The Secret of Literacy Making the Implicit Explicit

Paperback (30 Apr 2014)

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Publisher's 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

About the Publisher

Independent Thinking Press

Since setting up Independent Thinking nearly 20 years ago, I have seen it become a leading voice in helping creative teachers in innovative schools think for themselves. At a time when education is in danger of being turned into the process by which chains of schools churn out young people with grades but little else, we need to take back the teaching profession and spread the message that educating children to think for themselves is what a real education is all about. (Do that and the grades will come anyway I can assure you.) Under the Independent Thinking banner, I am proud to have brought together a unique collection of educational mavericks who make a genuine difference in schools across the UK and further afield. The Independent Thinking Press is now their voice in print.

Book information

ISBN: 9781781351277
Publisher: Crown House Publishing
Imprint: Independent Thinking Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 302.2244
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 240
Weight: 440g
Height: 222mm
Width: 184mm
Spine width: 15mm