Primary English: Knowledge and Understanding

All the subject knowledge you need to teach primary English.

If you are training to be a primary school teacher, you need to understand what you need to know about primary English before you can teach it.

Secure subject knowledge and understanding is the foundation of confident, creative and effective teaching. To help you master this, this comprehensive text includes subject knowledge from each part of the primary English curriculum and comes with a wide range of resources so you can test your growing knowledge as you progress through the course. 

• an online English subject knowledge audit with the ability to share results
• end of chapter self-assessment questions 
• Interactive tasks
• an English subject knowledge checklist
• useful weblinks for primary English teaching
• Recommended further reading

This new edition has been updated and includes a new chapter on children's common misconceptions in English.