Being Creative in Primary English

Being Creative in Primary English
Author: Adrian Copping
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2016-09-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1473987172

Why should we foster creativity in primary English? A practical and accessible text that demonstrates how creative thinking and learning can support primary English teaching. With chapters mapped to the Teachers′ Standards and links to the new National Curriculum, each chapter provides a case study exploring high-quality primary English practice including planning, rationale and ideas for the classroom. These are fully grounded in a wide range of theoretical frameworks, viewpoints and values. Reflective activities in each chapter offering practical exercises and additional reading suggestions, encourage trainee teachers to further their understanding of how theory translates to classroom practice. This inspiring book helps support learning, teaching and assessment without losing innovation, excitement and motivation for both teachers and children.

Creative Teaching: English in the Early Years and Primary Classroom

Creative Teaching: English in the Early Years and Primary Classroom
Author: Chris Horner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2007-06-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135396574

Presenting a range of exciting activities that support the development of creative English lessons within the existing structures of the Foundation Curriculum and the National Curriculum, this book: is packed full of interactive and creative teaching strategies provides guidance on assessing creative work highlights opportunities for creative literacy activities across the curriculum covers ages 3-11.

Teaching Primary English Through Drama

Teaching Primary English Through Drama
Author: Suzi Clipson-Boyles
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2013-07-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136728783

Teaching Primary English through Drama builds on the success of the classic text Drama in Primary English, inspiring ideas and techniques for teaching English skills through the medium of drama.

Mastering Primary English

Mastering Primary English
Author: Wendy Jolliffe
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2018-02-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1474295487

Mastering Primary English introduces the primary English curriculum and helps trainees and teachers learn how to plan and teach inspiring lessons that make English learning irresistible. Topics covered include: · Current developments in English · English as an irresistible activity · English as a practical activity · Skills to develop in English · Promoting curiosity · Assessing children in English · Practical issues This guide includes examples of children's work, case studies, readings to reflect upon and reflective questions that all help to exemplify what is considered to be best and most innovative practice. The book draws on the experience of two leading professionals in primary English, Wendy Jolliffe and David Waugh, to provide the essential guide to teaching English for all trainee and qualified primary teachers.

A Guided Reader to Early Years and Primary English

A Guided Reader to Early Years and Primary English
Author: Margaret Mallett
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2015-10-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317451163

A Guided Reader to Early Years and Primary English draws on extracts from the published work of some of the most influential education writers to provide insight, guidance and clarity about key issues affecting early years practitioners and primary English teachers. The book brings together key extracts from classic and contemporary writing and contextualises these in both theoretical and practical terms. The extracts are accompanied by a summary of the key ideas and issues raised, questions to promote discussion and reflective practice, and annotated further reading lists to extend thinking. Taking a thematic approach and including a short introduction to each theme, the chapters cover: Models of and approaches to early years and primary English; Speaking and listening in English lessons: story-telling, drama, ‘booktalk’ and debate; Reading and responding to texts in English lessons; Writing in English lessons: finding a ‘voice’; Knowledge about language: grammar, spelling, punctuation and handwriting; The rich landscape of children’s literature; Non-fiction in English lessons; Planning, assessing and recording children’s progress: the learning cycle. Aimed at trainee and newly qualified teachers, those working towards Masters level qualifications and all those involved in the teaching of early years and primary English, this accessible, but critically provocative text will be an essential resource for those that wish to deepen their understanding of early years and primary English education.

Mastering Writing at Greater Depth

Mastering Writing at Greater Depth
Author: Adam Bushnell
Publisher: Sage Publications UK
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2023-02-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1529613280

This book provides teachers with support, guidance, background theory, examples and practical advice for the teaching of writing at greater depth.

EBOOK: Teaching Creative Writing in the Primary School: Delight, Entice, Inspire!

EBOOK: Teaching Creative Writing in the Primary School: Delight, Entice, Inspire!
Author: Julie MacLusky
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2011-09-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0335242804

Over the last 15 years the Primary National Strategy and the standards-driven curriculum in teacher education have demonstrably improved the primary education of children in the UK. Yet there has been a growing awareness that creativity has been neglected. To address this, a range of initiatives have been launched to offer support for creativity in the primary curriculum. This book will provide teachers with a set of teaching strategies to provide children with a tool-kit of creative skills. This book suggests that a child, who might dislike a lesson on the correct use of grammar, will become excited by a lesson that involves using his or her own talents and experiences to create a story. Throughout the process of composing the story the child will attend to aspects of grammar in order to share their work with others. Results from the classroom research conducted using the exercises in this book suggest that the book has the power to enable teachers to engage pupils in writing lessons, who are often uninterested in classroom writing lessons. The book also includes: 20 creative writing templates for classroom activities A variety of exercises to help develop creative writing skills and build pupil confidence Detailed curriculum links Teaching Creative Writing in the Primary School is essential reading for all primary school teachers.

Creativity and Innovations in ELT Materials Development

Creativity and Innovations in ELT Materials Development
Author: Dat Bao
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2018-03-13
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1783099712

This book brings together renowned scholars and new voices to challenge current practices in ELT materials design in order to work towards optimal learning conditions. It proposes ideas and principles to improve second language task design through novel resources such as drama, poetry, literature and online resources; and it maps out a number of unusual connections between theory and practice in the field of ELT materials development. The first section of the book discusses how innovative task-writing ideas can stretch materials beyond the current quality to make them more original and inspiring; the second part examines how different arts and technologies can drive innovation in coursebooks; the third section describes how teachers and learners can participate in materials writing and negotiate ways to personalize learning.

Teaching Creative Writing

Teaching Creative Writing
Author: María Leticia González Pérez
Publisher: Editorial Pueblo y Educación
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-07-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9591340214

La escritura es un medio de comunicación y su objetivo más importante es ser entendida por quienquiera que sea el lector. Hoy ponemos a su disposición una obra con una meta muy ambiciosa: satisfacer las necesidades de los futuros profesores de inglés cubanos –principalmente de los que impartirán clases en la educación primaria– y de los estudiantes interesados en mejorar su escritura creativa en este idioma. También, acompañar a los alumnos en la medida que aprenden los conceptos básicos en cursos de pregrado para educadores vinculados a la materia en cuestión.

Creative English, Creative Curriculum

Creative English, Creative Curriculum
Author: Paul Gardner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2014-02-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317834208

Combining theory with practical examples, Creative English, Creative Curriculum will stimulate students and teachers to be adventurous and creative in their teaching, while covering the mains strands of the Primary National Strategy for English: narrative, non-fiction and poetry. This book: reflects the new emphases on speaking and listening contextualises recent changes to the English curriculum, reviewing models of best practice provides practical examples and research evidence of creative approaches to the teaching of English considers the cross-curricular aspects in creating a thematic approach to teaching and learning. This book will appeal to both students and practising teachers in the primary school who either wish to implement creative approaches to their English teaching, or are undertaking extended study for a Masters Degree.