A Practical Guide to Teaching English in the Secondary School
- ISBN-10
- 1000483266
- ISBN-13
- 9781000483260
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 228
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-11-29
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Authors
- ANNABEL WATSON, Ruth G Newman
Description
A Practical Guide to Teaching English in the Secondary School offers straightforward advice, inspiration and a wide range of tried and tested approaches to help you find success in the secondary English classroom. Covering all aspects of English teaching, it is designed for you to dip in and out of, and enable you to focus on specific areas of teaching, your programme or pupils’ learning. Fully updated to reflect what student and early career teachers see and experience when they enter the classroom, the second edition supports trainee and practicing teachers to teach in imaginative and creative ways to promote learning in English. Packed with ideas, resources, practical teaching activities and underpinned by the latest research into how children learn, the book examines the core areas of reading, writing and spoken English including: • Plays, poetry, non-fiction, myths and legends, drama and Shakespeare • Developing writing • Creative grammar • Talk and classroom dialogue • Media and digital writing • English across the curriculum • Well-being through writing • Literature and language post-16. Including tools to support critical reflection, A Practical Guide to Teaching English in the Secondary School is an essential companion for all training and newly qualified English teachers.
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- 2021-11-30
- 214 pages
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