ABSTRACT

English is central to the primary school curriculum, since it permeates all subject areas. Now fully updated, English 5-11 provides comprehensive, up to date and creative guidance on teaching English in the primary school.

Key areas covered include:-

  • Communication, language and literacy
  • Grammar and punctuation
  • Talk for learning
  • Synthetic phonics
  • Drama
  • Reading and writing
  • Fiction and poetry
  • Creativity
  • Teaching in a multilingual classroom
  • Spelling
  • ICT
  • Assessment

Written by highly experienced authors and former government advisors with frontline teaching, school management and teacher training experience, each manageable chapter provides the busy teacher with indispensible advice and guidance as well as opportunities to reflect upon current practice in the classroom.

This second edition reflects changes in government policy and gives greater attention to systematic synthetic phonics, assessment, drama and talk for writing, and is closely related to the changing curriculum for primary English.

English 5-11 will be an invaluable resource to all trainee and practising teachers interested in teaching English in an accessible, contemporary and dynamic way.

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|9 pages

Classroom management in English

chapter 3|20 pages

Creative approaches to teaching literacy

chapter 6|21 pages

Talking to learn

chapter 7|32 pages

Teaching and learning reading

chapter 8|21 pages

Fiction and poetry

chapter 9|21 pages

Reading and writing for information

chapter 11|20 pages

Developing children’s writing

chapter 12|18 pages

Spelling

chapter 14|15 pages

Drama

chapter 15|26 pages

Planning for English

chapter 16|20 pages

Assessment for learning of English