The Really Useful Literacy Book - Being Creative with English in the Primary Classroom (Paperback)

The Really Useful Literacy Book has been written with primary classroom teachers and teachers-in-training in mind. The National Literacy Strategy has had an impact in almost all primary schools, and teachers are now very familiar with its teaching objectives and strategies. However, many teachers are now looking to develop their practice in a more flexible way, in order to achieve an even greater degree of attainment in their pupils. This book provides both inventive ideas for the classroom together with an accessible summary of theories underpinning them, which can often act as a springboard for further inspiration. the reader how to plan their own units of work, rather than simply teaching from pre-worked examples. Using as their base four 'big ideas': contexts and coherence; motivation; skill building; and content and process, the authors lead the reader through a set of principles and practices which, when applied to familiar elements of the literacy strategy, i.e. narrative, non-fiction, traditional tales, poems, spoken and written language, will encourage the teacher to formulate their own exciting, creative and flexible literacy teaching. They also show how to plan cross-curricula links so that literacy is not seen as a separate compartment in the curriculum. This book is an essential companion for teachers who want to move on from the rigid literacy hour format, but who do not want to lose the real progress that has been made in the development of their teaching strategies.