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The 20 most important bits of grammatical
knowledge needed by effective teachers
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WRITING
Teaching sequenceKey conventions
Connectives Sentence variety
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READING
Subject-specific vocabulary
Approaches to reading
Active research process, not FOFO Using DARTs
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SPELLING
Having 4 approaches Mnemonics
Word webs
Rules
Starters
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GRAMMAR
Essentials for fiction
Essentials for non-fiction
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WRITING
Teaching sequenceKey conventions
Connectives Sentence variety
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Know the writing sequence:1. Establish clear aims
2. Provide examples
3. Explore conventions of the text
4. Define the conventions
5. Demonstrate how it is written
6. Compose together
7. Scaffold first attempts
8. Independent writing
9. Draw out key learning
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2Know the dominant text-types for your subject:
Purpose: What is its purpose? Who is it for? How will it be used?
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Text level: Layout? Structure? Sequence?
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Sentence level: Viewpoint? Prevailing tense? Active/passive? Sentence types and length? Cohesion devices?
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Word level: Stock words and phrases? Specialist vocabulary? Elaborate or plain vocabulary choices?
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6Know your connectives
Adding: and, also, as well as, moreover, too
Cause & effect: because, so, therefore, thus, consequently
Sequencing: next, then, first, finally, meanwhile, before, after
Qualifying: however, although, unless, except, if, as long as, apart from, yet
Emphasising: above all, in particular, especially, significantly, indeed, notably
Illustrating: for example, such as, for instance, as revealed by, in the case of
Comparing: equally, in the same way, similarly, likewise, as with, like
Contrasting: whereas, instead of, alternatively, otherwise, unlike, on the other hand
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7Encourage sentence variety
1. Start with an -ing verb (Reaching 60 these days is ..)
2. Start with an -ed verb (Frustrated by ….)
3. Start with an adverb (Well-done chicken leads to …)
4. Start with a preposition (Within the city limits you will …)
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Students must see you writing
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So …
What have you done?
What are you going to do?
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READING
Subject-specific vocabulary
Approaches to reading
Active research process, not FOFO Using DARTs
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Subject-specific vocabulary:
•Identifying
•Playing with context
•Actively exploring
•Linking to spelling
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Approaches to reading:
•Scanning
•Skimming
•Continuous reading
•Close reading
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Research skills, inc:
•Prior knowledge
•Purposes
•Locating information
•Interacting with the text
•Making a record
•Evaluating information
•Assisting memory
•Communicating information
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Using DARTs:
•Cloze
•Diagram completion
•Disordered text
•Prediction
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SPELLING
Having 4 approaches Mnemonics
Word webs
Rules
Starters
Literacy Across the Curriculum
Spelling approaches:
RULES (etymology, family of words [muscle/muscular])
PRACTICAL STRATEGIES (mnemonics, key word triggers, spelling logs)
VISUALS (words within words, word webs)
SOUNDS (break into syllables/sounds, spellspeak)
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Literacy Across the Curriculum
Mnemonics Fun
Necessary = never eat chips eat sausage sandwiches and raspberry yoghurt
Words within wordsenviRONment
buSINess
deFINitely
sePARAte
Got any others?
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Literacy Across the Curriculum
Sign
Consign
Consignment
Consigned
DesignDesignerDesigningDesignedDesignationDesignateRedesign
Resign
Resignation
Resigning
Resigned
Signature
Signatory
Assign
Assignment
Assignation
Reassign
Signal
Signalling
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RULES:
I before e
Effect of final ‘e’: hop - hope
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Kick-start learning
Don’t aim for false links with main lesson content
Do aim for coherence across starters
Avoid writing
Emphasise collaboration & problem-solving
Avoid the temptation to extend the activity
No Blue Peter badges
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Mr B’s New Year Spelling Frolics
-our words -re endings -able / -ibleendings
-ous endings Single/doubleconsonants
colourhumourrumourarmourf lavour
humorous
centimetrecentretheatre
Availablelikeablesociableconsiderablelaughablesensibleincredibleterriblepossibleresponsible
t rem end ous
enor mouspoisonous
myst eri ous
cont inuousprec ious
f ero cious
del icious
ca ut ious
ambit ious
beginning
ups e t t ing
f org ot t en
commit t eepermittedoccurred
visit ed
reg r e t f ul
developing
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-ible -able
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Homophones
Sound of Music Kylie Beethoven
their there they’re
too two to
pray prey
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Homophones
Freeze Stand
advice advise
practice practise
effect affect
It’s its
Hard
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Activity
I’ll say some sentences containing homophones. You tell me whether it’s list A or list B.
Make up sentences – eg “The pilot of the aircraft was really rather plain”)
A – stand up B – under tableplain Planeweak Weeksteal Steelmain Manerows Rowsfare Fairbreak Brakesew Sodue Jewwhether whether
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GRAMMAR
Essentials for fiction
Essentials for non-fiction
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18GRAMMAR ESSENTIALS (fiction):
•Sentence variety for effect: simple, compound, complex•Multiple narration•Plot - dialogue - description•Location of the speech verb•Direct / indirect speech•Figurative language•Descriptive detail•Point of view
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19GRAMMAR ESSENTIALS (Non-fiction):
•Topic sentences•Headlines / subheadings / puns•Paragraph organisation - main point … illustration … contrast•Connectives •Tense•Sentence functions: statement, command, question, exclamation•Formality / impersonal tones•Layout features•Building an argument: generalisation, supporting points, statistics, facts, quotation
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George Sampson, 1922:
“Every teacher IN English is a teacher OF English”
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The 20 most important bits of grammatical
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