A Christmas Carol pack
Designed for the new English Literature GCSE specifications, this teaching pack comprises a route-through the five staves of the text, providing social and historical context, discussion points, structured lesson ideas and supporting resources.
A Midsummer Nights Dream pack
Created for the KS3 curriculum (2014), this pack focuses on key scenes from the play, with a range of drama and performance activities, as well as creative tasks including diaries, scripts, cartoons and set design to encourage close textual engagement.
An Inspector Calls pack
A pack consisting of creative and accessible ideas for bringing the play to life. Choose from socratic discussions, venn diagrams, game templates, visual learning grids and sequencing activities.
Animal Farm pack
Designed for the English Literature GCSE specifications, this teaching pack will provide you with lesson ideas, discussion points and creative resources.
AQA GCSE English Language Paper 1 exam skills pack
Downloadable pack to support students preparing for AQA’s GCSE English Language Paper 1. Includes consolidation and revision activities and exam-practice questions.
AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 exam skills pack
Based on the themes of the sea, travel, money and the environment, AQA GCSE English Language Paper 2 – exam skills pack will give your students all the exam practice they need.
Argue and persuade pack
A teaching pack designed to help students understand and identify persuasive techniques and apply this to their own writing.
Blood Brothers
Created to support students taking GCSE English Literature for AQA, Edexcel and WJEC Eduqas, this teaching pack includes creative and dramatic lesson ideas, resources and exam-style questions.
Challenging grammar pack
This teaching pack includes materials to consolidate, apply and extend grammatical knowledge in reading and writing. Comprehensive teaching notes provide a valuable curriculum support for teachers, while a wide range of resources and activities ensures that students have opportunities to apply and extend their learning of the more challenging aspects of the curriculum.
Christmas resources - digital download (set of 5)
Set of five illustrated Christmas resources with tasks for writing to persuade, inform, review and describe,
Classroom games templates
This pack comprises ideas, game boards, cards and teaching notes for 20 different games which can be used to support and enliven your teaching across key stages and subjects. Simply fill in the blanks with your own questions and/or keywords and let the games begin!
Creative writing pack
A versatile pack filled with teaching ideas and activities to help students at different stages of creative writing including essential sections on sentences, the use of tenses and suggestions for tackling 'problem' areas of writing, from sense based writing to using pictures as prompts.
David Crystal's Grammar posters (English set of 10)
In these posters, David Crystal explores how grammar works in context, starting with the essential question, ‘What is grammar for?’
Essay writing pack
Designed to support students with more formal styles of writing, this teaching pack is a ‘toolkit’ of creative classroom activities, genuine student exemplar essays and exclusive teaching resources for all aspects of writing an essay for your class novel, play text or reading unit.
Fix it writing - student handbook
This photocopiable workbook includes activities and resources to accompany the teacher handbook, enabling students to improve and build on their core writing skills
Fix it writing - teacher handbook
Fix it writing has been designed to support English teachers, non-specialist teachers and teaching assistants in identifying and ‘fixing’ problems in students’ writing.
Frankenstein pack
Created to support students taking the AQA and Edexcel English Literature GCSE (2015), this teaching pack includes creative lesson ideas and activities to support your teaching of this challenging text.
GCSE English Language – Reading non-fiction texts pack
Designed to support students taking the English Language GCSE (first teaching from 2015), this teaching pack contains practical and creative ideas for teaching a range of non-fiction text excerpts from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
Homework activities for year 7 – English
Homework activities for year 7 is designed to ensure you have all your home learning activities for year 7 English in one place.
Journeys – year 9 curriculum pack
Devised for the KS3 curriculum (2014), this ‘journey-themed’ critical reading pack consists of an anthology of text excerpts and poems (from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries), supported by lesson plans and tailor-made resources.
Literacy across the curriculum (set of 10)
Jolly up your classroom walls with posters on reading, writing and spelling tips, common misspellings, apostrophes, paragraphing, punctuation, homophones, and connectives, we've got literacy covered.
Lord of the flies pack
Lord of the flies teaching pack includes creative lesson ideas and activities as well as teaching resources for the whole novel.
