English teaching online
(for General Teaching sites go to this page instead).
Geoff Barton has moved on to other things, but his roots are in English teaching, and there is a wealth of excellent material on his website.
fivebooks.com. Outstanding site with great riches. A simple idea: experts choose the 5 books you should read on their area of expertise. A great one for teachers to direct their pupils to: no better place for deeper reading on almost any subject.
haggardhawks.com. Haggard Hawks is fabulous for word-lovers (as all English teachers should be). Several books now, too.
inote.ie. Irish National Organisation for Teachers of English.
Jamie Clark’s Dropbox is full of well-designed templates for literature and language teaching.
kellygallagher.org. The American teacher and writer (author of Readicide, 180 Days and more, and originator of the Article of the Week idea - my list is here).
learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com. Blog by Chris Curtis, author of How to Teach English.
leavingcertenglish.net. Evelyn O’Connor’s now dormant site has lots of good material for the Irish Leaving Certificate English course.
litdrive.org.uk. A community of English teachers (UK) with lots of resources to download and amend for a tiny annual subscription.
poetryarchive.org. 2000+ recordings of poems read by their authors.
poetryfoundation.org. Superb resources from this Chicago organisation.
sccenglish.ie. Since 2006.
shanahanonliteracy.com. Professor Timothy Shanahan of the University of Illinois is one of the world’s top experts on literacy.
Stuart Pryke generously shares a huge array of inventive resources via Dropbox. Lots of formats to amend for your own content.
theconfidentteacher.com/resources. Alex Quigley’s site has resources associated with his outstanding book Closing the Vocabulary Gap.
Links and notes from my webinar on Tuesday 7th May 2024 for the English Community of Practice organised by Joe Rolston via Wexford Education Support Centre.
Thoughts of a teacher on one of the books of the moment, Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation.
A review of Carol Atherton’s Reading Lessons: the books we read at school, the conversations they spark and why they matter, with extended comments on English teaching.
A free webinar on ideas of ‘light and dark’ in ‘King Lear’, via Wexford Education Centre, at 7.00pm on Tuesday 7th May 2024.
A summary of teaching notes on Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These, including a free 26-page downloadable guide.
Jonathan F.S. Post’s ‘Elizabeth Bishop’ in the OUP Very Short Introduction series is an admirable introduction to this most admirable of 20th century poets.
A summary of notes on the four comparative modes in the Leaving Certificate as they might apply to Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These.
A look at Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These through the lens of George Saunders’s A Swim in the Pond in the Rain.
English teachers will appreciate 100 for 100 Macbeth, by Stuart Pryke and Amy Staniforth, which is directed at student revision, but also has lots of opportunities for class work.
Jottings on Generative AI and English teaching.