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Teaching vocabulary consistently: Part 2

May 28, 2020May 20, 2020Oxford English Team 1 Comment
Teaching Vocabulary Consistently - spiral staircase

In the English classroom How we did it – planning We began by looking at the curriculum. What KS4 content did students struggle most with? What vocabulary could we teach them to help them communicate their ideas more clearly? We looked at our literature texts, the demands of GCE English Language and then at our […]

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Teaching vocabulary consistently: Part 1

May 20, 2020March 22, 2023Oxford English Team
Teaching Vocabulary Consistently: Pathways

It started with a book… Closing the Vocabulary Gap by Alex Quigley is the book that started the Stretford High School English Department’s endeavour to improve our students’ vocabulary. Quigley opened the dialogue for a problem we knew existed but weren’t sure how to solve. His book clarified the classification of words we needed students […]

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Closing the word gap: how many words do my pupils need to know?

May 28, 2019May 21, 2019Oxford English Team
Closing the word gap

Summer exams are almost here. It is a time for cautious optimism, but also a little teacher anxiety, as we will our pupils on to succeed. Worried questions race through our minds: what if they don’t understand the question? What if a word in the question trips them up? What if they give up? Each […]

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