Mastering Primary English

✍ Scribed by Wendy Jolliffe; David Waugh

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 193
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Mastering Primary English introduces the primary English curriculum and helps trainees and teachers learn how to plan and teach inspiring lessons that make English learning irresistible.
Topics covered include
current developments in English
English as an irresistible activity
English as a practical activity
skills to develop in English
promoting curiosity
assessing children in English
practical issues
This guide includes examples of children's work, case studies, readings to reflect upon and reflective questions that all help to exemplify what is considered to be best and most innovative practice. The book draws on the experience of two leading professionals in primary English, Wendy Jolliffe and David Waugh, to provide the essential guide to teaching English for all trainee and qualified primary teachers

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
About the Authors
Series Editors’ Foreword
How to Use This Book
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 An Introduction to Primary English
Introduction
What is literacy?
The four modes of language
Research study
Cross-curricular teaching
Challenges in teaching English
The changing primary English curriculum
Research study: Improving literacy
Children who have English as an additional language
Summary
Recommended reading
Chapter 2 Current Developments in Primary English
Introduction
What is mastery learning in the teaching of English?
Mastery in National Curriculum
Peer Critique
Research focus: Lessons of mastery learning
Mastery and cooperative learning
Classroom approaches to mastery learning in English
Summary
Recommended reading
Answers to pause for thought
Chapter 3 English as an Irresistible Activity: Promoting Creativity in English
Introduction
Exploring creativity
Research study: Making English ‘irresistible’: Relevance, control, ownership and innovation
How can teachers promote creativity?
Research Focus: Creative arts and literacy
Classroom approaches to learning and teaching English creatively
Summary
Recommended reading
Suggested answers to pause for thought
Chapter 4 English as a Practical Activity: Being a Reader
Introduction
Research focus: Motivating readers
Promoting reading for pleasure
Why fiction?
Reading to children
Digital texts
Non-fiction
Poetry
Sharing poetry and modelling
Developing reading opportunities
Teachers as readers
Research focus: Teachers as readers
Summary
Recommended reading
Organizations which provide useful resources
Chapter 5 Skills to Develop in English: The Four Modes of Language
Introduction
Speaking and listening
Research focus
Research study
Reading
Research study
Writing
Research study
Summary
Recommended reading
Answers to pause for thought
Chapter 6 Children’s Ideas: Engaging Children with Writing
Introduction
Teaching approaches for writing
Research study
Shared writing
Strategies for writing
Research: Pupils’ progress in writing in England
A gender gap
Different text genres
Research: A variety of forms
Making collections
Research focus: Teachers as writers
Commentary
Grammar and writing
Research focus
Summary
Recommended reading
Chapter 7 Assessing Children in English
Introduction
Forms of assessment
Research study – factors that inhibit or facilitate formative assessment
Schools’ approaches
Peer and self-assessment
Summary
Recommended reading
Chapter 8 Practical Issues: Challenges for Trainee and Beginner Teachers
Introduction
Research focus
Content or subject knowledge
Why do we need to know terminology?
What do we need to know?
Quality of instruction
Research focus: Effective teachers of literacy
Classroom climate
Classroom management for English
Research focus: Teaching Year 5
Beliefs about teaching primary English
Research focus: Literacy teachers’ beliefs
Professional behaviours
Comments
Other challenges
Summary
Recommended reading
Bibliography
Index