Assessing English at KS3 – David Didau

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All through my occupation, the de facto solution to evaluating English at KS3 has been to use extended producing. Immediately after all, this is what pupils will be faced with in their GCSEs so it kinda made feeling that this was what we need to get them used to as […]

How to structure academic math conversations to support English Learners

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Excerpted from “Teaching Math to English Learners” by Adrian Mendoza with Tina Beene. Published by Seidlitz Education, 2022. Embracing academic conversations in the math classroom becomes routine when teachers intentionally prepare content-based linguistic supports to guide and scaffold language. These opportunities for language are important because verbalizing thinking helps students […]

Supporting Early Literacy in Spanish and English

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Creating early literacy abilities is vital for all pupils, especially the five million English learners (ELs) currently being educated in today’s general public colleges.1 The mastery of these skills—including oral language, phonological awareness, phonemic consciousness, and use of phonics—helps ELs acquire the robust reading foundation required for quality-degree mastering and […]

Video: “The Screwed-Up History of English Spelling”

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Using mini whiteboards in English – David Didau

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According to TeacherTapp, 72% principal and 45% secondary instructors use mini whiteboards (MWBs.) There are significant versions in between distinct subjects in secondaries with 69% of MFL and 57% science instructors claiming to use them but just 28% of English academics. Why may well this be? Are MFL and science […]