Supporting Secondary School Literacy
Never in the field of school leadership has so much been expected, with so little time, as the role of literacy coordinator.
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Never in the field of school leadership has so much been expected, with so little time, as the role of literacy coordinator.
Supporting Secondary School Literacy Read More »
My nine-year old boy, Noah, has been working hard on his handwriting this week. He fizzes with ideas when he writes, but most often his handwriting and his spelling simply cannot keep up. You can see the sheer physicality of his writing as shifts and squirms on his chair: each thought sparking a shuffle of
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What connections can you make between these words? Are there any patterns of meaning or word families you notice? Could you even detect the author who penned these words? These disembodied words are drawn from the Charles Dickens classic, ‘A Christmas Carol’. I have used the word cloud as a teaching tool to help students
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I have written a countless number of essays. At school, university, and back at school again, showing my students how to do it. In my fourteen years teaching I must have modelled hundreds of essays. I have likely set and assessed thousands of the blighters. My go-to strategy has always been to model the essay
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I wrote this article for the February edition of Teach Secondary magazine. If you are interested in subscribing, take a look HERE. Here is the article in full: The Rosetta Stone is one of the most famous rocks in all of history, providing one of the keys to the history of language as we know it. When
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