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Discover a carefully curated collection of new and bestselling textbooks, free book chapters, and practical resources tailored for students and faculty across the education landscape. Whether you're starting your teacher training, guiding trainee teachers, or delving into areas like Early Years education, research methods, or special needs, you'll find essential tools to expand your knowledge and enrich your teaching and learning experience.

Learning Matters, an imprint of Sage, is a leading publisher of books for professional and vocational courses in education, nursing and social work. 

Whether you’re training to be a teacher, starting your career in nursing, or studying to become a social worker, our practical and student-friendly guides help you learn the subject knowledge and skills you need for your university or college course, prepare you for practice and support your continuing professional development. 

Both as a trainee and as a teacher, you will encounter different phonics programmes and will need to look at them closely to determine how you can use your existing knowledge to teach them, and to ascertain what you will need to learn if you are to teach them in the most effective way. But here is a quick guide the most commonly used systematic synthetic phonics programmes.

Learning Theories flashcards to kick-start or refresh your knowledge

Unfortunately there isn’t one simple solution to reducing stress in your life. Controlling stress is a ‘work in progress’ for which you need to take regular action. 

Whether it's debating the varying perspectives on "childhood" or developing one's critical thinking skills, being an early years student can sometimes be overwhelming. We spoke to Caitlin, an undergraduate at the University of Worcester, to learn more about the challenges and highlights of studying early childhood.