Primary English for Trainee Teachers

by Wendy Jolliffe (Editor), David Waugh (Editor), Kate Allott (Editor)

With chapter sequencing following the new Curriculum, this book supports you to make use of the opportunities presented in the National Curriculum for effective and engaging  Primary English teaching. Covering all areas of the new National Curriculum for primary English and offering insight into effective teaching, it helps you connect what you need to teach, to how it can be taught.  It opens up the opportunities in the new curriculum for creative and imaginative teaching and covers all areas of children′s literacy from poetry and literature to SPAG.
Throughout the text, case studies of teaching are used as a starting point for learning and guidance on practical teaching strategies is included in all chapters. A comprehensive guide to the teaching of primary English that will help you secure your subject knowledge and transform your teaching. Includes the full National Curriculum Programme of Study for English, key stages 1 and 2 as a useful reference for trainee teachers.

Other books in this series Primary Science for Trainee Teachers and Primary Mathematics for Trainee Teachers

312 pages, Paperback

First published October 30, 2014

Reviews

[J. Boo]

Read the available bits on Google books, but looks worth reading if obtainable. Good insight into the entertainingly awful world of modern-day English education.

This, at the tail end of a case study(*), made me snort:

"One child commented on the k in the word knifey and Jenny [the teacher] told them that long ago people pronounced the k as well as the n. She wrote it up on the wall and over the next few days children added knight, knot, knee, know, and knock. A parent saw the list and thought there was a connection to the Vikings. He emailed a Norwegian friend, who confirmed that modern Norwegian uses the words kniv for knife, kne for knee, knakke for knock, knute for knot and kan for know, pronouncing the k in all the words; this was reported back to the class by his son, and the children practised saying the Norwegian words."

All of these words, except possibly knife, come straight from the Angles and the Saxons. The connection to the Vikings is that they also spoke a Germanic language.

(*) Presumably one invented by the author.

[Beth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great section on 'reading for pleasure' - 4*

It really examines and analyses what the National Curriculum means by reading for pleasure and the impact on the classroom. Brilliant!