This book does NOT teach you English. It provides you with a framework to stay one step ahead of the children you work with in class. In this way, you learn English as you go along rather than feeling like you've got to learn it all at once and this will help boost your confidence with this subject... Does teaching and supporting English in class feel like wading through treacle? Are there times when you'd rather be outside in the rain coaxing reluctant kids to learn the rules of cricket than be in class during an English lesson? Then this book might just be for you!
English is a HUGE subject and for most of us, it is taught completely differently to the way we learned it in school. I was in my early fifties before being introduced to the likes of fronted adverbials and embedded clauses - it felt like learning another language!
It was then I realised that modern education methods had turned the beautiful art of English, that most of us manage to do naturally when we write, into a science, by requiring students to name and know how to use each and every component part of a sentence!
Modern education methods have turned English inside-out. When we were young, we were encouraged to be confident writers and maybe some of us, who then studied English at a higher level, went on to fully understand parts of speech and the components of grammar etc, but on the whole we learned to enjoy writing as an art-form.
Nowadays, children are learning about parts of speech and the components of grammar BEFORE they become confident writers and this can make teaching and supporting English FEEL clunky. Did I say clunky? What I REALLY mean is, that there have DEFINITELY been times when I've wanted to run out of the class, SCREAMING!
All of this makes the thought of learning, what seems like a barrow-load of stuff we missed out on in our own education, like a mountain to climb. And that is why I've created this book, because this book shows you how to break English down into the bite-sized pieces you need to know for any given day, for the children in your class.
Inside you will find:
- A 'How to use this book' section so that you're not left scratching your head.
- 6 confidence-boosting prompts repeated throughout the book that tell you what to do and when, every time you're doubtful about getting your head around the content of your next English lesson.
- Pages to record the English resources you've found the most useful.
- 130 8x11.5 inch pages, giving you plenty of room to write in.
- A positive 'can-do' feel, to every page!
To be clear, this book does not teach you English. There are loads of books and online resources that do that. This book prompts you to find the information that YOU need SPECIFICALLY for each of your English lessons with the children YOU are teaching and supporting. In this way, everything is tailored to fit YOU! And by doing this, you break down this ENORMOUS subject into bite-sized pieces, making you feel way more accomplished during English lessons!
So, buy this book today and start SMASHING ENGLISH!
