Bloomsbury Curriculum Basics: Teaching Primary Spanish

By (author) Barton, Amanda; By (author) McLachlan Angela
Description
Teaching Primary Spanish offers a jam-packed, practical and easy-to-apply programme to plan and deliver effective primary lessons that will inspire your class and extend their knowledge. Linked to the National Curriculum guidelines for KS1 and KS2, each chapter addresses a specific topic and includes extracts from the curriculum itself, alongside a helpful summary, relevant Spanish vocabulary lists, cross-curricular links, and three fully-formed lesson plans. If you are a primary practitioner, a language tutor, or a subject co-ordinator who wants to plan and deliver an engaging programme in your classroom, an after-school club, or across your whole school, this book is for you!
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I''m very pleased with the Bloomsbury Curriculum Basics range and would highly recommend them to home school parents and new teachers too. There''s a wealth of knowledge to be gained from them as well as lesson plans to guide you through each lesson ensuring you meet the criteria. In my mind, they are a great investment as they''ll see you through all 6 years of Primary education.
Biographical note
Dr. Amanda Barton is Honorary Lecturer in PGCE Modern Foreign Languages at the Institute of Education, University of Manchester, UK, and an educational consultant. She has taught in primary and secondary schools and has written extensively about teaching foreign languages in schools. Angela McLachlan is Subject Lead for Languages on the Primary PGCE and Secondary Teach First PGCE Programmes at the Institute of Education, University of Manchester. Angela also runs her own consultancy agency, ‘Lively Languages’, aiming to bring languages and learning to life in the classroom.
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A full guide to teaching primary Spanish, for teachers who may not be specialists but have to teach or co-ordinate this subject in their schools.
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Bloomsbury Curriculum Basics provides non-specialist primary school teachers with subject knowledge and full teaching programmes in a variety of key primary curriculum subjects.
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Scholastic''s version of the National Curriculum is the top-selling title through Bookscan this year which shows teachers are willing to pay money for the curriculum and direct advice on implementing it.
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Books with practical ideas for teaching areas of the primary curriculum sell well - for example the Jumpstart series.
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This title would focus on the teaching ideas as well as referring directly to the new curriculum - our main competitors do not do both.