Hey @Team_English1 please feel free to use/adapt/abandon a brief ‘Top Tips’ session for Lang Paper 2 intended to be delivered tomorrow morning before the exam! https://t.co/anZ5L412Ej #TeamEnglish #Language #NEARLYTHERE 🙏🏼 The first thing you need to remember is this is an evaluative question and requires a personal response from you the ‘reader’. We are thrilled that so many of you have now signed up to Litdrive. Every week I will now add some of the highlights from the weekly uploads on Litdrive; they will be listed at the end of the blog. If you or any colleagues are yet to do so then please get yourselves over there ASAP; it’s an absolute goldmine of the best of Team English resources. Excitingly, there is also now a section for Media and Film Studies teachers so there are even more reasons to sign up! In a guest post following her presentation at the ResearchEd English + MFL Conference in Oxford, earlier this month, Amy Forrester, Research Officer at NATE (National Association for the Teaching of English), explains how she used used research to create greater retention of knowledge amongst students.

One of the main reasons I engage with research is to ensure that there’s evidence behind choices that I make in the classroom, and in my wider practice. For English teachers up and down the land, the new GCSEs have meant we are making more new decisions than even before, often where we don’t have any concrete evidence. Arguably, one of the biggest challenges many teachers have had to rise to is the closed book element of the English Literature GCSEs. Students have to study 3 texts, alongside a hefty anthology of poetry. And, if they want to do well, they need to learn many, many quotations to use in the exam this coming Summer. A few people have asked, so I thought I’d share what we do for KS3 homework – our Reading Olympiad (inspired by @vmahoud). It’s still a work in progress, but it’s producing great results so far (oh, and, no marking! 🙌) #teamenglish @Team_English1 https://t.co/VvWV7GsdLg https://t.co/NRU9wxp0ly

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I have uploaded all of the resources mentioned in my talk at ResearchEd into a Dropbox. You’ll find the PowerPoint slides from the talk, as well as research papers and the homework resources in here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wh7az8vp2kw88j9/AABt1Gw-_VyKXeotz1bLOhLua?dl=0 The Team English blog has arisen from its long slumber with what will hopefully be a regular round-up of the best resources that have been shared with us this week. As always, a huge thank you to everyone who shares resources with us. What you may think of as just a simple resource is to someone else a huge timesaver so please keep them coming. If you would like to attend any of the following events, all you need to do is add your name to the spreadsheet below, just so that each event organiser knows how many to expect. Events will be added as and when they are organised. We hope to see many of you there! Team_English1⁩ I have created 12 Lang 1B and 2B style 200 word challenges based on Romeo and Juliet. https://t.co/g6QH6D7oZV Team_English1 #teamenglish I thought I’d share my current labour of love: pre-reading spellings for @neilhimself‘s The Graveyard Book complete with roots and student friendly definitions. We’re introduction it to our Year 7 students from next year. https://t.co/N0Fzlhwzfc

This means you must write about the methods (techniques) a writer uses to create an effective text and are those effects successful?Paper One Reading lessons created for introducing Year 9s at this time of year to paper layout. Used @SPryke2’s AMAZING work to structure this and @LauraLolder’s choice of extracts. Help yourself! https://t.co/HRQaC2klLj #teamenglish @Team_English1 The fact that although Tes Education Resources offer ‘goodwill’ gestures to those who give public challenge, and offer compensation when they recognise plagiarism, the onus is on the victim of theft to report and prove the theft.

Help, tips and assistance for students. This blog is part of a range specifically for students and can be found, along with others, under Student GCSE Blogs. Paper 1 Q4 is an evaluation question, you have to meet this objective: AO4 Evaluate texts critically and support this with appropriate textual references.Don’t leave it too late. Students have a lot to learn for this exam, alongside their other subjects. Rather than 5-a-day we will be doing 5-a-week next term (department decision). Have created this that staggers the texts in as we teach. Used the many resources out there so Qs not all my own. https://t.co/gyq0jqRtk1 Team_English1 Please find below a revision lesson on P2 Q4 based on the #MeToo campaign and 2x sources. Both are 21st C but are perfect for comparing attitudes. Please help yourselves! https://t.co/lEQ3mjij0t Evening, Team English! Here is our third resource round-up (I’ll stop counting them soon) and this week’s has been especially hard to narrow down as there are so many excellent resources being shared. As always, thank you to everyone who continues to share their work with us.

And so, my top tips for enabling students to adequately prepare for the English Literature exam would be: Not updated for a while so here’s a resource. I read a wonderful book called Making Every English Lesson Count and it inspired me to make this: https://t.co/QWiKD70Ews