Primary English for Trainee Teachers

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 include: Primary Science for Trainee Teachers and Primary Mathematics for Trainee Teachers