How to teach: English - Chris Curtis 2019
Acknowledgements
Introduction
How to teach poetry
What is the poem’s central question?
Inference words
CH … CH … CH … choices
Stripped back poems and layering
Sonnets and voltas
Syllables 3, 2, 1
Knowledge of poems and styles
How to teach writing – Part 1
Sexy sprouts
Sentences
Paragraphs
Understand the rules of punctuation
Lists, lists, lists
Model and read aloud
Lots of writing – the 200 word challenge
How to teach novels
Knowledge is everything – history
Poetic structure
Be clear about the writer’s style
Feelings
One sentence
Knowledge of the text
Vocabulary
How to teach essay writing
10%, 50%, 20%, 20%
Metaphors – figurative language
Writing an essay together
Micro teaching
Comparison of texts
Learn from the greats
How to teach non-fiction
Questioning
Isolate and explore
Summarising
Purpose – facts
Nouns, adjectives and verbs
Reader and writer relationship – making a drama of things
Comparing texts
How to teach shakespeare
One powerpoint to rule them all – structural choices
Structure and themes together
Demystifying the language
Pronouns
Words, words, words
Predicting how shakespeare will write – think like a playwright
Context
How to teach students to analyse texts effectively
Multiple-choice analysis
Adverbs for evaluating and analysing
Interpretations
Use of quotations
Tone and voice in essay writing
Forming an opinion – talking in lessons
Model thinking
How to teach accuracy
Spelling – three choices
Draft in threes
Refusal
Homework – lists
Time and distance
Visibility
Handwriting
How to teach grammar
In the beginning was the nouns
To clause or not to clause
Subject/object
Noun phrases and verb phrases
Modelling sentences
Purpose and effect
Fuse writing and reading
How to teach writing – Part 2
Getting in ‘the zone’
Opening/closing sentences
Setting and the basic building blocks for creating meaning
Repetition
Talk about clichéd writing
Much ado about motifs
Writing from memory
Conclusion
Afterword
References and further reading
Recommended websites