This book has a two-fold purpose: to provide lively whole class activities for teaching the Key Stage 2 sentence level objectives in England's National Literacy Strategy"Framework for Teaching"; and to explain and illustrate the varied forms which shared writing can take as a powerful medium for teaching writing. It is designed to help teachers teach writing. It is called "Grammar for Writing" to emphasize the centrality of grammar in the teaching of writing. The book lays out teaching ideas for each year of Key Stage 2--objective by objective, It consists of teaching units covering all the sentence level objectives in the Key Stage 2 Framework and a number of text level objectives which relate to text cohesion.
A JOURNAL FOR THE TEACHER OF ENGLISHEnglish Teaching Forum is a quarterly journal published by the U.S. Department of State for teachers of English as a foreign or second language.3, 1995
Speaking (and writing) about sports is the feature article in this issue. Other topics include materials development, speaking and listening online, teaching writing, and classroom techniques.
This issue has a feature article and lesson plan on one-room schools. Article topics include varieties of English, ESL versus EFL, pronunciation, vocabulary strategies, and word recognition exercises.
This issue has articles on communicative language teaching, project work, team teaching, interactive grammar, creative writing techniques, and a feature article on a popular American sport.