Second in English and Classics Teacher 👩🏫 • English Lit Grad Uni of York • Studying for an MEd Leadership 👩🏼🎓 NPQLL 📚
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14 May 2023
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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Apr 29
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Macbeth revision booklets / homework materials ( with some powerpt )
Minor characters ; lady Macbeth ; the supernatural ; and a larger one covering all the whole play using mini extracts #TeamEnglish
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Technical accuracy booklet with self marking key - based on acc , AIC and other lit texts . Prob suitable for revision or homework - there’s a powerpt for display of answers - #TeamEnglish
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Fluency is a key part of comprehension. We need 120 primary schools to join our EEF-funded Fluency Focus trial. It kicks off in Y5 in September. It'll transform fluency in your school. Let us know you're interested here educationendowmentfoundation…
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When students can’t find the "main idea", the problem is almost never a missing strategy.
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Mar 3
This would be the dream!!
Do you think Literature GCSE might go open book 🙏
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Feb 21
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
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Feb 11
If you don't teach writing under a visualiser, co-constructing, thinking out loud, and making mistakes, then you are not "teaching" writing.
Feb 11
Modelling makes #writing visible in any classroom. From live think-alouds to co-construction and “pitch perfect” exemplars, Tamsin Church – @hfl_education – describes how to build confident, independent writers in the English classroom: buff.ly/zUnZURp #teaching #teachers
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‘Secondary literacy: Why fluency matters for every subject’ by @AmyFord_Educate
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8 Mar 2023
A ‘revision and reference’ handbook for An Inspector Calls >> douglaswise.co.uk/a-revision… 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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Jan 27
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
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Jan 26
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
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13 May 2023
🗡️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:
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Jan 25
Good thoughts by @DavidDidau too: learningspy.co.uk/featured/w…
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.
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Jan 25
Great read, - interesting to consider assessment design and use of rubrics: ‘Essays are not designed to test factual accuracy.’
Jan 24
We have been researching the use of AI to mark essays for a couple of years now, and have some advice on how to create a good rubric.
It's relevant for both humans and AI!
substack.nomoremarking.com/p…
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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
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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
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Jan 20
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…
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The components of an effective writing lesson
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