How to teach: English - Chris Curtis 2019

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