From a review of the first edition: Ian Eyres tackles every issue of the teacher training curriculum for English making it accessible & easy to underst&. As well as this he offers reflection pieces to check your own understanding! With English exams looming round the corner for my PGCE this book really has been a lifesaver. Wholeheartedly recommended
- Amazon Review English for Primary & Early Years is a comprehensive & essential guide to the structure of English. It draws on the readers own knowledge & understanding of English as the basis for analysis of texts at word sentence & whole text level. The book develops the readers understanding of the linguistic & literary knowledge required by The National Curriculum at Key Stages 1 & 2 & by the National Literacy Strategy. Key concepts such as Standard English approaches to grammar genre clause structure & the role of phonics in reading are addressed in an interactive way which develops the readers skills as an active analyst of English leading to a far deeper understanding than the dos & donts of traditional grammar. The text is fully updated to include the most recent developments in such areas as synthetic & analytic phonics & multimodal texts. An in-depth self-assessment activity is included with the text. This is a set book for the Open University Course Ways of Knowing: language mathematics & science in the early years.