Dan Smith

There are several excellent GCSE English YouTubers: @MrBruffEnglish @happyteacherhub @DystopiaJunkie @Comicsandlit @staceyreay & more If you want to revise #powerandconflict poetry or get some #yafiction recommendations, check out youtube.com/c/teachsmith

Currently writing a Transactional / Imaginative writing revision booklet for y11 - what is one resource that you use that you think really helps to create fab writing! Let's collate ideas!

Finished in time for #InternationalWomensDay amzn.to/46OvT77

@engteacherabro2 I have trialled using this approach.

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…

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

Scroll by—that’s fine. Just know you’re passing up the most legendary collection of creative challenge worksheets ever assembled in the history of the universe. No cap. drive.google.com/drive/folders/…

1 in 4 pupils leave primary school below the expected standard in reading. So what actually improves reading outcomes? In this blog, Abbie Williams explores the three key goals that support fluency, sustained reading and deeper text discussion. Read here: resources.steplab.co/news/teaching-…

@Schoolbookclubs @edgechristopher @Adam_Stower @itspeterbrown @MHarrison13 Older Readers please!

UK schools, win the Children's Book Award shortlists🎉 We have 15 sets of books to give away (5 per category). To enter: ✅Follow us ✅Share this post ✅Comment with your category choice: Younger Children, Younger Readers or Older Readers. #FCBGCBA26 #WorldBookDay 1/2

#peripeteia @TheResourceHub2 @Mr_Crome @hkateaching @teach_smith @MissSFEnglish @stoneman_claire @Chrisj30 @charlotteosul @P__Hardy @misscliffex @daniellegirvan @Miss_S_Gibbons @TiredTeacher0 @2010EmmaE @SBailey_Wiles @theoneharbourne @mrsengteacher8 eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-at-gc…

Power and conflict poetry: youtu.be/dxznnMK7Cqo

I am looking at redesigning our KS3 English Assessments - could anyone provide a rough idea how how you assess at KS3? Additionally, how many summative assessment/ assessment points do you have during the academic year? @Team_English1 #assessments #teaching #english

The HUGE Retrieval Bundle: stan.store/secondaryengli… #teachers #englishteacher #edutwitter #ECTs #researchED

It's old. The DropBox link is no longer but you can now get it here: olicav.com/#/posters/

“Modern” Classic books can sometimes be easier to understand. Here are some to get you into classics!

#macbethrevision youtube.com/playlist?list=…

If you want a short, savage novel about a frozen post-nuclear world, look no further than Anna Kavan’s magisterial Ice (1967). Unsettling, hallucinogenic, it feels like Kafka, Baudelaire and Brian Aldiss have taken a violent amount of drugs and written a book together.

New Blog Post 📝 Over the years I have received a lot of terrible teaching advice, but I have also had some brilliant pointers. Some of the best advice I have had has been seemingly insignificant changes to my practice. Here are five examples. Link below

This is a MEGA BUNDLE of EVERY SINGLE resource in my shop (last updated 08.02.26 and nothing new since). stan.store/secondaryengli… #teachers #englishteacher

Episode 1 of The Science of Learning podcast with Amarbeer Singh Gill 🎙️ “There is no point in doing retrieval practice if there is nothing there to retrieve” Listen now 👂…   Spotify ➡️ lnkd.in/efhY-FvR   Apple ➡️ lnkd.in/e4T69w7k