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Please Miss We’re Boys – Kindle Edition

They’re adolescent boys and they think about sex a lot more often than once every two minutes. When Susan Elkin, aged 21 – her skirts as skimpy as her worldliness – lands in a gritty, grubby, badly-run boys’ Deptford secondary school in 1968, she finds her sex-obsessed, curious, thuggish, smelly, criminal pupils quite a handful. […]

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To Kill a Mocking Bird Teacher Resource Pack

Popular series of photocopiable resource packs for teaching English Literature at GCSE. Each pack combines detailed analysis of the text with a wide range of activities to help develop and consolidate students’ knowledge and understanding, and comprises seven units: 1. Background material to set the novel in context 2. Chapter/plot notes and activities to support […]

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101 Essential Lists for Secondary Teachers

Lists range from planning lessons and managing behaviour to continuing professional development and moving upwards and onwards.

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Never let me go

Please note: This book publishes 30th September 2016 This Study and Revise guide: – Increases students’ knowledge of Never Let Me Go as they progress through the detailed commentary and contextual information written by experienced teachers and examiners – Develops understanding of plot, characterisation, themes and language, equipping students with a rich bank of textual […]

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Philip Allan Literature Guides (for GCSE) Teacher Resource Pack: To Kill a Mockingbird (Philip Allan Literature Guide (for GCSE))

The To Kill a Mockingbird Philip Allan Literature Guide Teacher Resource Pack provides teachers with all the support they need to teach To Kill a Mockingbird in the context of the new GCSE English Literature specifications. This classroom-based resource is for use throughout the GCSE course to help consolidate students’ knowledge, learning and appreciation of […]

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The Teaching Assistant’s Guide to Literacy

This practical guide gives TAs useful advice on: the role of literacy in the classrooms; advice on developing reading, writing, speaking and listening skills; and, using various strategies to help build pupils’ confidence. Each chapter contains checklists for TAs to record their progress and real life case studies for the TA to learn from.

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Encouraging Reading (Ideas in Action)

Reading is an essential life skill; it can raise intelligence and develop confidence in learning. Susan Elkin’s handy, introductory guide outlines teaching concepts and practical strategies to encourage reading both in and out of the classroom. The topics covered include: creative suggestions to encourage reading in all age groups; ideas to support reading for pleasure […]

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