144 pages
250mm x 168mm
ISBN-10: 1 85856 132 9
ISBN-13: 978 185856 132 5
November 1999

This account by teachers and students shows how drama, story and role-play in a specially created multi-sensory environment - the Enchanted Forest - promotes children's learning. They describe how they collaborated to produce a holistic language experience which significantly enhanced bilingual children's grasp of English.

Into the Enchanted Forest is designed to give primary teachers ideas for a new project and describes how to put it into practice in the classroom. The accounts by participants in this multi-sensory experience that stimulated the children's imaginations are themselves enchanting and the practical implications for the curriculum and for teacher education provide a guide for others who wish to transform their classrooms.

Avril Brock is a lecturer in the department of Teacher Education at Bradford and Ilkley College.

...an excellent record of a fascinating project, and clearly details the successes and the pitfalls, the work achieved, and the problems encountered along the way. For those who see this integrated approach, the book will save a lot of time; the spadework has already been done. - NAFSO Book Review Supplement