Tag: Top Teacher Tip

Top Teacher Tips from Eileen Armstrong (Newcastle) Reading can take your mind off what is happening in the world, can help you escape to places you can’t travel to at the moment, can develop your own ideas, can give you something to talk …

Top Teacher Tips from Eileen Armstrong (Newcastle) “If you’re going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books” Roald Dahl If you’ve ever been lucky enough to have a published author visit your school I’ll bet that at …

Top Teacher Tips from Professor Joe Moran (Liverpool) Good writing often starts with learning to really notice the world. It comes from carefully looking at how other people talk and behave or how the natural world unfolds, and noting your own thoughts, …

Top Teacher Tips from Zoe Enser (Kent) Planning I’m pretty certain that you will have been told this a thousand times at least, but planning is crucial. It is what all great writers do and it is the most important element of the …

Top Teacher Tips from Mark Roberts When I’ve written something – whether it’s a newspaper article, a chapter of a book, a short story or a poem – I spend a lot of time going back over it, editing and improving on …

Top Teacher Tips from Chris Curtis (Derbyshire) Writing looks easy but, actually, it is really hard. I should know: I have written a book. And, that book took me over a year to write and then over a year to edit. Writing …

Top Teacher Tips from Kat Howard (Leicestershire) Write with words that sound simply wonderful when you read them aloud. Words that will dance delicately across the page; words that hiss and spit and slip away; words that frantically and furiously speed things …

Top Teacher Tips from Alex Quigley (York) Have you ever read a great story and thought: ‘this writer wouldn’t gain an 8 or a 9 at GCSE – they’d barely scrape a pass?’ Well, it just goes to show that great writing …