English and Literacy Scotland

Wow! Five years ago, we set up this Twitter account to share ideas and resources. Great that it's still going strong. Check out our MS Team with thousands of members (and even more resources!) #EnglishScotland #MyXAnniversary

Teachers worried about impact of screen time on reading | TES tes.com/magazine/news/…

The perfect end-of-term classroom treat! 🌸🎬 Stream Lilo & Stitch (2025) in your UK school, legally and free*, on Into Film+ and support Literacy and PSHE with our accompanying film guide. Join 40,000 educators using Into Film+ and stream now! bit.ly/4b1gm6j

I'm going to put it out there: I miss homework diaries. Planners. Whatever you want to call them. Where students wrote their homework down. Instead of everything being on an app...

A chance to win a class set of 'A Christmas Carol' ⬇️ #EnglishScotland

Share with your classes. ⬇️ #EnglishScotland

Thanks to @MmeLockhartLDS for the link to this great resource. #EnglishScotland textproject.org/vocabulary-ins…

Learning *about* a book, being given knowledge of context, being tested on that, annotating extracts based on what your teacher tells you, is not the same as reading a book. In KS3, students need to read lots of books & talk about them, alongside studying some in more detail.

Alan Curran in today’s Irish Times on the threat from AI to the development of independent and creative-minded students.

"A significant return to paper and pen is required...Everybody in higher education knows this already. But not everybody will admit it. University administrators in particular don’t want to admit it". unherd.com/2026/03/how-ai…

The great irony of AI: The more we outsource thinking to machines, the more cognitive responsibility falls on the human; constant vigilance, judging outputs, spotting errors, intervening when automation fails. Lisanne Bainbridge called this the "ironies of automation". New post: ⤵️

🥰 🤟🏼 😊 Empathy, kindness and love books for children aged 3-12+ 😊 🤟🏿 🫶 With books by Laura Dockrill, Kerry Drewery, Dan Smith, Jess McGeachin, Michael Rosen, Catherine Rayner & Benjamin Dean. Free resources & lesson plan links! schoolreadinglist.co.uk/genres/empathy…

Why the Classroom Read-Aloud Still Matters Some of the deepest comprehension I ever saw from students happened during classroom read-alouds. Stories don’t just build knowledge. They build readers. open.substack.com/pub/danapalubi…

Happy #MothersDayUK #EnglishScotland

I always come back to this quote, and it seems perfectly fitting to share it today on his birthday.... @MichaelRosenYes @jonnybid @BarbaraBleiman @NATEfeed

Studying Shakespeare with your class? 📚 It’s Shakespeare Week next week! Click for resources on a range of plays, suitable for your age group 👉 bbc.in/3MUcWsN

Students absolutely benefit from learning how sentences work. But strong writing doesn’t grow from sentence drills alone. It grows when students have ideas worth writing about and time to draft, revise, and expand those ideas.

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Our next #Shakespeare webinar will take place on 6 April at 6pm. This time we'll be exploring HENRY VI, PART 1 with Emma Smith and Amy Lidster. They will discuss the play & how we might approach it in the 21st century, followed by a Q&A. All welcome! …ebinar-henryvi-part1.eventbrite.co.uk

*** NEW POST *** ‘Selecting vocabulary to teach’ “The challenge is obvious. Teachers simply do not have time to teach every unfamiliar word students encounter or find tricky.” alexquigley.co.uk/selecting-voca…