Posted by Annabel Mary Watson
13 January 2020A key focus of research in English teaching at the moment is on the dominance of paragraph scaffolds such as PEE or PEEL.
In a recent article, Simon Gibbons (Director of Teacher Education at Kings College London, former Chair of the National Association for Teachers of English) questions the origins and value of these structures:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/04250494.2019.1568832?src=recsys
If you would like a full copy of the article feel free to email a.m.watson@exeter.ac.uk and I’ll send you one.
An alternative way to approaching paragraphing at KS3 is explored in this open-access article, written by a teacher: https://www.nate.org.uk/file/2017/03/NATE_TE_Issue-13_33-36-ENSTONE-FINAL.pdf
– only 4 pages long and written for teachers, this would be an ideal article to take to an English department meeting for discussion!