This text encourages and enables teachers to adopt a more creative approach to the teaching of English in the primary school. Fully updated to reflect the changing UK curricula, the third edition of this popular text explores research-informed practice and offers new ideas to imaginatively engage readers, writers, speakers and listeners.

Teresa Cremin is Professor of Education (Literacy), the Open University, UK, Fellow of the RSA, the English Association and the Academy of Social Sciences.

1. Teaching English creatively
2. Developing creativity through talk
3. Developing creativity through drama
4. Creatively engaging readers in the early primary years
5. Creatively engaging readers in the later primary years
6. Creatively engaging writers in the early primary years
7. Creatively engaging writers in the later primary years
8. Imaginatively exploring ¿ction
9. Playfully exploring poetry
10. Exploring non-¿ction creatively
11. Creatively exploring visual and digital texts
12. Planning to teach English creatively