Final 4 lessons for Remote S&L unit are in the dropbox folder now (separate file) along with PowerPoints and YouTube links. dropbox.com/sh/cdx5di53x2c… Team English EdexcelTeachers

Free: Litdrive UK ‘s Brush Up Your Knowledge sheets on Animal Farm and Blood Brothers! Great for independent or extension work to push students #litdrive .Get this week’s here: litdrive.org.uk/cmdownloads/br… and litdrive.org.uk/cmdownloads/br… Happy Monday!🐝

I’ve written an article for Families Magazine on ‘Motivating Children to Read During Lockdown’. Hopefully it is useful and accessible for both parents and teachers alike. Do share if useful: familiesonline.co.uk/families-magaz…

If you missed my first @OxfordEdEnglish webinar, you can catch up here. Let's all energise a bit of eloquence in the classroom/kitchen/sitting room/garden! #LearnAtHome #webinar #oracy #vocabulary #wordgap

Our EEF Literacy Content Specialist, Caroline Bilton, has led the development of these excellent support resources for parents to read with their children at home - see here: educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/covid-19-resou…. You can read her blog too: educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/news/blog-supp…

Our FREE ENGLISH home-school booklets are here: talk4writing.co.uk/covid-19/

Another great Virtual Classroom session hosted by OUP with Helen🙋🏻‍♀️! Lots of great ideas for using poetry to improve vocabulary! Look out for some teaching poetry ideas and resources for home learning and CLPL from the Literacy Team coming soon! #DundeeLearning #CLPL

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*NEW POST* 'Closing the Reading Gap: ResearchED Home' You can find the video link, a copy of the presentation, and a range of easy links for the research cited in the talk: theconfidentteacher.com/2020/05/closin… researchEDHome

Ordering vocabulary like this is called a semantic gradient or word cline. Can you create a word cline - like this temperature one - for the word LIGHT?💡Start in the middle with a word meaning not quite light and not quite dark. Tweet back with your ideas!👏 #homeschool #vocab

*NEW POST* ‘6 Excellent Etymologies’ theconfidentteacher.com/2020/06/6-exce…

You booked in yet?! We'll miss you if you're not there.🤓 Team English #edutwitter #oracy #CPD #transitions2020

I’ve spent today making a ‘key extract’ booklet for ‘A Christmas Carol’, designed for those students who struggle to read the text more than once. Sharing in case it’s useful to others. PDF & editable Word versions included. Help yourselves! Team English dropbox.com/sh/mi8qpy583dr…

Great writing opportunity for children - entries need to be in by this Friday! 500words.me

Disadvantage – High Expectations and Strategies …standinginfrontofaclass.wordpress.com/2020/07/12/dis…

Key Stage 3: follow the link to find our Summer Challenges! We’d love to see and hear what you do when we return in September 😊 wyedean.gloucs.sch.uk/News/Summer-Ch…

These Feedback Vignettes are designed to help teachers reflect on their current practice and contextualise the evidence from our latest guidance report. Download here: eef.li/feedback

Always learning! In a meeting with the brilliant Poetry By Heart team, we learned the etymology behind the word stanza - Italian in origin, it means ‘room’. So we literally divide our poetry into rooms. How lovely?! #teachertwitter #teamenglish #poetry #writing #WritingCommunity

Lethologica is the technical term for forgetting a word. Derived from Greek, 'lethe' means forgetfulness and 'logos' means word. In Greek mythology, Lethe was also a river of the underworld where souls of the dead drank to forget all earthly memories.🍻Good to know huh?!

Instead of a blog, here's a Dropbox with all the resources I've made in it. Will update as and when! #teamenglish dropbox.com/sh/gks5rf4alvf…