<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><RssFeedModel xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><Title>Blog</Title><Description /><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/</Url><Items><RssItemModel><Id>8645ba0a-d4ea-40c6-9eb9-69d9f29901e0</Id><Title>Drama in English: what embodied learning looks like</Title><Description>Description of an English lesson using drama strategies to enhance learning</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/drama-in-english-what-embodied-learning-looks-like/</Url><Creator>Andrew McCallum</Creator><PublishDate>2026-03-09T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>179e6f05-8181-41b3-a9b2-e90b65ed60b4</Id><Title>EMC Thinking About Curriculum - Introduction</Title><Description>A call for significant change in the 2026 National Curriculum for English at KS3 and KS4 - in this case 'evolution' is not enough</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/emc-thinking-about-curriculum-introduction/</Url><Creator>Andrew McCallum</Creator><PublishDate>2026-02-12T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>22148d2d-2e31-48e6-ba48-416357473167</Id><Title>Curriculum reform and getting formative assessment right</Title><Description>Why curriculum reform needs to promote formative assessment ahead of summative</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/curriculum-reform-and-getting-formative-assessment-right/</Url><Creator>Lucy Hinchliffe</Creator><PublishDate>2026-02-11T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>c7dd3b49-3a6b-4ff7-8988-fb38dbd0e7f6</Id><Title>Thinking Ahead  Talk in the New National Curriculum</Title><Description>Barbara Bleiman sets out why talk is so important in secondary English - particularly forms of talk that promote learning</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/thinking-ahead-talk-in-the-new-national-curriculum/</Url><Creator>Barbara Bleiman</Creator><PublishDate>2026-02-10T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>6e646ff3-7ed8-4c16-9420-39dd283dd2a6</Id><Title>Are diagnostic tests really that useful in English?</Title><Description>A plea for caution when using diagnostic testing for reading and writing in secondary English</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/are-diagnostic-tests-really-that-useful-in-english/</Url><Creator>Andrew McCallum</Creator><PublishDate>2026-02-10T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>c0273710-bdbf-40d1-8bef-f04a27cfb98e</Id><Title>It's time to embrace Drama in English</Title><Description>EMC's Kate Oliver welcomes the focus on Drama in English in the Curriculum and Assessment Review and explains why it can add so much value to English teaching</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/its-time-to-embrace-drama-in-english/</Url><Creator>Kate Oliver</Creator><PublishDate>2026-02-10T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>c5438fe1-5eeb-48ed-9ca5-5e3dac0a26ab</Id><Title>i dont care if its acurate as long as it makes sense im happy</Title><Description>EMC's Dan Clayton looks at how best to approach teaching about Standard English in secondary English lessons</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/i-dont-care-if-its-acurate-as-long-as-it-makes-sense-im-happy/</Url><Creator>Dan Clayton</Creator><PublishDate>2026-02-10T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>85c4c71a-0b6e-4aa4-b9be-b58a9bdb28fb</Id><Title>The Future of English Language at KS3 + KS4</Title><Description>Interpreting the Curriculum and Assessment Review in ways that could transform students' experience of English Language at KS3 + KS4</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/the-future-of-english-language-at-ks3-plus-ks4/</Url><Creator>Dan Clayton</Creator><PublishDate>2026-02-10T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>c23121a5-c735-443e-bc67-38a3627f20f1</Id><Title>The case for Media in English</Title><Description>EMC Director Andrew McCallum makes the case for media in the secondary English curriculum</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/the-case-for-media-in-english/</Url><Creator>Andrew McCallum</Creator><PublishDate>2026-02-10T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>e7bd33e0-c311-4d33-ba11-f4d0c65d85a4</Id><Title>Oracy is the glue: how Talk for Learning can transform reading and writing about challenging texts at KS3</Title><Description>EMC 24/25 Associate Teacher, Andrew Stone, outlines the approaches he used to bring teaching Jane Eyre to life for his students.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/oracy-is-the-glue-how-talk-for-learning-can-transform-reading-and-writing-about-challenging-texts-at-ks3/</Url><Creator>Andrew Stones</Creator><PublishDate>2026-01-06T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>9438e5fb-f4e0-4ad7-8865-2821e9e5c172</Id><Title>Pride and Prejudice in the Classroom: a survey about teachers' accents</Title><Description>EMC's Dan Clayton reflects on a survey asking teachers about their accents and calls for greater understanding in schools about how language works</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/pride-and-prejudice-in-the-classroom-a-survey-about-teachers-accents/</Url><Creator>Dan Clayton</Creator><PublishDate>2025-12-17T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>098c995e-a43f-40f0-81f0-3b993c0d8e38</Id><Title>EMC Christmas Reads 2025</Title><Description>Book recommendations from EMC (December 2025).</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/emc-christmas-reads-2025/</Url><Creator>EMC Staff</Creator><PublishDate>2025-12-12T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>3c3c5a92-71b2-4f0a-b3a9-8c3010717925</Id><Title>Teaching Liz Berry's 'Homing' in the Black Country</Title><Description>Reflections on what happens when young people hear themselves in literature.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/teaching-liz-berrys-homing-in-the-black-country/</Url><Creator>Dan Clayton</Creator><PublishDate>2025-12-11T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>4cc3a59b-2b02-4454-bccf-beb82aeeacdc</Id><Title>EMC Teacher Reading Group 2025-26</Title><Description>Read along with this year's group of teachers committed to talking about books for young people.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/emc-teacher-reading-group-2025-26/</Url><Creator>Kate Oliver</Creator><PublishDate>2025-12-05T09:49:43.9153029</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>0bc3be64-e9d5-4f6b-acf3-94d70a7d50c0</Id><Title>A brief summary of the Curriculum and Assessment Review Final Report for media educators</Title><Description>EMC Media Consultant, Claire Pollard, looks at what the 2025 report into the Curriculum and Assessment review means for the future of Media Studies and media in English.