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🌟Students need a sentence structure to show their understanding that big ideas are connected to little moments.🌟🧵 I talk a lot about micro and macro. Everything we read and write moves between big & small; small & big. Being able to access the big idea is important. 1/10

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First lesson on Macbeth comparing two quotations. I got this brilliant idea from @__codexterous Works a treat as it allows big ideas to be foregrounded. As we unpicked the words it generated great academic discussion and curiosity about the play.

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Creative writing booklet

This work on teaching creative writing is created on Power Point. Each slide prints out as an A4 page, so it can easily be made into a booklet. All the pieces of writing are original, but not all t…

Why Lady Macbeth is literature's most misunderstood villain

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I want to develop student confidence with thinking about and discussing texts. So, here's a consistent approach to asking questions about different aspects of the writer's craft.

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🌟Resources to support classroom talk🌟 Here are things I find useful for building talk in the classroom, and hopefully they will save you time or provide some ideas. Drop box at the end. But, just to be clear, talk is something that cannot always be planned for...1/

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NEW The Tempest Booklet for KS3 - you can download it here: (bit nervous about sharing, but hope that it is useful!)

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@Team_English1 NEW Transactional writing for AQA P2 Q5. It prints out as A4 and can be photocopied as a booklet. I want to acknowledge the debt of gratitude I owe to @__codexterous as I have adapted his suggested structure and model responses. Huge thank you...1/3

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Creative writing resource inspired by amazing art posted by @fraveris These could work either as a 'do now' or for longer writing. Thanks to @Xris32 and @__codexterous whose blogs have definitely given me ideas for 'this time try this' note on each slide

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Why Lady Macbeth is literature's most misunderstood villain - BBC Culture

Shakespeare's murderous queen has long been demonised as a wicked seductress. Yet Frances McDormand is the latest actor to show she deserves far more understanding, writes Hanna Flint.

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🌟New: nonfiction for tutor time reading🌟 This is short as it's a trial, but it's for yr10 tutor time. Articles with questions and a poem activity. It might be useful! Thanks to @volewriter for her threads on children's clothes. Also, there's a spider!

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🌟The structural similarities between transactional and creative writing for Lang GCSE🌟Mostly good writing does the same thing, regardless of purpose. Especially when you look from a structural perspective

Creative writing and transactional writing share some of the same features..pdf

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key statements revise all the characters.pptx

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🌟Creative writing lesson using the theme of memory🌟 I’ve had a couple of enjoyable lessons, preparing for Paper 1 Q5, and looking at memory as a way into the image or statement. And I’ve linked it all to Proust and Barbie! 1/9

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🌟First lesson on AIC🌟 I've shared this before, but I've updated it. I start with the plot. Surprise plot twists are lovely, but nuance and implied meaning are only apparent if you know what happens. At GCSE, students need a frame to help them understand character & theme 1/7

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💔📚Romeo and Juliet Resource 📚💔Looking at critical perspectives on tragedy, and one on comedy in the play. Hopefully useful for revision as well as generating discussion and opinions. @Team_English1

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🌟AQA GCSE Lang P2 summary🌟This suits my context, but it might be helpful to someone else too, or might help with final revision. @Team_English1

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However, I can now have enthusiastic conversations with students about great books they may not know about (The Sower is definitely upper KS4 btw), and as a consequence they may seek the books and authors out themselves. Which seems like a win. 2/2

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🌟Writing in triangles🌟🧵 Since reading about @TheWritingRevol intros and conclusions, I’ve been thinking about triangles. TWR structure intros so writing moves from big picture to narrow focus: general – specific – thesis. Conclusions go the other way: narrow to big picture 1/

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🌟AIC revision🌟 This statement resource on the characters (link below) works really well for AIC because it generates discussion and writing opportunities, and because it helps students to have an opinion. This year I added in a vocab list to encourage greater use of key words

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In dept CPD we discussed how to make retrieval more strategic, encouraging connections between ideas. I was thinking how best to do this. This AIC resource gives students statements to debate, pulling in knowledge from across AIC….1/2

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🌟Whole class feedback example🌟 I wanted to combine feedback and a chance for reflection. This format worked well & the notes students made were so thoughtful. I started with general points, stressing ‘control the things you can control’ as minor errors can be distracting! 1/7

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🌟The Writer's Craft🌟 I find myself coming back to these unpinning ideas about texts all the time, and want a consistent approach to improve discussion, and writing, about texts. Students know how to approach a text because they know what to look for.

