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Today's hyerfixation: revision sheets focusing on analytical verbs and big ideas. Inspired by @Ameenamahetar1 and @mrsmacteach33 #paper1lit #macbeth #acc @Team_English1

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This week marks the 1st anniversary of Power Up Your Questioning: amzn.eu/d/0iZr8iyt To celebrate, Grace Hudson (@MissH_biology) has been working with me to produce a collection of superb sketchnotes, summarising each of the six themes from the book. This is the first one👇 The full collection is available to download for Teaching PowerUps member schools: teachingpowerups.com

If you don't teach writing under a visualiser, co-constructing, thinking out loud, and making mistakes, then you are not "teaching" writing.

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‘Secondary literacy: Why fluency matters for every subject’ by @AmyFord_Educate researchschool.org.uk/derby/news/sec…

A ‘revision and reference’ handbook for An Inspector Calls >> douglaswise.co.uk/a-revision-and… Designed to provide students with the ‘core’ knowledge they need to successfully navigate the play and - later on - to form a basis for revision #TeamEnglish

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It could take 20 years for one in 10 exam students to answer a question about a text by an author of colour in their English literature GCSE, warns a new report tes.com/magazine/news/…

@dd77 Here’s a link to a huge bank of retrieval practice resources I have made and shared over the years, organised into sub-folders for ✅ An Inspector Calls ✅ Macbeth ✅ A Christmas Carol ✅ P & C poetry ✅ L & R poetry Help yourself 😊 #teamenglish dropbox.com/scl/fo/ba5hrxc…

🗡️A key quotation from each scene in Macbeth 📷I am hoping that it sparks knowledge of key events, additional quotations and comments on Shakespeare's methods and purpose. If it is of any use to you: dropbox.com/s/5tlfziffh860…

@adamboxer1 Good thoughts by @DavidDidau too: learningspy.co.uk/featured/why-b… My concerns involve how to ensure all are involved in meaningful talk; needs to be part of the culture of the classroom to work effectively imo.

Great read, - interesting to consider assessment design and use of rubrics: ‘Essays are not designed to test factual accuracy.’

to follow on from each other, so textul conversations & links can be made. But the pace, the route through, the choice of texts may best be varied, according to how the students have responded, the teacher's own expertise & interests & emerging connections. 3

or voice, or point of view in a novel, or characterisation, or rhyme. These things, in English, are constantly returned to & taught over & over in the context of the texts chosen for study, deepening understanding with each textul encounter. The texts can/should be chosen 2

Study of 364 students finds that morphological awareness (roots/suffixes) is a top predictor of reading efficiency in Grades 3–5. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

The components of an effective writing lesson writing4pleasure.com/2022/07/22/the…

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…

***STUDY BUDDY*** Introducing Lenny our Longdendale study buddy 😊 A guide for students to support their revision. How to use past papers ✅ How to revise for specific subjects ✅ The Pomodoro technique ✅ Exam day tips ✅ Key revision websites ✅ How we learn ✅ How to create a revision timetable ✅ How to manage exam stress ✅ #TheLongdendaleLegacy

If you’re looking to create Multiple Choice Questions for your lessons, check out my blog reflecting on how I used MCQs as a tool in my classroom. 🔗There’s also a link to the CPD session at the end of the blog. yaminabibi.co.uk/post/designing…