Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog
Sunday, 18 May 2025
Making writers sexy and appealing - Part 1 (author's intent)
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'We conclude that children appear to prioritise efficiency over completeness when reading, generating inferences spontaneously only when...
Sunday, 16 March 2025
Spelling and word fluency
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I have experience of working with students of all levels, but one of the biggest issues I find with writing fluency is not often related t...
Sunday, 9 March 2025
Oracy - The infamous ‘I don’t know’.
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One of the things about oracy is that we often focus on the what rather than the how students speak. Communication is much more than words a...
Sunday, 9 February 2025
Precision and laser sharp thinking
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I’ve discussed at length how English cannot be reduced to a simple checklist of things. There seems to be an endless desire to homogenise su...
Sunday, 12 January 2025
An Inspector Recalls
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In terms of metacognition, cognitive load and cognitive load theory is one of the biggest concerns of any English teacher. We might not dres...
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