Short and very, very sweet - here are the EPs that made us jump up and down the most in 2023!
MUSIC FOCUS: The best EPs of 2023.ACTIVITY FOCUS: Come up with... Read More...
MUSIC FOCUS: Holding Absence, Taylor Swift, Against The Current, YONAKA, Chrissy Costanza, Lil Lotus & Olivia RodrigoACTIVITY FOCUS: Analysing quotations i... Read More...
Soooo much music that made our hearts go BOOM! Here our the best 75 songs of 2023...
MUSIC FOCUS: The best releases of 2023.ACTIVITY FOCUS: Come up with your own 'Best Of' list.
Listen to Sound of Pen's favourite tracks of the year!
75. Che... Read More...
So many of our favourite songs are as multi-layered as any of the texts we study in school. With the new term dawning, here are the tracks that have already kn... Read More...
Sound of Pen classes use music as a doorway to a deeper understanding of GCSE & A-Level English texts.
Sound of Pen is home to original, unique free les... Read More...
Is there anything more fun that writing about the things you REALLY love? And is there anything any of us love more than going to a festival?!
MUSIC FOCUS: Download Festival.ACTIVITY FOCUS: Have a read through our letter to Download Festival boo... Read More...
Hello, GORGEOUS people. It's time to study our list of 2021's BEST albums and EPs. Once you've done that, crank the playlist up loud and get ready to take your... Read More...
From number 50 to number 1, here are the songs we loved most this year.
50. While She Sleeps, Nervous
49. Doll Skin, Control Freak
48. Creeper, Midnig... Read More...
Let's be clear: you want your analysis of a writer's alliteration to SPARKLE! Okay, so it's fair to say that a writer often uses the technique to draw our attention to key words or to give them extra oomph - and it's useful to recognise the ways in... Read More...
And so we reach the end of another school year. Where did the time go?!
It's been an amazing first twelve months for Sound of Pen. It started with a collect... Read More...
We've heard so much amaaaaazing music in 2021 already! Here are the songs we've enjoyed most. Each mini-review includes a word that you can try to use in your ... Read More...
If you say you LOVE Kim Petras as much as you LOVE Enter Shikari, some people look at you like you're craaaaaaaaazy. When, of course, what they should be doing is looking at you like you're coooooooool!
BECAUSE YOU ARE.
Here's a list of some ... Read More...
Whenever we record one of our Wormholes podcasts, we use the artist in question's ideas as fuel for a series of related classes. Theresa Jarvis of YONAKA spear... Read More...
YONAKA's delivery is key. Theresa and the gang use different tones to convey a whole range of emotional states and ideas.
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We've already charted our top 20 albums/EPs of 2019, but here are our favourite individual songs. Each track stood on its own two feet as a one-off TUUUUNE x
Read through our life-changing list below, then have a listen.
75: Like Torches, The ... Read More...
Is there anything more fun than compiling an end of year album/EP list? We've loved listening to these 20 records so much! They say A LOT about who we are at S... Read More...
