1st Edition

Teaching Primary English The State of the Art

Edited By David Wray, Jane Medwell Copyright 1994
218 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

In this stimulating collection of specially commissioned essays, teachers and researchers in the forefront of thinking in this area consider both the controversies and the day-to-day realities of teaching primary English. The book's four sections reflect the organisation of the National Curriculum for English: Speaking and Listening, Reading, Writing, with a final section on issues that confront... Read more
chapter0001 Introduction; Part I Speaking and listening; chapter0002 Editors’ introduction; Chapter 1 The oral language of young children, Martin Hughes; Chapter 2 The dead spot in our struggle for meaning, Terry Phillips; Chapter 3 The assessment of oral language, Greg Brooks; Part II Reading; chapter0003 Editors’ introduction; Chapter 4 Reviewing the reading debate, David Wray; Chapter 5 Texts that teach, Colin Mills; Chapter 6 Information handling, David Wray; Chapter 7 The assessment of reading, Denis Vincent; Part III Writing; chapter0004 Editors’ introduction; Chapter 8 The writing process, Roger Beard; Chapter 9 Contexts for writing, Jane Medwell; Chapter 10 Word processors, redrafting and the niche of the laptop, Frank Potter; Chapter 11 Assessing developing writing and writers, Richard Fox; Part IV Other themes and issues; chapter0005 Editors’ introduction; Chapter 12 Media education, literacy and schooling, Frank Potter; Chapter 13 What is knowledge about language?, Margaret Wallen; Chapter 14 Children with literacy difficulties?, Bridie Raban, Ann Lewis; chapter0006 Conclusion;

Biography

David Wray is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Exeter. Jane Medwell is Lecturer in Education at the College of St Mark and Sr John, Plymouth.