Extending Knowledge in Practice: Primary English (Achieving QTS)

✍ Scribed by David Wray, Jane Medwell

• Publisher: Learning Matters Ltd.
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 124
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Still the biggest concern for many on UK initial teacher training courses is the acquisition of subject knowledge and the ability to translate that into effective teaching. This book extends and deepens trainees' English subject knowledge in a manner that assists them to use it more actively in planning and implementing lessons.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 2
Extending
Knowledge in Practice
Primary
English......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
1 Phonological awareness, language comprehension and knowledge about print......Page 11
2 Teaching phonics......Page 21
3 English vocabulary and the development of language......Page 34
4 Looking closely at spelling......Page 47
5 Working with punctuation......Page 59
6 Handwriting......Page 68
Looking closely at reading comprehension......Page 79
Approaches to developing comprehension......Page 88
9 New texts: new literacies......Page 105
Index......Page 116

✦ Subjects

Педагогика;Методики преподавания;Методика преподавания в начальной школе;Английский язык;