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Lesson plan: KS4 English – understanding Shakespeare
Providing learners with the opportunity to engage with the context and the staging of Shakespeare’s plays is fundamental to the…
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Lesson plan: KS3 English – hone their descriptive powers
Encouraging reluctant writers to understand, value and engage with the process of writing is a familiar struggle in both primary and…
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Meaningful CPD for literacy
The National Literacy Trust’s recent survey of teachers, called Teachers and Literacy: Their Perceptions, Understanding, Confidence and…
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Teaching Shakespeare, for everyone
Teachers have been teaching Shakespeare forever. It was part of my education back in the 70s and a core part of the English examinations at…
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Should we promote ‘writing for pleasure’?
For far too long, writing has lagged behind reading in the literacy league tables. In recent years, the number of secondary school children…
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Lesson plan: KS3 English – improve creative writing… with zombies
Like all schools, we are increasingly under pressure to improve learners’ skills in a range of different areas – so that they are best…
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How to teach poetry
As the author Jeanette Winterson wrote: “A tough life needs a tough language - and that is what poetry is”. When we explore the impact…
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Lesson plan: KS3 English – literary texts for creative writing
Writing creatively on a theme linked to a text is a motivational and exciting prospect for teachers and students alike, and our students…
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Product review: Royal Society of Chemistry Online CPD Courses
Expertise is hard won; and all responsible teachers have a personal responsibility to ensure that they maintain and develop the knowledge…
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Product review: Debating Cards
Mothers should stay at home and look after their children. Space exploration is a waste of money. There is no longer a need for public…
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BOOK REVIEWS
Six books we think you and your students will love The Buzz (David Hodgson, Crown House, £9.99) Based on NLP techniques, this is a sparky,…
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Product review: Living Literacy
Whole-school literacy has never been more important. The New National Curriculum states “Teachers should develop pupils’ reading and…
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BOOK REVIEWS
One (Sarah Crossan, Bloomsbury, £10.99) Like any siblings, Tippi and Grace have a complex relationship, with love, need, friendship,…