Thanks to @BarbaraBleiman 's book What Matters in English Teaching for helping me structure @KingsCollegeLon PGCE novel teaching training. Examples of using 'the EMC way' on The Girl or Ink & Stars. Early days but promising year 7 work without acronyms #teamenglish

Students used @LetsThinkForum reasoning from The Bridge to come up with rank order of power and give reasons for judgements & then spontaneously began thinking about blame in the novel.

I'm finding the feedback I want to give SO much more meaningful than if I was just doing EBI: use a quote. Their ideas are expressed a bit oddly on occasion but in a much richer, less restrained way than teaching using GCSE specs/ acronyms as a basis!