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/a-brief-summary-of-the-curriculum-and-assessment-review-final-report-for-media-educators/</Url><Creator>Claire Pollard</Creator><PublishDate>2025-11-19T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>cbe25f65-c888-41e3-865d-befcb1d4fe7f</Id><Title>EMC response to Curriculum and Assessment Review Report</Title><Description>English and Media Centre's response to the Curriculum and Assessment review, outlining its implications for secondary English and Media teaching</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/emc-response-to-curriculum-and-assessment-review-report/</Url><Creator>English and Media Centre</Creator><PublishDate>2025-11-11T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>da5f5a7b-eddf-44e4-8e51-850da6997d22</Id><Title>'The simultaneous presence of many meanings' - reflections on a 'big picture' English lesson</Title><Description>EMC Director, Andrew McCallum, reflects on the learning going on at multiple levels in a lesson carefully structured and expertly delivered by an EMC Associate Teacher</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/the-simultaneous-presence-of-many-meanings-reflections-on-a-big-picture-english-lesson/</Url><Creator>Andrew McCallum</Creator><PublishDate>2025-10-15T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>9a6046b4-681d-4c94-8bb3-4f9358a8fbe5</Id><Title>Resources for National Poetry Day</Title><Description>Creative activities and wonderful poems on the theme of play. A brilliant way in to National Poetry Day 2025</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/resources-for-national-poetry-day/</Url><Creator>Barbara Bleiman</Creator><PublishDate>2025-09-29T17:18:49.8734259</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>86779c13-9932-484d-a000-670f843fb46c</Id><Title>Secondary History and English�  What We Have in Common</Title><Description>Barbara Bleiman, Alex Ford and Dan Lyndon-Cohen explore shared thinking and concerns about current trends in education as they affect the disciplines of English and History. They discover how much they have in common, as well as much to learn from each other.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/secondary-history-and-english-what-we-have-in-common/</Url><Creator>Barbara Bleiman, Alex Ford + Dan Lyndon-Cohen</Creator><PublishDate>2025-09-08T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>d19e0aea-5e86-47e8-ab78-fa2a010482f2</Id><Title>Searching for the Perfect Novel</Title><Description>EMC Associate Teacher explains how she went about choosing the 'perfect' novel to teach to her class of 11 and 12 year olds</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/searching-for-the-perfect-novel/</Url><Creator>Holly Maguire</Creator><PublishDate>2025-07-22T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>a8cb336f-63ee-44da-953d-dc8d56ce82c3</Id><Title>Developing authentic responses to texts</Title><Description>A Level English Literature specialist, Stephen Dilley, explores what happens when students are encouraged to write down their thoughts about their reading.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/developing-authentic-responses-to-texts/</Url><Creator>Stephen Dilley</Creator><PublishDate>2025-07-14T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>b90f7880-a1b4-4f74-b123-99be83e4860f</Id><Title>EMC's Summer Reads for You and Your Students</Title><Description>EMC's summer reading list 2025.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/emcs-summer-reads-for-you-and-your-students/</Url><Creator>The EMC Team</Creator><PublishDate>2025-07-09T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>4b768c9c-296c-4de7-afeb-97201c2570d0</Id><Title>The Power of BookTok to Encourage Reading for Pleasure</Title><Description>Shannon Mahoney explores the power of BookTok to encourage teenagers to read for pleasure.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/the-power-of-booktok-to-encourage-reading-for-pleasure/</Url><Creator>Shannon Mahoney</Creator><PublishDate>2025-06-27T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>77a4c5e7-9a86-448c-b4b1-70f95ea6c995</Id><Title>Full stops probably are in decline, says linguist in qualified statement</Title><Description>The fascinating world of technology-driven language change</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/full-stops-probably-are-in-decline-says-linguist-in-qualified-statement/</Url><Creator>Dan Clayton</Creator><PublishDate>2025-06-10T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>7623843f-adde-4830-99e0-e4cfc862d12a</Id><Title>A Manifesto for Media Literacy</Title><Description>Christian Cottingham outlines the importance of media literacy education and the role Media Studies has to play</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/a-manifesto-for-media-literacy/</Url><Creator>Christian Cottingham</Creator><PublishDate>2025-05-19T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>2cbb59ba-92d8-480a-af46-3e3cded64751</Id><Title>Forensic Linguistics: a great classroom motivator</Title><Description>Dan Clayton explains how and why forensic linguistics can inspire students to pursue English Language qualifications</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/forensic-linguistics-a-great-classroom-motivator/</Url><Creator>Dan Clayton</Creator><PublishDate>2025-04-24T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>62bbd5ac-00bd-45ed-b16f-9354efa339f5</Id><Title>Bringing the Fiction Effect into Schools</Title><Description>EMC Director Andrew McCallum explains why it's so important for students to read fiction. Lots of it!</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/bringing-the-fiction-effect-into-schools/</Url><Creator>Andrew McCallum</Creator><PublishDate>2025-04-24T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>10bc4bd8-0a12-404e-a8fd-624be10ed135</Id><Title>The writing paradox - starting with the whole</Title><Description>Exploration of the starting point for extended writing and a challenge to dominant sentence-led writing pedagogies</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/the-writing-paradox-starting-with-the-whole/</Url><Creator>Andrew McCallum</Creator><PublishDate>2025-04-02T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>273e8e9c-8cb7-40b4-bdc0-459a87a58f78</Id><Title>EMC Response to Curriculum and Assessment Review Interim Report</Title><Description>EMC response to the Curriculum and Assessment Review interim report</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/emc-response-to-curriculum-and-assessment-review-interim-report/</Url><Creator>Barbara Bleiman + Andrew McCallum</Creator><PublishDate>2025-03-21T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>dcb1b2ef-c072-4c63-8731-36c48dad6400</Id><Title>In Memory of Jane Ogborn</Title><Description>Tributes to inspirational English teacher, Jane Ogborn</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/in-memory-of-jane-ogborn/</Url><Creator>Various</Creator><PublishDate>2025-01-21T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>f5f71e17-8705-4ed5-a1c5-4a4d6a0e6941</Id><Title>Promoting A Level English Language to GCSE Students</Title><Description>Strategies to encourage GCSE students to consider studying A Level English Language</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/promoting-a-level-english-language-to-gcse-students/</Url><Creator>Dan Clayton</Creator><PublishDate>2024-12-19T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>ed221513-6fc9-4809-b696-b39081cc68d9</Id><Title>Key Oracy Commission Podcasts</Title><Description>A summary of podcasts by the Oracy Education Commission of particular interest to secondary English teachers</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/key-oracy-commission-podcasts/</Url><Creator>Dan Raphael</Creator><PublishDate>2024-12-18T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>3b2d70af-b932-4b36-b6d4-99de51f425ff</Id><Title>EMC Christmas Reads 2024</Title><Description>EMC's annual recommended Xmas reads!