Grammar for Improving Writing and Reading in Secondary School

by Dean,Geoff

• ISBN13: 9781843120032
• ISBN10: 1843120038
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781134005697
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-06-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This practical book is chiefly intended to help English teachers tackle an area of the new English programme that causes anxiety and about which a large proportion are still uncertain: grammar. Grammar has been an uncertain classroom topic for many years; taught often as a duty, without real progression. In this book, the latest knowledge about grammar is treated as a central component of the meaning making process, in both reading and writing. Pupils can become better readers and write with greater confidence and control as a result of using this approach to grammar. Teachers of other subjects may also benefit from knowing how to integrate some grammatical teaching into the textual interactions of their lessons.

Table of Contents

'Grammar Wars': Grammas Teaching Since 1950 Grammar teaching, 1945 to the 1960s

'Transparent grammar', 1960 to 1985

'Thacherite grammar and the anomaly of LINC': the 1980s and 1990s

'Repositioning and restoring grammar': the late 1990s to the present day

What Sort of Grammar Study Could Improve Language Use? Making a case for a particular approach to grammar

Integrating the study of genre into English studies

Applying similar genre knowledge to the writing of different types of narrative

Creating a School Context for Language Teaching, Establishing a school-based rationale

Creating a secure departmental rationale for the teaching of grammar

An Outline of the Sorts of Grammar that Pupils and Their Teachers Need to Know, Some rudimentary grammar knowledge: a 'starter kit' for teaching language

The process of text-making

Morphology

Syntax

Using Grammar to Improve Reading, Sentence-level questions

Close reading techniques: using grammar knowledge

Comparing the beginnings and endings of texts

Non-fiction texts considered closely

Using grammar to make meaning in poetry

Reading environment

Using Grammar to Improve Writing, Establishing that pupils know the structures and simple grammatical features of writing

Conclusion

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