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

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Angela Wilson is former Senior Lecturer in Education at the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education, now GlyndA r University. Julie Scanlon is Senior Lecturer in Primary English at Manchester Metropolitan University.

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