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NATE Classroom is NATE's magazine, essential reading for all teachers of English, both primary and secondary. It has articles about practical teaching strategies and resources, reflections on recent experiences, a regular review section addressing relevant  texts for teachers and children's fiction, and extracts from relevant, entertaining texts by professional writers and authors.

The wide scope of NATE Classroom, across both primary and secondary phases, enables a new, invigorating exploration of  English. Fun, humour and imaginative approaches are to be found throughout.

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Issue #11

June 2010

Featured Articles

After SATs - what next?

by Simon Gibbons

Multimodality and assessment

by Petula Bhojwani

What does APP spell?

by Simon Wrigley

Assessment for learning?

by Carrie Ansell and Lorna Smith

Beyond the crossroads (part one)

by Phil Jarrett

Shakespeare and GCSE assessment

by Peter Thomas

NATE's annual, national conference

by Trevor Millum

Assessment at the crossroads

by David Gibbons

Out with the new, in with the old?

by Julie Blake

Assessment in Scotland

by Linda Harris, Hugh Gallagher, Raymond Soltysek, Jenny Allan and John Lawson

Assessing recreative writing

by Jane Bluett

Behind the scenes at OCR

by Paul Dodd

Developing thinking

by Jane Aldridge

APP in KS3 English - enemy or ally?

by Michelle Cleaver

Teachit - On the hoof assessment

by Richard Durant

Teachit Primary: Assessment in the classroom

by Jo Heffer

Teachit staffroom roundup

by Bronia Walker

Using technology to make assessment effective

by Paul Stevenson

Assessment - analytical teaching tool or creative stumbling block?

by Sarah Mullins

Classroom quiz page

by Phil Kendall

Any English questions?

by Bethan Marshall and Simon Gibbons

Extract - Could do Better

by Catherine Hurley


 

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