Lorna Shires 
How to Plan Primary Lessons [EPUB ebook] 
Essential Practice and Theory for New Teachers

Part 1: Essential theory
Chapter 1: What is learning?
Chapter 2: What is teaching?
Chapter 3: What is a curriculum?
Chapter 4: What is backwards planning?
Part 2: Essential practice: what are you teaching?
Chapter 5: How to use the curriculum when you plan
Chapter 6: How to plan for what your pupils will learn, not what they will do
Chapter 7: How to plan so talk supports learning
Part 3: Essential practice: how will you teach?
Chapter 8: How to structure a lesson
Chapter 9: How to plan for quality interactions
Chapter 10: How to plan for what your pupils will do in your lessons
Chapter 11: How to plan for scaffolding and modelling
Chapter 12: How to plan so that your pupils remember what you have taught
Chapter 13: How to plan so that you can find out if your pupils are learning

Dr. Lorna Shires has been a schoolteacher and headteacher and led a university programme of initial teacher education. She has many years’ experience of teaching trainees and new teachers in school and at university at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, and working with teacher educators in both types of setting.