Lead Practitioner of English

North West, England
Joined April 2016
Congratulations and thank you @ChrisYoules on your fabulous book in sentences. It's really great!
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If you want to accelerate learning in any endeavour, you concentrate on the group! How to embed a #questioning culture across all classrooms? Synchronise your efforts alongside #curriculum sequencing ... Blog teachertoolkit.co.uk/2023/04… Resource template teachertoolkit.co.uk/product… #GuideToQuestioning
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Thread 🧵… Sentence-level instruction is well worth looking into. We know it can yield an effect-size of around +0.46. For context, anything over +0.4 is generally considered to have a significant positive effect on children’s writing development.
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Slides from my presentation "Using research to supercharge school improvement" today at the @asugsvsummit are available here: bit.ly/3KQGZMK
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For the last 7 years, over at Steplab we've been working on a project to codify effective teaching. A long and geeky thread on what we've learned: ↓
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“Teaching vocabulary is hard!  Harder than we might first imagine.” @ally_wren, our content specialist for literacy, introduces a new resource designed to help build vocabulary teaching into lessons. Read more: eef.li/RUUcLe 1/2
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I've been reading a bit more YA fiction recently and these books are amazing, and would be great recommendations for young people too. I've put in content warnings and page numbers. More to follow:
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🧵Feedback is an area that often unnecessarily burdens teachers and steals too much time. Feedback doesn't need to require a teacher to sit for hours and write comments on pages. In fact, that's often one of the least effective methods. Ideas to try instead. 1/
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RETWEET our new single ‘Sirens’ if you wanna be in our new music video. We want to get everyone together for a mad party!!🙌 #thesherlocks
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- 10 model essays for 'Power and Conflict' poetry - Our very popular and effective 'Why that method' sheets - Our Topic Guide with full list of Big Ideas - Our poetry planning sheet - Real examiner-marked scripts from 2022, ranging from Grade 4 to Grade 9 missjohnston.com/blog/5-ways…
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Our posts on whole-class feedback are some of the most popular on our blog. I've just updated the final part with a link to a great video resource from @GauravDubay3 See the first part of the series here blog.nomoremarking.com/whole…
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📚 GCSE Language Resource! 📚 A full guide for English Language Paper 1, with tips and top strategies for each question including useful scaffolds DL as a PDF here: codexterous.home.blog/resour…
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Lemov’s ‘Confident Statement of Intent’ inspired this collection of sentence starters for increasing academic rigor. These might be of use - docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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6 incredible resources developed by top universities to help you become a proficient academic writer — totally free:
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✍📚 After reading 230+ short stories (up to 4k) as a first reader for a national UK comp here's what I learnt about what seems to work and what doesn't in #shortstory writing (just some thoughts not set rules):
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What every teacher needs to know about reading | by Elisabeth Bowling: A Wild Surmise | Medium Brilliant summary by ⁦@elucymay⁩ awildsurmise.medium.com/what…
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Six resources for teaching GCSE English Language: 1⃣ P1 and P2 study booklet 2⃣ Booklet and target sheets 3⃣ Non-fiction texts booklet 4⃣ Fiction opening lines 5⃣ Sentence stems 6⃣ Great speeches booklet
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This half term I've worked on an update of my A-Level Language Diversity schemes. I started with Gender as I wanted more up-to-date research in there etc. There are 10 lessons in total. Hope it helps. More diversity units to follow. dropbox.com/sh/i9qozibc1vh5x…
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These school-level factors are our current best bets for the things that school leaders should pay attention to, monitor and prioritise. hubs.la/Q01nyBWy0