Primary English Curriculum Guide

Christine Moorcroft, Ray Barker

• Publisher: David Fulton Publishers
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781134127214
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

First Published in 2001. The purpose of this curriculum guide is to help student teachers and newly qualified teachers to make a start on learning how to become competent teachers of English. Despite the emphasis given in training courses to the teaching of English, newly qualified teachers often feel underprepared for it and frequently mention their concerns about this. These concerns can be partly explained by a general lack of confidence in this key area and partly by widespread media and political criticism of the teaching of literacy. It is also because it is often difficult for a student to make the connection between observation of key teaching strategies and his or her own personal practice.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Original Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 English in the primary school and its place in the curriculum
• Chapter 2 Story
• Chapter 3 The National Literacy Strategy
• Chapter 4 Development in reading
• Chapter 5 Shared reading
• Chapter6 Guided reading
• Chapter 7 Development in writing
• Chapter 8 Shared writing
• Chapter 9 Guided writing
• Chapter 10 Word-level work
• Chapter 11 Sentence-level work
• Chapter 12 Monitoring, assessing and recording reading
• Chapter 13 Monitoring, assessing and recording writing
• Chapter 14 Medium- and short-term planning for English
• Chapter 15 Handwriting and the presentation of children's work
• Chapter 16 Spelling
• Chapter 17 Reading nori-fiction
• Chapter 18 Writing non-fiction
• Chapter 19 Note-taking, evaluating information and assisting memory
• Chapter 20 Speaking and listening
• Chapter 21 Poetry
• Chapter 22 Drama
• Chapter 23 Working with parents and other adults
• Chapter 24 English as an additional language (EAL)
• Chapter 25 Special educational needs (SEN)
• Chapter 26 The needs of very able children
• Chapter 27 Statutory assessment
• Appendix 1: Further reading
• Appendix 2: Guidance on the objectives aRd study resources for each chapter
• Useful websites
• Index