Secondary Warehouse
English
The Secondary Subject Studies area of the Secondary Warehouse contains useful documents, media files and links to subject specific websites.
Please note that the SMART Education at Canterbury Christ Church University website contains a vast collection of useful Secondary Teaching Ideas and Interactive Websites links to support Subject Teaching.
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| KS3/4 English: Teaching Talking 1 Getting pupils to engage and participate in group and class discussions in the secondary English classroom is a difficult and often undervalued teaching skill. Drama offers obvious opportunities, but Teaching Talking 1 shows that it's not just set-piece performances that can help. A Year 7 class at Swanlea School in east London have been collaborating to devise unscripted pieces as "missing scenes" from a stage version of The Demon Headmaster. |  |
| KS3/4 English: Teaching Talking 2 Speaking and listening skills are often sidelined at Key Stage 3 in favour of reading and writing. Teaching Talking 2 follows Kate Bomford, a newly qualified teacher at Swanlea School, east London, as she plans and delivers a lesson based on Louis Sachar's novel Holes. Structuring opportunities for purposeful speaking and listening into the mainstream work of the curriculum is especially important at Swanlea, where most of the pupils have English as an additional language. | |
| Video Case Studies A selection of video case studies from Teachernet about using ICT across the curriculum. There are 9 videos showing oral presentations, developing grammar, EAL, patterns in poetry, narrative writing, persuasive writing, pre-20th Century literature, Shakespeare’s theatre and supporting Shakespeare. | |
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| National Curriculum Online Here you will gain access to useful resources and information relating to English in the National Curriculum. |  | |
| National Curriculum in Action This website uses pupils' work and case study materials to show what the National Curriculum in English looks like in practice. | | |
| QCA The English pages have been expanded and revised to provide access to a range of information about the projects, publications and other activities of the English team. | | |
| VTC: ICT in English The purpose of this site is to promote and support the use of ICT within English. The site is managed by Becta and contains information and material in five sections, to help you integrate ICT effectively. | | |
| Initial Teacher Education - English This site has been created to assist those training teachers of English. Trainee teachers may also be interested to look at the site. | | |
| National Association for the Teaching of English NATE is the UK subject teacher association for all aspects of English from pre-school to university. NATE supports effective teaching and learning, keeps teachers informed about current developments and provides them with a voice at a national level. | | |
| ICT in English Information from BECTA for using ICT across the curriculum. This page provides downloadable resources and ideas on a wide range of areas including how to use podcasts, PDAs and word processing to make teaching more effective and how to use ICT in drama. | | |
| BBC - Learning Resources Here you can find very useful resources, help and advice. | | |
| Guidance on Teaching the Gifted and Talented Information from the QCA to help identification of gifted and talented pupils and strategies to promote their development and inclusion. | | |
| English Support Pack A support pack for using ICT and English from Teachernet. | | |