The English Teachers’ Bibli-blography was originally created by @NSMWells and we are hugely grateful to him for suggesting Team English as the new home for this invaluable resource.
This page is very much under construction at the moment. In fact, it’s likely that you will be able to say that about this page for some time, if not indefinitely. It’s designed to be a collation of blogs about aspects of English teaching. If you come across either an aspect of English teaching which I’ve missed out or a blog post that you think ought to be here, then please let us know via Twitter @team_english1.
Planning an English Curriculum:
Curriculm as Tapestry: A Process for Weaving Together a Curriculum by Claire Hill @claire_hill_
Telling your curriculum’s story by Paul Moss @edmerger
Why I love planning reading schemes of learning by Susan Strachan @susansenglish
Why I love mixed ability groupings in English by Susan Strachan @susansenglish
How to enthuse and encourage pupil premium students with the English curriculum from Heather Hale @MrsHDHale
A mastery model for writing: moving away from the text type treadmill from Michael Tidd @MichaelT1979
A new English curriculum from Alex Quigley @HuntingEnglish
Clearing out the cobwebs: Key Stage 3from Kat Howard @saysmiss
Collaborative Planning for September 2017 from Freya O’Dell @fod3
Curriculum matters from Summer Turner @ragazza_inglese
Curriculum Planning from Freya O’Dell @fod3
Designing a new curriculum – What are your big ideas? from Alex Quigley @HuntingEnglish
How to choose study texts in English – Part 1 from James Theo @JamesTheo
How to choose study texts in English – Part 2 from James Theo @JamesTheo
How to plan a knowledge unit in English from Joe Kirby @joe_kirby
How to evaluate a knowledge unit from Joe Kirby @joe_kirby
In This School, English is About from James Durran @jdurran
In trying to do so much, we do too little from Andy Tharby @atharby
Juggling the Curriculum Part 1 from Chris Curtis @xris32
Juggling the Curriculum Part 2 from Chris Curtis @xris32
Patterns and Dominant Methodologies in English from Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
Principled curriculum design from David Didau @Learning Spy
Reclaiming The Key Stage 3 Curriculum: Challenge from Jen Jayne Wilson @JenJayneWilson
Redesigning a curriculum from David Didau @LearningSpy
Taking Special Measures In English from Matt Pinkett @PositivTeacha
Teaching Key Stage 3 English Through the Trivium from Martin Robinson @trivium21c
The emptiness of the English curriculum from Anthony Radice @AnthonyRadice1
The Lone and Level Sands Part 1 from Nick Wells @NSMWells
The Lone and Level Sands Part 2 from Nick Wells @NSMWells
The Lone and Level Sands Part 3 from Nick Wells @NSMWells
The holy trinity of English teaching: direction, immersion and habit from Andy Tharby @atharby
The Photocopier is Jammed from Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
English Assessment Systems:
Why I love refining the use of knowledge organisersby Susan Strachan @susansenglish
Why I love presenting about high expectations, irrespective of gender by Susan Strachan @susansenglish
Why I love CPD on stretch and challenge in lessons, whole school by Susan Strachan @susansenglish
Assessment in a Knowledge Curriculumfrom Jo Facer @JoFacer
Assessment Objectives – An OFQUAL Concern for OFQUAL Peoplefrom James Theobald @JamesTheo
Beyond National Curriculum Levels – One Year Onfrom Alex Quigley @huntingenglish
Comparative Judgement: 21st Century Assessmentfrom Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo
Guide to my posts about assessment from Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo
Marking, Marking, Marking: A Triptych of Assessment Strategies from Nick Wells @NSMWells
Moving Beyond National Curriculum Levelsfrom Alex Quigley @huntingenglish
Proof Of Progress Part 1from David Didau @LearningSpy
Proof of Progress Part 2 from David Didau @LearningSpy
Proof of Progress Part 3from David Didau @LearningSpy
Reassessing Assessment from Caroline Spalding @MrsSpalding
The Elements of Progression: Threshold Concepts Meet Mastery Learningfrom Phil Stock @JoeyBagstock
