RCF Publications for Teachers
RCF Publications is a separate section of this website. This page explains what it publishes for teachers and how it fits with the free material here.
Free pages and published books
Everything in the free sections of RCF English is free to read and use. RCF Publications produces books that are sold separately, in their own section of this website, with their own ordering arrangements.
The two are meant to work together rather than to duplicate one another. The free pages give you method — how to teach a topic, how to mark, how to structure a lesson. The books give you material organised in sequence, which is what you need when you are building a scheme of work rather than planning a single lesson.
What RCF Publications produces
Practical educational books, English support materials, literature study guides, grammar resources and examination-revision materials, designed to support classroom teaching, tuition classes, independent study and learning at home.
Many place particular emphasis on simplified explanations, guided writing, practical exercises, revision and support for struggling learners — the same priorities that run through this site.
You will find
- Practical English support materials
- Literature study guides
- Grammar resources
- Examination-revision materials
- Books written for struggling learners
- eBooks and book samples
RCF Publications is a separate section of this website, with its own ordering arrangements.
Which is useful for what
Planning a scheme of work
A book gives you a sequence already worked out, which saves the term of planning that building your own would take.
Planning tomorrow's lesson
The free teaching guides and lesson plans are quicker for a single lesson.
Students who need extra support
Books with simplified explanations and guided writing let a struggling student work at home at their own pace, which a worksheet cannot.
Literature teaching
Study guides give summaries, analysis and questions in one place; the free literature teaching guidance covers how to teach with them.
Examination revision
Revision books, used alongside the free revision strategies and past paper guidance.
Recommending to parents
Parents frequently ask what to buy. A single suggested title is more useful to them than a reading list.
Two separate sections
- RCF English — this site. Free lessons, past papers, teacher resources, interactive practice and RCF Online Academy.
- RCF Publications — a separate section of this website with its own terms. Books, prices, samples and ordering are handled there.
- Books are paid for by bank transfer arranged directly with RCF and verified by a person. No payment is processed on this website and no card details are ever requested.