Second in English and Classics Teacher 👩‍🏫 • English Lit Grad Uni of York • Studying for an MEd Leadership 👩🏼‍🎓 NPQLL 📚

Manchester, England
Joined October 2020
Today's hyerfixation: revision sheets focusing on analytical verbs and big ideas. Inspired by @Ameenamahetar1 and @mrsmacteach33 #paper1lit #macbeth #acc @Team_English1 – at Salford, England
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Revision resource for An Inspector Calls on important moments in the play. A single page for each act douglaswise.co.uk/blog/impor… 🔍
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Notes on self preservation, privilege and masculine power in ‘An Inspector Calls’. Will share all of these in my Dropbox over half term.
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A revision guide covering all five staves of A Christmas Carol, with retrieval practice and practice papers built in to help students revisit key events and strengthen their recall. Access here: drive.google.com/file/d/1Zfj… #AChristmasCarol #EnglishLiterature
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Notes on the role of violence in ‘Macbeth’. Use/chuck as you see fit!
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Love using this booklet for an end of unit #revision! AQA An Inspector Calls Pairing Quotations tes.com/resource-detail/aqa-… 💍8 quotations per character 📞Make me better tasks 🕵️AQA AO specific 🍾Multiple #exam Qs 🔍SO MUCH MORE! #AnInspectorCalls #English #GCSE #KS4 #TeamEnglish
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Another set of notes on ‘Macbeth’, this time for guilt. I found this format online somewhere and have been playing around with it with my own ideas, so please do shout if you recognise it so I can credit you!
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Notes on ‘Macbeth’ and the role of children. Feel free to use/chuck as you see fit.
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🧵A slide deck is not a plan, and a plan is not a slide deck. I'm unsure as to exactly when the conflation of the two things became so deeply entrenched but so deeply is this belief held in some settings that it dictates almost all the approaches to T&L.
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Handwriting activates a broader network of cognitive brain regions compared to typing.
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I know Latin & Greek roots is the cool morphology that gets all the attention, but I'd wager that teaching focused (at least initially) on the most common affixes would prove the more valuable for spelling development, such as these by Holly B. Lane, Linda Gutlohn, W. van Dijk.
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I keep hearing stories about primary age children in English schools, 'hating writing'. Why? I know why: because primary school writing has become a matter of jumping through hoops which require you to lever in so-called grammatical features in order to reach the 'expected level'
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🧵 The @educationgovuk Curriculum and Assessment Review's commitment to a new national oracy framework, sitting alongside reading and writing, is a significant moment for how we think about spoken language in schools.
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A real ‘pinch me’ moment, launching 3 of my 2026 books at a parliamentary reception in the House of Lords yesterday. I summarised 350,000 words in 6 minutes! @wmarybeard @PDJSwallow @durham_uni @ahrcpress @BritishAcademy_ @Classical_Assoc @routledgebooks @LivUniPress
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A couple more interactive maps added. #009 act (do) #010 sci (know) jwed.co.uk/tools/ 🙂
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Next two interactive morpheme maps are up. #007 mort (death, dead) #008 scribe / script (write) And I'm done for the weekend. 🙂 jwed.co.uk/tools/
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💡 NEW BLOG💡 ‘The glamour of vocabulary teaching’ Did you know that ‘glamour’ and ‘grammar’ have the same roots? There is a magic in words that it is vital pupils learn. alexquigley.co.uk/the-glamou…
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If anyone is still around who remembers the morphology resources I used to post, they are back as an interactive online tool. #001 ject (to throw) I'm testing it out at the mo but if people like them, I can add more (I have 200 of them ready to go). jwed.co.uk/tools/
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First two English re-marks are back. Increased by 12 and 16 marks. A difference of two grades from 3 to 5. How on earth are we supposed to know which grades to get checked? Report says clerical error. Why doesn’t that trigger a recall of all marks by that marker? Not good enough
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One worthwhile and important goal is inculcating a love of reading. Another worthwhile and important goal is the academic discipline of English Literature. These aren't the same thing and schools should frame them separately imo.
If you can get past the Caitlin Moranness of the way it's expressed, this is actually a very sound point. There's no reason kids shouldn't learn that proper literature can be fun as well as serious. The main goal, surely, should be to inculcate a love of reading for its own sake.
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