Reading aloud in lessons marymyatt.substack.com/p/the-impact...

New post Reading aloud as intellectual inclusion open.substack.com/pub/marymyat...

Any suggestions? #EnglishScotland

Inspiring Quotes from Children's Classics: For Growing Up by Hannah Barnaby & Ruth Burrows. With quotes from The Velveteen Rabbit, The Wizard of Oz, Ramona & more - Daily new children's book #kidlit #BookOfTheDay #ad - Daily new children's book #kidlit #ad ⬇️ uk.bookshop.org/a/735/978146...

“Most poets can’t drive a car and the ones who do drive shouldn’t” I’m sure this is fine though www.theguardian.com/books/2023/j...

The very best wishes to all pupils and staff this prelim season. #EnglishScotland

How do you build strong readers who know how to analyze what they’re reading? Good modeling while reading higher-level texts will do the trick. 📖 #literacy #EduSky

The Secret History of Christmas by Catherine Saunders. Discover amazing events, discoveries and traditions that happened on 25 December - Daily new children's book #kidlit #BookOfTheDay #ad - Daily new children's book #kidlit #ad ⬇️ uk.bookshop.org/a/735/978152...

Where is the EduSky chat?#EnglishScotland

The Herald's Christmas appeal, in association with @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social, asks you to give a child the gift of reading 📗 GET INVOLVED: www.heraldscotland.com/opin...

Happy Friday from all of us at #EnglishScotland

We ❤️ Scotland's bookshops! If you love them too, take a moment to explore The Bookseller Association's report, The Cultural and Community Role of Scotland’s Bookshops. 🔗 booksellers.org.uk/getattachmen...

"The poem is a seagull resting on a pier at the end of the ocean." Jack Spicer

The future of education? #EnglishScotland chatgpt.com/use-cases/hi...

📣We're recruiting markers for the 2026 exams! Foster, a Technical Education and STEM teacher, says marking has benefitted him in many ways.🙌 The chance to share advice with colleagues has seen him return to marking year after year. Learn about current opportunities: info.sqa.org.uk/4nTXN7s

80 children's and teen books about World War 2, including nonfiction, fiction, playscript & poetry titles by Michael Rosen, Bali Rai, Tom Palmer, Emma Carroll, Sufiya Ahmed, Liz Kessler, Mal Peet, Anne Frank, Ruta Sepetys & more. schoolreadinglist.co.uk/genres/world... #teachersofx #kidlit

Attempting to motivate students with warnings like ‘you won’t get a decent job without good GCSEs’ can backfire, says @mrenglishteach.bsky.social – here, he shares some alternative approaches

In case you haven't heard. . . It's Book Week Scotland! ❤️📚💛 Browse the many exciting events happening in your area throughout the week (many of which are free to attend) on our website:  www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-week-sc...

Andrew O’Hagan & @moonjets.bsky.social on Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, & Bournemouth in this @lrb.co.uk podcast. When James first came to Skerryvore – RLS’s home, named for a Hebridean lighthouse – the maid mistook him for a carpet-fitter… #RLSDay #C19 💙📚 www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

Help us share the magic of books this Christmas with @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/opin... @salmondsalmond.bsky.social

This is a great idea for keeping book displays current. #EnglishScotland

Have a good week everyone. #EnglishScotland

The Oxfam bookshop on Glasgow’s Byres Road moved, recently, to a new location further down the hill – but I’m very pleased that they managed to take Alasdair Gray’s mural with them! I think he did this when on a break from painting the ceiling in Òran Mór … @agrayarchive.bsky.social

Happy 423 years of us! 🎉 📚 The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602... This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅

Get cosy with a book this week. #EnglishScotland

Just over a week to go until my talk at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow as part of the brilliant Aye Write festival - if you fancy hearing about my adventures in search of Scotland's ancient past, come along! Tickets available here: www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/the-... #RomanSiteSaturday #AyeWrite

I think if you ask parents and carers what they want from an education, a lot of them would prioritise their children being happy. Not to have fun all the time but just to feel good about going into the setting. We mustn't lose sight of that. ♥️

