30 second starter. With your partner work out what is wrong with the poster on the following slide? Richard Kennett, Redland Green School, Bristol @kenradical.

30 second starter.

With your partner work out what is wrong with the

poster on the following slide?

Richard Kennett, Redland Green School, Bristol @kenradicalwww.radicalhistory.co.uk



Getting the kids to fly with literacy


lit•er•a•cy

Noun : The ability to read, write and communicate

Speaking and

listening

WritingReading


Improving literacy this year required three realisations…


1.That I would need to improve my own literacy

2.That I needed to work out what good literacy in my subject looked like

3.That I couldn’t leave it to the English dept. and I needed to focus on the three strands of literacy


Step 1: Improving your own literacy

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1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

1960s


IMHO this is how it should be!


TEST TIME


ANSWERS1 = A & D2 = C3 = B4 = B5 = A6 = D7 = C8 = B9 = C

Total Marks = 10


Step 1: Improving my own literacy


Step 1: Improving my own literacy


Step 1: Improving the literacy of my team


Step 2: Working out what good literacy in

your subject looks like

“All I'm saying is if we walk Jamaican, talk Jamaican, and is Jamaican, then we sure as hell better bobsled

Jamaican.”


What does it mean to be literate in your subject?



Step 3: Focusing on the three strands of

literacy





“The curious combination of constructive griping, utopian visions and brutal limits altered in balance over time… This complexity is integral to the people’s paradox.”

Mary Fulbrook, The People’s State, 2005

moaningaiming for a perfect state

referring to the lack of

freedom and oppression

two opposite things

happening at the

same time


What could you do in your subject to promote / increase reading?












What could you do in your subject to focus on better writing?


(an @teachertoolkit idea)



What could you do in your subject to increase the amount of speaking and listening?

30 second starter. With your partner work out what is wrong with the poster on the following slide? Richard Kennett, Redland Green School, Bristol @kenradical.

Documents

redland green school

literacy richard kennett

realisations richard

strands of literacy

team slide

following slide

test time slide

good literacy