English is central to the primary-school curriculum and successfully mastering the basics has a significant influence on pupils ability to learn and achieve their future goals.Now fully updated, English 511 provides comprehensive, up-to-date and creative guidance on teaching English in the primary school. Each chapter provides the busy teacher with indispensable advice and guidance, as well as opportunities to reflect upon current practice in the classroom. Key areas covered include:? language and literacy development;? grammar, punctuation and spelling;? talk for learning;? systematic synthetic phonics;? fiction, poetry and non-fiction;? drama and creativity;? teaching in a multilingual classroom;? ICT ? Planning and assessment.This third edition reflects changes in government policy and gives greater attention knowledge about language and is closely related to the changing curriculum for primary English.The highly experienced authors are former literacy advisors and have frontline teaching, school-management and teacher-training experience. This book will be an invaluable resource for all trainee and practising teachers interested in teaching English in an accessible, contemporary and dynamic way.

 

 

This book is part of a book series called Primary 5 11 .

There are 338 pages in this book. This book was published in 2016 by Taylor & Francis Ltd .

David Waugh is a lecturer in Primary English at the School of Education at Hull University. He is joint author of '100 Literacy Hours: YR-Y2' and also author of several 'Curriculum Bank' and 'Further Curriculum Bank' books. Wendy Jolliffe is a Curriculum Support Teacher, principally for literacy, with a large number of primary schools in the Kingston-upon-Hull Educational Authority. She is joint author of '100 Literacy Hours: YR-Y2', and 'Further Curriculum Bank Writing KS1'. Kathleen Taylor is an experienced primary teacher who is now a lecturer in Primary English a Bishop Grosseteste College in Lincoln. She is joint author of '100 Literacy Hours: YR-Y2'. D Waugh: over 30 years' experience as a geography teacher the best selling author of textbooks at all level; T Bushell: successful authors of textbooks at KS3 and GCSE; D Gardner: ICT co-ordinator of the Raincliffe School in Scarborough. J Smith: Chief examiner and Principal Coursework Moderator for a Major GCS Board