This straightforward guide to the professional standards and requirements for primary teachers illustrates the best ways of developing knowledge and how to acquire the skills needed to achieve QTS. Meeting the Standards in Primary English will: explain the Standards relating to English teaching; link the theory associated with the teaching of English to the practical application; look in detail at the teaching of reading, fiction, writing, speaking and listening, ICT in literacy, and drama; assist the understanding of grammar and language study; and consider the issues of continuing professional development.
Teachers in English schools have now had 10 years of prescriptive national literacy strategies and it is time for a new approach. This book encourages children from their early years to think of themselves as writers who have something to write and know how to write it. "Creating Writers in the Primary Classroom" offers an exciting and refreshing approach to teaching writing in the primary school with very practical suggestions to help build a community of writers in your school where everyone writes and loves writing.