The Secret of Literacy

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The Secret of Literacy

Making the implicit explicit

By: David Didau

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Attribute name	Attribute value
Size	182 x 222mm
Pages	240
ISBN	9781781351277
Format	Paperback
Published	April 2014

Literacy? That’s someone else’s job, isn’t it?

This is a book for all teachers on how to make explicit to students those things we can do implicitly. In the Teachers’ Standards it states that all teachers must demonstrate an understanding of, and take responsibility for, promoting high standards of literacy, articulacy, and the correct use of standard English, whatever the teacher’s specialist subject. In The Secret of Literacy, David Didau inspires teachers to embrace the challenge of improving students’ life chances through improving their literacy.

Topics include:

Why is literacy important?
Oracy – improving classroom talk
How should we teach reading?
How to get students to value writing
How written feedback and marking can support literacy.

David Didau

David Didau is Senior Lead Practitioner for English at Ormiston Academies Trust and a freelance writer, blogger, speaker, trainer and author. He started his award-winning blog, The Learning Spy, in 2011 to express the constraints and irritations of ordinary teachers, detail the successes and failures within his own classroom, and synthesise his years of teaching experience through the lens of educational research and cognitive psychology. Since then he has spoken at various national conferences, has directly influenced Ofsted and has worked with the Department for Education to consider ways in which teachers' workload could be reduced.

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