Teaching Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling in Primary Schools (Transforming Primary QTS Series) - Hardcover

Waugh, David; Warner, Claire; Waugh, Rosemary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1473942241 ISBN 13: 9781473942240

Publisher: Learning Matters, 2016

Synopsis

Trainee and beginning teachers often find the teaching of grammar, punctuation and spelling especially challenging as they are not confident in their own knowledge.  This popular text explores and provides the subject knowledge you will need to teach grammar, punctuation and spelling and gives guidance on how to teach it. 

The text is really accessible and includes lots of examples and teaching ideas, enabling you to approach teaching with ease.  Detailed examples of effective lessons show you how to engage children’s interest in some of the more formal aspects of writing and throughout, activities and practical examples demonstrate how you can translate this learning into the classroom.

This second edition has been updated in line with the new National Curriculum for Key Stages 1 and 2.  A new chapter is included to explore the national SPAG tests in primary schools.  The tests are explained and advice on how to approach them is included.  The text will enable you to teach grammar, punctuation and spelling effectively supporting your class in all their writing, across the primary curriculum.

About this title

About the Authors

David Waugh is a former deputy headteacher who worked in ITT from 1990 at the University of Hull, where he led the PGCE course and became Head of Department. In 2008 he was appointed as one of two (the other being Wendy) National Strategies Regional Advisers for ITT. He is currently lectures at Durham University. He has published extensively in primary English, as well as developing e-learning resources for National Strategies for English, mathematics and mentoring and coaching. David also writes children’s stories, including The Wishroom, which was written with 45 children from 15 East Durham primary schools and published in 2017.

Claire Warner is an education consultant for Primary English. Her recent roles include working as a senior adviser for literacy with the National Strategies, and as a senior lecturer and leader of undergraduate ITE programmes at Chester University.

Rosemary Waugh is a linguist and classics teacher at Queen Margaret′s School York. She has a particular interest in the history and development of grammar and etymology, and in their evolution.

Edition details

• Publisher: Learning Matters
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1473942241
• ISBN 13: 9781473942240
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 240