Beschreibung:
Teaching children to develop as language users is one of the most important tasks of a primary school teacher. However, many trainee teachers begin their careers with a low knowledge base.
Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Part One: The background to language knowledge 1. Why do primary teachers need language knowledge? 2. A framework for considering language knowledge 3. Building on preschool children's language knowledge Part Two: Texts, sentences and words 4. Some characteristics of texts 5. Making sense of texts 6. What big teeth you have, grammar! 7. Sentence structure: phrases and clauses 8. Words, words, words Part Three: Applying language knowledge 9. Applying text, sentence and word level knowledge to fictional texts and poetry 10. Applying text, sentence and word level knowledge to non-fiction texts 11. Applying text, sentence and word level knowledge to non-book and electronic texts 12. Applying text, sentence and word level knowledge to digital communications 13. Conclusion Commentaries Bibliography Index