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Chatting with Yr10 about Macbeth and LM and how she emasculates him. We wondered about an equivalent word for a woman. But there isn’t one. There’s no need for a word about weakening someone’s power if they don’t have it in the first place. Am I right?Is there an equivalent word?

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Some thoughts about the structural similarities between transactional and creative writing for Lang GCSE. I want to highlight connections as writing can seem like a hurdle to be overcome rather than an opportunity to enjoy presenting an idea. Does this make sense? Is it helpful?

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🌟AQA GCSE Lang P1 summary🌟This suits my context, but it might be helpful to someone else too, or might help with final revision. Thank you @HaleDonal for the fabulous top tip on Q4.

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Anyway, here is another writing bookmark that shows my thinking. I hope it’s helpful. 8/8

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I've discovered @canva and am pleased with my first effort! I realise there are many versions of WHW summaries, many better than this, but it might be useful for someone. There's an A4 size and infographic. @Team_English1

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#rewordify 🧵I've been using Rewordify for An Inspector Calls, and have pasted in the stage directions and whole of Act 1. They are here👇If you haven't seen , you can copy in a text and it simplifies it and then generates different kinds of word quizzes 1/5

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🌟Improving language analysis🌟🧵 There are things I say a lot! 🟣What word is doing the work? 🟣Why that word and not another word? 🟣Say more than one thing about one thing @__codexterous & @FunkyPedagogy gave me these ideas There's two more tips I give students Read on! 1/11

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🌟KS3 reading record🌟I had the best lesson with yr8 on Friday. They wanted to redesign their reading record, and helped with ideas! Massive thanks to @engteacherabro2 for her generously shared, inspiring resources that I also adapted.

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It went very well btw!

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An Inspector Calls - I'm going to stick this on a piece of A3 for revision tomorrow and see what happens! Thank you @DoWise and @Miss___D8 I've been reading your wonderful resources and have really benefitted!

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…There are statements on all characters. You could ask them to respond individually in a chart to organise ideas. Or think pair share. Or, as I did, stick one under the visualiser and discuss. It generated loads of ideas.

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The history of the witches in Macbeth | Blogs & features

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🌟First lesson on AIC🌟I like to start with an plot overview. It’s lovely to get reactions to surprise plot twists, but you can only recognise clues if you know what happens. Students might need a context to understand why you are talking about stuff when studying a text for GCSE

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Great for context.

Hovering through the fog and filthy air of Macbeth, the weird sisters are a terrifying chorus to the action of the play.

www.shakespearesglobe.com

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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. @Suchmo83 threads are great. We began with his ideas, and a recap of what’s important. 1/

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1 / 3 NEW - unseen poetry booklet, with full mark model answer for the 24 mark question. I'm using it with Year 9, but would suit KS4. All the poems are available online, so I hope this is ok. There is space to write about each poem in the booklet...

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My piece on Alderman Meggarty is here if this is useful: @Team_English1 10/10

alderman-m.docx

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September will start with reflection and recap: there are still stems and structures to teach. Going forward we might make curriculum adaptions to create cues within planning so we don’t drift from using them. 9/10 If you would find the resources helpful:

In the summer term of 2022, we started to implement a writing curriculum in the English department. This was small, low key and tentative. First, we completed a questionnaire in department time in …

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I've made a booklet (see below) of P1 tasks using extracts from these books. As an aside, I think these books are great, that's why I chose them. Yet I did find myself getting disheartened with forcing this original writing into AQA's dismal question format 1/2 @Team_English1

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@Becky7692 Genuinely like structure! There’s lots here that might help

New Post! All about teaching structure for both language and literature GCSE

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I've been using @DiffitApp and created a resource that explores the politics of AIC, the Inspector and links these to the opening of The Communist Manifesto ("A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of communism"). 1/4

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Teaching Language P2 Q3 but same skills for P1 Q2. Identified two tips today that made a big difference to the quality of response. Top and tail the response with the control word, so the answer stays relevant and if you can use one word - use two, to add precision to analysis

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I’ve been using these think, pair, share statements on all the characters in AIC for revision. The discussion is helping students develop an individual opinion and voice which often characterises better written responses. They are also quite fun to debate.

