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Arabella Koopman Author

Arabella Koopman has been both a pre-school teacher and head teacher in South Africa. She has written many publications for pre-school and primary school, and specialises in children’s language and literacy development in multilingual environments. She has also worked in INSET developing and providing short courses and workshops for pre-school and primary teachers.

Fiona Macgregor is a writer and materials developer with over thirty years of experience. Her work is centred around reading and language acquisition – including in early years setting – in Africa, the Caribbean, India and the Middle East and has included training for teachers who work in multilingual classrooms, and those who work with large classes of mixed-ability learners. She began life as a teacher, and remains passionate about education.