Research School Network: 5 of Our Best Literacy Blogs We share some of our favourite posts on literacy

In advance of our Improving Literacy in Primary Schools course starting on Tuesday 30^th April, we thought we would share five of our blogs on Literacy. Each of them offers evidence-informed practical suggestions on ways to improve literacy. And if you want to explore further, then join us on the course!

The 7 Stages of the Writing Process

Time in a primary classroom is at a premium: there are so many things to try to fit in. Even under the umbrella of English there is handwriting, spelling, grammar, punctuation, composition, reading, and more. It’s so difficult to make sure that everything is covered. And there are certain parts of the writing process which are either misunderstood or don’t always get a look in because of time constraints. In this blog, we explore Planning, Drafting, Sharing, Evaluating, Revising, Editing and Publishing.

Literacy Interventions Part 1: Choosing Interventions and Literacy Interventions Part 2: Delivering Interventions

Recommendation 7 from the EEF’s Improving Literacy in Key Stage 2guidance report is as follows: Use high-quality structured interventions to help pupils who are struggling with their literacy.
In these two blogs, we answer the following questions:
How do I know which programme to choose?
What is the best way to implement a programme?

9 Things You Didn’t Know About Being a Fluent Reader

This blog post is a taster of some of the content of the Improving Literacy In Primary Schools course, which focuses on reading, writing and oracy in KS2. In the post we look at some aspects of reading that some people might not be aware of.

Sentence Combining to Improve Writing Fluency

Fluency happens when attention is placed on writing composition without the need to focus on some other elements which require additional cognitive resources. This means that to free up cognitive resources, we need to ensure that automaticity is achieved in handwriting, spelling and sentence construction. In this post we look at why – and how- we should practice sentence combining.

What The Research Says About Primary Literacy Priorities In Bradford

Over the last two years the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) released their Literacy guidance documents for key stages one and two. There’s a lot of information in them to take in, but which aspects of them are most pertinent to Bradford schools? Of course, each school differs, but are there any common themes for schools in the Bradford area?