Improving Teaching and Learning In the Core Curriculum

Introduction Series editors' preface and introduction, Kate Ashcroft, David James; Chapter 1 Common sense and scientific sense, John Lee; Chapter 2 Developing a core curriculum, John Lee; Chapter 3 The National Literacy Strategy: context and consequences, Helen Butcher; Chapter 4 Grammar, spoken and written, in the National Curriculum, Bernadette Fitzgerald; Chapter 5 Working with genres, John Lee; Chapter 6 Mathematics: aims and practices, Ruth Sharpe; Chapter 7 New approaches: the National Numeracy Project, the 'Numeracy Hour' and the teaching of mathematics, Ruth Sharpe; Chapter 8 Development of the science curriculum, Gordon Guest, Keith Postlethwaite; Chapter 9 The nature and purpose of primary science, Postlethwaite Keith, Kate Ashcroft, Guest Gordon;