Teaching English Creatively

What does it mean to teach English creatively to primary school children?

Teaching English Creatively encourages and enables teachers to adopt a more creative approach to the teaching of English in the primary school. Fully updated to reflect the changing UK curricula, the third edition of this popular text explores research-informed practice and offers new ideas to imaginatively engage readers, writers, speakers and listeners.

Underpinned by up-to-date theory and research and illustrated throughout with more examples of children¿s work, it examines the core elements of creative practice and how to explore powerful literary, non-fiction, visual and digital texts creatively. Key themes addressed include:

¿ Developing creativity in and through talk and drama

¿ Creatively engaging readers and writers

¿ Teaching grammar and comprehension imaginatively and in context

¿ Profiling meaning and purpose, autonomy, collaboration and play

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