Angela Wilson is former Senior Lecturer in Education at the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education, now Glynd¿r University. Julie Scanlon is Senior Lecturer in Primary English at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Part One: The background to language
knowledge 1. Why do primary teachers need language knowledge? 2. A
framework for considering language knowledge 3. Building on preschool
children's language knowledge Part Two: Texts, sentences and words 4. Some
characteristics of texts 5. Making sense of texts 6. What big teeth you
have, grammar! 7. Sentence structure: phrases and clauses 8. Words, words,
words Part Three: Applying language knowledge 9. Applying text, sentence
and word level knowledge to fictional texts and poetry 10. Applying text,
sentence and word level knowledge to non-fiction texts 11. Applying text,
sentence and word level knowledge to non-book and electronic texts 12.
Applying text, sentence and word level knowledge to digital communications
13. Conclusion Commentaries Bibliography Index
