Full Description
All the subject knowledge you need to teach primary English.
If you are training to be a primary school teacher, you need to understand what you need to know about primary English before you can teach it.
Secure subject knowledge and understanding is the foundation of confident, creative and effective teaching. To help you master this, this comprehensive text includes subject knowledge from each part of the primary English curriculum and comes with a wide range of resources so you can test your growing knowledge as you progress through the course.
an online English subject knowledge audit with the ability to share results
end of chapter self-assessment questions
Interactive tasks
an English subject knowledge checklist
useful weblinks for primary English teaching
Recommended further reading
This new edition has been updated and includes a new chapter on children's common misconceptions in English.
Contents
Introduction
Spoken English and Standard English
The nature of learning
The acquisition of language
Representing sound in writing
Words, vocabulary and morphology
The grammar of the sentence in Standard English
The components of sentences
Handwriting
Punctuation
Cohesion: grammar at the level of the text
The qualities of stories
The qualities of poetry
The qualities of drama
Looking at information books
Electronic texts
Looking more closely at children's errors
