objectives. All the units should help teachers facilitate understanding of the challenging texts and maximise the huge potential for quality writing. Discover a multitude of ready-to-use ideas, inspired by classic literature and great writers'' works, along with plenty of new strategies and advice.All of the extracts and illustrations you will need to begin opening doors in your classroom are downloadable a link to the download web page is provided in the book.Units include: (Click on the links below to view a collection of written work produced by school children aged 10 to 13 who are following the passages and exercises related to the texts included in this book)Part 1: Opening doors to prose1. Night Encounter - The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins2. Spooky Scientists! - The Phantom Coach by Amelia B. Edwards3. The Strongest Looking Brute in Alaska - That Spot by Jack London4. Mr Knickerbocker''s Notes - Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving5. The Portrait of Doom - Tess of the D''Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy6. The Hell Hound - The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle7. Sinister Spaces - Metamorphosis and The Castle by Franz Kafka9. All in This House is Mossing Over - From ''Mementos'' by Charlotte Bronte10. Dancing the Skies - ''High Flight'' by John Gillespie Magee, Jr11. The Mystery of the Lonely Merman - ''The Forsaken Merman'' by Matthew Arnold12. Making Magic Talk - ''The Magnifying Glass'' by Walter de la Mare13. The Spirit in the Garden - ''A Garden at Night'' by James Reeves14. A Shropshire Lad - ''Blue Remembered Hills'' by A. E. Housman15. The Silver Heel - ''I Started Early - Took My Dog'' by Emily DickinsonThe Opening Doors to Quality Writingseries won the 2017 Education Resources Awards in the Educational Book Award category.Judges'' Comments: "Described as two gems which provide innovative approaches to exploring quality texts as stimuli for children''s writing. Judges described The Opening Doors to Quality Writing series as an invaluable resource, particularly for non-specialist teachers. Excellent literary choices contained within very attractively produced books."Opening Doors To Quality Writing: Ideas For Writing Inspired By Great Writers For Ages 6 To 9

Opening Doors to a Richer English Curriculum for Ages 10 to 13 takes Bob Cox''s award-winning ''Opening Doors'' series into bold new territories, providing a treasury of techniques and strategies all carefully selected to support the design of a deeper, more creative and more expansive curriculum.Together with Leah Crawford and Verity Jones, Bob has compiled this rich resource to help teachers enhance their learners'' engagement with challenging texts and develop their writing skills as budding wordsmiths. It includes 15 ready-to-use units of work covering a range of inspiring poetry and prose from across the literary tradition, complete with vivid illustrations by Victoria Cox.Bob, Leah and Verity''s innovative ideas on theory, best practice and how to cultivate a pioneering classroom spirit are all integrated into the lesson suggestions, which have been designed for both the teacher''s and the learners'' immediate benefit.Together they empower teachers to explore with their learners the scope and depth of literature capable of inspiring high standards and instilling a love of language in its many forms. Furthermore, they help teachers to lay down intricate curricular pathways that will prompt their pupils to better enjoy literature, read and analyse texts with a greater sense of curiosity, and write with more originality.The book includes a great range of texts both as the core of each unit and as link reading, incorporating some contemporary texts to show how past and present co-exist - and how various literary styles can be taught using similar principles, all of which are open to further adaptation. The authors have also suggested key concepts around which the curriculum can be built, with the units providing examples with which you can work.All of the extracts and illustrations you will need in order to begin opening doors in your classroom are downloadable, and the book also includes a helpful glossary of key terms.