</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/emc-christmas-reads-2024/</Url><Creator>EMC Team</Creator><PublishDate>2024-12-12T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>a5510e8c-70b6-4aba-af88-57068f49f3b4</Id><Title>Read along with our teacher reading group</Title><Description>A write-up of EMC's first RTRP 'booktalk' meeting.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/read-along-with-our-teacher-reading-group/</Url><Creator>Kate Oliver</Creator><PublishDate>2024-12-11T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>bd1c6863-d480-4043-b88f-49a7a3fcde4f</Id><Title>Learning Through Talk: Observations in a School</Title><Description>Observations about using talk for learning in secondary English classrooms</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/learning-through-talk-observations-in-a-school/</Url><Creator>Andrew McCallum</Creator><PublishDate>2024-11-07T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>12960b28-d8d1-49c1-84a4-70136b03c9e8</Id><Title>A Level Language Blog - On the (Dialect) Level</Title><Description>First in a series of blogs exploring A Level English Language teaching</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/a-level-language-blog-on-the-dialect-level/</Url><Creator>Dan Clayton</Creator><PublishDate>2024-10-04T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>a26d6897-b69b-4927-a92f-c2342f1524c4</Id><Title>Teaching Writing: Putting Intentions Before Techniques</Title><Description>Barbara Bleiman argues that a focus on meaning and intentions needs to come before a focus on form when teaching writing.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/teaching-writing-putting-intentions-before-techniques/</Url><Creator>Barbara Bleiman</Creator><PublishDate>2024-09-16T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>f6b8eff0-f677-489f-9dca-f7c08d41fa3c</Id><Title>Talking to your SLT about English</Title><Description>Blog by Barbara Bleiman designed to help convince your SLT that English teaching has its own distinctive pedagogy</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/talking-to-your-slt-about-english/</Url><Creator>Barbara Bleiman</Creator><PublishDate>2024-09-04T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>97f7e824-9d58-4bd7-9264-3eee6736935c</Id><Title>Rethinking Formative Assessment Working Group</Title><Description>Summary of action research projects by teachers working on formative assessment with the English and Media Centre</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/rethinking-formative-assessment-working-group/</Url><Creator>Katie Kibbler</Creator><PublishDate>2024-07-18T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>aca2cfae-08a4-4de6-87d3-32f515149fae</Id><Title>Common English Forum: A Manifesto for English</Title><Description>Umbrella body of organisations working English and education set out a manifesto for the subject extending from early years to university level.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/common-english-forum-a-manifesto-for-english/</Url><Creator>Common English Forum</Creator><PublishDate>2024-07-15T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>f2073264-e766-4da9-9d06-5a57c3daa4a1</Id><Title>EMC Summer Reads 2024</Title><Description>The team's selection of summer reads.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/emc-summer-reads-2024/</Url><Creator>EMC team</Creator><PublishDate>2024-07-12T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>e226d267-27f5-4df5-8b0a-11c1fe373a7c</Id><Title>Approaches to diversity + anti-racist pedagogy in English</Title><Description>Write up of small scale projects by teachers on the EMC Anti-racism and diversity working group</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/approaches-to-diversity-plus-anti-racist-pedagogy-in-english/</Url><Creator>Anmika Salter</Creator><PublishDate>2024-06-21T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>2ddc5548-ef92-4fc7-b71a-68453a6aef86</Id><Title>EMC-Cheltenham Festivals' RTRP Book Group: our fourth book talk meeting</Title><Description>Discussing the immersive play pleasure of reading and notes from our book group discussion of The Phantom Tollbooth.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/emc-cheltenham-festivals-rtrp-book-group-our-fourth-book-talk-meeting/</Url><Creator>Kate Oliver</Creator><PublishDate>2024-05-22T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>d43ceead-f774-4cbd-8b00-10720e44e219</Id><Title>Rethinking Assessment in English Part 8: Summative Judgements</Title><Description>Latest in a series of blogs exploring assessment in secondary English. This time, how teachers can work together to summatively evaluate a student's work.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/rethinking-assessment-in-english-part-8-summative-judgements/</Url><Creator>EMC Research + Projects Team</Creator><PublishDate>2024-04-25T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>3949de03-78b8-4ec5-916c-d159e84f0d4d</Id><Title>Rethinking Assessment in English Part 7: Classroom Talk</Title><Description>EMC Research + Project team explore what happened to classroom talk in secondary English lessons when teachers took away an end of unit assessment piece and instead focused on formative assessment</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/rethinking-assessment-in-english-part-7-classroom-talk/</Url><Creator>Research + Projects Team</Creator><PublishDate>2024-03-18T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>50c612c7-2df2-4161-8325-93ce064dc8c4</Id><Title>GCSE Revision the EMC Way!</Title><Description>How a focus on ideas and thinking can give your students that extra boost when it comes to revision</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/gcse-revision-the-emc-way/</Url><Creator>Andrew McCallum</Creator><PublishDate>2024-03-15T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>840c3b6f-b766-4c3f-b729-d649ffd6ebe0</Id><Title>EMC response to 2024 Ofsted English subject report</Title><Description>EMC critique of Ofsted's 2024 Telling the story: English education subject report</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/emc-response-to-2024-ofsted-english-subject-report/</Url><Creator>Barbara Bleiman + Andrew McCallum</Creator><PublishDate>2024-03-07T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>5560a9a7-9526-4000-b73b-918caa039b0f</Id><Title>Brilliant Rays of Sunshine</Title><Description>EMC's Barbara Bleiman draws attention to some of the fantastic work coming her way from secondary English teachers.