1. Effective Teacher Behaviours
Up-levelling: Encouraging our students to speak and write using more ambitious vocabulary and phrasing.

2. What is ‘up-levelling’?
Up-levelling is all about changing boring, general simple and compound sentences into interesting complex sentences that include precise detail and ambitious vocabulary.
Children are encouraged to make ambitious vocabulary and syntax (word-order) choices in order to make their written work more interesting, detailed and nuanced.

3. How does it work? Year 7: Varying reporting-clauses (he said/she said)
Year 9: Settings in texts
Year 10: Characters’ emotions
Year 11: Discussing mental illness
Year 12 A/S English Literature: Discussing romantic relationships in literary texts

4. How to develop students’ vocabulary
Key words – especially the challenging spellings
Back to basics- use the board to scribe and allow students to photograph it for their work at home. This supports extended writing
Starters and homework
Challenge the teacher – a good way of correcting pronunciation
The vocabulary challenge
Using the dictionaries and thesauruses on the Ipad
Using book versions of dictionaries and thesauruses
Use it yourself- the teacher as role-model