Full Description
Equip your students with the knowledge and skills to teach English well.
Teaching English well is important for every primary school teacher, but it can also seem overwhelming—and for good reason. The amount of English content that must be taught throughout primary school is considerable. Speaking, listening, reading, writing, viewing, and creating are social practices that rely on highly complex cognitive processes, require specialised knowledge about the English language, and an understanding of how children develop literacy skills to use English for different communicative purposes.
Teaching and Learning Primary English is written for initial teacher education (ITE) students and practising primary school teachers. It addresses the complexities of English teaching and aims to build deep understandings of the most important aspects of primary English education. It will assist ITE students and practising teachers navigate the often complicated, crowded, and interconnected landscape of English education.
This text is more compact and designed to cater for those single subjects and comprehensively cover the necessary topics in an easy to understand manner for pre-service teachers without overwhelming them. It is focused at first year and second year pre-service teachers looking to teach primary English. It uses current theories and relevant best-practice to help students navigate the vast amount of content that is taught to throughout primary English. It's written with primary teachers in mind and includes current theories and best-practice strategies on how to teach primary students speaking, listening, reading and writing.
Contents
1. Welcome to Teaching and Learning Primary EnglishPart 1 Region: Reading2. An Overview of Reading Instruction Damon Thomas3. Oral Language Pauline Jones and Damon Thomas4. Phonological Awareness Deslea Konza5. Phonics Rhona Stainthorp6. Comprehension Alison Davis and Damon Thomas7. VocabularyWilliam Rupley, Timothy Rasinski and Camille Blachowicz 8. FluencyTimothy Rasinski and Chase Young 9. Teaching Children with Reading DifficultiesKaryn Carson The Essential Elements of ReadingPart 2 Region: Writing10. An Overview of Writing InstructionDamon Thomas and Sally Humphrey 11. GrammarSally Humphrey and Damon Thomas 12. Punctuation, Sentence Structure and ParagraphingJanet Scull and Marian Nicolazzo 13. Written GenresSally Humphrey and Damon Thomas 14. Writing CreativelyLiz Chamberlain and Angela Thomas 15. SpellingAnne Bayetto 16. Handwriting and KeyboardingNoella M. Mackenzie The Essential Elements of WritingPart 3 Region: Children's Literature17. An Overview of Children's LiteratureAngela Thomas and Judith Ridge 18. Features and Genres of Children's LiteratureJudith Ridge and Angela Thomas 19. PicturebooksFrank Serafini and Angela Thomas 20. PoetryAlyson Simpson and Bill Spence 21. Multimodality and Children's LiteratureAngela Thomas 22. Literature as PerformanceRobyn Ewing, Joanna Erskine and Angela Thomas 23. Multicultural LiteratureKylie Bradfield 24. Critical LiteraciesLisa van Leent, Lynn Downes, Jennifer Alford, Angela Thomas and Nita Novianti 25. Planning and Programming for Primary English TeachingLouise Ockerby, Grace Evorall, Mel Biffin, Prue Sturgess and Damon Thomas
