Session 184: Literacy Subject Special

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Date: Friday 9th January 2014

Hosts: @RCCS_MrJames; @Literacy_Trust; @UKEdChat

The latest in a series of Subject Specials, the Literacy session aimed to encourage sharing resources, ideas and pedagogy within the subject, with a focus on writing, reading, speaking and listening, and drama.

Summary InfoGraph – Click image below to open in PDF version, where the links and tweets are all live to click through. Click here to view full size PNG version.

Links highlighted in the Summary:

https://twitter.com/JAMingay/status/421373396228661248

https://twitter.com/Literacy_Trust/status/421373573018963968

https://twitter.com/eylanezekiel/status/421373610629287936

https://twitter.com/CDaviesTeacher/status/421373969011601408

https://twitter.com/mrpeel/status/421374515038269440

https://twitter.com/Literacy_Trust/status/421374857008664577

https://twitter.com/CDaviesTeacher/status/421375186622226433

https://twitter.com/mrpeel/status/421375365710237696

https://twitter.com/LittleCreative/status/421375630648049664

https://www.educationbusinessuk.net/index.php/features/400-creative-literacy/3955-bringing-together-creativity-and-literacy

https://twitter.com/Literacy_Trust/status/421375706778828800

https://twitter.com/ukedchat/status/421375906804813829

https://lendmeyourliteracy.com/bear-hare-grove-road-primary/

https://twitter.com/aknill/status/421376071377104896

https://twitter.com/mrpeel/status/421376495089491968

https://twitter.com/eylanezekiel/status/421376527629287424

https://twitter.com/RiscaCCS_Head/status/421376467520724992

https://twitter.com/aknill/status/421376927644270592

https://twitter.com/eylanezekiel/status/421377318876348416

https://twitter.com/TreePress/status/421378035573870593

https://twitter.com/RiscaCCS_Head/status/421378572675477504

https://twitter.com/Literacy_Trust/status/421380230759329792

https://twitter.com/Literacy_Trust/status/421380723212582913

https://twitter.com/literacylender/status/421380987336273921

https://twitter.com/Literacy_Trust/status/421381004352552960

https://twitter.com/ReadingWise/status/421381091053015040

https://twitter.com/RCCS_MrJames/status/421381728159027200

https://twitter.com/Literacy_Trust/status/421381523951353856

https://twitter.com/tinawatsonteach/status/421382135912857600

https://twitter.com/RCCS_MrJames/status/421382578164084736

https://twitter.com/Literacy_Trust/status/421382566978273280

https://www.esrc.ac.uk/my-esrc/grants/RES-062-23-0775/read

https://twitter.com/JAMingay/status/421385491250823168

The Hosts:

Matt James (@RCCS_MrJames) – I’m Head of Year Seven at Risca Community Comprehensive School (@RiscaCCS) where I teach both English and PE. I am a huge advocate and fan of technologies in the classroom and have a particular interest in gender studies and raising the achievements of boys. I am a big sports fan and am heavily involved in the coaching of the school’s football and rugby teams – this, I feel, is a major entry point for accessing and raising boys’ engagement levels in school.

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Julie Gibbings via @Literacy_Trust – Julie provides strategic leadership for our schools work to ensure that we support them effectively in the changing educational context. Before joining the National Literacy Trust, Julie worked at the Citizenship Foundation, where she led a variety of programmes for schools, wrote educational publications and trained teachers. Julie has also worked as a secondary school teacher and is a parent governor at her son’s primary school.

Literacy is one of those subjects that impacts on all other curriculum areas, so the discussion this evening is likely to focus on strategies that support the development of key skills in pupils, from phonics, all the way through to reading and writing skills that impact on adult life. Does technology have a place in helping develop these key skills?