The Trouble with English and How to Address It - A Practical Guide to Designing and Delivering a Concept-Led Curriculum

This essential book will help English teachers to address the challenges and opportunities in creating a powerful, knowledge-rich, concept-led curriculum, which draws on lived experience and engages with cognitive science and other educational research. It explores persistent problems in the teaching of English, why we have struggled to address them and how we can go about creating a curriculum which enables all pupils to achieve.

Written by experienced English teachers and teacher educators, the book empowers teachers to reclaim their subject as one which has the power to change lives, and to deliver it with passion and authenticity. The Trouble with English and How to Address It contains:

• A detailed exploration of the challenges English teachers face in designing and delivering a rigorous, coherent, sequenced curriculum
• An overview of the implications of cognitive science research for the teaching of English

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