A complete playbook for English teachers and heads of English, covering curriculum, reading, writing, assessment and departmental leadership from Year 7 to A Level.

Written for the reality of running two subjects as one department — Language and Literature, shared classes, and a curriculum that has to build a skill rather than cover a text list.

WHAT’S INSIDE
• 74 pages, professionally typeset for print
• From PEE to argument: moving students past the formula
• The analytical paragraph, creative writing and the literature essay — each shown four ways
• Where English marks are actually lost
• Teaching poetry without killing it, and Shakespeare as drama
• All four exam boards compared at GCSE and A Level, from the specifications
• Twenty-one templates: curriculum, moderation, trackers, intervention, meetings
• The marking load, and quality assurance without fear

Covers close reading, grammar as a tool for meaning, vocabulary taught rather than caught, oracy, and the GCSE to A Level handover.

Written for the head of English planning next year and the teacher planning Thursday.