Methods of Reading

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Differences between a learner and a doer
Over the past five years or so I have been increasingly struck by the need to judge learning by the thinking taking place, not just by the tasks taking place. Too many discussions about lesson planning in my past focused on the tasks to be done. Of course, students...

Weekly Lesson Planning ideas: (my practice five years ago)
This is a video detailing how I planned my lessons five years ago. I am more pragmatic now, and more focused on wider teaching arcs than specifying week-by-week detail. This, however, is useful nevertheless.

I can’t identify a technique! Using a Parts of Speech Identifier

A Exam-Focused KS3 Technique: Analysing an Extract for AQA Language Requirements. Modelling for 4 minutes

Example Modelling of Analysing Connotation: 35 minute screencast on Stone Cold
35 minutes of modelling analysis of connotation in Stone Cold and how to extend this. Enjoy the spidery handwriting on the computer screen.

Exemplar Unseen Poetry Response AQA: The Mother by Liz Lockhead
Again, all very quick but serves to demonstrate how to analyse an unseen poem.

Modelling how to respond to unseen poetry in real time: Spring in War-Time
This is an example 30 minute response to an unseen poem, not that poetry should really be read in isolation and analysed as quickly as possible.

Book Review: The Wizard of Earthsea. A child’s fable revisited.
One of my more imaginative childhood reading experiences was enjoying The Wizard of Earthsea in 4E (or whatever unimaginative name labelled that class). Stylistically denser than the Game of Thrones world, it contains a gentler message: know thyself. Despite its...

Analysing Sheila Birling: 20 minute screencast on a Student Response

OMAM controlled assessment
Our year 10s have been booked in to complete the extended reading controlled assessment, and to do so we are using Of Mice and Men. Our long-term schemes of work mean we focus mostly on the literature aspect of the course in the first year, although we do complete the...