30 second starter. with your partner work out what is wrong with the poster on the following slide?...
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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
Richard Kennett, Redland Green School, Bristol @kenradicalwww.radicalhistory.co.uk
Richard Kennett, Redland Green School, Bristol @kenradicalwww.radicalhistory.co.uk
Getting the kids to fly with literacy
Richard Kennett, Redland Green School, Bristol @kenradicalwww.radicalhistory.co.uk
lit•er•a•cy
Noun : The ability to read, write and communicate
Speaking and
listening
WritingReading
Richard Kennett, Redland Green School, Bristol @kenradicalwww.radicalhistory.co.uk
Improving literacy this year required three realisations…
Richard Kennett, Redland Green School, Bristol @kenradicalwww.radicalhistory.co.uk
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
Richard Kennett, Redland Green School, Bristol @kenradicalwww.radicalhistory.co.uk
Step 1: Improving your own literacy
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tion
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
1960s
Richard Kennett, Redland Green School, Bristol @kenradicalwww.radicalhistory.co.uk
IMHO this is how it should be!
Richard Kennett, Redland Green School, Bristol @kenradicalwww.radicalhistory.co.uk
TEST TIME
Richard Kennett, Redland Green School, Bristol @kenradicalwww.radicalhistory.co.uk
ANSWERS1 = A & D2 = C3 = B4 = B5 = A6 = D7 = C8 = B9 = C
Total Marks = 10
Richard Kennett, Redland Green School, Bristol @kenradicalwww.radicalhistory.co.uk
Step 1: Improving my own literacy
Richard Kennett, Redland Green School, Bristol @kenradicalwww.radicalhistory.co.uk
Step 1: Improving my own literacy
Richard Kennett, Redland Green School, Bristol @kenradicalwww.radicalhistory.co.uk
Step 1: Improving the literacy of my team
Richard Kennett, Redland Green School, Bristol @kenradicalwww.radicalhistory.co.uk
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.”
Richard Kennett, Redland Green School, Bristol @kenradicalwww.radicalhistory.co.uk
What does it mean to be literate in your subject?
Richard Kennett, Redland Green School, Bristol @kenradicalwww.radicalhistory.co.uk
Richard Kennett, Redland Green School, Bristol @kenradicalwww.radicalhistory.co.uk
Step 3: Focusing on the three strands of
literacy
Richard Kennett, Redland Green School, Bristol @kenradicalwww.radicalhistory.co.uk
Richard Kennett, Redland Green School, Bristol @kenradicalwww.radicalhistory.co.uk
Richard Kennett, Redland Green School, Bristol @kenradicalwww.radicalhistory.co.uk
Richard Kennett, Redland Green School, Bristol @kenradicalwww.radicalhistory.co.uk
“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
Richard Kennett, Redland Green School, Bristol @kenradicalwww.radicalhistory.co.uk
What could you do in your subject to promote / increase reading?
Richard Kennett, Redland Green School, Bristol @kenradicalwww.radicalhistory.co.uk
Richard Kennett, Redland Green School, Bristol @kenradicalwww.radicalhistory.co.uk
Richard Kennett, Redland Green School, Bristol @kenradicalwww.radicalhistory.co.uk
Richard Kennett, Redland Green School, Bristol @kenradicalwww.radicalhistory.co.uk
Richard Kennett, Redland Green School, Bristol @kenradicalwww.radicalhistory.co.uk
Richard Kennett, Redland Green School, Bristol @kenradicalwww.radicalhistory.co.uk
Richard Kennett, Redland Green School, Bristol @kenradicalwww.radicalhistory.co.uk
Richard Kennett, Redland Green School, Bristol @kenradicalwww.radicalhistory.co.uk
Richard Kennett, Redland Green School, Bristol @kenradicalwww.radicalhistory.co.uk
Richard Kennett, Redland Green School, Bristol @kenradicalwww.radicalhistory.co.uk
Richard Kennett, Redland Green School, Bristol @kenradicalwww.radicalhistory.co.uk
What could you do in your subject to focus on better writing?
Richard Kennett, Redland Green School, Bristol @kenradicalwww.radicalhistory.co.uk
(an @teachertoolkit idea)
Richard Kennett, Redland Green School, Bristol @kenradicalwww.radicalhistory.co.uk
Richard Kennett, Redland Green School, Bristol @kenradicalwww.radicalhistory.co.uk
What could you do in your subject to increase the amount of speaking and listening?