Transcript LITERACY IMPACT!

So you want to be an outstanding
English teacher ….?
Geoff Barton
Download free at www.geoffbarton.co.uk
(Presentation number 69)
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
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1. Blink: appearances matter
2. It’s about relationships
3. Good enough isn’t good enough
(usually)
4. Passion is infectious
5. Routines matter: bags, coats, pens
What every English
teacher needs to know …
A brief and utterly
superficial history of
English
Parse the italicised words:
“The lady protests too much, methinks”
“Sit thee down”
“I saw him taken”
Rewrite these sentences correctly:
“Louis was in some respects a good man, but being a
bad ruler his subjects rebelled”
“Vainly endeavouring to suppress his emotion, the
service was abruptly brought to an end”
Alfred S West, The Elements of
English Grammar
For each of the following write a sentence
containing the word or clause indicated:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
f)
g)
That used as a subordinating conjunction
That used as a relative pronoun
An adjective used in the comparative degree
A pronoun used as a direct object
An adverbial clause of concession
A noun clause in apposition
A collective noun
JMB O-level English Language,
1967
Autonomy
16+
NC
Coursework
GCSE
Framework
Performance tables
5A*C+EM
Disempowerment
Subject Reviews 2005 & 2009
“English at the Crossroads”
English 2005:
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Myhill and Fisher: ‘spoken language forms a
constraint, a ceiling not only on the ability to
comprehend but also on the ability to write,
beyond which literacy cannot progress’.
Although the reading skills of 10 year old pupils
in England compared well with those of pupils in
other countries, they read less frequently for
pleasure and were less interested in reading
than those elsewhere.
Pupils’ writing does not improve solely by doing
more of it.
English 2009:
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All the English departments visited had
schemes of work for KS3 but, since they rarely
showed them to the students, students could
not see how individual elements linked
together and supported each other.
To many students, the KS3 programme
seemed a random sequence of activities …
English 2009:
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Some schools persevered with ‘library lessons’
where the students read silently. These
sessions rarely included time to discuss or
promote books and other written material and
therefore did not help to develop a reading
community within the school.
English 2009:
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Many of the lessons seen during the survey
showed there was a clear need to reinvigorate
the teaching of writing. Students were not
motivated by the writing tasks they were given
and saw no real purpose to them.
English 2009:
4
Ofsted’s previous report on English found that
schools put too little emphasis on developing
speaking and listening. Since then, the
teaching of speaking and listening has
improved.
English 2009:
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The last English report identified a wide gap
between the best practice and the rest in using
ICT. This gap remains; indeed, some of the
evidence suggests that it has widened.
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Understand the significance of
exploratory talk
Model good talk – eg connectives
Re-think questioning: why & how?
Re-think hands-up
Get conversations into the school
culture
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2.
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Teach reading – scanning,
skimming, analysis
Read aloud and display
Teach key vocabulary
Demystify spelling
Teach research, not FOFO
SKIMMING
The climate of the Earth is always
changing. In the past it has altered as
a result of natural causes. Nowadays,
however, the term climate change is
generally used when referring to
changes in our climate which have been
identified since the early part of the
1900's . The changes we've seen over
recent years and those which are
predicted over the next 80 years are
thought to be mainly as a result of
human behaviour rather than due to
natural changes in the atmosphere.
The best treatment for
mouth ulcers. Gargle with salt
water. You should find that it
works a treat. Salt is cheap
and easy to get hold of and we
all have it at home, so no need
to splash out and spend lots of
money on expensive mouth
ulcer creams.
Urquhart castle is probably one of
the most picturesquely situated
castles in the Scottish Highlands.
Located 16 miles south-west of
Inverness, the castle, one of the
largest in Scotland, overlooks much
of Loch Ness. Visitors come to stroll
through the ruins of the 13thcentury castle because Urquhart has
earned the reputation of being one
of the best spots for sighting Loch
Ness’s most famous inhabitant.
SCANNING
1. Where did the first cell
phones begin?
2. Name 2 other features that
started to be included in
phones
3. Why are cell phones especially
useful in some countries?
Cellular telephones
Where begin?
Two features?
Some countries?
The first cellular telephone system began operation in Tokyo in
1979, and the first U.S. system began operation in 1983 in
Chicago. A camera phone is a cellular phone that also has
picture taking capabilities. Some camera phones have the
capability to send these photos to another cellular phone or
computer. Advances in digital technology and microelectronics
has led to the inclusion of unrelated applications in cellular
telephones, such as alarm clocks, calculators, Internet
browsers, and voice memos for recording short verbal
reminders, while at the same time making such telephones
vulnerable to certain software viruses. In many countries with
inadequate wire-based telephone networks, cellular telephone
systems have provided a means of more quickly establishing a
national telecommunications network.
CLOSE READING
Research skills, not FOFO
DEMYSTIFYING
SPELLING
Sounds: Govern+ment
Visuals: be-lie-ve
Mnemonics: necessary
Mr B’s New Year Spelling Frolics
-our words
-re endings
colour
humour
rumour
armour
flavour
centi metre
centre
theatre
humorous
-able / -ible
endings
Available
li keable
sociable
considerable
laughable
sensible
incredible
terrible
possible
responsible
-ous endi ngs
tremendous
enormous
poisonous
mysterious
continuous
precious
ferocious
delici ous
cautious
ambitious
MNEMONICS
Single/double
consonants
beginning
upsetting
forgotten
committee
permitted
occurred
visited
regretful
developing
-ible
-able
Homophones
Sound of Music Kylie
Beethoven
their
there
they’re
too
two
to
Homophones
Freeze
Stand
advice
advise
practice
practise
effect
affect
It’s
its
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Demonstrate writing
Teach composition & conventions
Allow oral rehearsal
Short & long sentences
Connectives
Know your connectives
Adding: and, also, as well as, moreover, too
Cause & effect: because, so, therefore, thus, consequently
Sequencing: next, then, first, finally, meanwhile, before, after
Qualifying: however, although, unless, except, if, as long as, apart from, yet
Emphasising: above all, in particular, especially, significantly, indeed, notably
Illustrating: for example, such as, for instance, as revealed by, in the case of
Comparing: equally, in the same way, similarly, likewise, as with, like
Contrasting: whereas, instead of, alternatively, otherwise, unlike, on the
other hand
5 things that
every teacher
needs to know
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Every teacher in English …
Teach reading, not FOFO …
Demystify spelling …
Model writing …
Emphasise quality talk …
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English Teacher
Petite, white-haired Miss Cartwright
Knew Shakespeare off by heart,
Or so we pupils thought.
Once in the stalls at the Old Vic
She prompted Lear when he forgot his part.
Ignorant of Scrutiny and Leavis,
She taught Romantic poetry,
Dreamt of gossip with dead poets.
To an amazed sixth form once said:
‘How good to spend a night with Shelley.’
In long war years she fed us plays,
Sophocles to Shaw’s St Joan.
Her reading nights we named our Courting Club,
Yet always through the blacked-out streets
One boy left the girls and saw her home.
When she closed her eyes and chanted
‘Ode to a Nightingale’
We laughed yet honoured her devotion.
We knew the man she should have married
Was killed at Passchendaele.
Brian Cox
From Collected Poems, Carcanet Press 1993.
And finally …
So you want to be an outstanding
English teacher ….?
Geoff Barton
Download free at www.geoffbarton.co.uk
(Presentation number 69)
Tuesday, July 21, 2015