Redefining English for the more able : a practical guide / Ian Warwick and Ray Speakman.

Includes index.

Analysing the backstory : how did English lose its way? -- Redefining the discipline : what's the point of teaching English? -- Overcoming the hurdles : what barriers block the highest achievement? -- Driving engagement in English : why are "manageable gaps" so important? -- Investigating the theory : what can current research add to our teaching? -- The classroom -- Moving into the linguistic universe (ages 8-11) : taking learners into the "art and craft of writing" -- Discovering the long road to me through short stories (ages 11-14) : moving learners into new territories -- Crafting perfected attention through poetry (ages 14-16) : encouraging learners to "extend their maps of experience" -- Disturbing the peace through drama (ages 14-16) : helping learners "to feel what wretches feel" -- Exploring structure and meaning through film (ages 16+) : offering learners different representations of reality.

"Written by Ian Warwick, founder of London Gifted and Talented, this practical guide offers English teachers news ways of thinking about teaching the more able, together with strategies to implement in the classroom straight way. It shows you how to recognize 'threshold concepts', critical points when students make advances in learning, how to enrich classroom conversation, help learners develop complex ideas and attack texts from as many angles as possible. Chapters address different age groups and aspects of English - short stories, drama, poetry, film - and include example lessons, demonstrating what ideas looks like in practice and showing how we can stretch and challenge all students"-- Provided by publisher.