All the fun of the FOREground!
Hello everybody. I want to thank everyone for all the kind words over the past couple of weeks and for the follows of my Twitter account. It really gives this wannabe Stylistic Teacher a big boost to have all those kind words. As this blog goes on I want to share some of the concepts I have been exploring in my PhD around English teacher identity, the divide between language and literature and curriculum design but for now I want to give you some practical tricks and tips that you could use in your classrooms right now! Before we go on, I want to share a strategy that is so simple and is one that you can use straight away. I took this idea from the Booker Prize winning author George Saunders' fascinating book on teaching reading called A Swim in the Pond in the Rain . In this book, Saunders shares some of his lessons he learnt teaching Russian short stories to his students at Syracuse. It is an unbelievably fantastic book and I cannot thank Billy Clark enough for...