We are really excited about our growing suite of free online resources which are independent in themselves but link with units in the ‘Opening Doors’ series. Do take a look and choose one to start with! They can be used for remote learning or as lessons in the classroom! Each one is a commentary with tuition and suggestions for explorations and writing from one of the ‘Opening Doors’ team:
https://www.thereadingschool.org/activities
You can read more about the resources on the home page:
Poetry
About half the units in each of the ‘Opening Doors’ books are on poetry. See the crown house links for the poems used and the titles. Work through from this 6-9 book:
www.crownhouse.co.uk/publications/opening-doors-to-a-richer-english-curriculum-for-ages-6-to-9
You may find these lists useful as starting points for discovering poets and poems. That’s all any list can be!
This is a webinar made for ‘The National Association of Advisers in English’. In it, I explain the importance of poetry and how the opening doors strategies can help access, enjoyment and achievement.
Example Units
So many teachers are asking about the ‘Opening Doors’ series as a whole with the new books being published that I thought I would post some full units for you to peruse and use from ‘Opening Doors to Quality Writing’, one example for ages 6-9 and one for 10-13.
Please let me have any resulting pupils’ work for consideration for the site here, kindly run by Crown House. You will see many examples and they are very inspiring.
Free Resources
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins and Slowly by James Reeves
