English CPD

Placing oracy at the heart of English teaching and learning will not only enable your learners to express their ideas with confidence, but also help to close the disadvantage gap.  

With experts reporting a learning loss in reading of between 2-7 months for all students following school disruptions, closing the reading gap has never been more important. We share some of our favourite reading for pleasure resources for English teachers and students.  

Teaching poetry can be wonderful, but some students struggle to engage with the challenges of poetic language, structure and form. With a range of playful approaches to try, you'll find ideas to inspire KS3-5 students to read and analyse poetry with more confidence and enjoyment, and even start writing their own poetry too.   

Helena Thomas, a PGCE Secondary English tutor, outlines her suggestions and some of the leading research which will help your students to make progress in their writing.

Emela Milne and Victoria Honeybourne are speech, language and communication specialists. In this article, they explore the role of narrative in literacy and in the wider world.

Francis Gilbert lectures in PGCE Secondary English at Goldsmiths, and is a former English teacher, writer and journalist. He explores how writing poetry can inform and enhance students’ experiences of encountering poems for the first time.