Mrs Reading

***LITERACY STANDARDS*** Literacy lies at the heart of everything we do. We know that strong reading, writing, and speaking skills are essential for students to fully engage with our ambitious, knowledge-rich curriculum and to succeed in all areas of life. That’s why we prioritise developing high levels of literacy across all subjects. @MissCole279 has worked hard with our literacy lead to bring our strategy to life throughout school. @Doug_Lemov @WALKTHRUs_5 @teacherhead @olicav #TheLongdendaleLegacy

The whole process! Scaffolded I do, you do for the thesis, what, how and why and then students wrote a what, how, paragraph independently! Some truly excellent responses, well done year 10!

Just found out that rabbits can swim. Also learned their ears go into swim mode when they do. This is important news.

🌟Creative writing: sentence models🌟 Resources in the 🧵 I've been doing lots of sentence work. Last term, I tried to write with students every lesson, just trying to build writing muscles and expose them to lots of models Inspired by @ChrisYoules His book is fab! 1/11

It doesn't matter if you're 25 or 75, do these 10 exercises for the rest of your life:

Does anyone have a grading and reporting system that they use that they think is effective? Are you in favour of sharing students' target or current grades? Why/why not? Thank you in advance! @PearceMrs @FunkyPedagogy @SaysMiss

@Team_English1 Inspired by an unknown colleague of a colleague who shared something similar, here is an A3 overview of AIC quote chains. PDF available here - dropbox.com/scl/fi/8dlijsf…

Today I have a 90 min inset on 'lifting the lid on classroom talk'. It has probably taken me over 20 hours to put together and many drafts. Here is a little thread on what I'm doing and why. 1/10

@m_chiles Looks amazing! When will they be published? 🔎

***TEACHER HACKS*** I will be having lots of exciting conversations with potential authors for my new Teacher Hack series over the next week 🤩 For years, I’ve felt subject specific knowledge development for teacher’s has been diluted. We train teachers how to teach but not how to teach their subject with the same level of detail. It is often left to subject leads and teachers own professional development. The books will be accompanied by a new video platform to support subject teachers with their subject knowledge. Delighted to announce @_AndyGibson will be authoring Teacher Hacks Maths 🎉 @JohnCattEd

Hi everyone. I know that teaching at the sentence-level is becoming a priority for many of you. Below, I’ve put together a collection of articles on the subject. Any of these could be really useful to read and discuss as part of a staff meeting. Happy writing!

@PearceMrs @teacherhead @Xris32 @Doug_Lemov Super star. Thank you!

@AndersonKatM @teacherhead @Xris32 @Doug_Lemov x.com/PearceMrs/stat… This might be interesting

Does anyone have any ideas/ book recommendations /blogs on how to teach effective note taking for students and teachers? @teacherhead @PearceMrs @Xris32 @Doug_Lemov 🙏📝

If, like me, you enjoy thrillers and crime fiction, here’s a little thread of some that I’ve read and enjoyed this year - in no particular order 😊

@PearceMrs You kind soul! Very grateful and inspired 🙏😊

@AndersonKatM Love this! If it helps, all of the articles I have used previously and the questions we discussed can be found in the link below - feel free to use any! dropbox.com/sh/z9335ootyne…

I'm leading a T&L research group inspired by @PearceMrs's brilliant book. We have read Rosenshine & The Great Teaching Toolkit. Any suggestions for the next journal to read? 📖👍 Lists welcome!

@jamesdyke21 @LauraLolder @DixonsTC James, this all sounds fascinating. A plea from me to have a look at your KS3 curriculum. Ours need reviewing. Much appreciated!

@LauraLolder @DixonsTC More than happy to share Laura, I'll DM you.

Very proud of the students and English team @DixonsTC as our students achieved a P8 in English of +1.28. A few things that we think made a difference for our students, as well as a call for simplicity:

In 2020 gyms shut down but I was in the best shape of my life. How? At home work outs. But most think they need a gym. Here are the 9 exercises I used to get ripped at home (steal this workout):