“Teachers themselves should be writers” and the ways in which writing for pleasure can be nurtured by (English) teachers. A review of ‘Real-World Writers: A Handbook for Teaching Writing with 7-11 Year Olds’ by Ross Young and Felicity Ferguson.
was shocked to read today that climate change may be dropped from the national curriculum. As a teacher in various state schools for 20 years, I’ve seen how much the education on this issue has really improved in the past decade and how everyone has benefited from it being a prescribed part of the curriculum. […]
Task: Write a review of an autobiography Summarise briefly why you chose the book and what happened in your person’s life. Explain what interested you about their life, relating it to your life if you can. Explain what were your favourite parts of the book, quoting from your favourite passages and saying WHY the language and […]