Primary English

  • Primary English: Teaching Theory and Practice
    By Dr Jane A Medwell, Professor David Wray, Mrs Elizabeth A Coates

    ... ideas and techniques discussed at Key Stage 1canbeextended with appropriatetexts; for example, the'tell me' approach can be used with a range of relevant authors, such as Anne Fine, Dick KingSmith, William Mayne and Philippa Pearce.

  • Primary English: Teaching Theory and Practice
    By Jane Medwell, David Wray, Vivienne Griffiths

    ... and techniques discussed at Key Stage 1 can be extended with appropriate texts; for example, the 'tell me' approach can be used with a range of relevant authors, such as Anne Fine, Dick King-Smith, William Mayne and Philippa Pearce.

  • Primary English: Teaching Theory and Practice
    By Jane Medwell, David Wray, Vivienne Griffiths

    Group cloze The cloze exercise consists of a text with several deletions that children have to work together to complete. The following brief example will illustrate the activity. John was a very lucky boy.

  • Primary English: Teaching Theory and Practice
    By Jane Medwell, David Wray, Vivienne Griffiths

    Southgate, V., Arnold, H. and Johnson, S. (1981) Extending Beginning Reading. London: Heinemann. Stanovich,K.E. (1984) 'The interactive–compensatory modelof reading:a confluenceof developmental, experimental and educational psychology', ...

  • Primary English: Teaching Theory and Practice
    By Jane Medwell, David Wray, Vivienne Griffiths

    This is the essential teaching theory and practice text for primary English that takes a focused look at the practical aspects of teaching.

  • Primary English: Knowledge and Understanding
    By George Moore, Jane Medwell, David Wray

    There are also examples by children in Does It Have to Rhyme? ... Couplets are simply two consecutive lines of poetry that are linked by rhythm and rhyme. ... The structure is often very loose with no strong rhythms or rhymes.

  • Primary English: Knowledge and Understanding
    By Dr Jane A Medwell, Professor David Wray, Dr Vivienne Griffiths

    There are also examples by children in Does It Have to Rhyme? ... Couplets are simply two consecutive lines of poetrythat are linked by rhythm and rhyme. ... The structure is often very loose with no strong rhythms or rhymes.

  • Primary English: Teaching Theory and Practice
    By Jane Medwell, David Wray, Vivienne Griffiths

    The primary curriculum for maintained schools in England and Wales changed in 2014 and this sort of change may very well ... Key Stages 1 and 2 include Programmes of Study, which set out the English that children should be taught.

  • Primary English: Teaching Theory and Practice
    By Jane Medwell

    Part of a series designed for those training to become primary school teachers, this text covers the theory and practice of teaching English, and includes chapters on: speaking and listening; reading; writing; spelling and handwriting; and ...

  • Primary English: Knowledge and Understanding
    By George Moore, Jane Medwell, David Wray

    This 8th edition, covering the whole primary curriculum, also includes new chapters on handwriting and the nature of learning. Updated interactive activities throughout the book engage students in their learning and enable discussion.

  • Primary English: Knowledge and Understanding
    By George Moore, Jane Medwell, David Wray

    Picture books, for example, are often thought of as the appropriate form for Key Stage 1 children and no higher. But a book like Raymond Briggs' Fungus the Bogeyman is clearly not appropriate for Key Stage 1 and not just because of the ...

  • Primary English
    By Ian Eyres

    The book develops the readers understanding of the linguistic and literary knowledge required by the National Curriculum at Key Stages 1 and 2 and by the National Literacy Strategy.

  • Primary English: Knowledge and Understanding
    By George Moore, Jane Medwell, David Wray

    ... steam coming up from his mouth and another frombetween his hands. Itwasn't his soul goingup to heaven, it was ahot pie from ashopround thecorner wherehe'd been scrubbing thekitchen since before itwaslight. Fair's Fair by Leon Garfield ...

  • Primary English: Extending Knowledge in Practice
    By Jane Medwell, David Wray

    ... knowledge of aspects of English. Both have claimed to focus on knowledge which was directly relevant to classroom practice in teaching English, but in reality this was for both books a secondary consideration. The need now, as we see it ...