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@engteacherabro2 I have trialled using this approach.

A booklet of short non-fiction articles to use as the basis for wider reading and discussion douglaswise.co.uk/blog/non-ficti… 📙

#gcseenglish #gcse #revision #engchat #teamenglish

NEW RESOURCE: I’ve been experimenting with @Xris32 style ‘phrase banks’ over the past term to much success! Here are the AIC ones I’ve used in my class. Great discussions had over what each phrase means and how we can use them appropriately and effectively in our writing. Use/chuck: dropbox.com/scl/fo/ptem7ct…

Quotations Explosions and Inference Loops can: 🧠Develop interpretations, links to context and strengthen AO2 🧠Teach students to be independent in their thinking over time 🧠Act as a scaffold in writing an answer stan.store/secondaryengli… #english #teacher #englishECT

Inspired by @MrsRJOwen ‘s poetry revision worksheets, I’ve just made these for the Power and Conflict Poems! Excited to trial them out with Y11. ⭐️

This was a labour of love! Transactional Analysis is founded on the principle that we all need nurturing (physically and emotionally) and that we behave in a certain way to achieve this. It includes practical strategies to use immediately too. stan.store/secondaryengli… #behaviour

🧠Poetry Anthology: making it stick 🧠 AI images are SO fun and engaging: you can use them in SO many different ways too. 💡 L+R = stan.store/secondaryengli… P+C = stan.store/secondaryengli… #poetry #literature #gcserevision #englishteacher

This is a darn good #Macbeth knowledge organiser: stan.store/secondaryengli…

@HeroicMrT HoD for 5 years, HoF before that..would be interested to hear your thoughts.

I am fascinated by the evolving role of the Head of Department. My job is entirely different to what I applied for a few years ago and I want to know how others feel. Middle leaders - I’d love to hear from you. I need to check I’m not going crazy.

A summary of general advice from Chief Examiner reports on GCSE English Literature douglaswise.co.uk/blog/chief-exa… 📄

I agree with all of this so much. Every primary teacher and every secondary English teacher should read it and think very hard about their own practices in relation to what is said. Are you teaching writing & authorship in an ethical way or a simulation of what writing is?

@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…

Here’s 16 weeks worth of daily revision activities for AQA Lang & Lit with the suite of ACC, MAC, AIC and L&R poetry. Choose 2 tasks, max 30 minutes revision like so 👇 Help yourself 😊 #teamenglish dropbox.com/scl/fi/yowl67z…

Actor Michael Sheen delivers a powerful performance of Dylan Thomas’s 1951 poem, "Do not go gentle into that good night.”

This just arrived. Woohoo!! 🥳

One of the many reasons poetry slays/saves me.

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A feedback sheet on the presentation of the relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth douglaswise.co.uk/blog/feedback-… 👑

After using the purpose triad with my Year 10s it’s encouraging to see them developing their ideas and applying their thinking in assessment pieces! #teamenglish #achristmascarol #engchat #englishteaching