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 her...
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 ...
Sunday, 21 January 2018

Multiple choice questions and revision

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I read @missdcox's blog on providing students with an opportunity to create their own regular multiple choice questions as homework for...