The Really Useful Literacy Book: Linking theory and practice in the primary classroom

Written specifically for primary school teachers and student trainee teachers, the third edition of this best-selling text provides inventive ideas for the classroom together with an accessible and informative summary of the theories that underpin them. Imaginative approaches to the teaching of literacy are described together with examples of units planned on the basis of flexibility and creativity. Within the book are exciting ideas designed to motivate, engage and challenge children in literacy lessons. These ideas can be taken by teachers and developed for their own classrooms, and can also be taken by school literacy leaders to develop high quality teaching and whole school approaches. This fully updated edition reflects recent developments including the new national curriculum for primary schools and national requirements for the teaching of literacy. These are discussed and tested against research and reports both national and international so that a critical view emerges of what the high quality teaching of literacy looks like. Included here are ideas for the Foundation Stage, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2, with work outlined for a range of text types. This third edition is an essential companion for primary teachers at all stages of their careers. The tried and tested lessons and units discussed have been developed by the authors during their years of teaching and then working with teachers and schools across the country and abroad.