Why is teacher assessment biased?from Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo
Writing better testsby Tom Boulter @tomboulter
Feedback in English:
Why I love using visualisers in the classroom by Susan Strachan @susansenglish
Why I love literature mocks, finding solutions to issues by Susan Strachan @susansenglish
Closing Real Gaps With Data Days from Mark Miller @goldfishbowlmm
Feedback: let’s build it in, not add it onfrom Andy Tharby @atharby
Getting On Top Of Marking from Mark Miller @goldfishbowlmm
Giving feedback the Michaela wayfrom Jo Facer @jo_facer
How to ensure that feedback leads to real learningfrom Andy Tharby @atharby
Myths and Legends: Whole Class Feedback from Sarah Barker @MsSFax
On Valuable Feedback that Supports Teacher Wellbeing from Rebecca Foster @TLPMsF
Marking is a hornet from Joe Kirby @joe_kirby
Post mortem vs live markingfrom Chris Curtis @xriscurtis
Targets, targets and more targets from Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
We’re Marking Too Much from Matt Pinkett @PositivTeacha
Written Feedback Using Mailmerge from Mark Miller @goldfishbowlmm
Cognition, Memory and English Teaching:
Simple metacognition embedded in teaching by Susan Strachan @susansenglish
Past paper question clues and vocabulary for AQA English Language by Susan Strachan @susansenglish
Improving recall in GCSE English Language and Literature: some practical suggestionsfrom Andy Tharby @atharby
Memory Platforms from Andy Tharby @atharby
Starters and the Three Part Lesson – RIP from Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
Revision and English
Risking Renegade Revision – Not on my watch! by Paul Moss @edmerger
A five year revision plan from Joe Kirby @joe_kirby
And Now For Something A Little Bit Differentfrom Becky Wood @ShadyLady222
How and why I help my students learn quotations from Phil Stock @joeybagstock
Making Key Stage 4 Stick from Dave Grimmett @davegrimmett
Knowledge Organisers from Joe Kirby @joe_kirby
Something That Helped With Learning Quotations For the New GCSEs from Amy Forrester @AMForrester1
You Can’t Revise That from Natalie Scott @nataliehscott
Multiple Choice Questions in English
Closed Question Quizzing: Unfashionable Yet Effective from Andy Tharby @atharby
How to design multiple choice questions from Joe Kirby @joe_kirby
Learning to love the humble multiple choice questionfrom Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
Why use multiple choice questions? from Joe Kirby @joe_kirby
Teaching Spelling:
Thinking about spelling and grammar strategies by Susan Strachan @susansenglish
21 Lists of sophisticated spellings for GCSE Englishfrom Sarah Donarski @s_donarski
Analysing Spellingfrom Jules Daulby @JulesDaulby
Logical, phonetic, visual sequencing, rules, auditory, motor? The analysis of spelling errors. from Jules Daulby @JulesDaulby
Teaching Punctuation:
I heart punctuation from Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
Literacy Shorts: Oxford Commas from Douglas Wise @DoWise
Literacy Shorts: Ellipsis from Douglas Wise @DoWise
Literacy Shorts: Parenthetical Dashes from Douglas Wise @DoWise
Literacy Shorts: Full Stops from Douglas Wise @DoWise
Literacy Shorts: Exclamation Marks from Douglas Wise @DoWise
Literacy Shorts: Colons from Douglas Wise @DoWise
Literacy Shorts: Semi-Colons from Douglas Wise @DoWise
The Capital Letter Problem – Part 1from David Didau @LearningSpy
The Capital Letter Problem-Part 2from David Didau @LearningSpy
Teaching Grammar:
Adjectives from Douglas Wise @DoWise
Come the Revolution from Nick Wells @NSMWells
Grammar and the art of writingfrom Katie Ashford @katie_s_ashford
Improving the formality of students’ writing – nominalisationfrom Kerry Pulleyn @kerrypulleyn
Modal Verbs from Douglas Wise @DoWise
The Problem With ISPACED from Dom Schack @Dom_Schack
Where Gradgrind Got It Right; Teaching the Trivium – On Grammar from Martin Robinson @trivium21c
Teaching Vocabulary:
Active practice – the key to vocabulary from Doug Lemov @doug_lemov
Against Pupil Friendly Language from Sarah Barker @MsSFax
Closing the language gap – building vocabulary from David Didau @LearningSpy
Defragmenting Memory from Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
