In a series of articles for English 4-11 Rob Sanderson examines high quality picture books and suggests how they may be used in the primary classroom. The Chicken Thief The Black Book of Colours The Big Ugly Monster and the Little Stone Rabbit The Mysteries of Harris Burdick It’s a Book In the Forest Iggy Peck…
A special offer for subscribers to English 4-11 Teaching Dickens in the Primary School, edited by Eve Bearne This volume contains material created for the first Dickens Fellowship and English Association More Dickens Competition in 2012. Teachers from the three prize-winning schools describe the richness of their work and one member of the judging panel…
John Paine, founding editorial board member and former editor of English 4-11, looks back on 20 years of the journal A cause for celebration. Twenty years ago the first edition of Primary English (later to become English 4-11) carried the editorial headline ‘Teaching by Numbers?’ Then, in 1992 there was, as now, continuing discussion about…
The EA team is working hard to keep our staff, colleagues, and communities safe. Therefore we’ve decided to limit the risk caused by travelling and gathering in large groups by moving our Awards Ceremony and AGM to Wednesday 25 November 2020.
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Submission form Submissions are invited for forthcoming issues of The Use of English. Submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis; The Use of English is published three times a year, in Spring, Summer, and Autumn. Special issue: Spring 2020, ‘GREEN’ Articles and reviews on all aspects of English Language and Literature, GCSE to A Level, are welcome. The…
Submissions Contributions for The Use of English should be sent to us by email: hello@englishassociation.ac.uk. Guidelines: It helps the editor greatly in the preparation of manuscripts for the printer if authors adhere to a few ground rules. Articles and reviews should keep to the following conventions: Manuscripts should be typed and submitted as an…
Edited by Dr Thomas Day Reviews Editor Dr Kathy Mair Articles Editorial: Thomas Day ‘The Mother Tongue of the Human Race’: Entrenched conceptions of poetry and their resonances in English education: Daniel Xerri Short Measures: taking the long view of brief poems: Adrian Barlow The Sonnet and the Student in the World: Josie Billington Ever…
Edited by Jane Campion Articles Editorial: Jane Campion Looking back on the GCSE English Language: Carol Atherton The 2015 English Literature GCSE: a welcome return to rigour or just plain dull?: Jenny Stevens The Impact of Marking Reform: Yvonne Williams “Focus on what matters”: The new GCSEs – PGCE student teachers and their mentors discuss…