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Three ways to employ disciplinary literacy strategies in your classroom

January 12, 2022January 12, 2022Oxford Secondary 1 Comment

Disciplinary Literacy has been identified by the EEF as the number one strategy for improving the literacy of students within secondary schools.  It is a term which encompasses the unique ways students must be able to read, write and speak in each individual subject area.  This article sets out ways in which you can employ […]

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Engaging reluctant readers

August 27, 2021September 15, 2021Oxford English Team

As if Covid didn’t present enough problems – we have noticed a frightening increase in the number of students who have completely disengaged with reading. I blame the pandemic for this because the National Literacy Trust’s annual survey found: ‘some children and young people reported that a lack of access to books (with schools and […]

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Ideas for closing the Word Gap in the classroom

December 17, 2019March 26, 2020Oxford Education

We recently held a small event in our Oxford offices to talk to primary and secondary school teachers about vocabulary and the Word Gap in their school. Lots of interesting, practical ideas were shared and discussed and we have summarised some of them here: Give key vocabulary at the start of each lesson. Encourage students […]

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