Can anyone recommend any funny teenage books/plays for form time reading for Y9 and Y10? Staff and students have asked for something more lighthearted that isn't depressing first thing in the morning! Team English

As Literacy Lead what questions should I be asking Yr6 teachers for transition purposes? Literacy Network #transition

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Six recommendations on how to effectively use feedback to improve students’ learning educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/education-evid…

Has anyone tried slow writing in a subject other than English? Beneficial? I used it with a year 9 class the other day and the results were really impressive David Didau National Literacy Trust Literacy Network

'I visit schools who are doing ‘oracy’ and I see speaking and listening! Mind you – I am so pleased to see children conversing and teachers asking a wealth of interesting questions – but it ain’t oracy...' roswilsoned.com/oracy-is-not-j…

📚 Looking for advice! Has anyone successfully implemented The Writing Revolution's 'Single Paragraph Outline' across their school? How did you do it, and what challenges did you face along the way? Any tips greatly appreciated. Please RT 🏫

'How I teach extended writing in science' by Jo Castelino: drcastelino.wordpress.com/2024/04/05/how…

GIVEAWAY!!! 👇 To celebrate the publication of STORM CHILD on July 4th, I have a complete set of my books to give away to a school library. RT and follow to enter (if you already follow me, just RT). Winner chosen at random on July 1st Pushkin Press Pushkin Children's Books

Excited to see my article on reading in Geography has been published teachingtimes.com/reaching-stude… #geographyteacher Teaching Times

🚨 New member upload 🚨 Creative Writing: These creative writing lessons draw on animated tales as stimuli for writing. Great for KS3 and may be useful as cover. Find them here: buff.ly/460hTp8🐝 #Litdrive #TeamEnglish Team English

I have created an overview document of the new spec for WJEC 2025 Double and Single award, sharing in case it is of use. It is based on the spec released on Friday. CSC_LLC docs.google.com/document/d/1mB…

Alex Quigley Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation Andrew McCallum Pleased to say, I agree with both of you! 🙌📝❤️🙌 Sentence-level instruction: Our viewpoint writing4pleasure.com/2023/09/29/sen…

Rainy days are perfect days to dig into a good book!🌧️ “The vast majority of teachers never learn anything about teaching writing during their training. And writing, it turns out, is even harder to teach than reading…if you want to enable your students to understand what they

Twenty five giants of Rhetoric Knowing rhetorical devices is good, recognising them is better, using them is best! LINK for a PDF drive.google.com/file/d/0B_4hi9…

📚In need of fresh book ideas for Yr 7 form time reading. Any must-reads to keep them hooked? 📚 Jennifer Webb Team English & Literacy, Wales Thinking Reading The Reading League Alex Quigley

🌟 It's finally here. My book is in print! - Two years of writing and research - Drawing on over 20 years of experience Thank you so much for all of the support. Out this week! Pre-order: amzn.eu/d/jg21b6m