I’ve made a printable A3 revision board game for AIC. 96 tasks on character, theme, quotes, plot etc. I’ve tried to make it engaging, accessible (& fun!) Feel free to use/share😊 Team English @TeamEnglishIre Team English & Literacy, Wales English and Literacy Scotland #TeamEnglish tes.com/teaching-resou…

Year 11 guided revision technique for Power & Conflict poetry question…

Do you teach Shakespeare to KS3 lower ability/SEN/EAL groups? What works best, or what do you study instead? Advice/ideas appreciated! Pls retweet Team English Andy Chris Curtis Caroline Spalding Gaurav Dubay

A month on and the colour-coded quotes on the back of chairs have survived. All about that subliminal revision for Year 11! 📚💭 Team English

Well, it took a bit longer than I thought it would, but I have just submitted a manuscript draft to @JohnCattEd for The Power of Teams. What an epic journey of reading, writing, thinking, doubting, hoping, and enjoying! Hopefully it'll be ready for you sometime this summer

Understanding cognitive load theory and its implications for the classroom is one of the most important things teachers can do to improve their instruction. Here's one key application: teachlikeachampion.org/blog/show-call…

Trialling something different this week with poetry. Thinking about the intensity of singular word choices, their impact & formulating the big ideas from there. This was what Y10 came up with yesterday, prior to reading the whole poem - I only gave them a crunched version.

Quick thread on exam analysis for HoDs Often HoDs are asked to analyse the results in the summer and use this to inform their improvement plans. Parking the idea that the timescale to do that for September is problematic, what should this analysis look like? 1/10

Wanted to make homework more challenging and purposeful, so I created critical thinking booklets, which have some fab reading materials for students to critique. Thanks: Elaine Stuart Pryke Kat Howard British Library The RSC amongst others! Access: drive.google.com/drive/folders/…

I’ve made help sheets for GCSE Literature and Language with some key reminders for Y11. They include literature essay introduction advice from Jennifer Webb and Andy (hope you don’t mind the inclusion). Link below- feel free to download & edit as required #TeamEnglish

I marked for the AQA again this year (English Literature) and here are some takeaways for what successful students did when navigating paper 2. First up - modern prose:

I marked for AQA Language Paper 2 this year 🚂 Here’s some takeaways I took that I’ll be sharing with the English dept, so why not share with you all 🪡🧵

📚 GIVEAWAY 📚 To celebrate #BookshopDay on Sat 14th Oct, we're giving a bag of goodies each to two lucky winners! 1 to be won on Instagram, the other here - so enter on both platforms! To enter: 1. Follow us 2. Like & repost this post 1/2

🌍🏂🧗🎪🎭🚎✈️🎢🧬🖼️♥️ I am a BIG fan of school trips. The benefits are intangible, but significant. But they come at a cost - financial, workload, missed lessons. I understand why schools cut back, but in my view they should think twice. Here’s why…

Have you checked out 'The Reading List Project'? It's a collaborative effort by teachers, for teachers, with hundreds of book recommendations for teaching. It's filterable by age range etc, too... these are some of the most recent additions. funkypedagogy.com/the-reading-li…

🌟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

I’ve written a couple of Level 6 essays to use with my groups next year. One exploring the role of Gerald and the other comparing Kamikaze to COTLB. I’ve uploaded them to my Google drive if anyone’s interested 😊 drive.google.com/drive/folders/…

New Blog about the Language Exams: susansenglish.wordpress.com/2024/08/28/why… A summary of the examiner reports with some teaching lessons. Hope it is useful. Team English AQA English

New Blog about the Literature Exam Report - A summary. Hope it is useful Team English AQA English susansenglish.wordpress.com/2024/08/29/why…

What did successful Lit students do in their GCSE exam this year? A 🧵