Macbeth pack
Designed for the GCSE English Literature specifications for AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC Eduqas, this teaching pack provides you with lesson ideas and supporting resources for the entire play.
Non-fiction and media pack
A KS3 and 4 non-fiction and media pack consisting of teaching ideas with resources, activities and relevant and useful source materials.
Of Mice and Men pack
Devised for the English Literature GCSE (final exams in June 2015) this teaching pack consists of practical and creative ideas for teaching this popular text.
Poetic terms posters (set of 10)
Explore key poetic terms and make poetry accessible for KS3-5 students with our stylish posters.
Poetry through the ages pack
A unit of work exploring a selection of classic poetry by seminal poets. The pack is divided into: Early and Middle English poetry, The Elizabethans, The Metaphysical poets, The Romantic poets, 20th century poetry (including WW1 and Modernism) and contemporary poetry (with a focus on Duffy and Zephaniah).
Power and conflict student revision
Written for AQA’s Power and conflict anthology, Power and conflict student revision is an illustrated revision guide comprising detailed, handwritten notes and activities to build students’ confidence and develop their understanding of the poems.
Quotation posters (set of 10)
Here are ten wise and witty quotations about literature, chosen for their strength, simplicity and relevance. We’re hopeful that our quotation posters will jazz up your walls and encourage an insight or two!
Reading more non-fiction texts
A follow-up to our popular Reading non-fiction texts teaching pack, this pack includes a different selection of non-fiction text excerpts from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. The pack supports teachers of students taking GCSE English Language with a range of practical and creative lesson activities.
Revise unseen fiction
Revise unseen fiction is an exam-focused, student-friendly workbook filled with activities designed to consolidate your students’ skills and prepare them for their GCSE English Language exam.
Revising Macbeth
GCSE revision guide for students studying Macbeth. Covers all the key acts and themes with active revision strategies and practice exam questions for all boards to build students' confidence.
Revising Romeo and Juliet
GCSE revision guide for students studying Romeo and Juliet. Covers all the key acts and themes with active revision strategies and practice exam questions for all boards to build students' confidence.
Revision templates
These templates aim to provide a range of creative, engaging and focused approaches to supporting students’ revision in any subject. They can be used for individual, paired, group or classroom revision.
Romeo and Juliet
Designed for the GCSE English Literature specifications for AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC Eduqas, this teaching pack provides you with fresh and engaging lesson ideas as well as supporting resources for the entire play.
Survival – year 8 curriculum pack
An engaging year 8 curriculum pack written to develop students’ critical reading skills and confidence working with unseen texts in preparation for the new GCSE.
The Sign of Four
Written for AQA’s GCSE English Literature paper, this pack takes a detailed look at this 19th century text and features tasks such as text analysis, character profiles, comprehension questions, word maps, Venn diagrams, tension graphs and exam practice questions.
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde pack
Created to support students taking the new English Literature GCSE (for first teaching from September 2015), this six week teaching pack consists of practical and creative teaching ideas to support your teaching of this challenging text.
The Tempest pack
Created for the KS3 curriculum (2014), this thorough and detailed teaching pack focuses on key scenes, themes, characters and language with a mix of analytical and drama focused activities.
Unseen fiction
Unseen fiction is a step-by-step introduction to the unseen element of the GCSE English Language exam, developing students’ analytical skills and confidence.
Unseen Poetry pack
Designed for the GCSE English Literature specifications for AQA, Edexcel, WJEC Eduqas and OCR, this teaching pack provides you with resources and supporting teaching notes for the unseen poetry element of the exam.
Word gap posters (set of 8)
A set of posters with ideas and strategies to support vocabulary development and close the word gap.
Word gap templates
These templates aim to support vocabulary development – encouraging students to engage in meaningful ways with words and narrowing the word gap. They support the teaching of tier 2 and tier 3 vocabulary and offer a variety of approaches to helping students explore new vocabulary and have fun with words. Best embedded in the lesson as part of the development of a student’s specialist language, they also work well to support revision, independent study and homework.
19th century novel – GCSE English Literature
19th century novel – GCSE English Literature
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Bring Christmas cheer to your classroom with these resources. ‘There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.’
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‘There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.’
