This book has given me so many ideas for next year. We will be celebrating International Men's Day! @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social @hcat201.bsky.social

I think just the emoji but I haven't tried it!

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Hello #edusky! @richkhistory.bsky.social and I are running this webinar series this autumn…

All about teaching disciplinary thinking (‘second order concepts’) in history….

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Case study: The Faster Read programme at Scalby School Can fast reading novels improve pupils' comprehension? A secondary school case study

This hopefully explains it in context 🙂: researchschool.org.uk/huntington/n...

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@kathrine28.bsky.social I have just read this which I found really interesting and I now finally understand standardised age scores!

Humans first, professionals second Well hello there, and welcome to update #089!

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Humans first, professionals second

As we think about how we treat one another at the start of the new year

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To be honest, a good starting point is ensuring all subjects have glossaries and key word banks students can access when practising more extended responses.

Here is a folder of literacy resources that might be useful:
📘 library lesson booklets with extracts and creative writing tasks for y7 and 8;
📘 vocabulary template used to create our school dictionary;
📘 literacy strategy;
📘 disciplinary literacy wider reading.

drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Thanks Vicky!

You too x

Disciplinary literacy: reading a challenging text in the classroom This post unpacks a typical approach to reading a challenging text, in this case in a geography lesson. It also describes a number of practices associated with strong ‘adaptive teaching’. Reading chal...

NEW POST: Disciplinary literacy: a step-by-step guide to reading a challenging text in the classroom.
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Thanks Sam!

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Celebrating the arrival of @helenprince.bsky.social and @kathrine28.bsky.social here on #EduSky by sharing this podcast on disciplinary literacy - the most listened to episode on the Oxford Education Podcast. #UKEd
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Disciplinary literacy: reading a challenging text in the classroom This post unpacks a typical approach to reading a challenging text, in this case in a geography lesson. It also describes a number of practices associated with strong ‘adaptive teaching’. Reading chal...

Excellent blog on reading a complex text (using a geography example) to exemplify a helpful disciplinary literacy approach by @jdurran.bsky.social

jamesdurran.blog/2024/08/19/d...

Great SLT. It's in a classroom teacher's best interests to teach good lessons, and with a great SLT you can create a culture which encourages them to improve. Self-interested SLT will ultimately cause all the great staff to leave so it won't stay that way for long!

Here is a folder of literacy resources that might be useful:
📘 library lesson booklets with extracts and creative writing tasks for y7 and 8;
📘 vocabulary template used to create our school dictionary;
📘 literacy strategy;
📘 disciplinary literacy wider reading.

drive.google.com/drive/folder...