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/brilliant-rays-of-sunshine/</Url><Creator>Barbara Bleiman</Creator><PublishDate>2024-03-05T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>436fcca1-67c6-4e3b-99c6-f87c9f5e6621</Id><Title>Rethinking Assessment in English Part 6: Self and Peer Assessment</Title><Description>EMC's research + projects team explore self and peer assessment</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/rethinking-assessment-in-english-part-6-self-and-peer-assessment/</Url><Creator>Research and Projects Team</Creator><PublishDate>2024-02-09T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>aca953af-1f37-4c00-b00d-da7e1599ffa5</Id><Title>Rethinking Assessment in English Part 5: Forms of Feedback</Title><Description>Latest in series of blogs about assessment - with a specific focus on forms of feedback</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/rethinking-assessment-in-english-part-5-forms-of-feedback/</Url><Creator>Research + Projects Team</Creator><PublishDate>2024-01-29T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>03cad2ba-056d-4b87-8d10-a528b6c3d495</Id><Title>EMC-Cheltenham Festivals' RTRP Book Group: our second book talk meeting</Title><Description>EMC-Cheltenham Festivals' RTRP Book Group discuss their second book of 23-24  Kwame Alexander's verse novel The Door of No Return.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/emc-cheltenham-festivals-rtrp-book-group-our-second-book-talk-meeting/</Url><Creator>Kate Oliver</Creator><PublishDate>2024-01-25T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>b4a1c7fa-0401-4c86-b9e6-5bb24a55abc6</Id><Title>Rethinking Assessment in Secondary English Part 4: What happened to student writing?</Title><Description>The fourth in a series of blogs looking at EMC's research project into assessment in secondary English - 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a follow-up</Title><Description>The longer-term impact of using low-stakes practicals in media lessons. EMC's April McCarthy reports.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/low-stakes-media-practicals-a-follow-up/</Url><Creator>April McCarthy</Creator><PublishDate>2023-11-06T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>f0abe16a-e682-4f1a-9a8d-81d64f0bbb66</Id><Title>A Great Big Grammar Hammer - But What Nut Is It Cracking?</Title><Description>What is the best way to approach grammar teaching in the secondary English classroom? 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Katie teaches in an 11-16 comprehensive school in East London. Anmika teaches in an 11-18 comprehensive school in North London.</Creator><PublishDate>2023-02-14T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>fefdc377-9f21-4943-8af3-bcf2b22c5d36</Id><Title>Just Write Project (1)</Title><Description>A summary of a small-scale project to explore ways of using EMC's Just Write and Write On publications</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/just-write-project-1/</Url><Creator>Andrew McCallum</Creator><PublishDate>2023-02-14T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>a68f96ba-657e-473b-bacc-df8531a9af64</Id><Title>Just Write Project</Title><Description>A summary of a small-scale project to explore ways of using EMC's Just Write and Write On publications</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/just-write-project/</Url><Creator>Andrew McCallum</Creator><PublishDate>2022-12-08T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>bc4c8eec-db23-4a43-aa54-85568ab2177d</Id><Title>Christmas Reads 2022</Title><Description>Recommendations for you and your students from the EMC team.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/christmas-reads-2022/</Url><Creator>EMC Team</Creator><PublishDate>2022-12-08T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>e4a6282d-a87e-4a42-a684-848ef9d28852</Id><Title>Summer Reads 2022</Title><Description>Recommendations from some of our favourite recent books, for you and your students.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/summer-reads-2022/</Url><Creator>The EMC Team</Creator><PublishDate>2022-07-19T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>c7fffb6c-36bb-477b-b614-03e4a5d648fa</Id><Title>Low-stakes practicals in Y10 Media lessons</Title><Description>Using low-stakes practicals in Media lessons - exciting things happen when you bring trusted teaching strategies to Y10 media classrooms</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/low-stakes-practicals-in-y10-media-lessons/</Url><Creator>April McCarthy</Creator><PublishDate>2022-07-18T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>d39ce31e-1c12-4a4e-81e2-e71f1cd1a225</Id><Title>EMC Response to Ofsted Curriculum research review: English</Title><Description>Ofsted's recently published curriculum research review offers a seriously flawed vision of English</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/emc-response-to-ofsted-curriculum-research-review-english/</Url><Creator>Andrew McCallum + Barbara Bleiman</Creator><PublishDate>2022-06-05T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>f79b6a12-7df1-4c58-88ca-25c1a28a457e</Id><Title>Animal Farm is not about the Russian Revolution: some thoughts on teaching historical context</Title><Description>Some thoughts about teaching context in relation to a novel of genuine historical importance - Animal Farm</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/animal-farm-is-not-about-the-russian-revolution-some-thoughts-on-teaching-historical-context/</Url><Creator>Andrew McCallum</Creator><PublishDate>2022-04-19T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>9802b242-3ced-4e71-96c4-02e18f9fcff5</Id><Title>6 Reasons Why Children's and YA Novels Work Well in the KS3 Classroom</Title><Description>A summary of some of the reasons that we should make plenty of room for children's and YA fiction at KS3</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/6-reasons-why-childrens-and-ya-novels-work-well-in-the-ks3-classroom/</Url><Creator>Andrew McCallum</Creator><PublishDate>2022-01-13T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>54759f3d-ee03-4162-9198-3a511060dfe9</Id><Title>EMC Christmas Reads 2021</Title><Description>Our suggested reads for you and your students.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/emc-christmas-reads-2021/</Url><Creator>The EMC 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McCallum</Creator><PublishDate>2021-11-12T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>ec1966af-ce90-49c4-8f17-ab6ee2cb8179</Id><Title>Summer Reads 2021</Title><Description>Recommended reads for you and your students from the EMC team.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/summer-reads-2021/</Url><Creator>The EMC Team</Creator><PublishDate>2021-07-12T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>09b386ea-112f-4929-bc59-4d5902499fdc</Id><Title>Power in (creative) potentia</Title><Description>How one school worked with Y13 students to produce an anthology of gothic fiction</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/power-in-creative-potentia/</Url><Creator>Emma Leigh + Olivia Rusholme</Creator><PublishDate>2021-06-28T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>a375af6d-0891-4245-9915-13dcf188b0e9</Id><Title>Ideas for teaching a poetry cluster at GCSE</Title><Description>Approaches for helping students engage with the set poems.