English in the News
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- Bring chaos theory to English language teaching - The Guardian, Tuesday July 5, 2011
By relying on grammar rules in class, learners are in danger of becoming detached from the dynamism of spoken languageLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Headteachers reject 'appalling' marking of this year's Sats tests - The Guardian, Monday July 11, 2011
Headteachers fear their targets may be missed thanks to what some say is 'appalling' Sats markingLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Phonics test sounds phoney - The Guardian, Monday July 11, 2011
There's more to reading than sounding out letters, as Ros Asquith illustrates.
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Lil Chase's top 10 unwords - The Guardian, Wednesday July 27, 2011
From snozzberry and heffalump to muggle and singleton, the author of Boys for Beginners picks her favourite made-up wordsLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Slaughterhouse-Five banned by US school - The Guardian, Friday July 29, 2011
Kurt Vonnegut's celebrated second world war satire censored along with teen novel Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah OcklerLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Primary school Sats results on the rise - The Guardian, Tuesday August 2, 2011
Marked increase in 3Rs attainment for level 4 pupils but worries persist at level 5, particularly in reading abilityLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - More children read websites than comics, survey finds - The Guardian, Tuesday August 23, 2011
Literacy Trust poll of children's reading habits shows websites and emails displacing books and comicsLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Are books dead, and can authors survive? - The Guardian, Monday August 22, 2011
At the Edinburgh international book festival this weekend, Ewan Morrison set out his bleak vision of a publishing industry in terminal decline. Here's a shortened version of his argumentLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Bodleian Library shows off treasures, from Magna Carta to Shakespeare - The Guardian, Sunday September 25, 2011
Oxford library to ask exhibition visitors which items deserve permanent display - including a First Folio it once threw awayLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - The rime of the raving dotard - The Guardian, Thursday November 3, 2011
Learning poems by heart at school has numerous benefits - not least having them shouted at you on the street by erstwhile pupilsLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Ofsted tightens rules for rating schools as outstanding - The Guardian, Friday September 30, 2011
Inspectors have been told to pay more attention to pupils' behaviour, the quality of teaching, and children's ability to readLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Carol Ann Duffy: 'Poems are a form of texting' - The Guardian, Monday September 5, 2011
The poet laureate believes the fun and creativity of mobile texting will turn today's children into exciting poets of tomorrowLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - We're all film-makers now – and the Smith review must recognise that - The Guardian, Sunday September 25, 2011
Studying film is still often seen as lightweight. But in 2011 it's arguably as important as literature and scienceLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - It's not so easy to establish the study of film in our schools - The Guardian, Thursday October 6, 2011
Most teachers either don't feel they have permission to teach the subject, or don't know howLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - New GCSE controlled assessments are 'hindering children's learning' - The Guardian, Friday October 7, 2011
Study by qualifications quango Ofqual shows that reforms to GCSE coursework have reduced teaching and learning timeLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Anthony Horowitz fans gather to break a world reading relay record - The Guardian, Friday October 7, 2011
Antony Horowitz's new short story,The Double Eagle Has Landed is at the heart of a record-breaking reading attempt. [You can read the story yourself on the Guardian site]
Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - People of Britain, it's time to carve a few lines of poetry into your wheelbarrow - The Guardian, Sunday October 9, 2011
Winning Words is a great opportunity to have billboards saying 'Downward to darkness, on extended wings', rather than 'I'm lovin' it'Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Read all about it: Britain's shameful literacy crisis - The Guardian, Wednesday October 26, 2011
So rioters shunned bookshops because they didn't offer anything they wanted? That points to a debilitating exclusion from a civilised cultureLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here - World Book Night giveaway: a night of Good Omens or Misery? - The Guardian, Monday October 24, 2011
Curl up with Pratchett, Gaiman, King or Austen for one night of fiction, when one million books will be distributed for free – from a list of 25 – for second World Book Night on 23 April 2012Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here - Harold Pinter's forgotten sketch rediscovered after more than 50 years - The Guardian, Monday October 24, 2011
Surprise find at British Library is the script of 'Umbrellas', part of a 1960 revue performed only once at the Nottingham PlayhouseLink broken or innaccurate? Please report here