Next up is another display to fill space - the graveyard of deceased words 😂 I tell students I don’t allow these words in my classroom so thought I would commemorate it with some gravestones and synonym bats... 🦇 Team English #TeamEnglish not uploaded yet but will be soon!

One of my favourite An Inspector Calls quotes: Sheila: "Impertinent is such a silly word." (Act 2) Now, IMPERTINENT is a key word in An Inspector Calls. It tells us about the class mentality of 1912. 1/

Finished the ‘Write Like a Critic’ display! It’s on a empty wall as I have no display space left. It’s free here: tes.com/teaching-resou… I have lots of other displays on there if you’re looking for inspiration!#teamenglish Team English Thanks again to @FunkyPedagogy 📚🖋🤓

A few people have asked about this. In the absence of having time to write a blog, a quick thread. First of all we started with introductions. I use a mixture of Susan Strachan and Sana ideas. We look at what makes them good examples, and practice our own.

Created some resources on An Inspector Calls - feel free to steal ✨ #teamenglish #edutwitter #litdrive

I'll be doing Rhetoric with my Y8 after Easter. As always, standing on the shoulders of giants inc. Kat Howard's Oak National Academy SoW, I've collated this anthology 👇 Links to video clips where they exist below dropbox.com/s/19c2rgvci0i3…

UPDATED - I have collated ALL the AQA GCSE Literature past exam questions. In the run up to exams and/or curriculum design/assessment creations I hope these help. Team English dropbox.com/s/4tw2g8azqr3j…

🌟tutor time reading booklet🌟The Week Junior is a fabulous resource. The big debate page is ideal for a tutor time, oracy activity that involves some reading and then encourages students to have an opinion through debating the topic. The booklet is here: dropbox.com/s/8vkkkf4q2gi2…

🌟Creative writing: sentence models🌟 Resources in the 🧵 I've been doing lots of sentence work. Last term, I tried to write with students every lesson, just trying to build writing muscles and expose them to lots of models Inspired by Chris Youles His book is fab! 1/11

One for Team English: ‘Macbeth is interested in the line between killings that are celebrated and killings that are condemned; between legitimate and illegitimate violence.’

More pairing quotation tasks for year 11 as we secure quotation use, developing ideas and building on proving a thesis. 💡 #aninspectorcalls #teamenglish #gcseenglish #aqaliterature

Planning your #LanguageRevision lessons? Get these booklets! Click. Download. Revise! English Language Paper 2 (AQA) tes.com/resource-detai… English Language Paper 1 Booklet: Lamb to the Slaughter tes.com/resource-detai… #TeamEnglish #Language #edutwitter #teachertwitter #AQA

Today’s discussion: which social media platforms would the characters from AIC use and why? Gerald - LinkedIn but slides into DMs Eric - Snapchat Sheila - instagram Mr B - Twitter Mrs B - Facebook Inspector Goole - thinks social media is ruining our society

#TeamEnglish *please* do not spend your Easter hols making revision booklets and practice papers for your Y11s. Instead, enjoy some of my resources on Litdrive UK. Use the visualiser and drill them in Language lessons for 4 weeks. Not boring, because the extracts are fun! 1/

I don’t teach Blood Brothers at GCSE level, but my cousin does so we put together a list of quotes with some sort of analysis / explanation for each! It may help someone so thought I would share! Team English

Target tick sheet for GCSE English Language Paper 2 douglaswise.co.uk/blog/gcse-engl… 🎯

A writing resource to help pupils improve their sentence variety in both fiction and non fiction writing. I have included a range of different sentences with examples. Download 👉 tinyurl.com/ysbz7x2f

Week-by-week tasks for students to complete over the summer holidays douglaswise.co.uk/blog/summer-ho… 👻 🔍 👑

One of the best tips I ever learned is being imparted to year 7 next year - to find the subject of a sentence, add a tag question. Teaching pupils how to do this routinely allows them to check for fragmented sentences without subjects. Probably old news - I just love it!