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Linking effect to authorial intent", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2022/06/who-do-you-love-linking-effect-to.html", "published_at": "2022-06-12T11:22:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb5c-c41a-705c-a66f-4bd31b0ff740", "title": "Course correction in curriculums - iceberg ahead, Captain!", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2022/05/course-correction-in-curriculums.html", "published_at": "2022-05-22T11:51:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb5c-c41a-705c-a66f-4bd31ba3b47d", "title": "There must be a better word - refining words", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2022/05/there-must-be-better-word-refining-words.html", "published_at": "2022-05-01T10:45:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb5c-c41a-705c-a66f-4bd31c0a52e8", "title": "Reading and writing non-fiction - it's complex and not boring!", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2022/04/reading-and-writing-non-fiction-its.html", "published_at": "2022-04-24T10:14:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb5c-c41a-705c-a66f-4bd31c87e402", "title": "Infer, infer, they’ve all got to infer for me", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2022/04/infer-infer-theyve-all-got-to-infer-for.html", "published_at": "2022-04-03T10:49:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb5c-c41a-705c-a66f-4bd31c8e1e72", "title": "The jumps in logic, Captain", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-jumps-in-logic-captain.html", "published_at": "2022-03-13T11:13:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb5c-c41a-705c-a66f-4bd31cde7fe2", "title": "Here’s what you could have won! Feeding back Literature", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2022/02/heres-what-you-could-have-won-feeding.html", "published_at": "2022-02-27T11:32:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb5c-c41a-705c-a66f-4bd31d35f192", "title": "Let’s talk about effect, baby!", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2022/02/lets-talk-about-effect-baby.html", "published_at": "2022-02-06T12:24:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb5c-c41a-705c-a66f-4bd31e023d94", "title": "Cohesion in writing: Won’t anybody think about paragraph two?", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2022/01/cohesion-in-writing-wont-anybody-think.html", "published_at": "2022-01-22T14:34:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb5c-c41a-705c-a66f-4bd31e15f5ed", "title": "Semi Skimmed Reading - Reading and approaching unseen texts", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2022/01/semi-skimmed-reading-reading-and.html", "published_at": "2022-01-08T19:12:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb5c-c41a-705c-a66f-4bd31e61eab3", "title": "Supporting teachers with their workload", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2022/01/supporting-teachers-with-workload.html", "published_at": "2022-01-02T13:24:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb5c-c41a-705c-a66f-4bd31e89796e", "title": "When did knowledge become such a dirty word?", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2021/12/when-did-knowledge-become-such-dirty.html", "published_at": "2021-12-12T12:20:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb5c-c41a-705c-a66f-4bd31f85d2fe", "title": "High stakes exams and mocks – let’s go low, low, low, low", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2021/11/high-stakes-exams-and-mocks-lets-go-low.html", "published_at": "2021-11-21T11:57:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb5c-c41a-705c-a66f-4bd32070022b", "title": "Consciously crafting controlled and concise writing on a granular level", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2021/11/consciously-crafting-controlled-and.html", "published_at": "2021-11-14T08:47:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb5c-c41a-705c-a66f-4bd3216c310a", "title": "Oh, they didn’t get it: Misconceptions in English", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2021/10/oh-they-didnt-get-it-misconceptions-in.html", "published_at": "2021-10-24T11:02:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb5c-c41a-705c-a66f-4bd32246247c", "title": "Diet poetry and the problems with the poetry anthology", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2021/10/diet-poetry-and-problems-with-poetry.html", "published_at": "2021-10-03T11:45:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb5c-c41a-705c-a66f-4bd322e09de1", "title": "It started with one blank page…paragraphing", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2021/09/it-started-with-one-blank.html", "published_at": "2021-09-18T08:08:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb5c-c41a-705c-a66f-4bd323a60a6d", "title": "The first lesson is the deepest – getting to know you", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2021/09/i-read-interesting-discussion-on.html", "published_at": "2021-09-05T11:21:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb5c-c41a-705c-a66f-4bd3246aa94e", "title": "Breaking the exam’s hold on us", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2021/07/breaking-exams-hold-on-us.html", "published_at": "2021-07-11T10:42:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb5c-c41a-705c-a66f-4bd3253292d7", "title": "English on a darkling plain – to follow your head or your heart", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2021/07/english-on-darkling-plain-to-follow.html", "published_at": "2021-07-04T11:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb5c-c41a-705c-a66f-4bd3255a66b2", "title": "Nice Knowledge Retrieval Task, Shame About the Learning", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2021/06/nice-knowledge-retrieval-task-shame.html", "published_at": "2021-06-13T16:51:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb5c-c41a-705c-a66f-4bd325bf4a51", "title": "Terminology exposure - Of course, you know what a simile is!", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2021/06/terminology-exposure-of-course-you-know.html", "published_at": "2021-06-02T11:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb5c-c41a-705c-a66f-4bd3260d6b53", "title": "Creative Writing – More Pixar than Eastenders!", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2021/05/creative-writing-more-pixar-than.html", "published_at": "2021-05-09T10:36:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb5c-c41a-705c-a66f-4bd3267fcc60", "title": "Unseen poetry – developing mental models of writing styles", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2021/04/unseen-poetry-developing-mental-models.html", "published_at": "2021-04-25T10:55:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb64-aaca-73d1-8fa9-fd4763f9d449", "title": "No. No. Na. Na. No. No. Na. Na. No