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Drop everything and read

This is the first time I have EVER been in a library. Is there any single more important duty of an English Department, of …

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7en live poetry

Our final lesson of the unit, time to give the students a little freedom.

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Live poetry production

After recapping our OARSIM acronym, the class are exploring and writing poetry with Concrete Poetry lets you choose or draw a picture …

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Roaring success

Word Tamer is an interactive flash-based website where you “tame words and train stories.” It is quite literally a carnival of literary adventures. …

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David Didau doesn’t do…

I feel that the saturation of poetry teaching has left its mark – my next tattoo will most like be ‘OARSIM’ – onomatopoeia, …

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Getting started, creatively

Writing is never a chore when students get to be creative. I wish that were true, for some students creative writing is …