Mrs.D
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Mrs.D
@mrsdreadsup.bsky.social
English teacher and Literacy Lead
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I think about this poem a lot at the minute
May 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Madwoman in the Attic was one of those texts that completely changed my understanding of literature. RIP Gilbert of Gilbert and Gubar. www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
Sandra Gilbert, co-author of The Madwoman in the Attic, dies aged 87
The writer was also a renowned academic and poet as well as being one of the leading figures of second wave feminism
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2024 at 9:16 PM
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Back-to-work blues? Sunday scaries? New-year nerves? 😟😢😱😳 #edpsychs #edusky

Here’s a few tips for an uplifting return to work: 🧵

@pippatep.bsky.social @ephoughton.bsky.social @viola-jane.bsky.social @edpsydan.bsky.social @edpsy.bsky.social @maxpurpose.bsky.social @aspenpsychology.bsky.social
August 31, 2024 at 4:45 PM
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Meanwhile, this is likely the most useful thing I collated and pulled together. It was entirely the result of the collaboration of teachers and I reckon would still be very helpful for English teachers.

englishremnantworld.wordpress.com/an-english-t...
An English Teachers’ Bibli-blography
This page is very much under construction at the moment. In fact, it's likely that you will be able to say that about this page for some time, if not indefinitely. It's designed to be a collation of b...
englishremnantworld.wordpress.com
August 8, 2024 at 8:16 AM
I'm new to #edusky and missing the bookmark function from 'the other platform'. I'm leaving a pin, or re-posting. Any other ideas? Thanks
August 28, 2024 at 6:39 AM
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I really like this idea from @MrRobHistory on Twitter. I’m going to try it with some of my students in English for the literature texts. Great to see how one idea can be utilised across different subjects. Thanks, Derrick! @teamenglish1.bsky.social
August 24, 2024 at 12:12 PM
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Celebrating the arrival of @helenprince.bsky.social and @kathrine28.bsky.social here on #EduSky by sharing this podcast on disciplinary literacy - the most listened to episode on the Oxford Education Podcast. #UKEd
oxfordeducationpodcast.blubrry.net/2022/01/13/2...
27. Disciplinary literacy in the classroom with Kathrine Mortimore - Oxford Education Podcast
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oxfordeducationpodcast.blubrry.net
August 23, 2024 at 6:26 AM
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#TeamEnglish - A synthesis and summary of the AQA English Language Paper 1 Examiners' Report for June 2024: 1drv.ms/w/c/4ca27bf9...

(Paper 2 to follow shortly)
August 22, 2024 at 5:44 AM
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Hello edu-Bluesky! 👋
For those of you thinking about what’s coming up this week, here’s a thread I wrote last year about GCSE results data…

This is an overview of what I do when I get my data in… 👇
August 19, 2024 at 5:26 PM
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My first BlueSky resource share! A new booklet designed to help students with considering quotations from the literature texts. As always… use/chuck/change as you see fit! @teamenglish1.bsky.social

www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/eimu1...
August 20, 2024 at 3:57 PM
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Excellent blog on reading a complex text (using a geography example) to exemplify a helpful disciplinary literacy approach by @jdurran.bsky.social

jamesdurran.blog/2024/08/19/d...
Disciplinary literacy: reading a challenging text in the classroom
This post unpacks a typical approach to reading a challenging text, in this case in a geography lesson. It also describes a number of practices associated with strong ‘adaptive teaching’. Reading chal...
jamesdurran.blog
August 20, 2024 at 2:39 PM
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#EduSky community is now over 3.5k strong!
August 18, 2024 at 4:54 AM
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I made a starter pack for those fleeing #EduTwitter and joining #EduSky which should let you find a bunch of good people.

go.bsky.app/HQHD4R1
August 15, 2024 at 1:34 PM