The NATE Bookshop is a fantastic source of support for all teachers of English. The mix of NATE's own titles and carefully chosen books from other publishers creates a unique range, incorporating very practical classroom resources as well as a variety of titles addressing theory and practice.

Feel free to browse and buy and, if you have not already joined NATE, don't forget to add a membership to your basket!

NATE has recently formed a publishing partnership with Routledge Publishers, and an exciting new list is now in production. The first titles to be published, now available in the Bookshop,  are a brand new edition of a popular CD by Trevor Millum and Chris Warren, now entitled Unlocking Poetry - An Inspirational Resource for Teaching GCSE Literature and a valuable addition to any A Level teacher's repertoire: Teaching English Language 16-19: A comprehensive guide for teachers of AS/A2 level English Language (Teaching English Literature 16-19 will be published in June 2013). You can find information about this and all forthcoming titles on the Routledge site. You can order all NATE Routledge titles from the NATE Bookshop, with a 10% minimum discount for NATE members. 

 

 

Classic Reading 11-16

Series Editor: Robert Protherough

All titles in the Classic Reading Series focus on short Pre 1914 texts which are readily available in school stock cupboards or can be purchased in inexpensive editions. Written by a team of experienced English Literature teachers and examiners, they are suitable for use across the 11-16 age range, particularly in Year 9, as well as at Standard Grade and for GCSE textual study.

Materials are provided to encourage responsive reading and reflection with suggestions for pair and group discussion, enacting, re-creating and writing of different kinds. The practical activities have been devised to supprt a wide range of abilities and interests. They include ideas for wider reading.

All the titles are available in class sets of 6 and 30. Please contact the NATE office for further details. Tel 0114 255 5419 or email NATE Office

 

An Angel in the House: Three Victorian Poets

by Helen Dobson

Product code N137 Author Helen Dobson ISBN 0 90129188 9 Format Paperback Pages 44 Size A4 Publisher NATE Year of publication 2002   An Angel in the House: Three Victorian Poets is an innovative classroom resource which enables pupils to develop personal responses to three 'major poets' published before 1914, Emily Bront?, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti, combined with an under-standing of the social and historical contexts in which they were writing. The book includes the full text of all the poems featured.   Price £11.80 Members' price £9.50 Add to basket

Chaucer and his Bawdy Miller

by David Draper

Product code N135 Author David Draper ISBN 0 90129186 2 Format Paperback Pages 36 Size A4 Publisher NATE Year of publication 2002   This book enables pupils to investigate Chaucer's subversive portraits in The General Prologue and discover the farcical mishaps and bawdy humour of The Miller's Tale for themselves. Through a range of lively and stimulating activities, pupils can focus on: issues of language change; historical and social contexts and Chaucer's poetic skills. The text includes a shortened modern version of the tale which has been specially written for this book.   Price £11.80 Members' price £9.50 Add to basket

Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde

by Gill Murray

Product code N118 Author Gill Murray ISBN 0 90129173 0 Format Paperback Pages 42 Size A4 Publisher NATE Year of publication 2000   This study guide supports the study of Stevenson's famous thriller through a range of carefully structured classroom activities including prediction work, comparison, re-creation and evaluation. Materials are provided to encourage further reading and writing about fantasy and science-fiction.   Price £11.80 Members' price £9.50 Add to basket

Hardy's Wessex Tales

by Judith Atkinson

Product code N117 Author Judith Atkinson ISBN 0 90129172 2 Format Paperback Pages 48 Size A4 Publisher NATE Year of publication 2000   This guide accompanies the reading of two of the tales - The Withered Arm and The Distracted Preacher - copies of which will be required. These contrasting stories, one macabre, the other a humorously-told smuggler?s tale, share themes of love and marriage, explored with Hardy?s subtlety and realism. Through a wide range of practical activities, students are helped to place the stories in their context by relating them to a short collection of Hardy?s love poems (printed in the volume).   Price £11.80 Members' price £9.50 Add to basket

Oscar Wilde and the Importance of Being Earnest

by Robert Protherough

Product code N136 Author Robert Protherough ISBN 0 90129187 0 Format Paperback Pages 42 Size A4 Publisher NATE Year of publication 2002   Robert Protherough's guide to Oscar Wilde's best known play features a wide range of practical approaches which bring the text off the page and encourage pupils to make links with many contextual/ contemporary issues including: friendship and gay culture; class and social structure; morality and convention.   Price £11.80 Members' price £9.50 Add to basket

Poems by John Clare

by Robert Protherough

Product code N170 Author Robert Protherough ISBN 190470917 6 Format Paperback Pages 60 Size A4 Publisher NATE Year of publication 2005   As one of the pre-1914 poets recommended for study at KS3/4, many teachers have found that Clare's poems are both stimulating and accessible. As editor of the Classic Reading Series, the author continues its tradition of providing materials and suggestions for activities which support a wide range of abilities and interests.   Price £11.80 Members' price £9.50 Add to basket

Shakespeare's 'Henry V'

by Robert Protherough

Product code N116 Author Robert Protherough ISBN 978 0901291714 Format Paperback Pages 51 Size A4 Publisher NATE Year of publication 2000   This practical guide to accompany the study of Shakespeare's play concentrates on the different ways in which key scenes might be performed. Drawing on examples from stage and screen history, it invites students to experiment in speaking, performing, improvising and adapting such scenes. Materials are provided to stimulate thinking about such wider topics as the relationship between play and 'history', the figure of Henry himself, and what is meant by the 'text' of the play.    Price £11.80 Members' price £9.50 Add to basket

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Steve Willshaw and Ben Wilkinson

Product code N106 Author Steve Willshaw and Ben Wilkinson ISBN 0 90129162 5 Format Paperback Pages 40 Size A4 Publisher NATE Year of publication 1998   This guide accompanies the reading of stories from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes which includes The Red-Headed League and The Speckled Band. Conan Doyle's lively and accessible short stories deal with exciting events and striking characters which can be read in the context of Victorian crime reporting and of present-day experiences. Students will require copies of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.   Price £11.80 Members' price £9.50 Add to basket

Two Poems by John Keats

by Gabrielle Cliff Hodges

Product code N104 Author Gabrielle Cliff Hodges ISBN 0 90129160 9 Format Paperback Pages 37 Size A4 Publisher NATE Year of publication 1998   This study guide supports the reading of Isabella or The Pot of Basil and The Eve of St Agnes. An extract from the legend Filomena's Story taken from Boccaccio's Decameron gives a clue to the source of Keats's inspiration. Reproductions are provided of the key Pre-Raphaelite paintings: ?Isabella, Madeline after Prayer? and ?The Eve of St Agnes?. Students will need copies of the two poems to make use of this guide.   Price £11.80 Members' price £9.50 Add to basket