Whole School Approaches to Literacy to Improve Attainment Across the Curriculum

Description

This short webinar series is delivered by Lisa Jane Ashes—trainer, secondary English specialist, author, and keynote speaker. Her books, “Manglish” and “Teacher in the Cupboard”, are essential toolkits and must-reads for secondary school teachers.

In this video series, we include four key pieces of information that apply to literacy across the secondary curriculum.

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Episode 1:

Cross-Curricular Reading for Exam Success

This video explores how we can teach reading across the whole curriculum to have more success in examinations. This is a snippet of what is possible when you prioritise disciplinary literacy in all lessons. It asks you to consider the reading skills that can lead your students to success and explores a range of subject area examples of how this could work for you.

Episode 2:

Improving outcomes through cross-curricular literacy

This video gives you a snippet of why cross-curricular literacy is important. What do we need to consider when planning cross-curricular literacy in our lessons, and how could cross-curricular literacy impact your student outcomes?

Episode 3:

The Importance of Oracy

In the UK, oracy is at the top of the education agenda. This is because, in a world of smartphones and technology, communication can often come second to a screen. How and why we should teach our students the power of communication within our subject areas.

Episode 4:

High Expectations for Written Communication Across the Curriculum

This episode is a snippet of what is possible when we all have high expectations of written communication across the curriculum. A little insight into the knowledge types that we should be considering when it comes to literacy and the power of cross-curricular collaboration.

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