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@HaleDonal@FirgunEducation@Team_English1 @FunkyPedagogy @HughesHaili@SPryke2@K2SR7 Agreed. Engagement alone isn't enough - it's the first of many steps. But without it, bringing students with you on all the other steps makes the journey much heavier and much slower.
@HaleDonal@FirgunEducation@Team_English1 @FunkyPedagogy @HughesHaili@SPryke2@K2SR7 For me, this raises a host of questions... Is the primary/initial concern behind text selection what it allows us to teach? Or should it be that students can access and will engage with the text? Can students unengaged by a text fully engage with it as a vehicle for learning?
@daisychristo A thought. Are we hurrying into teaching students to be critical readers/analysts, without teaching them how to engage with plot and character as readers for pleasure? Our first response to any text should be as humans exploring human nature.
@Doug_Lemov Agreed. Which, to me, reinforces the vital importance of appropriate text selection to support expanding knowledge and/or developing inference skills
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@Miss___D8@amy_smith117 This looks great. So easy to focus on the limiting level of characters as individuals - great to see Big Ideas as a starting point for developing a far broader and deeper understanding of character, relationships and themes. Nice one.
Working on some trial resources for building vocabulary and sentence structure skills at KS3/4 in the next few days... Will post sample pages when they're done and would be hugely grateful for some honest feedback.
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