1. Geography and Literacy

2. Learning outcomes: To develop strategies for raising achievement in Geography through improved literacy skills

3. Learning outcomes: To develop a department approach to developing literacy through Geography

4. Stumbling blocks What is it about literacy that gets in the way of your students making the progress they should? Is it: Speaking and listening, Reading, Writing Identify the blocks.

5. Is it Speaking and Listening? Plan for and create opportunities for speaking and listening in lessons Teach and develop the skills of speaking and listening

6. Some thoughts about developing speaking and listening Make the talk meaningful – give it a purpose Do something with the talk P4C, Communities of Enquiry, Socratic talk Speaking and listening exercises Learning partners Talking heads together

7. Is it reading? What is it about reading that is the problem? Plan for the development of reading skills

8. Some thoughts about reading Continuous, Close, Skimming, Scanning, Active reading Reading for exam success

9. Is it writing What types of writing do your students need to master? Teach the skills of writing

10. Some thoughts about writing Types of writing Have something to write about Organising your thoughts Getting started

11. No matter what it is … To develop any literacy skill: Teach it Provide examples Model it Scaffold first attempts Independent opportunities (Underpinned by AfL principles)

12. AfL principles Include a literacy objective Share literacy outcomes and success criteria Reflect on the literacy during and at the end Self and Peer assessment opportunities during and at the end Feedback – written and oral – teacher/student, student/student

13. What next? Create a plan for developing literacy – it might look like your subject improvement plan Select a number of actions, decide what to do, when, who, how, with what etc Monitor and evaluate progress and be prepared to change and add as necessary