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Holly

@Educating_Holly

Ex-KS3-KS5 Teacher | INFJ-T | Book Lover 📚 | T&L Nerd | MA Ed | NPQLL (22-23)

 South East, England
Joined March 2017
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One of my favourite things this year has been the displays that I use and refer to almost every day! I thought I’d share just in case anyone fancied using the arrival of the exam season to revive displays that may have seen better days… #TeamEnglish drive.google.com/drive/folde…
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I approach GCSE P1 Q3 by getting students to look at the openings of two different versions of Little Red Riding Hood. One is the traditional, once-upon-a-time version. The other is narrated by Red Riding Hood, and starts by describing what it's like inside the wolf's stomach. 🧵
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FINALLY: Macbeth course reader is DONE. Find the whole 64 page pre-annotated play here: laurawebbcpd.com/macbeth-cou… A satellite context booklet and overview SOW will be added eventually, but for now @Team_English1 the play itself might be useful 🩸 ⚔️ Either as teacher guide or -
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After some really useful AQA CPD, I decided a different method of quote explosion based on the feedback from the last assessment. The quality of the comments today was much stronger as a result 🙌
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K2SR7 (@K2SR7) profile pictureK2SR7@K2SR710 Nov 2023
A really productive lesson developing exam strategy for Language Paper 1 with one of my favourite extracts 🙌The slap on the board as the doll is smashed always wakes up the class too!
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1. Seems to me the biggest problem we have with workload reduction for teachers is that we just can't conceive of a way they can do less so all our solutions are aimed at getting them doing their existing workloads faster and more efficiently. This seems to make sense but..
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I do, we do, you do. Language paper 1, Question 3🙌🏼 The colours really help students visualise where they are/aren’t meeting the success criteria.
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This is absolutely amazing! What a resource for English teachers!
ERA Teaching Resources (@ERAresources) profile pictureERA Teaching Resources@ERAresources9 Sep 2023
We're thrilled to announce our website's new resource, the BBC Literary Archive, bringing together sixty years' worth of the BBC’s greatest dramatic adaptations of and documentaries about some of our best loved literary works Start browsing here for free: bit.ly/3sQxQys
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Unbelievably excited to read this! If you haven’t read Andy’s blogs, you are massively missing out. I’m sure this book will be packed full of amazing ideas.
Andy (@__codexterous) profile pictureAndy@__codexterous3 Sep 2023
A year and a half in the making. Countless hours. And many, many early mornings. And now, finally, here it is. My very first book, all about teaching English Literature. I am beyond excited to share it with you. Out November 16th!!!
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Some really brilliant points here about unseen poetry!
Ms W-C (@mrsengteacher8) profile pictureMs W-C@mrsengteacher827 Aug 2023
Last but not least... Unseen poetry, Sections A and B. I was really interested prior to marking how students would respond to Scaffolding as unpicking the layers relies on understanding the central conceit. I think it's really helpful to approach unseen poems in class by
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📚POST! 📚 Probably my most popular post ever... A detailed guide to the whole of An Inspector Calls written for students. Feel free to use and share! codexterous.home.blog/2021/0…
From Start to Finish: A Detailed Analysis of An Inspector Calls

From Start to Finish: A Detailed Analysis of An Inspector Calls

If you enjoy this blog post, then you’ll love my new book Experiencing English Literature. With dedicated chapters on teaching novels, plays and poetry as well as teaching generative writing,…

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Wanted to make homework more challenging and purposeful, so I created critical thinking booklets, which have some fab reading materials for students to critique. Thanks: @mrsmacteach33 @SPryke2 @SaysMiss @britishlibrary @TheRSC amongst others! Access: drive.google.com/drive/folde…
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So much fab advice here for creating amazing displays!
L A U R A 🌍 (@missgeog92) profile pictureL A U R A 🌍@missgeog928 Aug 2023
Welcome to my display hack/tricks thread. I get loads of questions about my displays so here's to not gatekeeping. Firstly, here are some of my previous displays. Let's begin.... 1/n
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School is out, summer is finally here and this chapter of my teaching journey has come to an end! It’s hard saying goodbye to my lovely school that saw me qualify as a teacher and begin my career but I’m off to pastures new as Second in English from September! 🥳
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We are reflecting on how far we’ve come on our literacy journey since Easter 2021. We started on a burning platform 🔥 23.9% of our cohort were functionally illiterate (nationally, 17% adults are FI)* This week, that figure stands at just 5.8% 🧵 ⬇️ 1/ *NLT
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Teaching A Christmas Carol next year? I made a resource to leverage 50 of its Tier 2 words into students' own vocabulary. ✅Definitions ✅Close reading-style questions ✅Quiz questions ✅Multiple examples of different ways to use them ✅Tasks and answers! If you want one...
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I had a brilliant day yesterday at my NPQLL conference and it's made me completely rethink how I teach the actual process of writing at secondary, specifically editing. This is by no means perfect. I'd love to hear what others do in #TeamEnglish
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Here’s a thread of various sets of quotation display posters and tier 2 character vocab posters I have made and shared previously. All in one place. Take a look and help yourself. 😊 Display posters for Macbeth, AIC, ACC and P&C #teamenglish
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'Crafting Great Sentences' Each sentence written in the classroom involves a range of complex moves. These key four strategies can help pupils craft and draft: - Sentence combining - Sentence expanding - Sentence shrinking - Sentence signposting theconfidentteacher.com/2023…
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I appreciate it's late but I've made three paper 2 mini mock style exams (four Qs) for AIC, P&C and then unseen poems (themes are heartbreak 💔, winter ❄️ and children👪) - hopefully useful to someone and the .doc and .pdf are FREE on my website here: laurawebbcpd.com/resources/
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