Teaching Literature at Key Stage 3 and 4

Introduction

Content

These web materials offer Initial Teacher Education (ITE) tutors ideas for working with student teachers on literature teaching at key stages 3 and 4. We include a selection of sessions from our experience as ITE Secondary English tutors which we have found to be valuable to our own student teachers. They include:

activities and materials to help student teachers in the early stages of the course to reflect critically on the understandings about literature they bring with them to their training
outlines of key sessions on literature taught during the course
samples of assignments used to assess student teachers' developing understanding about teaching literature.

Contents

Introduction

Early Stages

Activity: What is literature?

Prose

Teaching Edgar Allan Poe's The Black Cat

The teaching of myths: planning a scheme of work

References

Poetry

Differentiation and supporting pupils' responses to poetry

Teaching poetry and the Kolb learning cycle

Drama

Approaches to Shakespeare

Approaches to modern drama

Selected Resources and references