If you're a primary school teacher, I'd *really* recommend downloading the (free!) Ark Sentence Mastery Sequence. It's very thorough and very useful - helped me sequence and think through my relative clauses lessons far better than I otherwise would have. arkcurriculumplus.org.uk/free-resource-…

I go back to this all the time. The use of categorization helps students scale up vocabulary knowledge. Odd One Out exercises makes students think about how words are related. You can always add a prompt to explain why.

🗣️🗣️🗣️CHORAL RESPONSE! When every student answers every question, you multiply practice opportunities, surface misconceptions instantly, and build fluency. This FREE one-page guide shows how to implement it with clarity and consistency. newsletter.jamieleeclark.com/p/choral-respo…

Exit tickets are a popular method of closing a lesson. We have so many options when it comes to closing a session of learning. Reflect on mindset? Make relevant connections? Go back content? Examples from 'Hacking Questions' by C Hamilton

My first lesson when teaching structure is ALWAYS this lesson. The language developed during this lesson is the most important foundation to have when tackling LP1 Q3 - making a potentially tricky question, far simpler! #FridayFlashback

#UKLALucky13th Discover the must-read narrative verse YA novel, Not Going to Plan by previous UKLA winner Tia Fisher (only here for a bit). Often hilarious, yet profoundly moving and beautiful, the novel captures teenagehood - its pressures and complexities. RT for a chance to win a copy Hot Key Books ✨📚

Teaching speech sandwiches today as part of our work on King Kong. Absolutely love doing this - such a simple way to break down the speech model and easily adaptable for children at different stages of writing.

We’ve disaggregated our CPD to make it shorter and more frequent throughout the year at Haggerston School. On Friday we used our Twilight to explore ‘adaptive expertise’ and what that practically means in the classroom. Some shares below👇🏽

New post on Unseen Poetry - I have been meaning to share this for ages. Please let me know if the original powerpoint was yours as it has been brilliant. susansenglish.wordpress.com/2025/09/21/why… Team English Hope this is useful. Comparison approach part 2 to follow when I get the chance.

💡’Crafting great sentences’ “Too often, in the classroom, sentences are modelled, but pupils don’t have a strong concept of difference sentence level moves, their functions, and how to manipulate them.” alexquigley.co.uk/crafting-great…

EXCITING NEWS! Today, we are launching a new FREE anthology of short stories and essays to support students to think, read, write and talk about all things MONEY. We don’t talk about money enough. I know what it was like to grow up without it, and how that shaped every aspect of

As for many poets uneasy in their class consciousness, Tony Harrison’s brilliant controversial long poem V. (1985) blew me away when I first read it. But his short lyrics were sharp, wise and deeply moving too, cut from lived life. Saddened to hear the great man has passed. RIP.

My blog from August argues that sentence-level instruction, embedded within content, is crucial for high school literacy. While we focus on complex texts and essays, many students lack basic sentence construction skills. Teaching sentence patterns alongside literature analysis

🚨 NEW POST 🚨 'Supporting struggling writers' "Students can spend thousands of hours writing in the classroom, but if they struggle with writing it can still remain unaddressed. Why is writing the poor sibling to reading?" Link ⬇️⬇️⬇️

A second booklet of modern fiction extracts for students to explore douglaswise.co.uk/blog/literary-… 📚

Over 160 calls for literary competitions & submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, & more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in October 2025. Please share & best of luck! thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog/w…

🚨NEW & IMPROVED🚨 tes.com/teaching-resou… The Monkey's Paw (Full story with activities) Booklet! 🙈Full story 🙉Scaffolded questions 🙊Ranges of #KS3 activities 🐒#Creative Tasks #English #Fiction #Horror #Story #FullSOW #Booklet #Students #Reading #Writers #Literature

A booklet of short extracts and tasks that are designed to help students think about how characters are developed douglaswise.co.uk/blog/developin… 📚

This process underpins all my resources now! The goal is to develop mastery and appreciation for the nuance/complexity of the academic reading process, whilst developing self-efficacy and a strong belief in the evidence-informed systems we use on a daily basis 👊#FridayFlashback

“Because, but, so” works not because it’s cute but because it aligns with how memory and understanding actually form. Retrieval. Elaboration. Generation. The science behind these 3 small words and how I use it in the wild to make expert thinking accessible. 🔗👇