Grammar for Improving Writing and Reading in Secondary School

by Geoff Dean

Overview

This practical book is chiefly intended to help English teachers tackle an area of the new English programme that causes anxiety and about which a large proportion are still uncertain: grammar.

Grammar has been an uncertain classroom topic for many years; taught often as a duty, without real progression. In this book, the latest knowledge about grammar is treated as a central component of the meaning making process, in both reading and writing. Pupils can become better readers and write with greater confidence and control as a result of using this approach to grammar. Teachers of other subjects may also benefit from knowing how to integrate some grammatical teaching into the textual interactions of their lessons.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138179851
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/06/2017
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Geoff Dean

Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 ‘Grammar Wars’: Grammar Teaching Since 1950; Chapter 2 What Sort of Grammar Study Could Improve Language Use?; Chapter 3 Creating a School Context for Language Teaching; Chapter 4 An Outline of the Sorts of Grammar that Pupils and Their Teachers Need to Know; Chapter 5 Using Grammar to Improve Reading; Chapter 6 Using Grammar to Improve Writing;