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Reading and writing: reciprocity in teaching and practice
Edited by Robert Fraser
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Articles
Editorial: On not being George Eliot: Creativity and the critical reader Open Access: available for non-members
Robert Fraser
Need we “murder to dissect”?
Beyond the essay Open Access: available for non-members
Thomas Karshan
A new project seeks to question the conventional divide between creative and critical teaching by researching and reviving historic alternatives.
Accomplice or judge?
Barbara Bleiman
Reciprocity in creative-critical practice in school English
Looking for pleasure
Megan Dixon
What is the desired connection, at KS1 and KS2, between reading for pleasure and writing for pleasure, and how is this relationship best encouraged and enhanced?
The synergy between creative writing and critical reading
Anthony Cockerill
The process of reading, looking and understanding is a fundamental part of any creative endeavour — and equally, writing creatively means that students become more alert and receptive as readers.
Poetry By Heart and creative writing
Tim Shortis and John Holt
Does learning poetry by heart encourage and assist young people in the writing of their own poetry? Two teachers active in the field meditate on the imaginative benefits of a current project based on this approach.
Creative writing and English Literature
Freddie Baveystock
It’s time to renew the vows
How a book become a badge of belonging
Alison Baverstock
In what ways has exposure to published writing through The Big Read project at Kingston University encouraged readers’ own writing skills?
Teaching creative-critically
J. T. Welsch
How historical perspectives can help students explore a supposedly new form
Studying the ‘true and vulgar business’ of writing
Emma Darwin
Creative writing as research
Learning and unlearning: creativity and the adult boffin
Robert Fraser
A selective course of reading and writing can often release unsuspected or neglected sources of creativity in adults
Reading writing righting reading
Jeremy Treglown
How certain twentieth-century developments helped students of different ages tackle a very ancient task
Writing, reading, and mindfulness: The Journal of a Disappointed Man
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
When things fall apart, writing and reading can help put the world together again
News and Views
The National Theatre’s playwriting programme, New Views
New Views is the National Theatre’s year-long playwriting programme for students aged 14–19
The Betty Haigh Shakespeare Prize: winning essays
Enjoy the two winning essays in the 2024-25 competition, Thea Dixon’s ‘‘I am all the daughters of my father’s house, and all the brothers too,’: gender, performance, heteronormativity, and homoeroticism in Act 2 Scene 4 of Nunn’s Twelfth Night and Sophie Verai’s ‘Ophelia: Fresh Eyes and a Sound Mind’
Dead Poets Live: going digital, staying live
From this autumn, Dead Poets Live, after two years of touring secondary schools, will be freely offering teaching materials: devised with teachers, made with famous performers, and specifically conceived to encourage participation and performance in the teaching of poetry.
