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
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
It was great to see two ends of the reading spectrum from Year 7 to Year 12 on the last Friday of half term with the CDCs choosing an appropriate age-related text to read to their...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
This week we held our first non-fiction D.E.A.R event. Non-fiction texts being seen as those about existing things and as informative. Described in a TED talk as ‘healing...
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
Joining a Year 11 English lesson this week I found myself immersed in the world of Scrooge. Our GCSE English gains students two GCSEs: one in English Language and the other in...
Posted by Claire Till
Coinciding with the Jhalak Prize 2020 for Writers of Colour our LRC is recognising classical and contemporary literature by such authors. With a remarkable range of...
Posted by Claire Till
It is so good to see how embedded our whole school reading agenda is across all year groups and wonderful to see so many students choosing books for a variety of purposes whether...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Despite the trials of homeschooling coinciding with the launch of this year’s Carnegie Shadowing Scheme, our students did themselves proud, reading around 40 titles between them...
Posted by Teresa Turton
It was a very positive start to the week at BMS to listen to a presentation from two of our superb Advanced Lead Teachers at the school Miss Pattni and Mr Symeou. They were...
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.
‘Brighton Rock’ (1938) by Graham Greene ‘Heaven was a word: hell was something he could trust.’ This fast-paced thriller is one of Greene’s most famous novels. It tells the tale...
The Crystal Stair by Catherine Fisher Life in the Settlement is not as perfect as Caz and Will had hoped – they live apart in the Boys’ and Girls’ Towers and...