Learning Matters 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: and About the Author David Waugh is a former deputy headteacher who worked in ITT from 1990 at the University of Hull, where he led the PGCE course and became Head of Department. In 2008 he was appointed as one of two (the other being Wendy) National Strategies Regional Advisers for ITT. He is currently lectures at Durham University. He has published extensively in primary English, as well as developing e-learning resources for National Strategies for English, mathematics and mentoring and coaching. David also writes children’s stories, including The Wishroom, which was written with 45 children from 15 East Durham primary schools and published in 2017. Wendy Jolliffe is Professor of Education and worked in Initial Teacher Education (ITE) for 14 years; latterly as Head of Teacher Education at the University of Hull. She worked previously as a Regional Adviser for the National Strategies and advised ITT providers on effective provision for literacy.  She has published extensively in Primary English and Cooperative Learning. Kate Allott is Senior Lecturer in Education at York St John University. Kate worked as a literacy consultant in a local authority from the inception of the National Literacy Strategy. More recently she spent two years as a regional adviser with the Primary National Strategy, working on the Communication, Language and Literacy Development initiative.