Teaching and learning

With so many non-fiction text types to cover and so little time, English Language teachers need engaging classroom resources that get the job done, while also building students' writing skills under timed conditions. Here's our selection of hard-working resources that you'll also enjoy teaching with.  

Starkly powerful and deeply affecting, the poetry of World War I can be challenging to teach, particularly with younger students. Here's a selection of thoughtful classroom resources to help English students engage with the work of the celebrated soldier-poets of the great war.    

Mary Myatt is an educational author and an expert on curriculum development. Here she shares her suggestions for focusing on the quality of the curriculum and making time to do this by reducing marking and data gathering.  
 

Help students to genuinely enjoy studying Shakespeare by celebrating the beauty (and humour!) of the bard’s language and his mastery of stagecraft. We share some of our favourite resources for teachers teaching any Shakespeare play, as well as some fun classroom resources and games for KS3-5 students. 

Sheena Newland, Languages Subject Advisor at Pearson, explores the difficulties involved in achieving gender neutrality in grammatically gendered languages and shares her advice and teaching resources on how to be inclusive of all genders in modern foreign language teaching.