Fluency Fix – An Approach to Vocabulary Teaching from Nick Wells @NSMWells
How can we increase a child’s vocabulary?from Katie Ashford @katie_s_ashford
Making Mathew Rich from Caroline Spalding @MrsSpalding
Root map – a vocabulary instruction model from Josie Mingay @jamingay
Spelling and vocabulary lists – What’s not to like? from Dave Grimmett @daveg5478
Teaching vocabulary from Jo Facer @jo_facer
Teaching knowledge through vocabulary or why tier two words might not be enough from Phil Stock @joeybagstock
Vocabulary Lists from Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
Vocabulary: Oleaginous is the word that you heard. It’s got groove. It’s got meaning from Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
What’s in a Word from Phil Stock @joeybagstock
What’s the best way to teach vocabulary? by David Bunker @Mr_Bunker_edu
Word choice matters. Fact. from @TeachEnglish146
Why Reading Aloud to Students is so Critical to Vocabularyfrom Doug Lemov @doug_lemov
Encouraging Reading for Pleasure:
Why I love rethinking literacy by Susan Strachan @susansenglish
How can we get kids to read widely? from Katie Ashford @katie_s_ashford
How do we get them reading? from Katie Ashford @katie_s_ashford
Raising the profile of reading – Part 1 from Freya O’Dell @fod3
Reading – It’s So Flipping Importantfrom Natalie Scott @nataliehscott
Reading Journals from Freya O’Dell @fod3
The Power of Reading from Alex Quigley @HuntingEnglish
What Books Should A School Kid Read? from Martin Robinson @trivium21c
Teaching Reading:
Planning a SOL for Purple Hibiscus by Susan Strachan @susansenglish
Alice in Readerland – Year 7 and Doug Lemov’s Reading Reconsidered from Jamie Thom @TeachGratitude1
A Novel Approach from Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
A year of reading dangerously, slowly, carefully, accuratelyfrom Chris Curtis @xriscurtis
Can we teach students how to make inferences? from Andy Tharby @atharby
Close reading – our initial steps from Freya O’Dell @fod3
Closer Than Close from Nick Wells @NSMWells
Eruption from Nick Wells @NSMWells
Five Things Every New (Secondary) Teacher Should Know About Reading from David Didau @LearningSpy
Glossing Over the Gist and Glossaries from Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
Isn’t it ironic from Sarah Ledger @sezl
Question Templates – An Approach to Improving Analysis from Andy Tharby @atharby
Reading is Knowledge from James Murphy @HoratioSpeaks
Reviewing the Situation from Nick Wells @NSMWells
Sensitivity Analysis from Doug Lemov @Doug_Lemov
Seven Steps to Improving Reading Comprehension from James Murphy @HoratioSpeaks
So What? and Tell Me More. from Mark Roberts @MrEnglishTeach
Teaching Ideas – What Has Worked For Me? from Caroline Spalding @MrsSpalding
Time from Fiona Ritson @MissR
Whole Class Reading – An Example Lesson and a Menu of Approaches from James Durran @jdurran
Teaching Rhetoric:
Thinking about transactional writing by Susan Strachan @susansenglish
10 Biblical Allusions from Douglas Wise @DoWise
10 Classical Allusionsfrom Douglas Wise @DoWise
10 Historical Allusions from Douglas Wise @DoWise
Litotes from Douglas Wise @DoWise
Metonymy and Synecdoche from Mark Roberts @MrEnglishTeach
Mr Benn and the anatomy of extended writing from Phil Stock @joeybagstock
Nice or Nasty? The Case of the Ambiguous Euphemism from Mark Roberts @Mr_EnglishTeach
On Rhetoric – A Lesson Plan from Martin Robinson @trivium21c
Paragraph Pairs from Mark Miller @goldfishbowlmm
Rhetorical Questions from Douglas Wise @DoWise
Structuring Persuasive Paragraphs from Mark Miller @goldfishbowlmm
Teach Like and Elizabethan Champion Part 1 from Nick Wells @NSMWells
Teach Like and Elizabethan Champion Part 2 from Nick Wells @NSMWells
Teach Like and Elizabethan Champion Part 3 from Nick Wells @NSMWells
The Cliche That is Not a Cliche from Mark Roberts @MrEnglishTeach
Types of Repetition and Why You Should Teach Them – Part 1 from Mark Roberts @MrEnglishTeach
Types of Repetition and Why You Should Teach Them – Part 2 from Mark Roberts @MrEnglishTeach
We Need To Talk About Cliché- Part 1from Mark Robertson @mr_englishteach
