Jane A Medwell & David Wray 
Primary English: Teaching Theory and Practice [PDF ebook] 

The essential teaching theory and practice text for primary English.



This comprehensive and popular text covers the professional knowledge, skills and understanding required to be an effective teacher of primary English.



*Practical guidance on the teaching and learning of phonics, the importance of talk in the classroom and the teaching of handwriting and spelling. 

*Covers the teaching of writing in the early years, KS1 and KS2.

*Includes strategies for developing reading comprehension.   

*Chapters cover inclusion, assessment and organising and resourcing learning in the classroom.



This 10th edition has been updated and now includes links to the ITT Core Content Framework.

Inhoudsopgave

1 Introduction

2 Learning English

3 Effective English teaching

4 Speaking and listening: developing talk in the primary classroom

5 Teaching reading at and before Key Stage 1

6 The teaching and learning of phonics

7 Teaching early writing

8 Teaching handwriting and spelling

9 Developing reading comprehension

10 Reading for information

11 Teaching writing at Key Stage 2

12 Teaching with electronic texts

13 Teaching English at a distance

14 Including all children

15 Organising and resourcing English at Key Stages 1 and 2

16 Assessing English

Over de auteur

Elizabeth Coates is an associate fellow of the Centre for Education Studies at the University of Warwick. Prior to her retirement in 2013, she was an associate professor and director of the Early Childhood Studies undergraduate program at the University of Warwick. Since that time, she has worked on a part-time basis within the Centre teaching child development, education, and early years’ policy and practice. During her time at Warwick, she organized and directed five triennial international early years conferences and was founding editor of the International Journal of Early Years Education. Her background as an early years teacher has been a strong influence and, with Andrew Coates, she is involved in a longitudinal action research project focusing on young children (3-7 years) talking and drawing together. This has resulted in a number of conference papers and publications which include, among others, a chapter on “The subjects and meanings of young children’s drawings” in Exploring Children’s Creative Narratives.