Language Knowledge for Primary Teachers

ISBN-13: 9780415564809 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 196 str.

Angela Wilson

Opis

Teaching children to develop as language users is an important task of the primary teacher. By exploring the relationship between text types, syntax, vocabulary and phonics, this volume illustrates how language is used for different purposes.

Spis treści

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