Literacy Blog
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Reading complex academic texts: Miss Ashton reflects
3 strategies for teaching Tier 3 vocabulary
Improve whole-school literacy with these tips to teach subject-specific terminology across the curriculum.
21 fun ways to improve your child's vocabulary
Critical literacy for GCSEs and beyond
Establishing the purpose of a text is straightforward when the text is an advertisement. Buy the lifestyle, buy the brand, buy the stuff. No hidden messages there… right? But how can a learner understand the intentions behind more complex texts?
How to transform your school into a language-rich community
Roots and affixes: what are they, and how do they improve literacy?
Explicitly teaching morphology - how words are constructed - can unlock unfamiliar vocabulary. Here, we explore: How roots and affixes form words Why morphology is key for literacy Examples of morphology How you can teach roots and affixes
How to teach inference skills
Motivating students: top tips from Bedrock schools
How to develop a whole-school literacy strategy
Tier 3 vocabulary: 10 top tips for teaching subject-specific terminology
What progress do learners make on Bedrock?
A breakdown of the impact of Bedrock Vocabulary, including: How Bedrock is designed to help learners make progress How learners' progress is recorded The statistics and the outcomes of using Bedrock Vocabular y
