Welcome to Secondary English Teaching Tips Daily. This is a collection of teaching tips, guidance and ideas – not a ‘how to’ but a lucky dip of tried-and-tested tactics gathered over thirty years of teaching and writing. Some are original, some not – it’s very much a compilation of something new, something old, something borrowed and, hopefully, mostly gold. I hope you find them useful.
Tip #19
Learning objective: To develop awareness of structure Structure is a difficult thing to explore, par…
Tip #18
Learning objective: To develop descriptive skills It’s easy to tell students to ‘show not tell’ in c…
Tip #17
Learning objective: To develop awareness of the writer’s intention Just as the question What is the …
Tip #16
Learning objective: To develop awareness of the writer’s intention Critical analysis can be summed u…
Tip #15
Learning objective: Building awareness of homophones Give students a word that has related homophone…
Tip #14
Learning objective: build awareness of spelling patterns Make spelling an integral part of your less…