We Need To Talk About Cliché – Part 2from Mark Robertson @mr_englishteach
Teaching Biography:
Teaching Description:
In Defence of Similes from Matt Pinkett @PossitivTeacha
I Digress – A Lesson on Digression from Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
On Scaffolded Descriptive Writing Openings from Rebecca Foster @TLPMsF
The Art of Making Strange from Mark Roberts @MrEnglishTeach
Using a Visual Stimulus for Creative Writing from Jonathan Peel @mrpeel
Teaching Narrative:
Why I love aqa paper 2 question 5 slow writing; A process and approach to viewpoint writing and Part 2 by Susan Strachan @susansenglish
Allusion – Teach It from Matt Pinkett @PositivTeacha
A Guide to Dystopian Fiction from Mark Roberts @MrEnglishTeach
An Ode To Narrativefrom Dom Schack @Dom_Schack
A Year of Writing Creatively from Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
Daft Drafting in the Classroom from Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
Everyday Writing from Louisa Enstone @englishlulu
Flash Fiction, Not Flash Bang from Louisa Enstone @englishlulu
Here’s One I Made Earlier. Using Your Own Creative Writing As Literary Texts from Mark Roberts @MrEnglishTeach
How to Create and Analyse Complex Characters from Mark Roberts @MrEnglishTeach
I Don’t Want to Talk About It – How Not To Write Dialogue from Mark Roberts @MrEnglishTeach
Losing the Plot – Deus Ex Machina from Mark Roberts @MrEnglishTeach
On John Brown Rose and the Midnight Cat from Rebecca Foster @TLPMsF
Pathetic Fallacy from Douglas Wise @DoWise
Personal Narrative and Developing a Student’s Own Narrative Voice from Louisa Enstone @englishlulu
Routines For Excellent Writing from Mark Miller @goldfishbowlmm
Teaching Narrative Writing at GCSE from Jamie Thom @TeachGratitude1
Teaching Narrative Writing Part 2 – Slow and Seductive Modelling from Jamie Thom @TeachGratitude1
Tell Me Why I Love Fridays from Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
We Bring the Stars Out from Nick Wells @NSMWells
Why I Love Writing At The Same Time As The Class from Susan Strachan @SusanSEnglish
Teaching Analytical Writing:
Why I love no quote examples to support critical analysis by Susan Strachan @susansenglish
Strong introductions and conclusions by Susan Strachan @susansenglish
Analysis in GCSE Literature and GCSE Language is a Chimera from Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
Analytical paragraphing: should students PEE all over their work? by Tod Brennan @todbrennaneng
A Quick Word – Retrieval Practice for Single Word Quotations from Mark Roberts @Mr_EnglishTeach
Baking Up an Essay – Analyse This Part 4 from Nick Wells @NSMWells
Beyond the Show Sentencefrom Katie Ashford @katie_s_ashford
Ditching Pronouns – Analysing Poetry With Clarity from Mark Roberts @MrEnglishTeach
Exam Essay Questions and How to Avoid Answering Them from Mark Roberts @MrEnglishTeach
How to Train A GCSE Essay Writer Part 1 from Alex Quigley @HuntingEnglish
How to Train A GCSE Essay Writer Part 2 from Alex Quigley @HuntingEnglish
Inside Outsidefrom Mr Hanson
My Bleeping Research Project from Louisa Enstone @englishlulu
PEE-Nuts – Analyse This Part 3 from Nick Wells @NSMWells
Precision in Writing – The Show Sentence from Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
Teaching Analytical Writing Structuresfrom Josh Goodrich @Thecpdparadox
The Higher You Build Your Barriers – Analyse This Part 2 from Nick Wells @NSMWells
The Post-It Note Approach To Planning Essays from Caroline Spalding @MrsSpalding
The Purpose of Facing One Long Sentence from Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
The ‘Show’ Sentence from Katie Ashford @katie_s_ashford
The Word Spectrum – Explaining, Exploring and Evaluating Word Choice from Mark Roberts @Mr_EnglishTeach
Thoughts, Feelings and Actions – Analyse This Part 1 from Nick Wells @NSMWells
Two Simple Words to Counterpoint an Idea from Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
Using Mentor Texts from Mark Miller @goldfishbowlmm
Why Bother With Complex Terminology? from Mark Roberts @Mr_EnglishTeach
Why I Love Developing Analysis Using Tripletsfrom Susan Strachan @SusanSEnglsh
Why I Love Promoting Analysis from Susan Strachan @SusanSEnglsh
