Research School Network: Blog Posts

Communication, Language and Literacy

Part of 'The Power of the Prime Areas: Ensuring a Smooth Transition into Year 1' blog series.

Making Partner Talk Purposeful: A Classroom Journey into Oracy and Metacognition

Dave Seneviratne discusses the challenge of ensuring talk is purposeful and how he has tackled this in his classroom.

Embracing Every Voice Through a Multilingual Approach

How to support students’ reading and oral language in their transition from primary to secondary.

Part 1: Raising Oracy’s Profile: Embedding Good Oracy Practices in Primary Schools

By Emma Warsop, Assistant Headteacher Curriculum and Assessment, Year Two Teacher, Streatham Wells Primary School

The Word That Ate the Playground: Making Vocabulary Stick Through Talk

Explicit Vocabulary Teaching: Planting the Seed

Don Valley Academy's approach to boosting confidence and fluency in literacy.

From Buzzword to Bedrock: Embedding Oral Language for Disadvantaged Pupils

Managing the challenge of oral language development

Supporting disadvantaged learners through structured talk

Director Chris Runeckles discusses how structured talk can be used to tackle educational disadvantage

Building Foundations: Scaffolding Interactions in the Early Years

Explore how to effectively put evidence around improving communication and language in EYFS to work.

The MEMCO approach to explicit vocabulary instruction

Teachers in every subject should provide explicit vocabulary instruction to help students access and use academic language.

High quality dialogue – Yes, but what does it look like?

By Rachael Wilson, Deputy Director of Norfolk Research School and Year 6 teacher