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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.
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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.
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- PublisherLearning Matters
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1446256847
- ISBN 13 9781446256848
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number6
- Number of pages240
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