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🌟An approach to teaching writing🌟subordination. This week we looked at how we could combine sentence level work, subordination, flexible thinking, text knowledge and writing practice. Christopher Such threads are great. We began with his ideas, and a recap of what’s important. 1/

Excellent free vocabulary resource - full of useful morphology roots and ‘morpheme matrices’. atlasabe.org/wp-content/upl…

Made another retrieval/revision booklet for our year 11s to complete over half-term hols in preparation for their mocks when we return. Features: AIC, Power & Conflict poetry, Lang paper 2 revision. Ideal for tailoring to your own mocks. dropbox.com/scl/fo/81o9ght…

If you’re interested in bite-sized PD, checkout my collection of one-pagers that are available to download from my website for free: jamieleeclark.com/graphics 1. Why Don’t Students Like School? 2. Cognitive Load Theory Explained 3. Making Every Lesson Count 4. Explicit

Finally finished the next poetry course reader, a 44 page booklet - like a SOW, covering the next 5 poems in a cluster with language skills integrated into the background reading. Available free here: laurawebbcpd.com/power-poetry-c… For Team English ❤️

My new book - ‘Why Learning Fails (And What To Do About It)’ - is out May 8th. It explores key challenges for learning in the classroom - from paltry planning to limited independent learning - along with an array of practical solutions. Amazon: amazon.co.uk/Why-Learning-F…

Writing competitions are a brilliant way of encouraging/inspiring students to write and get a wider audience for their writing. This is a fab poetry writing competition. (emag will be announcing its own Close Reading Competition soon!) causleytrust.org/centenary-2017…

Our latest post looks at the attendance of disadvantaged pupils in disadvantaged secondary schools. We found that the average absence rates in schools with a high proportion of disadvantaged pupils are far higher than in those with a low proportion. 🔗 bit.ly/4ce5vnZ

Happy World Poetry Day. Here’s a poem called ‘On Failing to Write an Epic Poem for World Poetry Day’.

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🔶 NEW! A poster summarising Explicit Direct Instruction (EDI), based on Hollingsworth & Ybarra’s great book on the power of the well-crafted, well-taught lesson. The one-pager features ideas on: 🔸Student Engagement Norms 🔸’TAPPLE’ for CFU 🔸 Essential EDI Lesson Elements

Loving Jennifer Webb's timed revision grids (slightly adapted to suit our texts). Such excitement to share with Y11 in the final weeks 😍. Thank you!

An Inspector Calls resources for revision: 1. Essay Booklet: a booklet designed to offer students food for thought: dropbox.com/s/8b0u0qb5prl0… 2. Key Quotation sheet: dropbox.com/s/o6c5z1iq0k28… 3. Mouthpiece and big ideas hexagons: dropbox.com/scl/fi/v94mvob… Happy Sunday😀

*** BOOK GIVEAWAY *** I am giving 3 copies away of my new book: ‘Why Learning Fails (And What To Do About It)’. Simply RESHARE this post to enter. I’ll announce winners on Sun 12th May. [If you can’t wait – it's available here! shorturl.at/kvHZ2]

If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them. ~ George Orwell Today's doodles

To help with planning for next year, we have four copies of our book to give away to four different people (postage UK only) Simply RT to enter. Four names will be picked out of the hat next Saturday (1st June). John Catt Educational from Hodder Education fionaf Stuart Pryke Amy Staniforth

August giveaway☀️ The monthly thank you on behalf of @compliantschool. If you would like to win the £100 Amazon Voucher, for personal or school use, then please follow, retweet and like this post by Thursday 15th August at 9pm! We will announce the winner shortly afterwards!

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READING: The radical change we need in secondary schools, and how we are plotting our course Carlton Academy Trust A (long) thread 🧵 👇