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Thursday 2 March 2023
Oracy Talking Points
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Oracy Talking Points Having recently attended one of Voice 21's Open Learn ...
Thursday 16 June 2022
What is VIPERS? What's active reading? How can we develop our students' independent reading skills?
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What is VIPERS? It's a good place to start when addressing the transition between KS2 and KS3 reading skills and beyond! We adopted ...
Saturday 1 August 2020
Exam starter tasks
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Please find below some starter tasks that focus on exam skills for Language and Literature GCSE papers. You can download these starters here.
Wednesday 12 June 2019
Whole School Literacy Strategies
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Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument! As Literacy leader, I continue to adapt and improve our literac...
Saturday 21 July 2018
Retrieval of prior learning and the development of oracy skills
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Noticing a remarkable difference (of confidence, structure and poise) between some of our students' presentations skills, I decided to d...
Tuesday 6 March 2018
Change-O-Meter and the concept of structure in English Literature and Language
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Thanks to @mrthorntonteach's Change-O-Meter idea on Twitter, my students are effectively engaging with structure in Literature texts. ...
Thursday 8 February 2018
Memory retrieval Power and Conflict poetry tasks
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Memory retrieval Power and Conflict poetry tasks Currently, our KS4 students are revising their Power and Conflict poems and I hope this ...
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