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1/ Here are some key takeaways from the 'KS2 & 3 Fluency Project' training from Herts for Learning. Thank you so much HertsPrimaryEnglish for giving me an opportunity to be selfish with my time today and think about my own practice!🧵

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An amazingly generous share. So useful to see an entire, resourced curriculum with the thinking behind it clearly articulated.

Its similes collapse back on themselves, the simile-world (i.e. the world of nature) collapses back into the real world, and the whole poem seems on the brink of collapsing back into its source material.

SUCH an interesting connection that helps explain a very complex image in what is touted as a simple poem in the power and conflict anthology

A great blog which really supports English teachers to challenge generic knowledge retrieval systems in schools. English IS different (code:better 😉)

What Armitage is doing here, I’d like to suggest, is showing how war poetry transforms ‘real’ war (as represented by the soldier’s authentic narrative) into an aestheticised, stylised, poetic version of war (as represented by the use of lineation, literary allusions, etc.)

Lots of useful suggestions on this thread

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Planning for misconceptions is a key difference between novice and expert teachers. Keeping texts the same over several years makes teachers better because it is hard as an expert reader to anticipate misconceptions but experience with a class gives plenty of egs! #Englishhangout

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Great points about differences between expert and novice teachers

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