More Marking", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2021/04/no-no-na-na-no-no-na-na-no-more-marking.html", "published_at": "2021-04-17T16:56:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb64-aaca-73d1-8fa9-fd47648b06df", "title": "The first read is the deepest – moving away from spotting and pushing the thinking", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-first-read-is-deepest-moving-away.html", "published_at": "2021-04-11T11:40:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb64-aaca-73d1-8fa9-fd476526fb7f", "title": "Lessons on a page", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2021/04/lessons-on-page.html", "published_at": "2021-04-04T10:39:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb64-aaca-73d1-8fa9-fd4765b70c1f", "title": "The Big Bad Because sentence - Paper 2 Q2", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-big-bad-because-sentence-paper-2-q2.html", "published_at": "2021-03-28T11:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb64-aaca-73d1-8fa9-fd4766735f56", "title": "Playing ping pong with literature and context", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2021/03/playing-ping-pong-with-literature-and.html", "published_at": "2021-03-07T09:41:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb64-aaca-73d1-8fa9-fd4766983060", "title": "Why? Why? Why, Delilah, are you inferring?", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2021/02/why-why-why-delilah-are-you-inferring.html", "published_at": "2021-02-21T12:46:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb64-aaca-73d1-8fa9-fd4767535c37", "title": "Plugging in the gaps in Literature - pulling a thread and seeing what you find", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2021/02/plugging-in-gaps-in-literature-pulling.html", "published_at": "2021-02-14T14:42:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb64-aaca-73d1-8fa9-fd47675d9e46", "title": "In a live lesson nobody can hear you scream!", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2021/01/in-live-lesson-nobody-can-hear-you.html", "published_at": "2021-01-31T12:11:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb64-aaca-73d1-8fa9-fd4767782229", "title": "A question of structure – cohesion", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2021/01/a-question-of-structure-cohesion.html", "published_at": "2021-01-17T12:04:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb64-aaca-73d1-8fa9-fd4767a50938", "title": "Tick Box Diversity", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2020/12/tick-box-diversity_6.html", "published_at": "2020-12-06T10:43:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb64-aaca-73d1-8fa9-fd4767f2fae6", "title": "How can we use sonnets to teach non-fiction?", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2020/11/how-can-we-use-sonnets-to-teach-non.html", "published_at": "2020-11-22T12:04:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb64-aaca-73d1-8fa9-fd47681d663c", "title": "Vocabulary is just a little piece of hokum", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2020/11/vocabulary-is-just-little-piece-of-hokum.html", "published_at": "2020-11-08T10:20:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb64-aaca-73d1-8fa9-fd476849fb48", "title": "What a teacher wants, what a writer needs", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2020/10/what-teacher-wants-what-writer-needs.html", "published_at": "2020-10-25T11:09:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb64-aaca-73d1-8fa9-fd4768d61752", "title": "Losing my Revision", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2020/10/losing-my-revision.html", "published_at": "2020-10-11T10:46:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb64-aaca-73d1-8fa9-fd4768fd8464", "title": "I’m defining Gravity and you won’t bring me down", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2020/09/im-defining-gravity-and-you-wont-bring.html", "published_at": "2020-09-26T10:57:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb64-aaca-73d1-8fa9-fd4769fc261d", "title": "The ‘Knowledge’ – changing knowledge organisers", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-knowledge-changing-knowledge.html", "published_at": "2020-09-20T17:25:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb64-aaca-73d1-8fa9-fd476ad7059f", "title": "Let’s all join the pity party!", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2020/09/lets-all-join-pity-party.html", "published_at": "2020-09-06T10:35:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb64-aaca-73d1-8fa9-fd476b4f35bf", "title": "Zooming to a brave new world", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2020/07/zooming-to-brave-new-world.html", "published_at": "2020-07-26T11:37:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb64-aaca-73d1-8fa9-fd476b5db70e", "title": "Romeo and Juliet, are you having a laugh?", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2020/07/romeo-and-juliet-are-you-having-laugh.html", "published_at": "2020-07-12T12:08:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb64-aaca-73d1-8fa9-fd476c24e12b", "title": "I love the smell of red herrings in creative writing", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2020/06/i-love-smell-of-red-herrings-in.html", "published_at": "2020-06-21T11:57:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb64-aaca-73d1-8fa9-fd476c9c7e15", "title": "Home or remote work – why it is the school’s responsibility and not the teacher’s responsibility", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2020/06/home-or-remote-work-why-it-is-schools.html", "published_at": "2020-06-13T13:09:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb64-aaca-73d1-8fa9-fd476d1397c4", "title": "Putting stories back in the curriculum", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2020/06/putting-stories-back-in-curriculum.html", "published_at": "2020-06-07T11:07:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb64-aaca-73d1-8fa9-fd476d27f5c1", "title": "Living on the edge… of reason", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2020/05/living-on-edge-of-reason.html", "published_at": "2020-05-10T11:12:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb64-aaca-73d1-8fa9-fd476d80018b", "title": "Standing centre stage", "url": "https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2020/05/standing-centre-stage.html", "published_at": "2020-05-03T11:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb64-aaca-73d1-8fa9-fd476df110d4", "title": "Where have all the spotty pants gone?", "url": 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2026

