Grammar and vocabulary

Sue Howarth, an ASE Chartered Science teacher, teacher-trainer and science writer, explores the big ideas of science, and how they can help students to make sense of their learning.

Sue Howarth is a former teacher-trainer at the University of Worcester and science writer. She offers training teachers an evidence-based guide to how formative assessment works in the classroom.

Mark Burns, teacher and co-author of Engaging Learners and Teaching Backwards, offers suggestions for a practitioner's toolkit to maximise students' feelings of competency.

Children with a ‘word gap’ – a smaller vocabulary than others – are disadvantaged in ways which can affect their whole lives, and school closures have made the problem worse. Here are 18 flexible ideas to share with parents to try at home.

Ed Walsh is an author, editor, CPD provider and curriculum developer. Here he shares his experience of effective technology for the science classroom.

Francis Gilbert is Head of the MA in Creative Writing and Education and course leader for PGCE English at Goldsmiths. He shares his tips on how to introduce students to Shakespeare.

Getting students to 'own' the value of Shakespeare as part of their cultural capital is not necessarily straightforward. Francis Gilbert, journalist and PGCE and MA course leader, suggests how you can familiarise your students with Shakespeare's language.

Shakespeare's language often presents a barrier to students' learning. In this suggested approach, author and PGCE course leader Francis Gilbert outlines how modern translations can provide a useful way in.

Francis Gilbert, author and English PGCE course leader, shares his ideas to help students to appreciate Shakespeare's stagecraft.

The importance of vocabulary has always been apparent in the English classroom, but its value in facilitating better academic prospects as well as better life chances is becoming more widely appreciated. Speech, language and communication specialists, Emela Milne and Victoria Honeybourne, provide a starting point for English teachers looking to teach vocabulary directly.

Emela Milne and Victoria Honeybourne are speech, language and communication specialists. In this article, they explore the role of narrative in literacy and in the wider world.

Francis Gilbert lectures in PGCE Secondary English at Goldsmiths, and is a former English teacher, writer and journalist. He explores how writing poetry can inform and enhance students’ experiences of encountering poems for the first time.

Alan Parkinson is a Head of geography and textbook writer. Here he shares his top 20 tips for using technology effectively in the geography classroom.

10 tried and tested language learning activities that never fail to engage students, brought together by Languages editor and experienced MFL teacher Sheena Newland.

Ben Crystal is internationally renowned for performing, teaching and writing about Shakespeare. Here he introduces a tool you can use with your classes to reveal characters' feelings through Shakespeare's hidden stage directions: the 'heartbeat' of his works.