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WELCOME TO TEACHING AND LEARNING PRIMARY ENGLISH
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• Teaching English is important but can also seem overwhelming. The amount of English content taught in primary school is considerable.
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• The central metaphor of the text is a travel guide to help navigate the often complicated, crowded, and interconnected landscape of English education.
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• The Australian Curriculum: English guides English teaching in Australian schools. It divides English into three strands: language, literacy, and literature. Each strand is divided into substrands, and each substrand is used to organise a list of content descriptions that teachers should teach and assess in each year level. • Explicit instruction is the main pedagogical approach underpinning the teaching and learning experiences in the text’s chapters.
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• The many destinations of this book are tied together by the notion of mentor texts, used by primary school teachers to model how proficient readers and writers make meaning in culturally relevant ways.
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• Introduction 03 • English education as a travel guide
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• The three strands of the Australian Curriculum
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• English as a coherent and cumulative body of knowledge • What is explicit instruction?
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• Summary of explicit instruction • Mentor texts
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