English 7-11: Developing Primary Teaching Skills

✍ Scribed by David Wray

• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 137
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book focuses on approaches to the teaching of primary English at Key Stage 2 in the context of the National Curriculum. Through a series of guided activities, teachers are encouraged to reflect upon particular teaching strategies and activities such as: an analysis of language and literacy, the processes of language and literacy, the use of topic work, a critical look at classroom environments, and examination of the texts which children read and write, and a discussion of the role of the teacher.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of illustrations......Page 7
Introduction......Page 8
What counts as English language teaching in the primary school?......Page 10
The teaching and learning of literacy......Page 20
The reading process......Page 28
The writing process......Page 40
The purposes and processes of talk......Page 50
Looking at literacy in classrooms......Page 64
The texts children read......Page 80
The texts children write......Page 88
Language as text: structures and variety......Page 102
From learning to teaching......Page 116
References......Page 127
Author Index......Page 130
Subject Index......Page 132