Making Every English Lesson Count: Six principles to support great reading and writing (Making Every Lesson Count): Six principles for supporting reading and writing (Making…
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Brings the teaching of conceptual knowledge, vocabulary and challenging literature to the foreground and shows teachers how to develop students reading and writing proficiency over time.
Making Every English Lesson Count: Six Principles to Support Great Reading and Writing goes in search of answers to the fundamental question that all English teachers must ask: What can I do to help my students to become confident and competent readers and writers?
Writing in the practical, engaging style of the award-winning Making Every Lesson Count, Andy Tharby returns with an offering of gimmick-free advice that combines the time-honoured wisdom of excellent English teachers with the most useful evidence from cognitive science. The book is underpinned by six pedagogical principles challenge, explanation, modelling, practice, feedback and questioning and provides simple, realistic classroom strategies to bring the teaching of conceptual knowledge, vocabulary and challenging literature to the foreground.
It also points a sceptical finger at the fashions and myths that have pervaded English teaching over the past decade or so such as the idea that English is a skills-based subject and the belief that students can make huge progress in a single lesson. Instead, Andy advocates an approach of artful repetition and consolidation and shows you how to help your students develop their reading and writing proficiency over time.
Making Every English Lesson Count is for new and experienced English teachers alike. It does not pretend to be a magic bullet. It does not claim to have all the answers. Rather the aim of the book is to provide effective strategies designed to help you to bring the six principles to life, with each chapter concluding in a series of questions to inspire reflective thought and help you relate the content to your classroom practice.
In an age of educational quick fixes, GCSE reform and ever-moving goalposts, this precise and timely addition to the Making Every Lesson Count series provides practical solutions to perennial problems and inspires a rich, challenging and evidence-informed approach to English teaching.
Suitable for English teachers of students aged 11 16 years.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Crown House Publishing (30 Jun. 2017) |
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| Language | English |
| Paperback | 176 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1785831798 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1785831799 |
| Dimensions | 13.46 x 1.52 x 21.34 cm |
by Amazon Customer
I really enjoyed reading this book! Each chapter starts with an important principle and then explores numerous helpful strategies. Thank you, Andy Tharby, this is a fantastic book with great advice.
by L. J.
Great research to support teaching
by Samantha Williams
This is the best book I have come across on English teaching. It’s research based and filled with practical ideas based on accumulated experience. I’ve read chapters, and also dipped into it and even the ‘dips’ are time very well spent- e.g finding an excellent starter idea.
by Amazon Customer
For so many reasons, this is the best book on teaching English that I’ve ever read, and that’s in a career of 26 years so far. It’s a guide to what to teach, and how to pitch and organise your lessons, as well as why it’s so important to keep students aiming high.
Andy Tharby takes a systematic approach to teaching English…covering aspects of reading and writing that offer challenge and counter-balance with appropriate support. He talks us through his rationale for approaching English as a highly valued body of knowledge and experience and leaves us in no doubt that given the right stimuli and structures all children can succeed. At the same time as being clear and methodical, Tharby’s clear love of his subject shines through.
This is a book that will confirm your choice to become an English teacher, if you’re a ‘beginner’, or will remind you of all the reasons you made that decision in the first place.
by Eddie Jackson
This is a gen of a book. It has a systematic approach and takes you through the key elements of teaching English, offering you advise, which is supported by sound research. Having recently done an MA in English in Education, I have read many books on this topic, and this would certainly feature in my top three. Tharby’s writing style is engaging and like a previous reviewer said, he makes every word count. Top stuff!
by Amazon Customer
Gimmick free teaching for secondary English. An easy to implement, common sense approach. It will save planning time and marking time, as well as improving your teaching.
by SK
Fantastic book, thoughtful and great for new teachers.
by Amazon Customer
With lots of practical advice, this book is perfect for NQTs and trainees.
Nevertheless, as someone with around 9 years of experience as an “outstanding” teacher, I also found this book useful. Not only has it refreshed my memory of some pedagogical routines that I had forgotten over the years, it has also given me ideas that I can use to tweak my current classroom practice.
As a result, I bought a copy for a colleague as a leaving gift.