Within the murky depths of the PEAfrom Dave Grimmett @daveg5478
Teaching Context
A Simple Timeline For English Teachers from Matt Pinkett @PositivTeacha
Context Lenses from Nick Wells @NSMWells
Controlling History or Making it a Bit More Humane from Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
On Origin of Context from Mark Roberts @MrEnglishTeach
Teaching Drama:
Drama Teaching – Socialisation and Indoctrinationfrom Martin Robinson @trivium21c
Teaching Poetry:
AQA Power and Conflict blog series by Susan Strachan @susansenglish
A blog series for the Eduqas Poetry Anthology by Susan Strachan @susansenglish
Dual Coding the Eduqas Poetry Anthology by Paul Moss @edmerger
Adore by Fiona Ritson @MissR
I Hate Poems from James Theobald @jamestheo
Orange Juice Poetry from Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
Poetry I – What is this Thing We Call a Poem from Phil Stock @joeybagstock
Poetry II – Poetry and the Poetic from Phil Stock @joeybagstock
The poetry dilemma: to teach or to elicit from Andy Tharby @atharby
What Should We Teach About Poetry from Tom Boulter @TomBoulter
Teaching Shakespeare:
Gender inequality in Romeo and Juliet by Susan Strachan @susansenglish
Context in Shakespeare; Romea and Juliet, Macbeth, Merchant of Venice by Susan Strachan @susansenglish
Lord Of The Powerpoints – Shakespearefrom Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
Preparing Year 9 for GCSE – Teaching Shakespeare from Jamie Thom @TeachGratitude1
Revelation from Fiona Ritson @MissR
Shakespeare and meaning from monosyllabic wordsfrom Matt Pinkett @Positivteacha
Shakespeare And The Perception Of Incomprehensibility from Mark Miller @goldfishbowlmm
Shakespeare In a Word from Mark Roberts @MrEnglishTeach
What a Carry On – Romeo and Julietfrom Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
Why I Love Romeo and Juliet from Becky Wood @shadylady222
Teaching Speaking and Listening
On Dialectic: Dissoi Logoi – Teaching the Trivium from Martin Robinson @trivium21c
Seventastic Speaking Experiments With Speech from Jamie Thom @TeachGratitude1
Speaking and Listening Assessments from Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
The Socratic Method; Teaching the Trivium – Dialectic from Martin Robinson @trivium21c
What is the Point of Speaking and Listening? from James Theobald @jamestheo
Teaching AQA English Language GCSE:
Paper 1
AQA Paper 1 – Exam Hacks Focusing on Effect from Chris Curtis @ChrisCurtis
Don’t Evaluate a Book By Its Cover from Nick Wells @NSMWells
Evaluation: it’s a piece of cake from James Theobald @jamestheo
I am the Greatest Blogger from Mark Roberts @MrEnglishTeach
Less Than a Month to Go – Question 3 Structure Againfrom Sarah Barker @MsSFax
Let’s Get a Bit of Perspective On Things from Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
Let’s Get Touchy Feely About Genre – AQA Paper 1 from Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
Like Lambs to the Slaughter – Preparing Year 9 For GCSE English from Jamie Thom @TeachGratitude1
Notes on a scandal. I mean: Notes on a new GCSE spec! from Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
On Paper 1 Section A from Rebecca Foster @TLPMsF
Paper 1 Exam Hacks from Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
Paper 1 Question 1 from Sarah Barker @MsSFax
Paper 1 Question 2from Sarah Barker @MsSFax
Paper 1 Question 3 from Sarah Barker @MsSFax
Paper 1 Question 4from Sarah Barker @MsSFax
Question 3 and 4 – Bore Galore from Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
Slave – AQA Paper 1from Fiona Ritson @MissR
Some Proper Exemplars for the GCSE English Language Evaluation Question from Mark Roberts @Mr_EnglishTeach
Something That Worked With AQA Language Paper 1 Question 3 from Amy Forrester @AMForrester1
Specifically – Responding to the Language Questions from Sarah Barker @MsSFax
Structure and EvaluationRevisited from Mark Roberts @MrEnglishTeach
Structures is all about three wordsfrom Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
Structuring a Response to Question 2 and 3 in the AQA Language Exam from Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
