Teaching Literature at Key Stage 3 and 4

Contents

• Introduction
• Content
• Expectations
• Assessing student teachers' learning about literature
• Writing a short story for pupils: formative assessment
• Researching and teaching literature: summative assessment
• Links with other ITE English web pages
• Further reading
• References
• Professional Standards for QTS
• Early Stages
• Prior experiences and interests
• Exploring subject knowledge at the admission interview
• Pre-course tasks
• Opening up the literature curriculum
• Activity: What is literature?
• Literature in school
• References
• Prose
• Teaching Edgar Allan Poe's The Black Cat
• Pre-reading activities
• Reading of the story and first impressions
• Further activities
• Teaching Robert Swindells' Staying Up
• Teaching examples of non-fiction
• The Diary of Anne Frank
• Ways of Seeing
• The teaching of myths: planning a scheme of work
• Advance preparation: Guidance for student teachers
• Learning aims/key questions in planning a unit of work
• The National Curriculum and the Framework for secondary English
• Through what activities?
• How will you organise the activities and structure the pupils' learning?
• Outcomes
• Feedback, self-assessment and assessment
• Student teachers' comments about planning the Myths Scheme of Work
• Other outcomes
• References
• Poetry
• Differentiation and supporting pupils' responses to poetry
• Activity 1
• Activity 2
• Teaching poetry and the Kolb learning cycle
• Activity 3
• Activity 4
• Activity 5
• Poetry resources
• References
• Drama
• Approaches to Shakespeare
• Guiding principles
• Starting points
• Exploring views on Shakespeare
• A variety of perspectives
• Shakespeare as a contemporary cultural icon
• Encouraging 'active' approaches
• 'Ways in' to plays
• Activities to consider the whole play
• Using new technologies
• Approaches to modern drama
• Key Stage 4
• Key Stage 3
• Selected Resources and references
• Websites and web resources
• Books