The Secret of Literacy: Making the implicit, explicit

by David Didau

Overview

Literacy? That's someone else's job, isn't it? This is a book for all teachers on how to make explicit to students those things we can do implicitly. In the Teachers' Standards it states that all teachers must demonstrate an understanding of, and take responsibility for, promoting high standards of literacy, articulacy, and the correct use of standard English, whatever the teacher's specialist subject. In The Secret of Literacy, David Didau inspires teachers to embrace the challenge of improving students' life chances through improving their literacy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781781351826
Publisher:	Crown House Publishing
Publication date:	01/31/2014
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	4 MB
Age Range:	11 Years

About the Author

David Didau is Senior Lead Practitioner for English at Ormiston Academies Trust and a freelance writer, blogger, speaker, trainer and author. He started his award-winning blog, The Learning Spy, in 2011 to express the constraints and irritations of ordinary teachers, detail the successes and failures within his own classroom, and synthesise his years of teaching experience through the lens of educational research and cognitive psychology. Since then he has spoken at various national conferences, has directly influenced Ofsted and has worked with the Department for Education to consider ways in which teachers' workload could be reduced.

Table of Contents

Topics include:

Why is literacy important?

Oracy improving classroom talk

How should we teach reading?

How to get students to value writing

How written feedback and marking can support literacy