A Christmas Carol
If there’s ever a time of year for jollying up your lessons, this is surely it! With this selection of Christmas-themed speaking and listening activities, your students are bound to have a giggle – and…
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It’s National Writing Day on 26th June – and every day in English classrooms! We know how much fun teaching creative writing can be, so we’ve chosen some of our most popular and favourite new resources ahead of this national celebration.
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Similar to story writing dice but with a focus on structure, our resource Story…
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‘Differentiation is essentially good teaching’
We’re excited to share with you some of the latest advice on differentiation from experienced teacher, writer and presenter, Sue Cowley. Sue has written a blog post and two resources where she reminds us that differentiation doesn’t always mean a growing to-do list!
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Exercise books, exam texts, quotations, worksheets, anthologies, revision guides, past papers, practice essays, mind-maps, lists, sticky notes, highlighters – pause button! That’s right, it’s exam time, and we’re here with some last-minute lifesavers.
Helen
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We’ve got a selection of fresh resources perfect for those thorny…
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New beginnings, new endings, new stories – support your students’ writing in the new year
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The start of the year might bring fresh ideas for your young writers – or it might not! The post-Christmas return to mocks can be overwhelming, so we’ve chosen some resources to support your students writing under pressure.
And if you’re feeling fresh and there’s an untold story in you, perhaps 2018 is the year to write it. Happy New Year!
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‘Growth mindset’ is a term which has floated around for a little while now, and it is unsurprising that it is so popular in education: it is the belief that intelligence, talent and ability are open to change. Well, that’s what we’re here for!
This month we’ve had the pleasure of working with Mike Gershon, author of How to Develop Growth Mindsets in the Classroom: The Complete Guide, who shares his passion for nurturing growth mindsets in the classroom.
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Editor’s Pinboard: inspiring a love of English
Help students revise for exams with our resource selection. It’s the final hurdle! To keep your students motivated on the exam stretch, try out some of our tried and tested revision games, guides and practice papers.
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With the exam cloud gradually lifting, it’s a great time of year to refresh students’ learning in key stage 3 and showcase the best of learning English. We’ve put together some of our recent resources that aim for a KS3 silver lining.
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With so much change in the curriculum this year, you’re doing brilliantly if you’re still finding room for creative approaches and ideas, even at Key Stage 3. Since thinking and planning time are at a premium, we’ve chosen a few ‘cheat’ resources to help you out.
Helen
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It’s Non-Fiction November! Celebrate with your students
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If you’re looking for a charitable non-moustachioed way to spend your November, it’s the month for celebrating non-fiction books. This year’s National Non-Fiction November theme is 'The World Around Us', and what better excuse to bring the outside world inside your classroom?
Here is my pick of our resources for reading and writing non-fiction.
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Editor’s pinboard: Resources for anti-bullying week
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'Be kind always and never stand by and leave bullying unreported'Lucy Alexander, mother of Felix Alexander
Next week it’s anti-bullying week, which is a great chance to help students open up about the issue affecting almost all children in some way. We’ve selected some great pick-me-up resources that you can use in any English lesson.
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Editor’s Pinboard: resources for Dyslexia Awareness Week
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‘I didn’t succeed despite my dyslexia, but because of it. It wasn’t my deficit, but my advantage.’ (Scott Sonnon)
The first week in October is Dyslexia Awareness Week, and this year’s theme is ‘Positive about Dyslexia’. We’ve selected some resources with ideas to inspire your dyslexic students.
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Editor’s pinboard: Resources for teaching spelling, punctuation and grammar
Sweeten the SPaG teaching in your lessons with our popular resources
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Love it or loathe it, there’s a big emphasis on SPaG in the curriculum, so we’ve collected some of our most popular and newest resources to support your students.
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New for 2018, Strategies for understanding new words includes a…
Editor’s pinboard: resources for the end of term
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As your attention flits from the marking pile to the Maldives(!), we’ve selected some resources to keep your July lessons on track. Congratulations on making it to the end of another academic year and enjoy the well-deserved cocktails that await!
Helen
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Editor’s pinboard: Resources for the new GCSEs
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No more Lennie, no more Scout – sniff! If you’re feeling lost without them, you’ll find plenty of resources for your nineteenth century friends instead. We’ve been busy publishing resources for the new GCSEs for a while now, so I’ve selected a few to get you started.
