Disciplinary Literacy
I’d recently put up a post about how the EEF stressed the importance of disciplinary literacy and its role in improving whole school literacy...
Headline: “Weak readers struggle more in maths than in English lit”
Further evidence of the importance of literacy on GCSE outcomes was published earlier this year with the conclusion that "Children who are weak readers...
Reflective Questioning
When getting students to REACT to a task, it is also worth considering getting them to REACT to their own thought process and what...
Teaching and Learning Resources
If you’re searching around to find teaching resources, a great place to investigate would be Mike Gershon’s extensive collection of free teaching ideas to...
Quick Marking Grid
An always useful resource for marking a class set of books is probably all the more useful at present when working through a set...
Stopping Cues
A couple of years ago I was mentoring a year 11 student during their EPQ about the effect of technology and mental health. One...
Topic sentences / subordinating conjunctions
Quick Grammar Lesson: (stick with it!)
Rule 1:
A conjunction is a word that can join two sentences.
I went to the shops. I bought a jacket....
A Novel Idea
There’s a line in Star Trek: Next Generation where a character decrees “You are free to execute your laws and your citizens as you...
“But, Because, So” – Expanding writing and thinking
A great technique for helping all students regardless of ability to expand on their writing and also to develop their thinking on ideas is...
Screencasting Options
During this period of remote teaching, it may be that some of you wish to explore the idea of screencasting.There is plenty of software...