Language knowledge for primary teachers [electronic resource] / by Angela Wilson and Julie Scanlon.

Why do primary teachers need language knowledge?
A framework for considering language knowledge
Building on preschool children's language knowledge
Some characteristics of texts
Making sense of texts
What big teeth you have, grammar!
Sentence structure: phrases and clauses
Words, words, words
Applying text, sentence and word level knowledge to fictional texts and poetry
Applying text, sentence and word level knowledge to non-fiction texts
Applying text, sentence and word level knowledge to non-book and electronic texts
Applying text, sentence and word level knowledge to digital communications
Conclusion.