Maxine Burton: 4 books

There is growing evidence that systematic phonics can be a helpful strategy for adult literacy learners, improving both their confidence and their progress in reading comprehension and spelling. Based on her research into the effectiveness of phonics for adults, and the training sessions she...

This clearly written, accessible guide outlines the principles of sentence combining – the technique for expanding sentence structure by creating compound and complex sentences from simple sentences. Sentence combining is the one aspect of grammar teaching that has been demonstrated through research...

Literacy is no longer regarded just as an autonomous commodity or ‘skill’, isolated from its contexts; context is all-important, and much of the basis of contemporary literacy lies in its historical context. Historical research methods in education are a vital tool for understanding contemporary...

SAP implementations are always a challenge. An enterprise will deploy its top resources, human and infrastructural, towards a SAP implementation--and yet fall short. Why? Simply because it is the nature of the beast. Typically, SAP implementations are large and complex, involving multiple locations,...