Literacy Skills as the Key to Deep Learning
Discover how literacy drives learning within and across subjects across the secondary school. We focus on knowledge vocabulary, concepts and the essentials of speaking and listening, reading and writing.
Video - Building on prior learning in literacy and grammar skills
The Transition Bridge - looking at programmes of study in key stage 2 and 3
English programmes of study for key stage 1 and 2
English programme of study for key stage 3
Session 1 Extension Activity: Talking literacy skills
Session 1: Literacy cards for extension activity
Session 2: Key concepts across the range of subjects that form the secondary curriculum
Key concepts within subjects
The three tiers of vocabulary
Session 2 activity: focusing on concepts
Session 2: Extension activity
Planning a sequence of learning - a proforma
Effective Communication in the Classroom
Creating a listening classroom
Supporting learners to become active listeners
An activity looking at the 5Ps of comprehension
Poems about the English language
Learning how to write with confidence and fluidly
Goal setting in relation to a whole school strategy for literacy across the curriculum