Good ideas = good writing. A simple truth. Supporting this development in class is essential. This article also explores the role of AI and oracy. Lin Goram

*** Getting Reading Fluency Right *** “The more intentional we are about reading aloud in class, and developing fluency, the better.” alexquigley.co.uk/getting-readin…

Delighted to hear Jessie Ricketts, moving to @rickettslara.bsky challenging the 'word gap' discourse & arguing that we should know abt the rich language sts bring to the classroom & use it to 'enrich' the learning that is happening. She's brill on the transition 'jump' too. TheLiteracyCommunity Literacy Network

Been back teaching History for a few weeks now and loved getting out one of my favourite starters from Literacy Network

Nicky Donazzan Literacy Network Yayyy! The multiple choice helps a lot of students to then use the word correctly in context. Hopefully it works well 🤞

Team English Literacy Network anyone have any examples of reciprocal reader that they would be willing to share???

Practicing writing, building sentences step by step 3/5

To plan/as a scaffold for structured talk 4/5

Another day - another summer book club launched Another 30 Nathanael Lessore this time #kingofnothing books out to year 8s for an amazing summer of reading. I cannot wait to hear all about it. Hot Key Books ✨📚 Team English PiXL Literacy Network Reading for Pleasure 🧶

I really like this idea from Derrick Roberts! I’m going to try it with some of my students in English for the literature texts. Great to see how one idea can be utilised across different subjects. Thanks, Derrick! Team English

Has anyone completed a disciplinary literacy audit across subjects? What did this look like for you? Staff audit done but would like to see where individual subject areas currently are 📚 #disciplinaryliteracy Literacy Network TheLiteracyCommunity

Christina Mc Literacy Network TheLiteracyCommunity dropbox.com/scl/fo/ej4o0rm… This uses the EEF improving secondary literacy guidance- to be issued to each dept and the spreadsheet to collate the responses allowed me to see where the areas if needs were

Introducing exam questions via I do, we do, you do in the first GCSE Lesson with Year 10 🙌 Hugely inspired by Pete Jackson blog that he shared.

A great thread about fluency 📖

I tried Rachel Cliffe good / best / better paragraph idea this week, and it has been transformational. Thank you so much for the inspiration. I'm going to use this for Q4 next.

One page overview of sentence structures from The Writing Revolution douglaswise.co.uk/blog/writing-r… ✍️

Reading for Pleasure 🧶 Team English School Librarian Learning Network Literacy Network Lucas Maxwell Alice Visser-Furay Please see below… Any advice to get the potentially lost/misplaced books back where they belong 🤞🙏

Today we welcome the Oracy Education Commission report. We are delighted to support its findings and central message: that oracy should be the fourth “R”, of equal status with reading, writing, and arithmetic. voice21.org/oracy-educatio…

Here's a ppt with 27 short audiobooks (15 mins-1.5 hours) available on YouTube (my focus is Y9 but some for younger students too). Thank you to many on edu-Twitter who helped collate this! Let me know if you have more ideas, especially with diverse voices. bit.ly/3NIgETd

'Reading in Secondary Students: What do we know?' This research report from National Literacy Trust by Prof Ricketts, Dr Clark & I Picton is a synthesis of 'key findings on reading in secondary schools'. It's an important read & powerful piece of advocacy. 1 literacytrust.org.uk/research-servi…