In a few weeks at our Key Strategies For Improving Writing workshop, we’ll be at it again: emphasising the need for explicit instruction coupled with frequent, guided writing practice. One of the strategies we’ll be discussing is sentence grids – a three by three grid which distils different sentence types students can use in their…
How often have one of these happened to you at the start of your lessons? Students are talkative, loud and not focused Students are silent and passive Students stare at you and wait for you to get the lesson started Students have their books closed, pencil cases zipped up and are staring at you Students…
Coming up in a few weeks we’ll be running our annual Year 10 English Day. Unlike our Year 9 English Day, where we’ll be focusing on how to make the curriculum relevant and rigorous by centering it around critical literacy, our Year 10 Day will look at how to build the independence of our students…
