Website Links - For Teachers General
Twitter - Some interesting people to follow
- TEAM ENGLISH
- Andy Tharby (Making Every English Lesson Count)
- Becky Wood
- Chris Curtis
- David Didau (The Secret of Literacy)
- Douglas Wise
- Kate McCabe
- Jenny Webb (How to Teach English Literature)
- Joe Kirkby
- Mark Roberts
- Matt Pinkett (Boys Don't Try)
- Phil Stock
- Rebecca Foster
- Sarah Barker
- Stuart Pryke (on Twitter)
- Susan Strachan
- Tom Sherrington (The Learning Rainforest)
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Developing Subject Knowledge
Below are website links colleagues have found useful.
The Lancashire consultant team are not responsible for the content on any of these sites.
General English Teaching Resources
GCSE Resources
TES - Collated GCSE revision resources
TES - Random Question Generator
CPG Revision Books Parents' Evening Service
Useful Blogs/ Articles
Teacherhead.com Teaching and learning research summaries
Teachers - Developing literary subject knowledge
SparkNotes
University Free Online Courses
If you are finding it difficult to navigate the British website, just click the tabs at the top of the following hyperlinked pages (people, theme, articles, collection items, videos, teaching resources) and you will find lots of interesting materials to use in class:
o Shakespeare Includes information about Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, John Webster and Shakespeare
o Eighteenth century literature
o Twentieth century literature
British Library Resources - Particular Genres/ Literary Movements:
o Gothic
o Victorian crime and crime fiction
British Library Resources to teach English Language - 19th Century non-fiction texts
o Romantics and Victorians - teaching resources
British Library Resources for Specific Texts:
o Macbeth
Information about Shakespeare's life and the times he was living in
o Jekyll
Also, information on Priestley
o Dickens
Poverty and the working classes in Victorian Britain
In Our Time - BBC RADIO 4 PODCASTS
Some interesting podcasts from the Melvin Bragg radio series which support subject knowledge:
SHAKESPEARE
ROMANTIC ERA
Songs of Innocence and Experience
VICTORIAN
TWENTIETH CENTURY