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War Horse: Knowledge Organiser

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War Horse: Knowledge Organiser

A War Horse Knowledge Organiser, based on Michael Morpurgo's novella, including key vocabulary available for download. Making our British curriculum more accessible for EAL and ESL students by embedding key vocabulary and knowledge into the curriculum planning to support their language acquisition. The Knowledge Organiser is structured into three key areas: context, content and concepts. [...]

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Young and Dyslexic? You’ve got it going on

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Young and Dyslexic? You’ve got it going on

Young and Dyslexic? You've got it going on Retrieval Practice Quizizz Young and Dyslexic? You’ve got it going on – Annotated Extract 

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The Danger of a Single Story

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The Danger of a Single Story

Resources for 'The Danger of a Single Story' by Chimamanda Adichie The Danger of a Single Story Retrieval Practice Quizizz CommonLit: Danger of a Single Story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg&t=20s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6dM0vCcsqE

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Purple Hibiscus: Low-stakes Revision Quizzing

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Purple Hibiscus: Low-stakes Revision Quizzing

Purple Hibiscus: Low-stakes Revision Quizzing for A-level Examinations Week 1: Explain the quotation: You must include consideration of characterisation, themes, structure of the novel, context and offer one other linking quote. “I wished Amaka would keep her voice low. I was not used to this king of conversation at the table.” p.97 “She said ‘teenagers’ [...]

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What beginning to learn Arabic has taught me about teaching ‘English as a Second Language’

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What beginning to learn Arabic has taught me about teaching ‘English as a Second Language’

Our school is wonderfully tight-knit which comes from the small through-school qualities and has fostered more primary/secondary collaborations than I had experienced in the UK. As an English teacher, my day-to-day teaching was greatly affected by the change in cohort comparably: my previous UK schools were in deprived areas with predominantly white working-class families with [...]

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Quotation Retention Challenge: Week 2

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Quotation Retention Challenge: Week 2

The Week 1 content provides rationale and initial quotations, which will be reviewed in the Week 2 recap. Users can download Week 2 of the To Kill a Mockingbird Quotation Retention Challenge along with a 3 Week Bundle. Related posts are also available for further exploration.