Disciplinary literacy in primary schools: Reading, writing and speaking across the curriculum - Softcover

Wilkinson, Shareen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1036006301 ISBN 13: 9781036006303

Publisher: Hachette Learning, 2025

Synopsis

Drawing on the research evidence, Disciplinary Literacy in Primary Schools offers both theoretical and practical examples of how teachers can support primary pupils in reading, writing and speaking across the subject disciplines. Shareen Wilkinson draws on twenty years' experience in primary education to outline the ways in which disciplinary literacy can help pupils to read, write and speak like scientists, geographers and historians, while exploring other areas across the curriculum. This is an essential professional development resource for all Trust leads, senior leaders, local authority advisers, teachers, curriculum leads and subject leads who are passionate about having exemplary practice.

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About the Author

Shareen is executive director of education and leads on curriculum, teaching and learning and assessment across a multi-academy trust, based in London and Surrey. She is also an education adviser and supports schools and organisations across the country and has fulfilled a wide range of senior leadership roles, including being a local authority lead primary adviser and an English adviser. She has a proven and extensive history of raising standards in primary schools, particularly for writing, and has worked with schools and LAs across the country. Her subject specialisms are English, assessment, teaching and learning, multi-school leadership and curriculum. She is a fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching and part of the Confederation of Schools Trust (CST) Policy Advisory Group.
Shareen is an established educational author, writer and editor and has written educational resources and books for several leading publishers. Her books focus on English reading, phonics, writing, handwriting and spelling. She has also co-written, with her husband, several story and non-fiction books for pupils in their earliest stages of reading.
For more than a decade, Shareen has worked with the Department for Education in various advisory/ reviewer roles, including as a KS1 and KS2 reading and grammar quality assurance subject expert proofreader, and as an STA deputy standardisation team leader for the KS2 national writing training.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hachette Learning
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1036006301
• ISBN 13: 9781036006303
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200