Please click on this wakelet link to see the literacy summary (August – December 2020): Literacy Summary (Aug.-Dec. 2020)
Number Talks – Second Level – Week 2 – w/c 18th January 2021
Number Talks – EARLY and FIRST Levels. Week 2 – w/c 18th January 2021
Supporting Reading at Home
As always, EEF has some great resources – and translations. For those doing Reciprocal Reading, this guide highlights the main strategies too.
https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/covid-19-resources/support-resources-to-share-with-parents/7-top-tips-to-support-reading-at-home-translations/7_Top_Tips_to_Support_Reading_at_Home
Number Sense Routines – Number Story – Early, First and Second Levels
Number Sense Routines – Number Story
Please use and edit as appropriate.
Grammar in Context Webinars
Dr Kylie Bradfield (Stirling University) offered a series of grammar webinars on January 11th, 18th and 25th, 2021.
Dr Bradfield kindly gave permission to share the recordings and notes. Session 1 is Word Level Grammar.
Handout for session 1.
Dr Bradfield recommends using images to inspire:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/01/learning/40-more-intriguing-photos-to-make-students-think.html
Number Talks – EARLY and FIRST Levels. Week 1 – w/c 11th January 2021
Number Talks – Second Level – week commencing 11th January 2020
Understanding How Texts Work: Stephen Graham
Several FVWL practitioners had the opportunity to participate in a series of writing webinars live streamed from Australia. These sessions highlighted approaches to teaching five different text types. Members of the RIC Literacy Workstream will meet in the new year to decide how best to take this forward. In the meantime, there are some “headlines” below.
Related resources are saved in the RIC Writing Team. If you wish to be added to the RIC Writing Team please email: CLjadam@glow.sch.uk
Main Messages
A central thread running through all of the webinars was the importance of explicitly teaching writing and a gradual release of responsibility – moving from modelling to shared and interactive to independent writing.
| Modelling → | Shared & Interactive → | Independent |
| To → | With → | By |
Text Types
Three broad areas: persuasive; informative; imaginative.
Nine specific text types fall into the three broad areas: discussion; response; exposition; report; procedure; explanation; recount; description; narrative
It is not recommended to teach all 9 text types in one academic year! Rather, comprehensive coverage of 3 text types per year is advised – with a suggested five or six weeks spent teaching each text type.
The Describing Bubble
A tool that can be used for many writing tasks is “the describing bubble” (replicated here Describing Bubble) – and it is useful to have this in poster form/on the whiteboard so that it can be referred to often. This supports children and young people to develop paragraphs.
Further details available from the RIC Writing Team – email to join. (CLjadam@glow.sch.uk)
