Teaching Assistants are uniquely placed to support children’s involvement with learning. The role of those who work alongside teachers in the classroom has changed dramatically in recent years and teaching assistants are increasingly involved in planning, teaching and assessing all aspects of the curriculum. This second edition has been thoroughly updated and includes new chapters on learning in gardens, children’s play in virtual environments, specialist approaches for children with communication difficulties, the nature of learning at home, the place of poetry, child abuse, learning in a breakfast club, children’s spelling, and the importance of playtime. Exploring the issues that are central to fostering children’s learning, the book examines:    strategies for supporting learning and assessment in English, maths and science   inclusive and imaginative practices in all areas of learning   home and community contexts for learning   working practices which support professional development.  Written for teaching assistants and also teachers, the book aims to enrich the contribution that teaching assistants, as team members, can make to children’s learning.

Primary Teaching Assistants: Curriculum in context (Published in association with the Open University)

Education & Teaching

Cable, Carrie

Eyres, Ian

Hancock, Roger

Stacey, Mary

Schools & Teaching

Routledge

English for Primary and Early Years: Developing Subject Knowledge (Developing Subject Knowledge series)

From a review of the first edition: 
′Ian Eyres tackles every issue of the teacher training curriculum for English making it accessible and easy to understand. 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 and Early Years is a comprehensive and essential guide to the structure of English. It draws on the reader′s own knowledge and understanding of English as the basis for analysis of texts at word, sentence and whole text level. The book develops the reader′s understanding of the linguistic and literary knowledge required by the U.K.′s National Curriculum at Key Stages 1 and 2 and by the National Literacy Strategy. Key concepts such as, Standard English, approaches to grammar, genre, clause structure and the role of phonics in reading are addressed in an interactive way which develops the reader′s skills as an active analyst of English, leading to a far deeper understanding than the `do′s and don′ts′ of traditional grammar. The text is fully updated to include the most recent developments in such areas as synthetic and analytic phonics and multimodal texts. An in-depth self-assessment activity is included with the text. 
This is a set book for the U.K. Open University Course, ′Ways of Knowing: language, mathematics and science in the early years′.

Reference

English as a Second Language

Sage Publications Ltd.

From a review of the first edition: 
′Ian Eyres tackles every issue of the teacher training curriculum for English making it accessible and easy to understand. 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 and Early Years is a comprehensive and essential guide to the structure of English. It draws on the reader′s own knowledge and understanding of English as the basis for analysis of texts at word, sentence and whole text level. The book develops the reader′s understanding of the linguistic and literary knowledge required by the U.K.′s National Curriculum at Key Stages 1 and 2 and by the National Literacy Strategy. Key concepts such as, Standard English, approaches to grammar, genre, clause structure and the role of phonics in reading are addressed in an interactive way which develops the reader′s skills as an active analyst of English, leading to a far deeper understanding than the `do′s and don′ts′ of traditional grammar. The text is fully updated to include the most recent developments in such areas as synthetic and analytic phonics and multimodal texts. An in-depth self-assessment activity is included with the text. 
This is a set book for the U.K. Open University Course, ′Ways of Knowing: language, mathematics and science in the early years′.

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