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Writer's Toolkit - Priestley - An Inspector Calls - Methods and devices for higher conceptual thinking! #AIC #engchat #teamenglish #gcseliterature #aninspectorcalls

You know those classrooms with neon posters, dangly's on the ceiling, and 100 different displays? They're bad for learning. Children become "distracted," spending "more time off task and demonstrating "smaller learning gains when the walls were highly decorated."

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿A significant shift in Welsh education policy this week. After resisting for 20 years, the Welsh government now says systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) should be a key part of teaching children to read & pupils should not be guided to guess words from pictures or context.

NEW BLOG: We need to talk about oracy A taste of my ResearchEd talk. @researchEDBrum …ingfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2026/03/we-nee…

**Vary Sentence Length*** Here are some resources on varying sentence lengths. Example provided by Gary Provost docs.google.com/document/d/1sI…

📚We’re exploring “focus weeks” to raise technical accuracy in Year 7 (caps & full stops → commas → etc.) - but I’m sceptical. Has anyone tried this or can point me to the research? 📚 Please RT @AlexJQuigley @FunkyPedagogy @lamb_heart_tea @HaleDonal

Nothing special here. I needed a list of quotations categorised by character for ‘An Inspector Calls’ as part of a lesson so quickly put this together. If it’s useful to you, help yourselves! @Team_English1 dropbox.com/s/fty26x7x5nf8…

A lovely couple days of sentence-level instruction using @TheWritingRevol strategies: ✅Because, but, so ✅Appositives ✅Single-paragraph outline ✅Transition words and phrases

**Vary Sentence Length*** Here are some resources on varying sentence lengths: docs.google.com/document/d/1sI… Example provided by Gary Provost

🌟 It's finally here. My book is in print! - Two years of writing and research - Drawing on over 20 years of experience Thank you so much for all of the support. Out this week! Pre-order: amzn.eu/d/jg21b6m

@MrHisto_ I have a range of short stories saved that I can send if you'd be interested in collaborating?

📚In need of fresh book ideas for Yr 7 form time reading. Any must-reads to keep them hooked? 📚 @FunkyPedagogy @EnglishWales @ThinkReadHQ @reading_league @AlexJQuigley

Twenty five giants of Rhetoric Knowing rhetorical devices is good, recognising them is better, using them is best! LINK for a PDF drive.google.com/file/d/0B_4hi9…

@AlexJQuigley @BarbaraBleiman @AndrewEMC Pleased to say, I agree with both of you! 🙌📝❤️🙌 Sentence-level instruction: Our viewpoint writing4pleasure.com/2023/09/29/sen…

🚨 New member upload 🚨 Creative Writing: These creative writing lessons draw on animated tales as stimuli for writing. Great for KS3 and may be useful as cover. Find them here: buff.ly/460hTp8🐝 #Litdrive #TeamEnglish @Team_English1

I have created an overview document of the new spec for WJEC 2025 Double and Single award, sharing in case it is of use. It is based on the spec released on Friday. @CSC_langlitcomm docs.google.com/document/d/1mB…

Excited to see my article on reading in Geography has been published teachingtimes.com/reaching-stude… #geographyteacher @TeachingTimes

@English_MrsD This looks wonderful! I'd be very grateful to receive a copy. connorjones1992@googlemail.com

I have now sent a copy of this across to anyone who requested it. Please let me know if you didn't receive one - there were quite a few requests!

GIVEAWAY!!! 👇 To celebrate the publication of STORM CHILD on July 4th, I have a complete set of my books to give away to a school library. RT and follow to enter (if you already follow me, just RT). Winner chosen at random on July 1st @PushkinPress @PushkinChildren