Helen
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All our resources that target skills for the new GCSEs are on our pages for GCSE English Language and GCSE English Literature.…
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If you were swept up in Olympic fever this summer, you may still be on a high well into the new school year. To keep you and your students motivated, I’ve chosen resources that are great ice-breakers and ways into a new text.
Helen
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If you’re new to teaching, then a great starting place (after your coffee) is our resource 20 teaching ideas for surviving your NQT year.
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Editor’s pinboard: Resources for World Book Day
Celebrate reading in your school with these booktastic teaching ideas
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‘Books are a uniquely portable magic’ (Stephen King)
World Book Day is the perfect opportunity to indulge your students in the magic of reading, and it’s coming up next month. Here’s a selection of our favourite resources for the big day!
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To celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday, we’ve selected some great resources for revising his plays as the exams approach. Good luck to you and your students!
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In the exam, your students will be looking to add something original to their interpretation. Our resource written by Ben Crystal, Mapping the heart of Shakespeare,…
Editor’s pinboard: Shakespeare in the GCSE
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If teaching and revising a Shakespeare play is at the top of your GCSE to-do list, fear no more! We’ve chosen some great resources and revision tricks for Shakespeare’s plays below.
Helen
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When you’re close to the exam, you may well be thinking about quotations! Key quotes from the play is perfect for Macbeth. Get groups presenting each theme: what is the context and how is the theme developed?…
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In celebration of the anniversary of the Bard’s birthday (and death), we’ve selected some of our favourite resources for teaching Shakespeare. This includes a resource written for us by Ben Crystal – hot off the press!
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Introducing your students to Shakespeare – a resource written by Francis Gilbert –…
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'To do a great right, do a little wrong.'William Shakespeare
As a resolution for the new year, forgiving yourself for wrongs may help ease the demands of your workload, allowing you to try new things for yourself and with your students.
Many of you will be teaching a Shakespeare play at the start of 2017. Lighten your planning burden with our many Shakespeare resources and teaching packs – and start your year with a great right!
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Before my son’s recent parents’ evening, I asked him if there was anything he’d like me to say to his teacher. His reply was the biggest compliment I think a teacher can get: ‘Yes. Please tell her she tells the best stories.’
Read on to share our love of good stories with your students ahead of National Storytelling Week at the end of the month.
Helen
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Editor’s Pinboard: which are our most loved resources?
Discover the most popular English teaching resources, as chosen by you
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Sharing great resources is our passion, and when you tell us they‘re your favourites too, it’s even more rewarding. Here are the most loved resources on Teachit English, as voted by thousands of you!
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The enduring appeal of the Connectives writing placemat is no surprise, given how many writing tasks it could be used for. While calling them ‘connectives’ has fallen out…
Editor’s pinboard: World Book Day
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Whether you’re excited about donning your Ancient Mariner costume again, or already sensing the weight of the eBay albatross around your neck, World Book Day is around the corner. We’ve selected some resources packed with great ideas to help you get in the mood!
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Gothic literature from Victoria Walker
Teaching ideas for Gothic texts
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The darker months are the perfect time for teaching Gothic literature, and it’s possible to squeeze it in at all key stages. With this in mind, we’re delighted to introduce you to Victoria Walker. Victoria is an assistant headteacher and English teacher at St. Ursula’s Convent School in Greenwich. She is a Founding Trustee of the College of Teaching and has delivered CPD on Shakespeare’s histories and the Gothic for the Prince’s Teaching Institute.
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Lesson planning from David Didau
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Marking work from David Didau
This is the second of our Teachit e-newsletters featuring English teaching essentials – planning, marking and literacy. If you missed the first on planning, you can catch up and find it on our Newsletter page. This series gives you practical and time saving solutions for your teaching.
Written by ‘Learning Spy’ David Didau – trainer, consultant, writer and former English teacher – this email questions…
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Prefixes and suffixes from Victoria Honeybourne and Emela Milne
Advice and ideas for teaching word formation from SLCN specialists
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We’re delighted to be joined again by Emela Milne and Victoria Honeybourne, co-authors of The Speech, Language and Communication Pocketbook (Teachers’ Pocketbooks, 2014) and specialists in the field.
