206 pages
250mm x 168mm
ISBN-10: 1 85856 177 9
ISBN-13: 978 1 85856 177 6
November 1999

This book demonstrates how exploring language and the ways it works can be stimulating and fun for children and satisfying for teachers, as they see grammar come to life as never before in a primary classroom. Drawing on the latest research on how children learn both first and subsequent languages, and responsive to the requirements of the curriculum and the literacy hour, the authors have developed a new dimension in whole-class and group learning.

Approaches conceived by Mina Drever for training teachers to teach English to bilingual pupils have been extended by Susan Moule and Keith Peterson to enhance the language development of all children. At the core of their approach is the knowledge that children learn best when they collaborate with their peers to achieve realistic learning objectives. Their classes have fun exploring the words we use in English for history, geography, poetry and the media and how these are put together to create accurate and appropriate meanings.

Teaching English in Primary Classrooms will be invaluable to all primary teachers and anyone interested in promoting children's development of spoken and written English.