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/ideas-for-teaching-a-poetry-cluster-at-gcse/</Url><Creator>Kate Oliver</Creator><PublishDate>2021-06-23T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>d11f3eb2-b9dd-44d1-bfa7-dcfcff9d5637</Id><Title>The Case for Dialogic Learning</Title><Description>Powerful summary of the case for dialogic learning in English classrooms</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/the-case-for-dialogic-learning/</Url><Creator>Barbara Bleiman</Creator><PublishDate>2021-05-25T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>0c3db791-f1b1-4a7a-96b1-eb3a45521ea9</Id><Title>Dialogic Learning - More Than Just Talk</Title><Description>What exactly is dialogic learning and why is it so important?</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/dialogic-learning-more-than-just-talk/</Url><Creator>Barbara Bleiman</Creator><PublishDate>2021-04-12T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>ff0eacfb-634c-41bc-9392-6a3ec034d40f</Id><Title>Two Reasons to Be Cheerful  What s Happening to A Level Students Writing</Title><Description>Barbara Bleiman reflects on why emagazine is receiving so many high quality submissions by A Level students this year compared to others</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/two-reasons-to-be-cheerful-what-s-happening-to-a-level-students-writing/</Url><Creator>Barbara Bleiman</Creator><PublishDate>2021-03-26T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>5f551941-8b3d-48f7-a27f-7ff6a2433530</Id><Title>Six ways short stories can diversify your curriculum and boost literature study</Title><Description>Short stories as a brilliant way to diversify your curriculum</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/six-ways-short-stories-can-diversify-your-curriculum-and-boost-literature-study/</Url><Creator>Andrew McCallum</Creator><PublishDate>2021-03-01T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>1c69c622-beaa-4b93-a58e-dcb03bfb22db</Id><Title>Some welcome U-turns and the need for more - especially about talk</Title><Description>A plea to remember the value of talk when thinking about how to improve English pedagogy</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/some-welcome-u-turns-and-the-need-for-more-especially-about-talk/</Url><Creator>Andrew McCallum</Creator><PublishDate>2021-02-04T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>dc1c53f8-40cf-49b7-abad-73e063b8c1a5</Id><Title>We want good grammar teaching!</Title><Description>EMC's Barbara Bleiman reflects on the latest debate.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/we-want-good-grammar-teaching/</Url><Creator>Barbara Bleiman</Creator><PublishDate>2021-01-25T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>8258466c-15e8-4ed4-83a6-c0bda08d3cff</Id><Title>Christmas Reads 2020</Title><Description>Recommended reads from the EMC team for you and your students</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/christmas-reads-2020/</Url><Creator>The EMC Team</Creator><PublishDate>2020-12-09T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>82ec816b-8c08-4939-8798-21159359ac5b</Id><Title>Developing one student's writing using EMC's Just Write</Title><Description>An analysis of how Just Write helped one student improve their writing in a few weeks - with careful teacher intervention</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/developing-one-students-writing-using-emcs-just-write/</Url><Creator>Andrew McCallum</Creator><PublishDate>2020-09-21T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>cd6a45ba-68dd-45a0-96f9-42ec86b8dd9a</Id><Title>Lost queens and dodos: some reflections on knowledge and comprehension</Title><Description>Post co-written by EMC's Barbara Bleiman and LA adviser, James Durran, about the complex processes at work in 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they go hand in hand</Title><Description>An exploration of why creative practices are so important to successful learning in English.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/creativity-and-learning-in-english-they-go-hand-in-hand/</Url><Creator>Andrew McCallum</Creator><PublishDate>2017-11-14T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>8333d91d-2973-445c-8b7c-df68be403317</Id><Title>The problem with  subject terminology and the power of  I like </Title><Description>Richard Long reflects on a GCSE poetry lesson.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/the-problem-with-subject-terminology-and-the-power-of-i-like/</Url><Creator>Richard Long</Creator><PublishDate>2017-11-07T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>1292dc38-e36c-468f-a3b5-4d502f369424</Id><Title>EMC Survey: Significant drop in numbers taking A Level English subjects</Title><Description>Findings from EMC survey into numbers taking English A Levels</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/emc-survey-significant-drop-in-numbers-taking-a-level-english-subjects/</Url><Creator>EMC consultancy team</Creator><PublishDate>2017-11-03T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>9ccf6964-df6d-4de4-be1d-d0cf2bd29b7a</Id><Title>Learning how to write critically& by writing creatively</Title><Description>Lessons from the emagazine/Forward Student Critics Competition</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/learning-how-to-write-critically-by-writing-creatively/</Url><Creator>Barbara Bleiman</Creator><PublishDate>2017-09-27T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>33bfe1c2-d5e0-4e54-86aa-11540316bab6</Id><Title>PEE? PEAL? PETAL?</Title><Description>Teaching essay writing at KS3 and 4 </Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/pee-peal-petal/</Url><Creator>Kate Oliver</Creator><PublishDate>2017-09-18T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>b1280274-51e5-41b3-a732-c2bd78a9998d</Id><Title>National Poetry Day 2017: Let Them Loose!</Title><Description>Five classroom ideas linked to specially collated poems</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/national-poetry-day-2017-let-them-loose/</Url><Creator>Barbara Bleiman</Creator><PublishDate>2017-09-07T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>3d1cc3ef-c51a-4da9-93fe-a187f16c4e3d</Id><Title>An agenda for knowledge  organising without false limits</Title><Description>How do we decide what knowledge to teach  'knowledge organisers' or 'agendas'?</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/an-agenda-for-knowledge-organising-without-false-limits/</Url><Creator>Barbara Bleiman</Creator><PublishDate>2017-09-06T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>3ba12e07-a84b-41a0-888c-256394b95c73</Id><Title>Three Lessons on Emojis</Title><Description>Barbara Bleiman injects some sense into the debate about using emojis in the classroom, by outlining three practical and useful lesson ideas that draw on these hieroglyphics for the digital age.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/three-lessons-on-emojis/</Url><Creator>Barbara Bleiman</Creator><PublishDate>2017-09-01T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>4b66a74a-d71c-4c7a-92a7-1e23e43ef155</Id><Title>Radicalism For Our Times</Title><Description>The writing that emerged from an EMC training day about what 'radicalism for our times' might look like in English teaching.