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@BarbaraBleiman @JayKloppenberg @tes @jon_severs No school discourages ‘reading for pleasure’. But what cannot happen is schools adopting ‘DEAR’ practices instead of targeted interventions for poor readers. They’re not, & shouldn’t be, mutually exclusive things, but part of a school culture of reading.

@JayKloppenberg @tes @jon_severs I wholly agree. We’ve had years now of phonics in KS1 being foregrounded, of di rhetoric & practice at KS3, of school library closures etc. England does v badly on volitional reading because it has not been at the heart of the curriculum.

Should schools stop focusing on reading for pleasure? The widely held belief that the strategy improves attainment has been called into question by research, finds @jon_severs tes.com/magazine/teach…

@RBMersey Literally.

Jordan Pickford has singlehandedly kept Everton in the Premier League. #EFC x.com/i/status/20285…

@BarryNSmith79 Because not every school is the same.

I don’t get how ‘best job in the world’, ‘kids are amazing’, ‘toughest, must underpaid job in world’, ‘Sunday scaries’, can all be true at once.

@SecondaryEng This student is clearly bright, but this type of loose context should really be built on a solid, text-based analytical point, no?

@blgtylr Wait until the post-structuralists arrive, and you’re in someone’s kitchen at 4am, bleary eyed, talking about a malaise of overlapping discourses.

@atptour @AlexZverev Imagine if Zverev stepped in and did that more often instead of pushing everything to infinity and losing in 3 sets.

Sweet timing on the backhand 🍬 @AlexZverev | #NittoATPFinals

@Lit_liverbird @GCSE_Macbeth I never said they were, each student should always be seen individually. PP students are statistically, on average, vulnerable to attainment gaps & seating pupils via potential for progress (instead of JUST behaviour) is one way to potentially combat this.

@JonK860 @GCSE_Macbeth Depends on the % in the school. Also PP pupils are not a homogeneous group.

What's best practice for making a seating plan for a mixed ability class? Academic like with like? Mismatched pairs? Seat for behaviour only?

@OasisArchives @oasis 1. Go Let It Out 2. Stop Crying 3. Little by Little 4. Let There Be Love 5. Falling Down Noel should not have relinquished songwriting to Andy and Gem and been braver with branching out, as a lot of the post 2000s album songs are just pure filler.

What is a great Oasis song released after 2000?

@DGoodall9 @FrieslandSchool Hello. Would you be able to share this template by any chance, please? Thank you.

Love this new 100% Sheet crafted by Miss Birch @FrieslandSchool and her team. The aim here is to explore layers of meaning and the first pieces of scholar work are exceptional. #SmashingIt

@GCSE_Macbeth Mainly years of reading exam reports, marking essays and noting the errors that students often fall foul of and trying to frontload them early in the course. I think organisation is a huge issue, structuring an argument (so modelling how to think and plan).

@JonK860 Do you have any material that has helped you do that?

Ideas please! What strategies / pedagogies / approaches have been successful for A-Level Literature? Especially for raising students who maybe weren't top performers at GCSE.

@SnoggsManduzi @90sfootball Yep. It’s not even close.

A possible Spain All-Time XI. Would you make any changes?

In 1913, Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a profoundly moving letter to a friend who was grieving for her brother.

@Big3Tennis Much rather play Sinner. Djokovic losing three Wimbledon finals in a row to Alcaraz would be some feat: Novak would be Olympics-style motivated.

Who would Alcaraz rather play if he makes the final? Sinner or Djokovic?

@SinnerAlcaraz Fritz to win the first set (7-6), and then Alcaraz to breeze through the final three sets.

Carlos Alcaraz vs. Taylor Fritz: who wins and in how many sets?

I have two copies of The Visualiser Handbook to give away. This is for busy teachers who need concise clarity to make live modelling an effect part of their practice ASAP. To enter, follow, like and retweet this post and I will draw winners at random on the 18th July.

@BarbaraBleiman None of these things are ‘bad’ in themselves, but they’ve lethally mutated thanks to the demands of GCSEs. KS3 should he kept entirely separate. However, prioritising knowledge acquisition & embedding an understanding of literary culture is crucial.

Who else is concerned that formative assessment, end of unit tests & data drops are damaging learning at KS3? They end up shrinking what's taught to what can be assessed. In English this is a v big problem. If it isn't in the written assessment, it's seen as a naughty diversion.

@BarclayCard18 It was after that Rome Masters win in 2017 against Djokovic. You could see the look on his face at the end, like, ‘Of course this was going to happen.’ Hubris and pride leading to a fall: shock horror.

Too many people told Alexander Zverev when he was younger that he'd win major titles and he thought it would just happen, lol.

“School is not meant to reflect back a child’s existing world. It is meant to offer new worlds. It is meant to take the child by the hand and lead them to places they never knew existed, places beyond their postcode, places they have every right to belong.” Spot on. 👏