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Mar 18 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Cat Mann is phenomenal - really powerful talk on writing for pleasure - she has had us all writing today and it’s been such an effective way of demonstrating its meditative potential. @FSDConferences #FSD2023
Cat teaches sonnet writing to all her students - how often do we ask them to transform writing from one form to another? How often do we let them see things from all angles? Writers of sonnets will be better readers of sonnets… #FSD2023 @FSDConferences
‘Write a description of a significant moment without using the sense of sight’ - love this from Cat Mann #FSD2023 @FSDConferences
…aaaand an emphatic plug from Cat for the @EngMediaCentre ‘Just Write’ and ‘Write On’ books @BarbaraBleiman 😁

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I felt extremely privileged to deliver the opening keynote for @FSDConferences yesterday - what a joy to do something in The North and spend the day with my lovely colleagues and other like-minded educators. Here are a few of the things I said:
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Note - ADHD is a broad spectrum taking in a number of different tendencies, opportunities and challenges. This is just my experience - I am a 35 year old mother of two with combined type.

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I had to think REALLY hard yesterday when Y7 got two similar concepts confused. I wasn’t immediately sure how to explain this clearly. Rather than launch into a half-baked re-teach, I set a 5 min writing task and took that time to work out examples in my modelling book. 1/
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3/ If it means you leave it for now and come back to it in the next lesson to give yourself time to consider, that is fine. Being in a rush just breeds more confusion down the line!
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Dec 3, 2022
How do you tackle misconceptions? I have a section at the back of exercise books where we track misconceptions as they arise and I try to create examples which are rock solid (not always possible, but important to craft them as carefully as you can to avoid further issues…) 🧵
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Some last minute Y11 creative writing work from yesterday 🧵
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3. I then extract the verbs from both pieces and directly compare them. VERBS ARE KING. We talked about the difference between them and how they create movement and atmosphere…
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