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Geography and Literacy

Geography and Literacy. Learning outcomes:. To develop strategies for raising achievement in Geography through improved literacy skills. Learning outcomes:. To develop a department approach to developing literacy through Geography. Stumbling blocks.

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Geography and Literacy

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  1. Geography and Literacy

  2. Learning outcomes: • To develop strategies for raising achievement in Geography through improved literacy skills

  3. Learning outcomes: • To develop a department approach to developing literacy through Geography

  4. Stumbling blocks • What is it about literacy that gets in the way of your students making the progress they should? Is it: • Speaking and listening, • Reading, • Writing • Identify the blocks.

  5. Is it Speaking and Listening? • Plan for and create opportunities for speaking and listening in lessons • Teach and develop the skills of speaking and listening

  6. Some thoughts about developing speaking and listening • Make the talk meaningful – give it a purpose • Do something with the talk • P4C, Communities of Enquiry, Socratic talk • Speaking and listening exercises • Learning partners • Talking heads together

  7. Is it reading? • What is it about reading that is the problem? • Plan for the development of reading skills

  8. Some thoughts about reading • Continuous, Close, Skimming, Scanning, • Active reading • Reading for exam success

  9. Is it writing • What types of writing do your students need to master? • Teach the skills of writing

  10. Some thoughts about writing • Types of writing • Have something to write about • Organising your thoughts • Getting started

  11. No matter what it is … To develop any literacy skill: • Teach it • Provide examples • Model it • Scaffold first attempts • Independent opportunities (Underpinned by AfL principles)

  12. AfL principles • Include a literacy objective • Share literacy outcomes and success criteria • Reflect on the literacy during and at the end • Self and Peer assessment opportunities during and at the end • Feedback – written and oral – teacher/student, student/student

  13. What next? • Create a plan for developing literacy – it might look like your subject improvement plan • Select a number of actions, decide what to do, when, who, how, with what etc • Monitor and evaluate progress and be prepared to change and add as necessary

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