Oracy - talk is cheap but group work is costlyoriginal ↗
3 May 2026
What do I go to school for? The exams. Or something more.original ↗
19 Apr 2026
We need to talk about oracyoriginal ↗
1 Mar 2026
Metaphor, Oracy and Real Speech in An Inspector Callsoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2026

2025

A question of homework in Englishoriginal ↗
9 Nov 2025
Do it now or do it when you’ve thought about it a bit more?original ↗
5 Oct 2025
Making writers sexy and appealing - Part 1 (author's intent)original ↗
18 May 2025
Spelling and word fluencyoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2025
Oracy - The infamous ‘I don’t know’.original ↗
9 Mar 2025
Precision and laser sharp thinkingoriginal ↗
9 Feb 2025
An Inspector Recallsoriginal ↗
12 Jan 2025

2024

Looking at writers - does he ever stop smoking?original ↗
8 Dec 2024
Safe and dangerous creative writingoriginal ↗
10 Nov 2024
Narrowing those feelingsoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2024
Booklets for GCSE English and English Literatureoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2024
Whoa Camouflage - writing is never quite the way it seemsoriginal ↗
14 Jul 2024
I am ready for my closeup now, Mrs Writer (Part 2) - the special editionoriginal ↗
30 Jun 2024
The problem with words and vocabularyoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2024
Reading Recommendationsoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2024
More symbolism, sweetieoriginal ↗
26 May 2024
Cognitive Buckaroo with Non-fictionoriginal ↗
21 Apr 2024
Symbolism, structure and chatoriginal ↗
10 Mar 2024
Being precise around the writer’s intentionoriginal ↗
18 Feb 2024
A question of tone and not techniquesoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2024
Problem solving in creative writingoriginal ↗
7 Jan 2024

2023

Cold calling in Englishoriginal ↗
12 Nov 2023
It’s all ‘bout that quote, ‘bout that quote, no ideas!original ↗
15 Oct 2023
Which one crossed the road first? The poet? Or the idea?original ↗
8 Oct 2023
The GCSE English Da Vinci Codeoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2023
Activating prior knowledge in readingoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2023
I’m a teacher get me out of this classroomoriginal ↗
26 Jul 2023
Crying over words. They are more than tiers.original ↗
7 Jul 2023
Homework in Englishoriginal ↗
25 Jun 2023
Narrowing down revision in Englishoriginal ↗
11 Jun 2023
Who do you love, Shakespeare?original ↗
13 May 2023
Just a piece of paper - EHCPsoriginal ↗
7 May 2023
Left to their own devices, they’ll probably… revise quotations.original ↗
23 Apr 2023
I am ready for my closeup now, Mrs Writer.original ↗
19 Mar 2023
Mock Marking Targetsoriginal ↗
12 Mar 2023
What word is missing? Knowledge retrieval in English is ______________ and it isn’t all about quotations.original ↗
26 Feb 2023
You cannot simplify English!original ↗
19 Feb 2023
Putting on those context spectaclesoriginal ↗
4 Feb 2023
Exploring the Inspector’s smalls - being precise with ideas and quotationsoriginal ↗
7 Jan 2023

