I have written a countless number of essays. At school, university, and back at school again, showing my students how to do it. In my fourteen years teaching I must have modelled hundreds of essays. I have likely set and assessed thousands of the blighters. My go-to strategy has always been to model the essay …
It is an act repeated the world over: children trundle home with their spelling lists to learn and parents dutifully help them prepare for the dreaded spelling test at the end of the week. I’m father to a young daughter who is very intent on doing well in such spelling tests, but who can sometimes …
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I wrote this article for the February edition of Teach Secondary magazine. If you are interested in subscribing, take a look HERE. Here is the article in full: The Rosetta Stone is one of the most famous rocks in all of history, providing one of the keys to the history of language as we know it. When …
The saying goes that everybody has a novel inside them. Now, unless we are diagnosing an unfortunate epidemic that involves a misuse of pulp fiction, it indicates a very common social belief in the ‘magic’ of writing. But what if being a great writer rests not on inspiration or some ‘magic’ bestowed on us, but …
