What do trainee teachers need to know about English to teach it effectively in primary schools?How do children learn English and how can students teach it? What does a good primary English lesson look like? Answering these important questions and more,
Primary English for Trainee Teachers covers all areas of the new National Curriculum for primary English. By offering insight into effective teaching, it helps students connect what they need to teach to how it can be taught.
This book opens up opportunities in the new curriculum for creative and imaginative teaching and covers all areas of children's literacy from poetry and literature to SPAG. Case studies of teaching are used as a starting point for learning, and guidance on practical teaching strategies is included throughout.
New to This Edition: - A new chapter on Multi-modal texts
- A new chapter on Mastery in English
