Podcasts and Disciplinary Literacy
How can we use podcasts more effectively as disciplinary literacy tools? Our new blog offers sone suggestions.
Historical Fiction
Reading the past can teach our learners a lot about the present they inhabit. Find out more about how to use historical fiction in the classroom in our blog.
Rebooting…A Stone Cold Classic
Sometimes we’re always looking for the next big text. But let’s try looking in the book cupboard first. Here, guest blogger, Malcolm Alexander, reboots an old favourite.
Duck Feet by Ely Percy
Duck Feet is a compelling coming-of-age novel perfect for studying in the English classroom.
Poor by Caleb Femi
Caleb Femi’s debut collection is one of the books of 2020. Heart-stopping, heartbreaking and elegiac in equal measures, Poor is a book that everyone must read. How will you use it in the classroom?
Watching…The View from the Terrace
Use this brilliant Scottish Football magazine show to develop pupils’ analysis skills or to inspire pieces of broadly discursive writing.
Reading Westerns
Order versus chaos. Law versus lawlessness. Retribution, revenge and redemption. Everything your learners love to see.
It’s time to dust off your spurs and rethink the Western with these ideas on teaching a classic type of genre fiction.
Listening to Podcasts (1)
Podcasts are a goldmine of inspiration for English teachers. But are we tapping into it?
Teaching Donna Stonecipher’s Model City
Challenging poetry to challenge our view of the spaces we live in. An interesting addition to the English book cupboard.
Reading Amy Liptrot’s The Outrun
The Outrun by Amy Liptrot should be in every English Department’s book cupboard - and here’s why.