Full Description
What do trainee teachers need to know about English to teach it effectively in primary schools?How do children learn English and how can students teach it? What does a good primary English lesson look like?Answering these important questions and more, this new edition covers all areas of the new National Curriculum for primary English. By offering insight into effective teaching, it helps students connect what they need to teach to how it can be taught.This book opens up opportunities in the new curriculum for creative and imaginative teaching and covers all areas of children's literacy from poetry and literature to SPAG. Case studies of teaching are used as a starting point for learning, and guidance on practical teaching strategies is included throughout.Now comes with:A new chapter on Multi-modal textsA new chapter on Mastery in English
Contents
The New National Curriculum - David WaughSpeaking and Listening: Spoken Language - Wendy JolliffeVocabulary Development - Jane CarterSpelling - Kate AllottGrammar and Punctuation - David WaughReading - Ruth Harrison-PalmerFiction - Debbie MyersPoetry - Holly DyerNon-fiction - Kirsty AndersonWriting - Claire WarnerMultimodal texts - Claire NorcottIs There a Place for Drama? - Eve EnglishPlanning for Delivery - Kate AllottAssessment: An Invaluable Classroom Resource - Kirsty AndersonMastery in English - Kate Allott
