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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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