Ex-Secondary English teacher now working in the Archive/Heritage sector in South Wales.
Joined September 2024
- Tweets55
- Following158
- Followers318
- Likes81
I used this to support KS5 students dealing with the unseen element of their final exams but these questions are probably useful all through secondary English. Interrogating power dynamics is a core concern of many genres.
#engchat #teamenglish #engchatuk
Some historical context condensed for The Handmaid’s Tale. Sorting through old folders of stuff so will be posting more bits’n’bobs this week…
I always disliked full-on ‘book review’ tasks but loved designing Reading Journals which I could quickly check. I made termly A5 booklets where students could make weekly reflections and ‘magpie’ words. Anything else was an optional extra but I looked forward to checking these!
Apologies for the abysmal speed for emailing out this resource - you should all have it now though @AliceEngteacher @glowormglor @baker32_l @janikadavis @daniellegirvan @Muir_EnglishSec
3
220
supritiffion retweeted
The @educationgovuk has published the new 'The Writing Framework'.
This useful framework for teaching writing is for primary schools (but it will be of interest to colleagues in secondary schools & more)
See here: gov.uk/government/publicatio…
I think the blank ‘Goals’ page worked better and they could choose a couple from a suggested list and update as they went through the term.
476
Spent whole career encouraging independent reading.It was yrs before I started reading MG/YA fiction for myself: that’s when everything clicked & genuine conversations and book swapping happened with students.Seems obvious but taking time to enjoy books is important!
1
298
Another ‘sketchy’ resource found while my kids were looking for A3 paper to doodle on earlier 😂 A revision aid for Phase 1 of Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Fill in details/quotations for each main event, return to the text to fill in those gaps #litdrive #teamenglish #tess #AQALitB
A timeline’ of Shakespeare’s life I used to intro him to KS3. This contains the bare facts/evidence for him so that they have confidence forming their own opinion of his writing. They’d follow a ppt ‘lecture’ I’d give with photos & map key facts onto this as they listened.
Macbeth & structure: I printed these out, students chose a Q, found a partner to work with to write their answer. Stuck both parts onto a folded card and placed on a ‘timeline’ of the play, so written answers could be read under the Q flap. #teamenglish #litdrive #macbeth
Just sharing a couple of resources that encouraged students to think about the structure/staging of lit texts. First up: ‘An Inspector Calls’
#teamenglish #litdrive #AIC
In the last weeks of the yr, I always returned to looking at how grammar instruction could be improved. I know frequent, low-stakes exercises tied in with SoL is key but, my goodness… it never is a ‘done’ thing, is it!? Sharing my poster here. #SPaG #teamenglish #litdrive
Exploring the impact of sentence stems, playing with them in different contexts, changing them to see where the power lies - but always alert to the danger of adding more ‘tick lists’ to the English classroom. So helpful & generous @mrsmacteach33!
🧵It was a wonderful experience to speak at #LitdriveCPD25 @LitdriveUK on Saturday, about using a sentence level approach to develop students’ writing. But as I made clear, I wasn’t just talking about improving writing; I was talking about improving thinking.
1/9
‘The Trouble with English’ by Sam Gibbs & @z_helman was a big help when trying to condense down the subject concepts I think KS3 students needed to grasp, rather than just thinking they’ve learned about separate texts. Here are the first 3 of 5 subject knowledge posters I made:
The top ‘white’ layer is to concentrate on with yr7, the middle layer with yr8 and the darkest coloured layer kept for yr9. #litdrive #teamenglish
Final ones of the subject knowledge poster ‘set’! I’m sure other schools and depts have defined in their own way but am sharing in case someone finds them helpful. @DavidDidau @MrWiseCHS
