We love to say we’re building a ‘love of reading’. The evidence suggests we’re doing no such thing. Pleasure doesn’t lead to fluent reading; fluency makes pleasure possible. Reading for pleasure should be an outcome, not a curricular aim. Trying to teach enjoyment is missing the point.
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Dear students,
We hope you continue to make literature and theatre part of your life in the future,
regardless of which of nine (9) ability bands the percentile represented by your total marks is eventually placed into.
Let’s put the text back at the heart of our literature teaching. Get rid of ‘context’ sheets, generalised info docs about a time period, YouTube videos summarising the plot and - instead - teach using the text. Nothing else. Time to immerse our students into fictional worlds…
So great to see Oracy so strongly on the education agenda again! Tragic that the value of talk was so downgraded for so many years! This will mean so much to 1000s & 1000s of young people!
BREAKING | Some big #Ofsted news to start the new school year, as the DfE announces that single-word ‘headline’ inspection grades have been scrapped with immediate effect.
Find all the key details here ⬇️ (free to read)
https://t.co/313fECCEuQ