The essential text for primary trainees aiming to consolidate and develop their subject knowledge of English.

An essential text for all primary trainees wishing to consolidate and develop their English teaching skills to ensure their classroom practice is creative and effective.

Dealing with the teaching of English, this is one of a series written for students working towards Qualified Teacher Status. Each title provides a systematic and detailed guide to the subject-knowledge requirements of the Initial Teacher Training National Curriculum (ITTNC).

A practical, standards-based text that extends and deepens subject knowledge and helps trainees turn that into effective teaching.

Offers ideas to involve your children and demonstrate the potential of creative teaching to develop children's knowledge, skills, understanding and attitudes. Under-pinned by theory and research, this book offers informed and practical support to students in initial teacher education, and practising teachers who want to develop their teaching.

David Wray offers a practical range of suggestions for enhancing literacy work in primary and secondary schools (Key Stages 1 to 3).

This text offers practical suggestions for enhancing literacy work in the secondary school. It includes detailed accounts of what teachers in various subjects areas have done to enhance the literacy element in their teaching and, in turn, to extend pupils' learning of subject content.

The book shows that teaching literacy across the curriculum can enhance learning and teaching effectiveness, and demonstrates how this can be achieved.

Twelve essays by internationally well-known scholars which reshape our understanding of Seneca as a student of the human psyche.

This book focuses on the approaches to the teaching of primary English at Key Stage 2 in the context of the National Curriculum.

Essential skills for planning, monitoring, assessment and class management are related specifically to primary English teaching. Aimed at primary trainee teachers, this book is designed to match the QTS Standards, and to reflect the thinking from the Primary National Strategy and the English Framework.

Drawing on the author's own research, this text identifies what effective teachers know, understand and do which enable them to put effective teaching of literacy into practice in the primary school.

Through case studies, this book highlights the use of new analytical methodologies for studying the content and patterns of children's interactions and how these contribute to their construction of knowledge.

Understanding pupils' perspectives on their learning has been shown to be of significant help in planning and implementing an effective literacy teaching programme. This book offers a different viewpoint of reflective curriculum design, in contrast to 'top-down' models, placing the learner at the centre of teaching.

Literary study using two comparative models to offer an alternative understanding of Catullus' poems.

A stimulating collection of essays reflecting the organisation of the National Curriculum for English. Sections cover: speaking and listening, reading and writing and issues which confront the teacher across the English Curriculum.

Drawing on the author's own research, this text identifies what effective teachers know, understand and do which enable them to put effective teaching of literacy into practice in the primary school.