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Published April 10 2020: Order now for delivery on publication

Jennifer Webb collaborates with eight expert writers to give real insight into the written form, and offer practical teaching strategies for the English classroom. With advice on how to prepare students for writing beyond just the exam, the book includes dedicated chapters on writing like: a poet, a short-story writer, a playwright, an academic, a journalist and how to speak like a politician.

Includes contributions from: Adam Henze - extra-curricular writing programmes; Saju Iqbal Ahmed - spoken Word artist; Alix Robertson - journalism; Dame Estelle Morris - Speeches; Jacob Ross - Short Stories; Patricia Taylor - Academic Essays; Sai Murray - Poetry; Zodwa Nyoni - Playwright

Reviews

Jennifer Webb has done every English teacher a huge service by pointing out that the kind of writing teenagers dedicate hours to in school is 'contrived and far removed from the way people write in the real world.' Teach Like a Writer addresses this misalignment through the views and experience of real writers. Any English teacher serious about improving their craft will find both inspiration and practical ideas in this long overdue consideration of how to teach writing in secondary schools.' -- Joe Nutt, author, Teaching English Foe The Real World 

About the Author

Jennifer Webb is a mum, a wife, an English Teacher and Assistant Principal for Teaching and Learning at a diverse school in Inner City Leeds. She is also the author of HOW TO TEACH ENGLISH LITERATURE. Jennifer has been shaped by her dual British-Caribbean heritage and a family of dynamic women. Coming from a low income, single parent household, Jennifer achieved a place to read English at Merton College, Oxford and has spent almost a decade teaching in a range of schools in West Yorkshire. Jennifer is a well known blogger, teacher `tweeter', and regularly speaks at teaching conferences.