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Susan Elkin

@SusanElkinJourn

Susan Elkin is an education journalist, author and former secondary teacher of English. Her book Unlocking the Reader in Every Child is published by Ransom. She is Education and Training Editor at The Stage.

Yes, you can teach kids with DVDs

Gwyneth Rees, The Honeymoon Sisters: 'Very messy and modern'

Hannah Crawforth & Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, On Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Simon Horobin, How English Became English: A Short History