Part 1 Evaluation: evaluating the English department, David Allen. Part 2 Oracy: perspectives on oracy, Allan Howe; loose talk - towards implementiong and managing a policy for oracy, Ken Wilby; media education and information technology and sites for oral work, Nicholas Roberts. Part 3 Knowledge about language: playing with words - a context for knowledge about language, Terry Furlong; exploring standard English in the classroom, Chris Marshall; eight- and nine-year-olds getting to know about language, Nikki Siegen-Smith; knowledge about language through the curriculum, Paul Rhodes; tuning up - what one professional writer needs to know about language, Philip Pullman. Part 4 Writing: shifting emphases, Pat D'Arcy; making drafting work in the English classroom, Sue Hackman. Part 5 Reading: a map of reading, Nick Jones; reading autobiography, Bronwyn Cadle; nothing more than a story - a conversation with a teacher, Jack Ousbey; teaching the novel - "Our Mutual Friend", Pam Barnard; teaching fiction 5-11, Dot Froggatt.