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/radicalism-for-our-times/</Url><Creator>Teachers and consultants</Creator><PublishDate>2017-07-25T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>d91f0fdf-b585-4ff0-a362-699218bd3b11</Id><Title>Recommended reads  Summer 2017</Title><Description>Suggestions from the EMC team for you and your students</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/recommended-reads-summer-2017/</Url><Creator>EMC team</Creator><PublishDate>2017-07-11T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>09c94fcb-9362-4313-92b7-457b21fbcb35</Id><Title>Why Aren't We Talking About Applebee?</Title><Description>Barbara Bleiman explores the work of American educationalist Arthur Applebee and asks why so little is known about his work in the UK.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/why-arent-we-talking-about-applebee/</Url><Creator>Barbara Bleiman</Creator><PublishDate>2017-05-26T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>bde198b0-c996-4949-9164-912d237fbd6b</Id><Title>Preparing students for the 19th century novel  what to do at KS3?</Title><Description>Ideas for some really wide reading.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/preparing-students-for-the-19th-century-novel-what-to-do-at-ks3/</Url><Creator>Kate Oliver</Creator><PublishDate>2017-05-22T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>c5e0a089-7625-4ed8-b7bc-e1fa18426478</Id><Title>Exploratory talk, exploratory writing and pupil progress at KS3</Title><Description>The most recent work from  It s Good to Talk  the different kinds of writing that emerged and some questions raised about assessment, post-levels.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/exploratory-talk-exploratory-writing-and-pupil-progress-at-ks3/</Url><Creator>Barbara Bleiman</Creator><PublishDate>2017-03-28T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>e2f743e8-e10c-4013-8539-89ff23a390ce</Id><Title>To blog or not to blog  there is no question</Title><Description>Richard Long on bringing blogging to the English classroom</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/to-blog-or-not-to-blog-there-is-no-question/</Url><Creator>Richard Long</Creator><PublishDate>2017-03-06T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>4adb2f17-8405-46a7-90a0-d8adc0c0a667</Id><Title>Group work or teacher transmission of knowledge  a false dichotomy?</Title><Description>Barbara Bleiman reflects on the most recent classroom observations for EMC s research project  It s Good to Talk  Developing Group Work in English.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/group-work-or-teacher-transmission-of-knowledge-a-false-dichotomy/</Url><Creator>Barbara Bleiman</Creator><PublishDate>2017-02-07T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>0e6e5cfb-59fc-4765-a9be-6ef60ec6a042</Id><Title>Noticing Context: Putting the Text First</Title><Description>Teaching context is tricky. How do you provide students with social and historical information without turning English into a History lesson? The answer lies, this blog suggests, in encouraging students to notice initially what lies within the text itself.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/noticing-context-putting-the-text-first/</Url><Creator>Andrew McCallum</Creator><PublishDate>2017-01-25T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>e9db26c0-daed-4552-a850-58cdd7d0609e</Id><Title>Creating as Well as Thinking in Group Work</Title><Description>More findings from our group work project</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/creating-as-well-as-thinking-in-group-work/</Url><Creator>Barbara Bleiman</Creator><PublishDate>2017-01-03T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>9de2924f-5dc9-4a8b-bc0d-91879fbaf4fb</Id><Title>Christmas Reads 2016</Title><Description>24 books we have enjoyed over the last few months</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/christmas-reads-2016/</Url><Creator>EMC Team</Creator><PublishDate>2016-12-05T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>783494c5-ae7f-467b-a5fe-e2fd5b3aef36</Id><Title>Group Work  Had We But Time Enough& </Title><Description>More emerging themes from our ongoing group work project 'It's good to talk'</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/group-work-had-we-but-time-enough/</Url><Creator>Barbara Bleiman</Creator><PublishDate>2016-11-29T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>6ce01044-04fb-4128-997e-379dfaad2df8</Id><Title>Practice  Theory  Practice</Title><Description>What 'evidence-based teaching' means to us at EMC</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/practice-theory-practice/</Url><Creator>Barbara Bleiman</Creator><PublishDate>2016-11-02T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>95c933bc-5909-4ba5-9b5b-fbf0946ba0b2</Id><Title>Mirrors, Windows and Sliding Glass Doors: Book List for Sixth Formers and Confident Older Readers</Title><Description>A reading list to showcase the huge range of voices in literature.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/mirrors-windows-and-sliding-glass-doors-book-list-for-sixth-formers-and-confident-older-readers/</Url><Creator>English and Media Centre</Creator><PublishDate>2016-10-10T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>78c1a721-a2f2-4ab9-b3f4-127dea7297d2</Id><Title>English at A Level and University  what emagazine can do for you</Title><Description>Ed Limb, 3rd year English student, reflects on what he learned from emagazine</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/english-at-a-level-and-university-what-emagazine-can-do-for-you/</Url><Creator>EdLimb</Creator><PublishDate>2016-10-05T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>67db8de7-8891-4931-a658-02145fede7d3</Id><Title>It's good to talk  Changing practice in English: the start of something big</Title><Description>News on the EMC project 'It's Good to Talk'</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/its-good-to-talk-changing-practice-in-english-the-start-of-something-big/</Url><Creator>Barbara Bleiman</Creator><PublishDate>2016-09-27T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>d67110d9-8bbc-4e7d-b3d9-188a787ff54e</Id><Title>How to Teach Vocabulary Acquisition</Title><Description>What is the best way to help students to expand their vocabulary? EMC thinking and the latest research.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/how-to-teach-vocabulary-acquisition/</Url><Creator>Kate Oliver</Creator><PublishDate>2016-09-05T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>78b4c744-2a4d-4445-ad06-13316082fde1</Id><Title>Summer Reads 2016</Title><Description>The EMC team's recomendations for the holidays</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/summer-reads-2016/</Url><Creator>EMC Team</Creator><PublishDate>2016-07-11T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>d2d18874-bbd8-4e25-b351-a5ea0e1a57d4</Id><Title>Meaning is all and all is meaning</Title><Description>Andrew McCallum urges judicious care when it comes to encouraging students to apply linguistic and literary terminology to their work.