This email includes information about why prefixes and suffixes can create barriers to reading if they are not explored, and why knowledge of these can transform students’ confidence with thousands of new words.
Seemingly disparate…
Shakespeare series 2: Shakespeare as part of our ‘cultural capital’
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Shakespeare series 4: Shakespeare as a performance
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Shakespeare series email four: Shakespeare as a performance
This is the fourth (and last, sob!) in our series of Teachit e-newsletters written by Francis Gilbert (English teacher, writer, commentator and journalist) in celebration of the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth. If you missed out on any of the first three emails in the series simply go to our Shakespeare series newsletter page…
Shakespeare series email one: Introducing your students to Shakespeare
We're delighted to introduce the first of four new Teachit e-newsletters written by Francis Gilbert: English teacher, writer, commentator and journalist. He's thoughtfully put together a host of dynamic and creative Shakespeare teaching ideas which are set to ping into your inbox over the coming months.
This first one focuses on how to introduce your students to Shakespeare and ensure that enthusiasm levels…
Shakespeare series email three: Translating Shakespeare
This is the third in our series of four new Teachit e-newsletters written by Francis Gilbert (English teacher, writer, commentator and journalist) in celebration of the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth. If you missed either of the first two emails in the series simply go to our Shakespeare series newsletter page to catch up.
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This is the second of four Teachit e-newsletters written by Francis Gilbert (English teacher, writer, commentator and journalist) in…
Spotlight on English - new term, new teaching packs
Download our latest resources and teaching packs now. With a new season and a new(ish) school term come lots of new resources and teaching packs on Teachit English.
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Spotlight on English: cracking Christmas resources
Get into the Christmas spirit with our festive resources. Ho ho ho! It’ll soon be that time of year when some one-off, fun resources and activities will come in handy. Find a selection of festive resources below, as well as our creative advent calendar – free to all this month as an early Christmas present.
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Spotlight on English: exam practice questions for GCSE
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Spotlight on English: most downloaded resources in 2017
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Spotlight on English: New resources
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Spotlight on English: Our most popular resources
Most downloaded resource for 2016-17. The summer holidays are nearly here so it seems like a good time to look back over the last year and see our most downloaded resources.
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Spotlight on English: resources for National Poetry Day 2018
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Spotlight on English: Resources for National Storytelling Week
Resources to inspire your students' storytelling
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Spotlight on English: Resources for the last day of term
end-of-term fun! With the summer holidays a mere day away (for most of you!), we've got some fun, one-off lessons and games for you and your students to enjoy.
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Spotlight on English: Revision resources
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Spotlight on English: Revision resources
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Spotlight on English: save precious planning time with our resources
Download our latest resources now. Planning lessons can be time-consuming and a bit of a chore, especially if inspiration is running low!
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Spotlight on English: World Book Day
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Talk in the classroom from Stuart Scott
Advice and teaching tips from Stuart Scott for talk and learning, talk for learning, talk as learning.
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Happy New Year! We're delighted to start 2016 with another e-newsletter from a highly regarded specialist. In this edition, Stuart Scott offers us his advice for embedding talk in the classroom.
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The changes in the curriculum are imminent, but it's not quite all set in stone yet. So while the specs are being typed up, it's best to get on with something that's here to stay: teaching grammar.
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One of the privileges of teaching English is that it's rooted in real life. Sometimes it's hard to make connections between our students' lives and our own in our teaching.
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Is it just me or does exam season seem to come round sooner and sooner each year? With just a few weeks to go, we've chosen some resources to help students ramp up their reading skills and sit their exams as text-deconstruction experts – well, we can dream!
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P is for punctuation, O is for onomatopoeia, E is for evaluate T is for ... you get the picture! With exams on the horizon I'm sure your students are armed with a bunch of mnemonics to help them remember those 'key' terms. Here are a few poetry resources to add to the mix – mnemonics included!
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With the end in sight (are you counting down the days yet?!) and exams nearly out of the way, your attention is probably turning to your KS3 groups and what to do with them. How about a 'project' to keep them occupied? We've selected a few resources below that will take you up until the summer holidays.
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