Basic Manuals for increases below inflation, prices remain on the Secondary

The APEL said in a statement that the increase in the price of books is below inflation - estimated at "2.94 per cent in the month of June" - and asserted that "most of the books is now available in bookstores." 

In the major supermarket chains, multiply promotional campaigns associated with the purchase of textbooks: discounts on shopping carts, the possibility of buying on credit or store discounts on the price of the editor. Another possibility this year is to purchase second-hand books over the Internet with a website dedicated to the auction to inaugurate a special section of "back to school," which includes textbooks. 

This year, the biggest news regarding the content of textbooks is the entry into force of the new agreement spelling, which this year will already be present in all the books adopted this year for the first and second years of primary education. 

Coexistence of different versions 

According to one of the industry's leading publishers of school books, Porto Editora, the assimilation of the new way to write the manual "is proceeding as defined in 2010 by the Ministry of Education in conjunction with the Committee on Textbook of APEL , a calendar that will end the academic year 2014/2015. " 

The person responsible for communication of Porto Editora, Paulo Gonçalves, said the phased adoption aims to "minimize the costs to households, municipalities, libraries, school libraries and publishers to avoid unnecessary waste." In the fourth year of Basic, the manuals of mathematics should already have the new spelling, as all of the fifth - less Physical Education, Music Education, Visual and Technological Education.
The sixth year, the students will learn in books adapted to the new agreement in all seats except the Portuguese Language, Physical Education, Music Education and Visual and Technological Education. This year come into force with the new way to write the books of Portuguese Language in the seventh grade, and eighth grade math. 

However, it may happen that in the same classroom books coexist with different spellings, one source of possible confusion that the president of the Association of Teachers of Portuguese, Hedwig Ferreira, devalued. "Of course they will coexist. Often the books are only brothers to brothers and is the same manual that will happen. Teachers will have to be to draw attention but I think it will go well, "he said. Hedwig Ferreira said that there are several resources for teachers to avoid confusion: there are books to support the written manuals that come with new spelling, teachers had training and there is a spelling converter. 

Paulo Goncalves noted that in the classroom, in spelling books that will be replaced by the new agreement will continue to be used by teachers and students, just as in libraries, bookstores and many other sites will continue to coexist with the books "old "and" new "spelling".

Source publico.pt