The Secret of Literacy: Making the implicit, explicit - Softcover

Didau, David

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9781781351277: The Secret of Literacy: Making the implicit, explicit
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1781351279 ISBN 13: 9781781351277
Publisher: Independent Thinking Press, 2014

Synopsis

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; Literacy? That's someone else's job, isn't it?; 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

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About the Author

David Didau is 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.

He is the author of the hugely successful titles The Secret of Literacy, in which he urges teachers to make the implicit explicit , and What If Everything You Knew About Education Was Wrong?, in which he turns his attention to the myriad unexamined assumptions that underlie education and explores how schools might realign their practices with how children actually learn.

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Publisher
Independent Thinking Press
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1781351279
ISBN 13 
9781781351277
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
240
Rating
  • 4.21 out of 5 stars
    148 ratings by Goodreads