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/meaning-is-all-and-all-is-meaning/</Url><Creator>Andrew McCallum</Creator><PublishDate>2016-06-10T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>2116c4a6-d7ee-4953-a764-fe513bc8f7ef</Id><Title>The Importance of Teaching Diverse Texts</Title><Description>The English and Media Centre's Director, Andrew McCallum, on the importance of teaching a diverse range of texts.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/the-importance-of-teaching-diverse-texts/</Url><Creator>Andrew McCallum</Creator><PublishDate>2016-05-12T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>a97e25e2-ac2e-4b7d-afae-0fdcd5a34876</Id><Title>The Value of Talk, or How We Need To Use New Words To Learn New Words</Title><Description>The English and Media Centre's Director, Andrew McCallum, argues for the central importance of contextualised talk when teaching vocabulary development.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/the-value-of-talk-or-how-we-need-to-use-new-words-to-learn-new-words/</Url><Creator>Andrew McCallum</Creator><PublishDate>2016-03-22T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>f368f8f2-f4a7-400b-867c-e03d6ddb4e3c</Id><Title>Putting Grammar Teaching in Context</Title><Description>There has been an increased focus on the teaching of grammar in primary and secondary schools since the introduction of the new National Curriculum and the revision of examination specifications. In this blog, Andrew McCallum explores what that means for secondary English teachers and questions whether a knowledge of grammar, in and of itself, leads to improvements in reading and writing.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/putting-grammar-teaching-in-context/</Url><Creator>Andrew McCallum</Creator><PublishDate>2016-02-02T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>bf2d0edc-acee-4178-92b8-e47634a9ec7a</Id><Title>Why Are Students Struggling to Write Well About Poetry?</Title><Description>Reflecting on this year's entries for the T.S.Eliot Prize Writing Competition, Barbara Bleiman explores ways of improving the teaching of critical writing about poetry at A Level.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/why-are-students-struggling-to-write-well-about-poetry/</Url><Creator>Barbara Bleiman</Creator><PublishDate>2016-01-11T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>e0715ed2-ccaf-409e-a0a5-c92c53e3b4ec</Id><Title>40ish Great Reads</Title><Description>Holiday reading suggestions for you and your students.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/40ish-great-reads/</Url><Creator>EMC Team</Creator><PublishDate>2015-12-10T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>59a501b9-fb18-4199-ae01-0f74d8b69979</Id><Title>How Fiction Changes Your Brain</Title><Description>What neuroscience is telling us about reading.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/how-fiction-changes-your-brain/</Url><Creator>Kate Oliver</Creator><PublishDate>2015-09-17T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>919adb30-31ac-4ddf-8978-d1cba21147cc</Id><Title>Creative Writing Axed</Title><Description>Barbara Bleiman on the DfE decision to turn down the AQA submission for Creative Writing A Level (2017).</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/creative-writing-axed/</Url><Creator>Barbara Bleiman</Creator><PublishDate>2015-09-10T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>5290ae83-223f-4c64-a3fe-5d2baaab844b</Id><Title>Speaking Up for Group Work</Title><Description>Barbara Bleiman sets out EMC's thinking on group work.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/speaking-up-for-group-work/</Url><Creator>Barbara Bleiman</Creator><PublishDate>2015-09-01T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>c6f80e1a-20c7-4b63-8ef6-3ff129563e39</Id><Title>40 Summer Reads</Title><Description>Some holiday reading suggestions from the EMC team.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/40-summer-reads/</Url><Creator>EMC Team</Creator><PublishDate>2015-07-14T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>c20ff036-46da-4e7f-95f9-59745ccee67d</Id><Title>Reading as a Writer, Writing as a Reader</Title><Description>Barbara Bleiman reflects on the value of encouraging students to read like writers and write like readers - and in the process asks important questions about where learning occurs in the classroom.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/reading-as-a-writer-writing-as-a-reader/</Url><Creator>Barbara Bleiman</Creator><PublishDate>2015-06-30T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>ebd10b04-c14a-4b61-836c-1d64e2cf3ab5</Id><Title>What Makes Good CPD?</Title><Description>Barbara Bleiman, Co-director of The English and Media Centre, takes a look at the underlying features of good CPD.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/what-makes-good-cpd/</Url><Creator>Barbara Bleiman</Creator><PublishDate>2015-05-20T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>c6f97e02-0972-4680-a2f2-b7589a935548</Id><Title>Language &amp; Gender  A Research Update for Teachers</Title><Description>A research update on language and gender by Deborah Cameron.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/language-gender-a-research-update-for-teachers/</Url><Creator>Deborah Cameron</Creator><PublishDate>2015-05-13T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>7eca7346-cd19-4c5b-8801-043019366096</Id><Title>Should You Be Worried About Rote Learning And Poetry In The New GCSEs?</Title><Description>Barbara Bleiman, Co-director at the English and Media Centre, challenges fears surrounding media reports of rote learning and poetry.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/should-you-be-worried-about-rote-learning-and-poetry-in-the-new-gcses/</Url><Creator>Barbara Bleiman</Creator><PublishDate>2015-03-24T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>d10a89af-0e70-4f8a-b5ec-0f39eea7f858</Id><Title>In Praise Of Group Work</Title><Description>English and Media Centre co-director, Andrew McCallum, waxes lyrical about why group work is so important to the successful study of English.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/in-praise-of-group-work/</Url><Creator>Andrew McCallum</Creator><PublishDate>2015-03-01T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>53fe78f4-1698-4035-9046-3efc825c468a</Id><Title>English And The Law Of Unintended Consequences</Title><Description>English and Media Centre Cco-director, Andrew McCallum, warns against responses to recent curriculum and GCSE changes that potentially risk limiting students experience of English at secondary level.