Opening Doors to a Richer English Curriculum for Ages 6 to 9 takes Bob Cox''s award-winning ''Opening Doors'' series into bold new territories, providing a treasury of techniques and strategies all carefully selected to support the design of a deeper, more creative and more expansive curriculum.Together with Leah Crawford and Verity Jones, Bob has compiled this rich resource to help teachers enhance their learners'' engagement with challenging texts and develop their writing skills as budding wordsmiths. It includes 15 ready-to-use units of work covering a range of inspiring poetry and prose from across the literary tradition, complete with vivid illustrations by Victoria Cox.Bob, Leah and Verity''s innovative ideas on theory, best practice and how to cultivate a pioneering classroom spirit are all integrated into the lesson suggestions, which have been designed for both the teacher''s and the learners'' immediate benefit.Together they empower teachers to explore with their learners the scope and depth of literature capable of inspiring high standards and instilling a love of language in its many forms. Furthermore, they help teachers to lay down intricate curricular pathways that will prompt their pupils to better enjoy literature, read and analyse texts with a greater sense of curiosity, and write with more originality.The book includes a great range of texts both as the core of each unit and as link reading, incorporating some contemporary texts to show how past and present co-exist and how various literary styles can be taught using similar principles, all of which are open to further adaptation. The authors have also suggested key concepts around which the curriculum can be built, with the units providing examples with which you can work.All of the extracts and illustrations you will need in order to begin opening doors in your classroom are downloadable, and the book also includes a helpful glossary of key terms.

After a lifetime of adventure, award-winning writer Bob Cox tells his own thrilling life story. Travel with him from Santa Monica, to rural Idaho, to a stretch in Japan with the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War, befort he settles in Southern California. Enjoy with him a passion for skiing and the joys of writing about the winter sport, mostly in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Experience with him the challenges of teaching elementary and middle school classes, as well as his transition to school administration, capped by a year as Interim Superintendent for a small school district. Share his joy of playing and coaching sports, and raising three kids. Fight the challenges of addiction and cancer with him in this first-person story.

FOR WHERE YOU GO I WILL GO - Destination Coloradois an historical account of the Castello family as they traveled from Spain and Ireland to America during the Revolution. Involved in mining from the beginning, the family ultimatel lived in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Missouri before ending up in Colorado during the Gold Rush of 1859. The story, based on fact, with some imagination included is, as the author says, "All fact, except those parts that are made up.

In the course of his educational consultancy work, Bob has seen many teachers successfully use the scope and depth which literature can offer to inspire high standards, mastery learning and, above all, a love of language in its many forms. Schools using the ''opening doors'' strategies told Bob they led to:More teacher empowerment and confidence.More knowledge building for pupils and teachers.A growing confidence with literature, including poetry.Planning from the top becoming a norm.Planning for mastery learning becoming a norm.Improved comprehension skills.Improved quality writing and associated excitement.They also asked Bob for further examples of inspiring, quality texts, and more ways in which all abilities can access them. Bob was only too happy to oblige.These 15 units of work cover poetry and prose: each unit provides exciting stimulus material, creative ideas for writing projects, and differentiation and support strategies, meaning all pupils can achieve the quality writing objectives. All the units should help teachers facilitate understanding of the challenging texts and maximise the huge potential for quality writing. Discover a multitude of ready-to-use ideas, inspired by classic literature and great writers'' works, along with plenty of new strategies and advice.All of the extracts and illustrations you will need to begin opening doors in your classroom are downloadable a link to the download web page is provided in the book.Units include: (Click on the links below to view a collection of written work produced by school children aged 10 to 13 who are following the passages and exercises related to the texts included in this book)Part 1: Opening doors to prose1. Night Encounter - The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins2. Spooky Scientists! - The Phantom Coach by Amelia B. Edwards3. The Strongest Looking Brute in Alaska - That Spot by Jack London4. Mr Knickerbocker''s Notes - Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving5. The Portrait of Doom - Tess of the D''Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy6. The Hell Hound - The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle7. Sinister Spaces - Metamorphosis and The Castle by Franz Kafka9. All in This House is Mossing Over - From ''Mementos'' by Charlotte Bronte10. Dancing the Skies - ''High Flight'' by John Gillespie Magee, Jr11. The Mystery of the Lonely Merman - ''The Forsaken Merman'' by Matthew Arnold12. Making Magic Talk - ''The Magnifying Glass'' by Walter de la Mare13. The Spirit in the Garden - ''A Garden at Night'' by James Reeves14. A Shropshire Lad - ''Blue Remembered Hills'' by A. E. Housman15. The Silver Heel - ''I Started Early - Took My Dog'' by Emily DickinsonThe Opening Doors to Quality Writingseries won the 2017 Education Resources Awards in the Educational Book Award category.Judges'' Comments: "Described as two gems which provide innovative approaches to exploring quality texts as stimuli for children''s writing. Judges described The Opening Doors to Quality Writing series as an invaluable resource, particularly for non-specialist teachers. Excellent literary choices contained within very attractively produced books."Opening Doors To Quality Writing: Ideas For Writing Inspired By Great Writers For Ages 6 To 9