Really interesting thread on reading for enjoyment. ⬇️ #EnglishScotland

In front of me a girl with bare feet, in a beribboned dress, picks white flowers in a field somewhere near Pompeii… —Stewart Conn, “Springtime” from IN THE KIBBLE PALACE, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 1987 #Pompeii was destroyed possibly #OTD, 24 Oct, 79CE #Roman #archaeology #poem #poetry

“It was one of the last autumn days when the leaves were falling in little gusts. They fell on the children who were thankful for this excuse to wriggle and for the allowable movements in brushing the leaves from their hair and laps.” —Muriel Spark, THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE #BookWormSat 💙📚

📖 'Many students who could write with flair fail to do so because they cannot memorise or recall textual references…' A major exam provider is making all its English exams open-book – could others follow suit?

Its day therteen o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: plooter

www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2553... @jamesmcenaney.bsky.social

“What is it useful for the teacher to know and how much can we expect them to internalise and act upon?” Excellent by @head-teach.bsky.social. Why SEND labels & information from EHCPs are hard to process in useful ways for complex of classrooms: matthewevanseducation.substack.com/p/the-eye-of...

We are delighted to announce that Orcadian author Barbara Stevenson will return to Academia Lunare with a new work on Scottish Gothic Fiction: The Kirk, the Deil and the Grue Atween. Luna Press has acquired EWR and we are looking forward to welcome it in the new year! @babette1-62.bsky.social 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Calling Scottish #writers! Apply for the 2026 Scottish Writing Fellowship at the @universityofotago.bsky.social’s Centre for Irish & Scottish Studies in Aotearoa New Zealand, from 1 Aug–30 Sept 2026. Includes flights, accommodation & stipend. Deadline 31 Oct! #writing www.otago.ac.nz/ciss

🚨 NEW POST 🚨 ‘Scaffolding and PEAL paragraphs’ “What should teachers do? Do paragraph plans, PEAL, and similar scaffolds have a place? Should we get rid and do things differently?” alexquigley.co.uk/scaffolding-...

Happy Bookshop Day! There are over 200 independent children's bookshops on my map so do pay your local one a visit. It's regularly updated but please let me know of any more I could add. padlet.com/Jon_Biddle/r...

On the subject of young people don’t read blah blah, our middle son charged into our house unexpectedly the other day demanding “the classics.” “Bring me your Brontes,” he said. Now he’s sent a pic of him reading The Handmaid’s Tale on a train with the message: “Performative maling.”

NEW BLOG: Do it now or do it when you’ve thought about it a bit more? Sorry for taking a blog holiday! learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/2025/10/do-i... #engchat #engchatuk

Call for Papers and Sessions Fantasy’s Present Pasts University of Glasgow Tuesday 23rd – Thursday 25th June 2026 Keynote Speakers: Stefan Ekman, Sofia Samatar and Helen Young More details on the conference in the post linked below - deadline for proposals is Friday 12th December.

October is Black History Month, and the perfect time for readers of all ages to delve into books about Black history. Our brilliant book list includes a wide range of engaging and informative reads for children and young people 📚👇

👀👀 English 4-11 #Reading #ShortStories ⬇️

“…issuing, by the handiwork of Satan, from his grave at night-time, and pursued by a pack of dogs with horrible barkings, he wandered through the courts and around the houses…” —William of Newburgh (c.1136–98) tells of a plague-spreading vampire in Annan, Dumfriesshire #WyrdWednesday #MedievalSky

Sadly many schools are without a library or librarian. #EnglishScotland

Time is almost up to win one of our Book of the Month competitions! ⌛📚 www.scottishbooktrust.com/competitions...

On BBC Sounds: Jackie Kay talks to John Wilson about her childhood in Glasgow as the mixed-race, adopted daughter of a loving couple, & her formative creative influences. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

As with almost every article written about reading in the past few years, this one has inspired a few suggestions that the focus on phonics has caused problems. I'd like to explain why I disagree. >>

💡’Supporting shy pupils to talk in class’ “Confidence that their teacher is sensitive to their needs is likely to breed increased engagement, while we can assume similar for reliable friends being present in their classes.” alexquigley.co.uk/supporting-s...