Secondary English for Generation Alpha

Secondary English for Generation Alpha seeks to promote a humane, responsive, and creative pedagogy for English that will develop and enrich understanding and enjoyment of language in all its forms (speaking, listening, reading and writing) and help students develop into successful members of their home and wider communities.

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Dr Lorna Smith is Associate Professor of Education at the University of Bristol.

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Secondary English for Generation Alpha seeks to promote a humane, responsive, and creative pedagogy for English that will develop and enrich understanding and enjoyment of language in all its forms (speaking, listening, reading and writing) and help students develop into successful members of their home and wider communities.

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Epigraph - In all its forms

Introduction

Section 1: Speaking and Listening

1: Dialogue in the English classroom

2: Linguistic Justice efforts in England's schools ****

Section 2: Interpreting Literature

3: How do students read and interpret whole texts and become engaged readers?

4: Making meaning together: how can literary theory develop critical reading skills in English?

5: Drama-based pedagogy and reading in the secondary English classroom

6: Poetry in the Moment

Section 3: Exploring Non-Fiction

7: Literary non-fiction in a post-truth era curriculum

8: From the perspective of trees: developing students eco and socio-critical literacies with non-fiction texts

Section 4: Fostering Writing

9: Hands on: Using a 'PlayBox' to support teachers develop racial literacy through workshops and personal writing

10: Four ways personal language autobiographies can transform the English teaching of Generation Alpha

11: 'Made in Stoke-on-Trent'. From Potters to 'Best China' Poets: Creating a collaborative poetry anthology ****

12. Metalinguistic knowledge and writing development.