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In dept CPD we discussed how to make retrieval more strategic, encouraging connections between ideas. I was thinking how best to do this. This AIC resource gives students statements to debate, pulling in knowledge from across AIC….1/2

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AO3 – it’s not just facts

In order to start thinking about AO3, I think it is worth quoting the AQA GCSE Literature mark scheme in full at the start: Defining context (AO3) AO3 is the understanding of the relationship betwe…

Transactional Writing Paper 2 Q5

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A brilliant resource and very generous share. Love the range of reading materials. Thank you 😊

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Wanted to make homework more challenging and purposeful, so I created critical thinking booklets, which have some fab reading materials for students to critique. Thanks: @mrsmacteach33 @SPryke2 @SaysMiss @britishlibrary @TheRSC amongst others! Access:

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3/3 but the booklet I’m sharing is entirely for AQA which is what I teach now. The ref to Edexcel is not that important and makes no difference, but just in case anyone wonders! I hope you find this useful. Booklet and notes here:

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Comparing Content: 10 Approaches to AQA Paper 2 Question 2

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🌟A great bit of context for Macbeth (and R&J) and why Troilus and Cressida is vitally important!🌟🧵 The Great Chain of Being (deeply entrenched cultural metaphor for appreciating everyone and everything has its place in an order) is helpful for the play 'Macbeth'. 1/16

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I’ve just read this. Really helpful. Paper 2 question 2 is a funny one.

It appears that paper 2 of the new English Language GCSE from AQA is the greater of two new evils. Many teachers dislike the paper. But with the exception of the 19th century text, it really is a b…

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@Bronte24913251 @EpicDays3 @Team_English1 Thank you 😊 do you mean these?

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@DoWise I used your ideas today - thank you so much! The character viewpoint one was perfect as I teach structure by thinking about POV and then identifying and/or using 'looking' words and 'position' words. Very much looking forward to reading @ChrisYoules book too

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Had some great writing today using Janus sentences and straw man / strong man paragraphs. They really help develop coherence.

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🌟Blog post🌟if you wanted a bit more detail about my @TMEnglishIcons presentation on our Year 8 Curriculum: Powerful Voices, then I've written it all up here and included some comments about The Bone Sparrow that I had to cut because of time. 1/2

Powerful Voices: A Year 8 Curriculum

Bennie Kara writes about ‘the thorny nature of diversity as a term,’ and although I knew that I had to do better with the texts we teach which is one reasons for a curriculum overhaul at KS3, I did…

Unseen poetry booklet TO SHARE.pptx

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@FunkyPedagogy shared a marking codes guide some time ago that was very clear and practical. I really liked it, and have found it useful. I hope it's ok to give it a bit of a Canva makeover!

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🌟Poetry revision🌟 I have been revising love and relationships poetry. So, what has worked well?🧵 The goal of revision is fluent and flexible knowledge. I don’t want knowledge too rigid, rather it should bend to adapt to the focus of an essay task. 1/11 @Team_English1

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3 Also, if the dropbox link doesn't work please let me know! Here is it

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@MissAliceKS3 @FreyaMariaO @Team_English1 I wrote this on Alderman Meggarty because he often gets overlooked and I think he gives students an original angle on the play.

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@Lottielottielou @Team_English1 Lots of practice, exposure and lovely discussion so that students feel comfortable having an opinion about all sorts of texts. I made these bookmarks based on @__codexterous resources for unseen poetry to add a bit of formality and routine to discussion in preparation for writing

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🌟Macbeth revision🌟 sending this again in case it's useful! Filling it led to some great discussion as we found juicy bits of the play to talk about.

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🌟motifs in Macbeth🌟a tracker for the motifs that we are looking at whilst reading the play. Started filling it in and it works well (blood, crown & kingship, sleep, dark & light, sight & blindness, manhood, birds, sickness, hands, fair & foul, children)

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🌟What is the point of Banquo?🌟 Well, I think it’s Fleance! And some other things! Some ideas I have been thinking about to frame this character, and to use in revision. Rather long🧵!!

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The significance of Alderman Meggarty to ‘An Inspector Calls’

I will get to Alderman Meggarty…bear with me…. There has been a lot of discussion recently about ‘An Inspector Calls’ and the extent to which it is worth teaching, enjoyable…

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This is great👇I’m going to be printing a poster sized version!

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📧 You've got mail! Such a valuable lesson to teach at the beginning of the school year! Check out the resources and lesson ideas to get you started👇 #futureready #edtech #edutwitter #teachingideas

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@HeadofEnglish @curtaindsleep @__codexterous @johntomsett I love a Janus structure. Useful all the way from year 7 to 13. It really helps students with developing a great style and coherence.

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@Ms_Holyoake @Team_English1 Hi Nicole. I've updated this blog and there are two PPs to download at the end. They include loads of examples and one is the most recent work I did for the LitDrive conference. I cover structure in Lang and Lit. Hope it's useful.

