David Grant @DavidGrantWrite

Former secondary English teacher/HoD, author of 100+ ed resources for Pearson, OUP, Macmillan, Bloomsbury davidgrantwriter.co.uk Mid Wales Joined May 2023

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David Grant @DavidGrantWrite

2 years ago

@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.

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David Grant @DavidGrantWrite

2 years ago

@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?

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David Grant @DavidGrantWrite

2 years ago

@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.

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David Grant @DavidGrantWrite

2 years ago

@HoratioSpeaks A valuable opportunity to develop inference skills, though.

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David Grant @DavidGrantWrite

2 years ago

@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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David Grant @DavidGrantWrite

2 years ago

New website! New consultancy service! New blog! New blog post: the importance of curriculum review and revision in English. So much excitement in just one small day. Hoping tomorrow will be quieter... #teamenglish #edutwitter #gcses #curriculum

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David Grant @DavidGrantWrite

2 years ago

@kathryndv @Team_English1 I have a lot of resources/thoughts on this. Very happy to share. DM me to discuss/develop a plan if you like.

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David Grant @DavidGrantWrite

2 years ago

@KimHope97 @EngChatUK @LauraLolder @FunkyPedagogy @SPryke2 Titus Groan/Gormenghast?

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David Grant @DavidGrantWrite

2 years ago

@Educiting @Xris32 @Team_English1 You're very welcome! And thank you!

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David Grant @DavidGrantWrite

2 years ago

@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.

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David Grant @DavidGrantWrite

2 years ago

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. And some retweets for reach would be lovely!

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David Grant @DavidGrantWrite

2 years ago

@CarolAtherton8 Ooh. And post-it notes. My great sadness is going into stationery shops, quivering with joy and then remembering that 99.9% of my professional and personal life now relies on a screen... and that I don't need to buy anything.