Explicit English Teaching

"If you read this book early in your career, you won't need to go on the ten year mission I did to find this all out for myself and work out how to apply it. You have a clear road map here - take it!" - Amazon review******How can you take ideas from cognitive science and explicit instruction and use them to enhance teaching and learning in your secondary English lessons?Based on contemporary research findings and supported by a range of classroom examples, this accessibly written book demonstrates how cognitive load theory, Rosenshine's Principles of Instruction, explicit instruction and broader cognitive science ideas can be applied to the teaching of English in secondary schools. Key topics include: Explicit teaching of grammar and writingDeliberate practice to improve student writingBroadening students' vocabulariesA guide to instructional sequencingTom Needham has been teaching for over fifteen years and currently teaches English in South London.