A free taster lesson, with ‘The Bridge’ PowerPoint slides, a lesson plan and worksheets is available so you can try Let's Think in English in your classroom.
Pearson Edexcel GCSE English Language (9-1) from 2015 post-16 resits
Building confidence with Let's Think in English
Let’s Think in English is a teaching programme designed to help students develop the response and analytical skills necessary to succeed in English. It is available to all our centres to support our GCSE (9-1) English Language qualification.
Let’s Think in English was created by Laurie Smith and Michael Walsh for King’s College London from 2009.
The programme has been trialled by 100+ schools over 5 years.
Proven success across the ability range
Like Grammar for Writing, Let’s Think in English is underpinned by a research trial in which it has been proven to work with students of all abilities.
It focuses on building skills of inference, deduction and analysis to build students' understanding, ability to express ideas, and confidence with unseen texts - whether fiction, poetry or non-fiction - in exam conditions.
Let’s Think in English lessons are largely oral and based on reading, with open-ended questioning and structured group discussion.
Learn more at the Let's Think in English website.
The Let's Think in English pedagogy
Try it now!
Download a free LTiE full unit of work (available to Pearson Edexcel centres only)
Download 5 lessons’ worth of free content below to trial and use in the classroom. These materials are also available for free via our ActiveTeach platform with full interactive functionality, exclusively for centres who have registered interest in GCSE English 2015.
We’re working to ensure that valuable and helpful resources are available to all our centres to support our Edexcel GCSE (9-1) English specifications, including:
- A set of free lesson plans from the Let’s Think in English team for use with GCSE classes.
- Professional development, including taster sessions from the Let's Think in English team as part of our Getting Ready to Teach events, and a full programme of professional development will follow.
- Published resources* that are underpinned by the Let's Think in English pedagogy to support our GCSE qualifications.
- Help with preparing for the English exams with online unseen practice texts.
- Support for understanding the standard, including exemplar student work and examiner commentaries, and free training on marking mock papers.
*Please note that Pearson published resources are not a prerequisite for the Edexcel qualifications, and published resources from other publishers are available.