Making every English lesson count: Six principles for supporting great reading and writing (Making every lesson count)
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (923 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B071LQ3LSF |
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| Number of Pages | : | 387 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. Suitable for English teachers of students aged 11–16 years. 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. 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. 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 ad
Making Every English Lesson Count is testament to the fact that Tharby himself is definitely among their number. He has it right when he quotes Ludwig Wittgenstein: The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. An advocate for reading and for expanding our students vocabulary, Andy s enthusiasm is contagious. Andy Tharby is clear from the outset that there are no silver bullets, and no strategies that will work for all English teachers in all classrooms. --Hélène Galdin-O Shea, English and media teacher, research advocateAndy Tharby has written the best book on English teaching that I have re
Andy Tharby is a practising English teacher with nine years of classroom experience at a secondary school in West Sussex. . He is also a research lead, with an interest in helping ordinary classroom teachers enhance their practice through engagement with a wider evidence base. He writes a well-regarded blog, Reflecting English, in which he covers a range of subjects from improving student wr