Laura

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

[Laura @MissPowellEng]

Today's hyerfixation: revision sheets focusing on analytical verbs and big ideas. Inspired by @Ameenamahetar1 and @mrsmacteach33 #paper1lit #macbeth #acc @Team_English1

[Litdrive UK @LitdriveUK]

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[Seadragonseeker @Seadragonseeker]

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Macbeth revision booklets / homework materials ( with some powerpt )

Minor characters ; lady Macbeth ; the supernatural ; and a larger one covering all the whole play using mini extracts #TeamEnglish

[Seadragonseeker @Seadragonseeker]

https://t.co/PZF6McJcOp

Technical accuracy booklet with self marking key - based on acc , AIC and other lit texts . Prob suitable for revision or homework - there’s a powerpt for display of answers - #TeamEnglish

[London South at Charles Dickens Research School @LondonSouthRS]

Fluency is a key part of comprehension. We need 120 primary schools to join our EEF-funded Fluency Focus trial. It kicks off in Y5 in September. It'll transform fluency in your school. Let us know you're interested here https://t.co/7kws9xvMXH

[Laura @MissPowellEng]

This would be the dream!!

[Sarah1963Gilbert✊🌹🇺🇦 @SarahGi78263526]

@daisychristo @stoneman_claire Do you think Literature GCSE might go open book 🙏

[Bruce Robertson @BruceNextLevel]

This week marks the 1st anniversary of Power Up Your Questioning: https://t.co/C1BXSTIhvq

To celebrate, Grace Hudson (@MissH_biology) has been working with me to produce a collection of superb sketchnotes, summarising each of the six themes from the book. This is the first one👇

The full collection is available to download for Teaching PowerUps member schools: https://t.co/BULbUGpTOW

[Lyndsey Dyer @RealGingerella]

If you don't teach writing under a visualiser, co-constructing, thinking out loud, and making mistakes, then you are not "teaching" writing.

[David Didau @DavidDidau]

*NEW* Couch to 5k Writing https://t.co/HTwS5iTQLP

[Alex Quigley @AlexJQuigley]

‘Secondary literacy: Why fluency matters for every subject’ by @AmyFord_Educate

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[Douglas Wise @DoWise]

A ‘revision and reference’ handbook for An Inspector Calls >> https://t.co/C4jEgcmufW Designed to provide students with the ‘core’ knowledge they need to successfully navigate the play and - later on - to form a basis for revision #TeamEnglish

[Jerry Clay English Hub @JCEnglishHub]

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[Tes magazine @tes]

It could take 20 years for one in 10 exam students to answer a question about a text by an author of colour in their English literature GCSE, warns a new report
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[Matt Lynch @Mathew_Lynch44]

@dd77 Here’s a link to a huge bank of retrieval practice resources I have made and shared over the years, organised into sub-folders for
✅ An Inspector Calls
✅ Macbeth
✅ A Christmas Carol
✅ P & C poetry
✅ L & R poetry

Help yourself 😊 #teamenglish

https://t.co/mvNAeJzeTE

[Literature Fanatic @litfanatic]

🗡️A key quotation from each scene in Macbeth 📷I am hoping that it sparks knowledge of key events, additional quotations and comments on Shakespeare's methods and purpose. If it is of any use to you:
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[Tammy Reynolds @MistypeaTam]

@adamboxer1 Good thoughts by @DavidDidau too: https://t.co/036TfC5xkH
My concerns involve how to ensure all are involved in meaningful talk; needs to be part of the culture of the classroom to work effectively imo.

[Helen Hardy @H_Hardy]

Great read, - interesting to consider assessment design and use of rubrics: ‘Essays are not designed to test factual accuracy.’

[Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation @BarbaraBleiman]

to follow on from each other, so textul conversations & links can be made. But the pace, the route through, the choice of texts may best be varied, according to how the students have responded, the teacher's own expertise & interests & emerging connections. 3

[Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation @BarbaraBleiman]

or voice, or point of view in a novel, or characterisation, or rhyme. These things, in English, are constantly returned to & taught over & over in the context of the texts chosen for study, deepening understanding with each textul encounter. The texts can/should be chosen 2

[Carl Hendrick @C_Hendrick]

Study of 364 students finds that morphological awareness (roots/suffixes) is a top predictor of reading efficiency in Grades 3–5. https://t.co/rSKgjQxqlt

[#WritingRocks✍️😍☺️ writingrocks.bsky.social @WritingRocks_17]

The components of an effective writing lesson

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