E-Reader Literacy
Taking every opportunity to help students develop their functional skills of literacy the LRC has been utilising ebook readers. Showing best practice around inclusion the e-reader...
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Taking every opportunity to help students develop their functional skills of literacy the LRC has been utilising ebook readers. Showing best practice around inclusion the e-reader...
Posted by Claire Till
Posted by Danielle Bowe
Posted by Danielle Bowe
Shakespeare’s play of the month is Hamlet. Set in Denmark, Hamlet is a play that explores conscience, madness and the nature of humanity. A young prince meets his father’s...
Posted by Natalie Stanton
Posted by Danielle Bowe
This week, I have had the pleasure of meeting with our new subject leaders for English. Luka Kovalevskyte, Prisha Tapre, Aagarsan Velautham and Myfanwy Taylor-Bean brought some...
Posted by Jade Denmark
Posted by Danielle Bowe
Posted by Danielle Bowe
Winner of the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2019 The Poet X has joined our growing collection of books that celebrate the diversity of writer’s experiences and the backgrounds from...
Posted by Claire Till
It was so lovely to see how keen the Year 7 students were in their reading lesson in the LRC with Mrs Turton our outstanding LRC Manager on Wednesday of this week. Many of them...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Taking every opportunity to help students develop their functional skills of literacy the LRC has been utilising ebook readers. Showing best practice around inclusion the e-reader allows students to take advantage of text-to-speech facilities alongside those of the dictionary and adjustable text size. Building on our CDC reading program of following the text with their ruler while an adult reads the information the advantage of the text-to-speech facility is that it allows students to hear and see the text at the same time, thereby simulating our CDC experience and reinforcing processing skills for our students. Reinforcing our staff development strand of Lifting Literacy to the Next Level seeing and hearing text simultaneously will further develop all students as both confident readers and an eloquent speaker. The additional ability to change the text size also enables us to ensure that all students, including ones with impaired vision, are able to participate in every aspect of their learning and so, better cope with the demands of extended writing challenges of our curriculum areas. Do take a look at our Reading Cloud drop-down on the top of the home page for an insight into our LRC and the host of fiction and non-fiction texts that we stock.
In support of our growth mindset culture we have introduced an app for those students normally engaging with our reading intervention program, who have dyslexia or English as a...
The idiom ‘count your blessings’ seems to have been foremost in many a person’s minds over the past few weeks. Indeed, during the lockdown, there has been increased media focus on...