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/english-and-the-law-of-unintended-consequences/</Url><Creator>Andrew McCallum</Creator><PublishDate>2015-02-11T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>43408cca-104f-49a1-b2c8-f31b7de9616b</Id><Title>What s Happening In Shakespeare Studies at University Level? What Are The Implications For Teachers</Title><Description>Dr Emma Smith, Shakespeare scholar at Hertford College, Oxford, came to talk to a group of teachers in a twilight session at EMC. Here is her account of the event, as a guest blog. </Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/what-s-happening-in-shakespeare-studies-at-university-level-what-are-the-implications-for-teachers/</Url><Creator>Dr Emma Smith</Creator><PublishDate>2014-12-11T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>3b7834e7-5299-4985-b485-c6a0b8fe4296</Id><Title>Blogging About English: Some Areas For Debate</Title><Description>Barbara Bleiman, Co-director at The English and Media Centre, considers interesting areas for debate about English as a subject.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/blogging-about-english-some-areas-for-debate/</Url><Creator>Barbara Bleiman</Creator><PublishDate>2014-10-25T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>24260f73-8ec8-43b8-a145-aadb46296aa0</Id><Title>KS4 English Curriculum Proposals: A Backward Step</Title><Description> Andrew McCallum, co-director of the English and Media Centre, discusses the draft National Curriculum for KS4.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/ks4-english-curriculum-proposals-a-backward-step/</Url><Creator>Andrew McCallum</Creator><PublishDate>2014-10-18T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>e9271643-ef96-4058-8a2c-3ea6f0c72b1e</Id><Title>The Challenge Of Teaching The Classics: 5 Tips for KS3&amp;4</Title><Description>EMC consultant Kate Oliver suggests five tried-and-tested tips for helping students engage with the challenges classic texts present.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/the-challenge-of-teaching-the-classics-5-tips-for-ks34/</Url><Creator>Kate Oliver</Creator><PublishDate>2014-10-01T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>0361ae70-81da-4fd6-8f69-701513d949ce</Id><Title>What Will Literature Teaching Look Like In 2015? (And What Should We Be Doing About It Now?)</Title><Description>EMC s co-director, Andrew McCallum, outlines some welcome challenges ahead for teachers of literature at KS3 and KS4.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/what-will-literature-teaching-look-like-in-2015-and-what-should-we-be-doing-about-it-now/</Url><Creator>Andrew McCallum</Creator><PublishDate>2014-09-25T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>0416cabb-ac79-4e96-8b74-5afba46ea8db</Id><Title>Would You Ban Slang?</Title><Description>Kate Oliver, EMC s KS3&amp;4 consultant, discusses whether schools should ban slang in the classroom.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/would-you-ban-slang/</Url><Creator>Kate Oliver</Creator><PublishDate>2014-09-13T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>069b3f35-607b-4552-bad2-929722c63e33</Id><Title>Knowledge About Literature At KS3  What s Significant Knowledge?</Title><Description>Starting with a look at  knowledge in relation to Great Expectations, Barbara Bleiman, co-director at The English and Media Centre, explores the debates around knowledge versus skills.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/knowledge-about-literature-at-ks3-what-s-significant-knowledge/</Url><Creator>Barbara Bleiman</Creator><PublishDate>2014-08-25T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>67c34ac5-2523-4e69-a50a-ad3c151dbb33</Id><Title>60 Great Books for Reluctant Readers at KS3</Title><Description>Kate Oliver, consultant at the English and Media Centre, suggests books for reluctant readers of all abilities. </Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/60-great-books-for-reluctant-readers-at-ks3/</Url><Creator>Kate Oliver</Creator><PublishDate>2014-08-25T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>d87d7b8c-cdc8-4743-9ddc-1fe568708662</Id><Title>Letter To The Sunday Times In Support Of A Level English Language And Literature</Title><Description>Professor Susan Bruce's letter to The Sunday Times in support of the OCR/ EMC A Level English Language and Literature.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/letter-to-the-sunday-times-in-support-of-a-level-english-language-and-literature/</Url><Creator>Susan Bruce</Creator><PublishDate>2014-05-18T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>eb011a47-481a-4017-a4b1-1ec02e202ce8</Id><Title>Five Brilliant Ideas For Teaching Poetry</Title><Description>Practical strategies to support students in engaging with poetry in ways which develop their independence and resilience.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/five-brilliant-ideas-for-teaching-poetry/</Url><Creator>Kate Oliver</Creator><PublishDate>2014-05-14T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>cfbc4890-9cc1-4a66-86ef-771e6c24ea01</Id><Title>10 Ways To Celebrate Shakespeare s Birthday</Title><Description>Ten ways to celebrate Shakespeare's birthday.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/10-ways-to-celebrate-shakespeare-s-birthday/</Url><Creator>Barbara Bleiman</Creator><PublishDate>2014-04-23T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>f5cc7ec1-92eb-4e98-b258-44a7f09a8a92</Id><Title>5 Revision Strategies For KS4</Title><Description>Revision strategies for GCSE.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/5-revision-strategies-for-ks4/</Url><Creator>Kate Oliver</Creator><PublishDate>2014-04-01T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>80a81e4c-3f10-4ac7-87e3-40a0e2a3b5ed</Id><Title>Digital Disappearances, Missing Multimodals: Keeping Media Alive In The New English Curriculum</Title><Description>Why media will always have a place in dynamic English teaching, whatever the constraints of the National Curriculum.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/digital-disappearances-missing-multimodals-keeping-media-alive-in-the-new-english-curriculum/</Url><Creator>Jenny Grahame</Creator><PublishDate>2013-11-14T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>96b3f90a-62aa-41bc-af08-a90bafbb45b8</Id><Title>50 Great 21st Century Novels For 6th Formers</Title><Description>EMC's list of 50 Great 21st Century Novels for 6th Formers (published 2013).</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/50-great-21st-century-novels-for-6th-formers/</Url><Creator>Andrew McCallum</Creator><PublishDate>2013-10-22T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>57744191-29a8-43c9-819c-5c2c8dc25dc6</Id><Title>Exploit The Breathing Spaces In The New KS3 National Curriculum</Title><Description>A response to the new KS3 curriculum.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/exploit-the-breathing-spaces-in-the-new-ks3-national-curriculum/</Url><Creator>Kate Oliver</Creator><PublishDate>2013-10-09T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel><RssItemModel><Id>f3ab5f63-e82c-4fcd-95b6-83ce2c921f8b</Id><Title>Is  What Works? The Only Question Educational Research Should Be Trying To Answer?</Title><Description>Barbara Bleiman, co-director at the English and Media Centre, critically considers the move towards 'research-led' education.</Description><Url>https://englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/is-what-works-the-only-question-educational-research-should-be-trying-to-answer/</Url><Creator>Barbara Bleiman</Creator><PublishDate>2013-10-09T00:00:00</PublishDate></RssItemModel></Items></RssFeedModel>