The Literacy Handbook Newsletter #1
Simple, sustainable ideas on how to improve learning, confidence and exam results in the classroom, focusing on: boosting boys’ learning, finding trustworthy information and debating successfully.
How to support your student scientists
British Science Week is upon us. Here’s a checklist of reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills for science to support your students.
How to help your reluctant readers to read
Here are nine tried-and-tested ways of encouraging your reluctant readers to read in any subject.
How to teach debate: (part two) improving your students’ ability to ask questions
How to teach debate: (part 2) four easy ways to improve your students’ ability to ask questions.
How to teach debate: (part one) improving listening
Part 1: improve listening skills.
“The most important tactic in an argument next to being right is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without an embarrassing loss of face.”
― Stephen Jay Gould
Here are five simple ways of improving your students’ listening skills.
How to teach students about fake news
‘A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.’ – Winston Churchill
Here are four simple ways to teach your students about fake news.
How to improve boys’ motivation, literacy, learning and achievement
Learn simple and sustainable classroom strategies on how to improve boys’ motivation, literacy, learning and achievement in every subject.
