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What can you practise in English lessons?

May 04, 2018 | Category: English
Over my last two posts I've argued that, contrary to popular opinion, English is not a 'skills based' subject. In fact, what appear to be skills are actually composed on many thousands of individual c...
#practice #Daisy Christodoulou #essay writing #The Writing Revolution

The glamour of grammar: in context or not?

Feb 13, 2014 | Category: English
It's something of an understatement to say that glamour and grammar are not usually closely associated in many people's minds. One of the 100 words David Crystal uses to tell The Story of English is ‘...
#David Crystal #grammar #Alex Quigley #Education Endowment Foundation #Daisy Christodoulou #Debra Myhill

Principled curriculum design: the English curriculum

Dec 16, 2013 | Category: English
The tragedy of life is that one can only understand life backwards, but one must live it forwards Søren Kierkegaard Back in March 2013, I wrote about the principles underlying my redesign of a Keys St...
#Dylan Wiliam #grammar #Alex Quigley #Joe Kirby #Daisy Christodoulou #Debra Myhill #Threshold concepts

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