What does your school need to address the literacy gap?
I wish we would normalise the importance of scaffolding in literacy instruction, and recognise that for too long, we've probably assumed too much when it comes to young people's reading. In all honesty, do we:
- support colleagues how to scaffold reading in their disciplines?
- move beyond terms like 'cognitive load,' 'pre-teaching' and 'interleaving' and into exploring what this looks like in the classroom?
- hardwire true breadth of fiction and non-fiction that addresses misconceptions?
Imagine if it were just as vital to provide culturally rich fiction and non-fiction to all ages, not just the early ones. Or a curriculum that acknowledges the complexities of reading at higher levels, rather than assuming all students have mastered the basics.
Let’s face it, the disconnect between literacy instruction and content-area learning is significant. Yet we continue to treat them as separate entities.
Maybe, just maybe, we would see improved reading skills AND deeper understanding of subject matter.
How does Bedrock support these aspects of curriculum and teaching?
- My overview of our Core Curriculum here
- Our"Big Picture"
- A unique disciplinary literacy solution
- A genuinely groundbreaking reading test
- Bespoke CPD and launch training targetted to your setting
- Reading assessment and impact triangulation
This week, one leader I worked with said:
"...I've been very excited and now it's just really consolidated that. I'm really looking forward to this and I'm really looking forward to just rolling this out to the staff. I don't think really any of us actually realised how useful it's going to be. And I can remember looking at Bedrock several years ago and it's clearly gone through quite a few changes since I first looked"
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