1st Edition
Redefining English for the More Able A Practical Guide
1. Analysing the Backstory: How did English Lose Its Way?
2. Redefining the Discipline: What’s the point of teaching English?
3. Overcoming the Hurdles: What barriers block the highest achievement?
4. Driving Engagement in English: Why are ‘manageable gaps’ so important?
5. Investigating the Theory: What can current research add to our teaching?
Part 2 The Classroom
6. Moving into the Linguistic Universe (ages 8-11): Taking learners into the ‘art and craft of writing’
7. Discovering the Long Road to Me through Short Stories (ages 11-14): Moving learners into new territories
8. Crafting Perfected Attention through Poetry (ages 14-16): Encouraging learners to ‘extend their maps of experience’
9. Disturbing the Peace through Drama (ages 14-16): Helping learners ‘to feel what wretches feel’
10. Exploring Structure and Meaning through Film (ages 16+): Offering learners different representations of reality
Glossary
Index
Biography
Ian Warwick is the founder and senior director of London Gifted & Talented (www.londongt.org), which has worked with more than 3500 schools internationally. An inner-city teacher for 20 years, he has published extensively in the field of education and has written award-winning, high-challenge e-learning materials as well as several film screenplays.
Ray Speakman founded the Birmingham Youth Theatre, has edited and written plays for schools, professional theatre and television, and was a teacher of English and a deputy headteacher in a large Warwickshire comprehensive.