Super, Smashing, Great – Modelling the Language of Evaluation from Mark Roberts @MrEnglishTeach
Teaching Evaluation Part 1 from Mark Roberts @mr_englishteach
Teaching Evaluation Part 2 from Mark Roberts @mr_englishteach
Teaching Evaluation Part 3: Some proper exemplars for the GCSE English Language Evaluation question from Mark Roberts @mr_englishteach
Teaching Structure – model answer part 2 from Mark Roberts @mr_englishteach
Teaching Structure for the new English Language GCSE from Mark Roberts @mr_englishteach
The new English Language GCSE: Introducing 19th Century Fiction from James Theobald @JamesTheo
The one about structure – Part 1 from Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
The one about structure – Part 2 SPOILERS!from Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
The Springboard – Paper 1 Question 5 from Sarah Barker @MsSFax
The Subject of Sentences from Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
This Much I Know About A Step By Step Guide to the Writing Question on the AQA English Language GCSE Paper 1 from John Tomsett @JohnTomsett
Tone from Fiona Ritson @MissR
Why we might need to place more emphasis on showing and telling in lessons from Chris Curtis @xriscurtis
Year 11 Mock Exams – Spedoes, Modelling Writing andSelf-Assessment from Jamie Thom @TeachGratitude
Paper 2
What a polemic argument model looks like by Paul Moss @edmerger
On Paper 2 Section A from Rebecca Foster @TLPMsF
Notes on AQA’s Paper 2: Seek, Locate and Destroyfrom Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
Slave – AQA Paper 2from Fiona Ritson @MissR
Summarise, synthesis, simplify or suggestfrom Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
This Much I Know About A Step By Step Guide to the Writing Question on the AQA English Language GCSE Paper 2 from John Tomsett @JohnTomsett
Teaching AQA English Literature GCSE:
Teaching Macbeth:
Hear the One About the Dead Queen from Matt Pinkett @PositivTeacha
Macbeth: Dealing with AO2 from Mr Hanson
Shakespearean Trump Card – Teaching Macbeth from Jamie Thom @teachgratitude1
Teaching Macbeth from Kate McCabe @evenbetterif
This Much I Know About Unfettered Teachingfrom John Tomsett
Teaching A Christmas Carol:
Dual Coding A Christmas Carol by Paul Moss @edmerger
English Language Extracts – Smashing the Superficial With Dickens from Jamie Thom @TeachGratitude1
Jacob Marley’s Bowel Movementsfrom Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
Teaching A Christmas Carolfrom Alex Quigley @huntingenglish
The Ghost of Memory: Revision and Retention of A Christmas Carol from Jamie Thom @TeachGratitude1
Write the Theme Tune, Sing the Theme Tune from Nick Wells @NSMWells
Teaching Jekyll and Hyde:
Etiquette, Sexual Repression and Body Snatching – A Guide to the Context of Jekyll and Hyde From Mark Roberts @MrEnglishTeach
Teaching An Inspector Calls:
How I teach An Inspector Calls from Chris Curtis @xriscurtis
The Hand That Mocked… from Sarah Barker @MsSFax
What happens when we teach literary interpretations as facts by Andy Tharby @atharby
Teaching Romeo and Juliet:
Blokes and Birds – Look at them, phwoar, I mean, soar from Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
Why I Love Romeo and Juliet from Becky Wood @ShadyLady222
Teaching the AQA Poetry Anthology:
Dear AQA, It’s Time to Talk About Tissue from Mark Roberts @MrEnglishTeach
Kamikaze – Some Supplementary Thoughtsfrom Sarah Barker @MsSFax
Marks of Weakness, Marks of Woefrom Sarah Barker @MsSFax
One Painting Per Poem With My Stiff Upper Lip from Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
On Speed Planning from Rebecca Foster TLPMsF
Poetry Exam Hacks from Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
Remains by Simon Armitage – A Guide from Mark Roberts @MrEnglishTeach
The English Teacher’s Pub Quiz from Chris Curtis @XrisCurtis
Why I Love Ozymandias from Susan Strachan @SusanSEnglish
Teaching AQA Unseen Poetry
Dread the Unseen from Kate McCabe @evenbetterif
On Learning to Notice from Rebecca Foster @TLPMsF
Poetry – Little and Often from Sarah Barker @MsSFax
Revising Unseen Poetry from Jamie Thom @TeachGratitude1
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