Excellent revision and important quotes to remember in An Inspector Calls from Andy codexterous.home.blog/2019/08/17/5-e…

📚POST! 📚 A really easy but effective strategy when beginning to teach a new novel I do this *every* time I teach a novel with a class. codexterous.home.blog/2021/08/15/the…

📚POST!📚 A model essay for Macbeth and ambition. Share far and wide! codexterous.home.blog/2021/04/07/a-m…

🌟Improving language analysis🌟🧵 There are things I say a lot! 🟣What word is doing the work? 🟣Why that word and not another word? 🟣Say more than one thing about one thing Andy & Jennifer Webb gave me these ideas There's two more tips I give students Read on! 1/11

Adapting Andy ‘margin’ idea: using it backwards with our dept writing frame. Hoping to help my Y10 see how & WHERE writing a lit essay is successful giving a scaffold they can use in revision ahead of their mocks. Their recall is fab so want to maximise writing gains.

Fortnightly 169: Caro & Gottlieb | Emily Dickinson | Vermeer National Gallery of Ireland | Joel J Miller on reading now | Andy on teaching literature | Erin Maglaque on the Venetian ghetto | Matt Dickinson on his English teacher | JacquiWine on Persephone Books juliangirdham.com/blog/fortnight…

POST! Rethinking the Do Now in English. Making retrieval more fun and more English-y Literary Puzzles: Using the Do Now in English – codexterous (home.blog)

!POST! How to teach and think about authorial intention. One of the biggest -- and I think best -- changes in my teaching recently. What does the text DO? But, what does the text do? – codexterous (home.blog)

!POST! What we say when we model is just as important as what we do. Some thoughts on modelling in English On Modelling Interpretative Vulnerability – codexterous (home.blog)

!POST! One of my very favourite lessons to teach. And all you need is a few index cards and a visualizer. Just a Flashcard and a Visualiser: An English Lesson – codexterous (home.blog)

!POST! Something I do every time I start teaching a novel. And, for good measure, a shameless plug: It's also something I discuss at length in my book, Experiencing English Literature Thematic Threading: A Strategy for Annotating a Text – codexterous (home.blog)

!POST! The best ideas are the simplest. And here's one. Very simple but very powerful. Discussing the Conceptual in English: A Concrete Classroom Strategy – codexterous (home.blog)

!POST! Some thoughts on getting the most out of cold reads. Cold, Hot or Warm? Thoughts on Cold Reads in English – codexterous (home.blog)

I'm proofing Sept emagazine. Great pieces, incl one by Andy that we're specially grateful for, with superb suggestions for how students can use the mag to develop their thinking & writing. Available to subscribers in Sept! Cartoon by Linda Combi. englishandmedia.co.uk/emc-magazines/…

!POST! Here's some of my favourite sentences to teach students in English. There's a lot of power in these tiny phrases! Perfecting the Sentence: Explicitly Teaching Sentence Stems – codexterous (home.blog)

Andy - I loved reading this fantastic book. A must-read for English language and literature teachers. So much to learn and gleam.

Updated plot maps for 2024/25 (originally inspired by Andy). Handy for retrieval/revision, but also VERY versatile for use in class activities! Open to suggestions re. some of the images for the new texts! #EdChatIE