Emma Duffin

Settings. Been looking at adjectives. Lesson starts with adj sort - sorting diff types of adjs (revising order of adjs). Gives ppls base vocab to start, which can be extended. Then we look at how we build these into noun phrases. Lots of mini-w work linking grammar + writing

If you are booked onto this tomorrow, please check your email to make sure that you have the zoom link ready to join.

Please let me know ASAP with any issues.

See you tomorrow!

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Writing: A collection of resources for a lesson on dystopian horror and creative writing. 🐝

Find it here: https://buff.ly/48y1bih🔗

#Litdrive #TeamEnglish @Team_English1

Whole Class Feedback: Making the juice worth the squeeze Whole class feedback is a technique used to replace standard written feedback in books. It has a number of advantages to written comments, including the time it takes to complete. If you go online …

adam-robbins.com/2021/11/14/w...

This blog is a few years old but I really like it. Going to share with T&L team. @mrarobbins.bsky.social

About the Orwell Youth Prize | How to Enter The Orwell Youth Prize uses the writing of George Orwell as a starting point to inspire you to write about your own ideas and experiences, thinking about the world you live in.

The Orwell Youth Prize 2025 OPEN for entries, to UK secondary school students!Theme is ‘FREEDOM IS...’
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” – Nineteen Eighty-Four
‘What does freedom mean to you?’
www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-y...

The English HOD Hangout is back. Our first meeting takes place at 7.30pm on October 14th. Free to sign up. Go to litdrive.org.uk/events. Select 'Subject Leadership Forum 1'

The first meeting is going to look at the summer results!

Please spread the word! #englishhodhangout

#TeamRE full course data for GCSEs 2024 (England) by exam board.
Data from exam boards vs JCQ.

YouTube video by Christopher Such The Reading Map - A Primer

Following a few requests from teachers and school leaders, I've made a short video on the key ideas that I think teachers (and parents/carers) need to know about reading development, based on my reading concept map.

youtu.be/JvtUxB5WM1k?...

Ooohh look what’s arrived 👀

Just a little something the English team Carlton Bolling have developed together for the next phase as we continue to refine our subject pedagogy.

1/2 👇

My most popular #metacognition resource has had over 400 downloads worldwide.
Visit my website or click the link here to download: drive.google.com/file/d/1dUwr...

An English Teachers’ Bibli-blography 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 b...

Meanwhile, this is likely the most useful thing I collated and pulled together. It was entirely the result of the collaboration of teachers and I reckon would still be very helpful for English teachers.

englishremnantworld.wordpress.com/an-english-t...

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Totally agree that ALL
staff should have access to high quality CPD. Sadly not the case in my experience

A first resource to share on Bluesky! Reference pages for three of the GCSE English Literature texts www.douglaswise.co.uk/blog/gcse-en... Designed to be stuck into books at the start of a sequence of lessons 👑 👻 ❄️

Has anyone made an AQA RS GCSE results tracker with grade boundaries like @matt-lynch.bsky.social does for English? #TeamRE

I really like this idea from @MrRobHistory on Twitter. I’m going to try it with some of my students in English for the literature texts. Great to see how one idea can be utilised across different subjects. Thanks, Derrick! @teamenglish1.bsky.social

Developing a spoken language curriculum (16 September 2024, 15:45 - 16:30) | The English Association We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.

Thx for sharing yr interesting blog. To add the following free online event from the EA englishassociation.ac.uk/developing-a...

Blog below on #Oracy - to add to it : this free online event from @englishassociation.bsky.social englishassociation.ac.uk/oracy-educat...

#TeamEnglish - A synthesis and summary of the AQA English Language Paper 1 Examiners' Report for June 2024: 1drv.ms/w/c/4ca27bf9...

(Paper 2 to follow shortly)

Have just finished rewriting the overview for a weekly picturebook assembly which focuses on equality, diversity and inclusion. It's still a work in progress but please feel free to use and adapt. All shares appreciated! The link is on my Padlet: padlet.com/Jon_Biddle/r...

Congratulations Em! We must have another drink with Alex at Peggy Sue’s soon x

*NEW* AQA Lang & Lit mock exam trackers using June 24 boundaries. RAG rated cell formatting and formula columns locked to prevent accidental data corruption, like so 👇 Help yourselves and RT for a wider audience. #teamenglish

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Teaching…AQA English Language Paper 1, Question 2 (Part 3- Polishing) I have just left teaching after 9 years in the classroom. As an act of reflection, but also a bit of a brain dump, I've started to distill all the things I've learned into this blog.Please take as muc...

🚨NEW BLOG🚨
Everything I know about teaching AQA English Language Paper 1, Q2 (Part 3- Polishing) Thank you to
@carolinesherwood.bsky.social and Laura Webb
for inspiring lots of these ideas.

mrho11and.wixsite.com/educated-thi...

1. Work out basics (4+, 5+, 7+) for Lit, Lang & combined
2. Break down for all significant groups (PP, EAL, male, female - whatever is relevant in your context)
3. Compare with previous years, and with national (JCQ have now published national grade distribution by subject)… 2/

How do we get line management right? I want to be a better line manager. Line management meetings are essential for supporting and developing leaders and I have been thinking about how I can get it right next year. However, the more I th...

If you are line managing colleagues this year, here is my summary of the issues we face and what we can do about them...
#UKEd

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I’m just on

🧵🧵A thread of tips on effective modelling 🧵🧵
1. Chunk the model into parts, performing the I do-We do-You do for one chunk before going back to the I do-We do-You do for chunk 2. This prevents cognitive overload from having to remember a large amount of steps/content in their working memories.

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Let me count the ways: connecting poetry and maths for National Poetry Day (26 September 2024, 16:15 – 17:15) | The English Association We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.

National Poetry Day 3rd Oct: Theme = Counting
@englishassociation.bsky.social On line event to ‘explore connections between poetry & maths…ideas for classroom activities to celebrate National #Poetry Day 😊that bring joy to both the English & Maths classroom’ englishassociation.ac.uk/let-me-count...

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