Primary English: Knowledge and Understanding, 6th Edition (Achieving QTS Series) - Softcover

Jane Medwell; David Wray; George Moore; Vivienne Griffiths

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857259555 ISBN 13: 9780857259554

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

The Sixth Edition of this popular core text is the essential subject knowledge book for primary English. Helping trainees to establish and consolidate a secure subject knowledge and understanding of primary English, it promotes the development of confident, creative and effective teachers. This Sixth Edition is linked to the 2012 Teachers' Standards.

Providing full coverage of the required subject knowledge for primary English, this is a core text for primary trainees working towards QTS. Self assessment questions enable readers to understand their own level of knowledge and an M level extension feature in all chapters suggests avenues for further study at Masters level. Research summaries include the latest works in primary English and throughout intereactive tasks engage the reader with the text, helping them to link theor and practice.

Trainees will find it helpful to use this book alongside Primary English Teaching Theory and Practice.

About the Achieving QTS series

All the books in this successful series support trainees through their initial teacher training and guide them in the acquisiton of their subject knowledge, understanding and classroom practice. All new titles within the series link to the 2012 Teachers' Standards and take into account recent changes in Initial Teacher Training.

About this title

Review:

[It]offers a positive framework of knowledge for enlightened teaching of English to take place. -- Escalate, September 2003

About the Author:

Jane Medwell taught in primary schools in Cardiff and South Devon, before moving into teacher education. She has lectured at the Universities of Cardiff, Plymouth and the College of St Mark and St John, and is currently Director of Teacher Education and Associate Professor at the University of Warwick. Her research and writing has covered areas such as the teaching of writing and the use of electronic books to teach reading. More recently she has begun a major research programme exploring the teaching of handwriting, and has begun a unique programme of teacher education in primary Modern Foreign Languages. She is fluent in French and Russian, and is learning Chinese.

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0857259555
• ISBN 13: 9780857259554
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 240