The teaching of unseen texts can provide brilliant opportunities for students to apply their skills and knowledge, but it is not without its challenges.

To kick off the first English episode of 'How do you Teach?', PiXL CEO Rachel Johnson is joined by expert teachers and authors Haili Hughes (@HugesHaili) and Chris Curtis (@Xris32), who discuss the importance of normalising the difficulty of approaching unseen texts, as well as why it is vital to embed skills from Year 7 to improve confidence and familiarity.

Chris and Haili delve into why emotional literacy is so crucial to engaging with unseen texts successfully, and how they build up students' navigational skills when approaching different styles of texts to ensure purposeful analysis, rather than feature-spotting.

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The 'How do you teach?' podcast from PiXL explores the key areas that pupils find challenging in English and Science.

Expert educationalists from our network suggest practical approaches you can take as teachers to help your students strive for success now.

Episodes are released weekly episodes to help you support your pupils over this crucial period.

English episodes are released on a Monday and Science on a Tuesday.

"How do you teach?" is a We Are In Beta production.