2022

Questioning, exploring and probing Literatureoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2022
When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me and started reading non-fictionoriginal ↗
27 Nov 2022
Can’t use a simile without using twooriginal ↗
23 Oct 2022
Ditch the big whiteboard and not the little ones!original ↗
9 Oct 2022
Poetry: Thanks for the Annotationsoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2022
Models for reading - supporting vocabulary knowledge and building inferencesoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2022
One word draftingoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2022
Narcissus, will you please sit down and move away from that puddle.original ↗
9 Jul 2022
Who do you love? Linking effect to authorial intentoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2022
Course correction in curriculums - iceberg ahead, Captain!original ↗
22 May 2022
There must be a better word - refining wordsoriginal ↗
1 May 2022
Reading and writing non-fiction - it's complex and not boring!original ↗
24 Apr 2022
Infer, infer, they’ve all got to infer for meoriginal ↗
3 Apr 2022
The jumps in logic, Captainoriginal ↗
13 Mar 2022
Here’s what you could have won! Feeding back Literatureoriginal ↗
27 Feb 2022
Let’s talk about effect, baby!original ↗
6 Feb 2022
Cohesion in writing: Won’t anybody think about paragraph two?original ↗
22 Jan 2022
Semi Skimmed Reading - Reading and approaching unseen textsoriginal ↗
8 Jan 2022
Supporting teachers with their workloadoriginal ↗
2 Jan 2022

2021

When did knowledge become such a dirty word?original ↗
12 Dec 2021
High stakes exams and mocks – let’s go low, low, low, loworiginal ↗
21 Nov 2021
Consciously crafting controlled and concise writing on a granular leveloriginal ↗
14 Nov 2021
Oh, they didn’t get it: Misconceptions in Englishoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2021
Diet poetry and the problems with the poetry anthologyoriginal ↗
3 Oct 2021
It started with one blank page…paragraphingoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2021
The first lesson is the deepest – getting to know youoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2021
Breaking the exam’s hold on usoriginal ↗
11 Jul 2021
English on a darkling plain – to follow your head or your heartoriginal ↗
4 Jul 2021
Nice Knowledge Retrieval Task, Shame About the Learningoriginal ↗
13 Jun 2021
Terminology exposure - Of course, you know what a simile is!original ↗
2 Jun 2021
Creative Writing – More Pixar than Eastenders!original ↗
9 May 2021
Unseen poetry – developing mental models of writing stylesoriginal ↗
25 Apr 2021
No. No. Na. Na. No. No. Na. Na. No More Markingoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2021
The first read is the deepest – moving away from spotting and pushing the thinkingoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2021
Lessons on a pageoriginal ↗
4 Apr 2021
The Big Bad Because sentence - Paper 2 Q2original ↗
28 Mar 2021
Playing ping pong with literature and contextoriginal ↗
7 Mar 2021
Why? Why? Why, Delilah, are you inferring?original ↗
21 Feb 2021
Plugging in the gaps in Literature - pulling a thread and seeing what you findoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2021
In a live lesson nobody can hear you scream!original ↗
31 Jan 2021
A question of structure – cohesionoriginal ↗
17 Jan 2021

2020

Tick Box Diversityoriginal ↗
6 Dec 2020
How can we use sonnets to teach non-fiction?original ↗
22 Nov 2020
Vocabulary is just a little piece of hokumoriginal ↗
8 Nov 2020
What a teacher wants, what a writer needsoriginal ↗
25 Oct 2020
Losing my Revisionoriginal ↗
11 Oct 2020
I’m defining Gravity and you won’t bring me downoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2020
The ‘Knowledge’ – changing knowledge organisersoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2020
Let’s all join the pity party!original ↗
6 Sept 2020
Zooming to a brave new worldoriginal ↗
26 Jul 2020
Romeo and Juliet, are you having a laugh?original ↗
12 Jul 2020
I love the smell of red herrings in creative writingoriginal ↗
21 Jun 2020
Home or remote work – why it is the school’s responsibility and not the teacher’s responsibilityoriginal ↗
13 Jun 2020
Putting stories back in the curriculumoriginal ↗
7 Jun 2020
Living on the edge… of reasonoriginal ↗
10 May 2020
Standing centre stageoriginal ↗
3 May 2020
Where have all the spotty pants gone?original ↗
26 Apr 2020
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