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@__codexterous I’ve been thinking about this a lot. When we ask students to identify why a feature might be important we should foreground the conceptual thinking that lies behind the question. This slide might show my thinking better. @samlgibbs1 and @z_helman book is amazingly helpful.

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This is what we discussed and used as a model 9/11

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@mbaenglish1 @Team_English1 Absolutely tons on everything structure related here. Might be something useful

New Post! All about teaching structure for both language and literature GCSE

The history of the witches in Macbeth | Blogs & features

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@baker32_l Hi Lisa, used these two today. It's such a great idea from @DoWise and my class, who find this type of writing hard, enjoyed it. It got a bit competitive! One thing I did notice was that it was better if my sentence didn't relate to the picture as that limited their ideas.

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🌟Poetry - Worlds and Lives – A Wider View🌟 🧵Some thoughts and resources🧵It's long! I’m teaching the new AQA poetry anthology and will share my ideas and resources as I do them. First up is ‘A Wider View’ as its SOOOO clever. 1/

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@charlotteosul This from @litfanatic is the best resource

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📚✒️ Language Resource ✒️📚 A 24 page Language Paper 1 revision booklet. 3 extracts and 3 opportunities to complete each question. It could be good for an 'I do, We do, You do' approach. This is tailored to my Y10s but the link is below if it's helpful ⬇️

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I’m building in revision and retrieval with yr 11 for AIC and have a key word list made as I taught it. Today I put a word from the list under the visualiser and we made links to quotes, themes, context, writer’s craft. It was a quick win for revision and created great discussion

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These are brilliant! Used one as a starter today. Thank you

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40 AQA GCSE Language Paper 2 Question 1 style texts & true or false questions. Nice to use as starters, revision, mini formative assessments... it's up to you! @Team_English1 @ITTteamenglish @shadylady222 @Xris32 @__codexterous @DoWise

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1/3 today I delivered CPD about questioning in our dept meeting. I was a bit shy as it’s a funny thing teaching teachers about teaching. I was helped enormously by @MrsBallAP who shared her detailed presentation on questioning. I decided to make a booklet to organise my ideas…

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@Miss_GJohnston @Team_English1 Film extract has got to be the opening of The Lion King. But I also use this extract which brilliantly covers everything I want students to understand about structure

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🌟still thinking about motifs in Macbeth🌟I want students to understand why it's is used, not just what's there. Would it help to summarise ideas and significance in a conclusion? Same motifs but one per page with conclusion space. Good revision activity

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Super blog with interesting commentary on the meanings of ‘wyrd’ in relation to the witches. Definitely worth a read.

Hovering through the fog and filthy air of Macbeth, the weird sisters are a terrifying chorus to the action of the play.

www.shakespearesglobe.com

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@educatingmrsh @Team_English1 odd, I know, but I quite like the structure question, It's just ridiculous that it's separated from the language question. I wrote this which might help. The Lion King clip helps because it makes perspective, shifts, zoom in/out and contrast really clear

New Post! All about teaching structure for both language and literature GCSE

Literacy teaching and school events calendar 2023-2024 | National Literacy Trust

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#WeekendLitChat The Handmaid's Tale. Here's a copy of my PP + notes for my 'Laugh of the Medusa' talk plus some extra bits on text, body and voice I cut because of time. I hope it's useful. Recordings of talks will be @amy_smith117

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@craigstaples57 @Team_English1 Was it this?

Schools and early years calendar for 2023–24. Find free literacy teaching resources and ideas to celebrate cultural events and special awareness days in class!

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Another super helpful, detailed thread from @emaiengteacher Also v reassuring! With unseen poetry I always say structure and title are a way in. Look at start/middle/shift points/end. Tackling structure means students are probably looking at the bigger ideas and patterns.

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Last but not least... Unseen poetry, Sections A and B. I was really interested prior to marking how students would respond to Scaffolding as unpicking the layers relies on understanding the central conceit. I think it's really helpful to approach unseen poems in class by

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Teaching structure – a one stop shop

New Post! All about teaching structure for both language and literature GCSE

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Interesting approach to breaking up the teaching of Paper 1 and 2. And a super helpful booklet. Really like this.

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@Xris32

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NEW BLOG: The GCSE English Da Vinci Code. #engchat #engchatuk . Includes booklets.

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@Team_English1 I wrote this to clarify the points I made about AO2 based on an earlier thread. Thank you @AlwaysLearnWeb for the initial spur and thank you @OliHaley for the encouragement

AO2 – it’s not just ETA

I was inspired to write this after a thread initiated by MissR @AlwaysLearnWeb and whilst this is not a guide to dealing with an extract question, it does explore what AO2 might mean in the context…