Jane A Medwell & David Wray 
Primary English: Knowledge and Understanding 

All the subject knowledge you need to teach primary English.


If you are training to be a primary school teacher, you need to understand what you need to know about primary English before you can teach it.

Secure subject knowledge and understanding is the foundation of confident, creative and effective teaching. To help you master this, this comprehensive text includes subject knowledge from each part of the primary English curriculum and comes with a wide range of resources so you can test your growing knowledge as you progress through the course. 

• an online English subject knowledge audit with the ability to share results


• end of chapter self-assessment questions 


• Interactive tasks


• an English subject knowledge checklist


• useful weblinks for primary English teaching


• Recommended further reading

This new edition has been updated and includes a new chapter on children′s common misconceptions in English.

Table of Content

Introduction

Spoken English and Standard English

The nature of learning

The acquisition of language

Representing sound in writing

Words, vocabulary and morphology

The grammar of the sentence in Standard English

The components of sentences

Handwriting

Punctuation

Cohesion: grammar at the level of the text

The qualities of stories

The qualities of poetry

The qualities of drama

Looking at information books

Electronic texts

Looking more closely at children’s errors

About the author

Vivienne Griffiths is a Professor of Education at Canterbury Christ Church University.