Teaching Primary English : The State of the Art

by Wray, David; Medwell, Jane

• ISBN13: 9780415086691
• ISBN10: 0415086698
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-03-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In this stimulating collection of specially commissioned essays, teachers and researchers in the forefront of primary English teaching consider both the field's controversies and its day-to-day realities. The book's four sections reflect the organization of the National Curriculum for English: Speaking and Listening, Reading and Writing, with a final section on issues which confront the teacher across the English Curriculum. Throughout, the contributors combine the latest research with practical suggestions about what it means for the teacher in the classroom.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Introduction	p. 1
The oral language of young children	p. 7
The dead spot in our struggle for meaning: learning and understanding through small group talk	p. 22
The assessment of oral language	p. 37
Reviewing the reading debate	p. 53
Texts that teach	p. 62
Information handling: an important dimension to literacy	p. 73
The assessment of reading	p. 81
The writing process	p. 99
Contexts for writing: the social construction of written composition	p. 112
Word processors, redrafting and the niche of the laptop	p. 122
Assessing developing writing and writers	p. 132
Media education, literacy and schooling	p. 155
What is knowledge about language?	p. 165
Children with literacy difficulties?	p. 177
Conclusion	p. 197
Name index	p. 200
Subject index	p. 205
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