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Literacy Edition. Quotes to ponder: “ There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.” Frank Serafini
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Literacy Edition Quotes to ponder: “There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.” Frank Serafini “Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.” Kofi Annan Love Literacy Week 2013Teaching and Learning Newsletter Staff Literacy Tips of the Day
Literacy across the Curriculm • Questioning Strategies • Use questions to frame lessons and/or activities. • Ask questions that suggest you are not expecting the same answer from • every pupil. Do this by including one of the following words in a question: • might, may, could, would. • Ask students to discuss a question with a partner/group before tackling it as • a whole class. • Encourage students to ask each other questions during whole class discussions. You could appoint several ‘Question Spotters’ each lesson/week! • Appoint ‘Reason Police’ each lesson/week. Their job is to ensure that other students in the class are explaining the reasons behind their ideas by asking them questions! • Ways to Structure Talk • Create listening triads! Put pupils into groups of three, you will need a talker, a questioner and a recorder. • Pause group work to allow a ‘magpie’ from each group to ‘steal’ ideas from another group. • Snowball: ask students to discuss an idea/question in pairs, then in fours, then finally in eights before a whole class debate commences! • Create a speaking frame for the students to use. • Ask students to reflect on talk in the lesson (meta-talk). For example: What questions did your group ask to solve the mystery? What did you contribute to the discussion? • Writing strategies • Give students a choice of writing tasks to complete. • Develop writing through your feedback, drafts and peer conferencing. • Pupils construct writing together. • Encourage students to link ideas with the use of connectives. • Make the purpose, audience, style and structure of the text you want the students to write clear. Model it. • Show pupils good and bad examples of written work. • Reading Strategies • Ask pupils to underline any words they don’t understand and discuss these as a group. • Present longer texts to pupils in a series of small sections. • Highlight the most important parts of a text. • Encourage pupils to summarise rather than copy texts. Model this. • Sequence a disjointed text. • Draw an illustration/graph to show what a text means at a certain point. • Perform part of a text. • Give students time to discuss and clarify what has been read. • Consider the following questions: What? Who? Why? How? • Ask students to read texts together in small groups and ask each other any questions they have before you discuss the text as a whole class. • Create writing frames and vocabulary boxes for students. They could also create their own!
Recommended ‘Literacy’ Reads The Literacy Toolkit Gwynne’s Grammar Literacy Across The Curriculum ‘Literacy in Action’ Displays English, Modern Foreign Languages, Maths and Religious Studies