Opening Doors to a Richer English Curriculum for Ages 10 to 13 takes Bob Cox''s award-winning ''Opening Doors'' series into bold new territories, providing a treasury of techniques and strategies all carefully selected to support the design of a deeper, more creative and more expansive curriculum.Together with Leah Crawford and Verity Jones, Bob has compiled this rich resource to help teachers enhance their learners'' engagement with challenging texts and develop their writing skills as budding wordsmiths. It includes 15 ready-to-use units of work covering a range of inspiring poetry and prose from across the literary tradition, complete with vivid illustrations by Victoria Cox.Bob, Leah and Verity''s innovative ideas on theory, best practice and how to cultivate a pioneering classroom spirit are all integrated into the lesson suggestions, which have been designed for both the teacher''s and the learners'' immediate benefit.Together they empower teachers to explore with their learners the scope and depth of literature capable of inspiring high standards and instilling a love of language in its many forms. Furthermore, they help teachers to lay down intricate curricular pathways that will prompt their pupils to better enjoy literature, read and analyse texts with a greater sense of curiosity, and write with more originality.The book includes a great range of texts both as the core of each unit and as link reading, incorporating some contemporary texts to show how past and present co-exist - and how various literary styles can be taught using similar principles, all of which are open to further adaptation. The authors have also suggested key concepts around which the curriculum can be built, with the units providing examples with which you can work.All of the extracts and illustrations you will need in order to begin opening doors in your classroom are downloadable, and the book also includes a helpful glossary of key terms.

Opening Doors to a Richer English Curriculum for Ages 6 to 9 takes Bob Cox''s award-winning ''Opening Doors'' series into bold new territories, providing a treasury of techniques and strategies all carefully selected to support the design of a deeper, more creative and more expansive curriculum.Together with Leah Crawford and Verity Jones, Bob has compiled this rich resource to help teachers enhance their learners'' engagement with challenging texts and develop their writing skills as budding wordsmiths. It includes 15 ready-to-use units of work covering a range of inspiring poetry and prose from across the literary tradition, complete with vivid illustrations by Victoria Cox.Bob, Leah and Verity''s innovative ideas on theory, best practice and how to cultivate a pioneering classroom spirit are all integrated into the lesson suggestions, which have been designed for both the teacher''s and the learners'' immediate benefit.Together they empower teachers to explore with their learners the scope and depth of literature capable of inspiring high standards and instilling a love of language in its many forms. Furthermore, they help teachers to lay down intricate curricular pathways that will prompt their pupils to better enjoy literature, read and analyse texts with a greater sense of curiosity, and write with more originality.The book includes a great range of texts both as the core of each unit and as link reading, incorporating some contemporary texts to show how past and present co-exist and how various literary styles can be taught using similar principles, all of which are open to further adaptation. The authors have also suggested key concepts around which the curriculum can be built, with the units providing examples with which you can work.All of the extracts and illustrations you will need in order to begin opening doors in your classroom are downloadable, and the book also includes a helpful glossary of key terms.