Teaching Leaders Seminar Boys & Literacy: “Stretch”

1. Teaching Leaders SeminarBoys & Literacy: “Stretch” Geoff Barton Download free at www.geoffbarton.co.uk (Presentation 86)

2. 5 starting-points: • Be angrier: start from 100% • There’s life beyond C/D • For most students, it’s not about intervention: it’s about the classroom • Every teacher in English is … • Whole-school literacy matters a lot but … • … let’s not call it literacy

4. What How

5. Rant Discuss

6. Subject Reviews 2005 & 2009 “English at the Crossroads”

8. January 2011

9. Schools should: teach phonics systematically and assess progress track progress and attainment in English of particular groups, such as white British boys, FSM, looked-after children raise expectations of staff for pupils from low-attaining groups have someone responsible for maximising the achievement of learners at risk of failing to reach average levels of skills in literacy ensure regular staff training in literacy

11. The Matthew Effect (Robert K Merton)

12. The rich shall get richer and the poor shall get poorer Matthew 13:12

13. Monopoly (Leonard Beeghly)

14. “Good readers may choose friends who also read avidly while poor readers seek friends with whom they share other enjoyments”

15. “While good readers gain new skills very rapidly, and quickly move from learning to read to reading to learn, poor readers become increasingly frustrated with the act of reading, and try to avoid reading where possible” (SEDL 2001)

16. Stricht’s Law: “reading ability in children cannot exceed their listening ability …”

17. “Spoken language forms a constraint, a ceiling not only on the ability to comprehend but also on the ability to write, beyond which literacy cannot progress” Myhill and Fisher

19. The Matthew Effect: The rich will get richer & the poor will get poorer

20. What we know about boys & literacy: • Like relevance and an overview • Like skills and feedback • Like toughness and humour • Are less tolerant of mediocre teachers than we were • There won’t be many who want to do badly

21. Implications for you in your school?

22. Talk matters • Collaborative talk • Exploratory talk • Modelling spoken language • Connectives • Teacher talk & questioning Speaking & listening:

23. Implications for you in your school?

24. Let’s teach reading • Wider range of texts, esp non-fiction • Teach research skills, not FOFO • Teach vocabulary • Create reading communities Reading:

25. MYSTERY TEXTS

26. The climate of the Earth is always changing. In the past it has altered as a result of natural causes. Nowadays, however, the term climate change is generally used when referring to changes in our climate which have been identified since the early part of the 1900's . The changes we've seen over recent years and those which are predicted over the next 80 years are thought to be mainly as a result of human behaviour rather than due to natural changes in the atmosphere. 

27. The best treatment for mouth ulcers. Gargle with salt water. You should find that it works a treat. Salt is cheap and easy to get hold of and we all have it at home, so no need to splash out and spend lots of money on expensive mouth ulcer creams.

28. The best treatment for mouth ulcers. Gargle with salt water. You should find that it works a treat. Salt is cheap and easy to get hold of and we all have it at home, so no need to splash out and spend lots of money on expensive mouth ulcer creams.

29. Urquhart castle is probably one of the most picturesquely situated castles in the Scottish Highlands. Located 16 miles south-west of Inverness, the castle, one of the largest in Scotland, overlooks much of Loch Ness. Visitors come to stroll through the ruins of the 13th-century castle because Urquhart has earned the reputation of being one of the best spots for sighting Loch Ness’s most famous inhabitant.

30. Urquhart castle is probably one of the most picturesquely situated castles in the Scottish Highlands. Located 16 miles south-west of Inverness, the castle, one of the largest in Scotland, overlooks much of Loch Ness. Visitors come to stroll through the ruins of the 13th-century castle because Urquhart has earned the reputation of being one of the best spots for sighting Loch Ness’s most famous inhabitant.

31. Urquhart castle is probably one of the most picturesquely situated castles in the Scottish Highlands. Located 16 miles south-west of Inverness, the castle, one of the largest in Scotland, overlooks much of Loch Ness. Visitors come to stroll through the ruins of the 13th-century castle because Urquhart has earned the reputation of being one of the best spots for sighting Loch Ness’s most famous inhabitant.

32. Urquhart castle is probably one of the most picturesquely situated castles in the Scottish Highlands. Located 16 miles south-west of Inverness, the castle, one of the largest in Scotland, overlooks much of Loch Ness. Visitors come to stroll through the ruins of the 13th-century castle because Urquhart has earned the reputation of being one of the best spots for sighting Loch Ness’s most famous inhabitant.

33. Urquhart castle is probably one of the most picturesquely situated castles in the Scottish Highlands. Located 16 miles south-west of Inverness, the castle, one of the largest in Scotland, overlooks much of Loch Ness. Visitors come to stroll through the ruins of the 13th-century castle because Urquhart has earned the reputation of being one of the best spots for sighting Loch Ness’s most famous inhabitant.

34. Urquhart castle is probably one of the most picturesquely situated castles in the Scottish Highlands. Located 16 miles south-west of Inverness, the castle, one of the largest in Scotland, overlooks much of Loch Ness. Visitors come to stroll through the ruins of the 13th-century castle because Urquhart has earned the reputation of being one of the best spots for sighting Loch Ness’s most famous inhabitant.

35. Urquhart castle is probably one of the most picturesquely situated castles in the Scottish Highlands. Located 16 miles south-west of Inverness, the castle, one of the largest in Scotland, overlooks much of Loch Ness. Visitors come to stroll through the ruins of the 13th-century castle because Urquhart has earned the reputation of being one of the best spots for sighting Loch Ness’s most famous inhabitant.

36. Urquhart castle is probably one of the most picturesquely situated castles in the Scottish Highlands. Located 16 miles south-west of Inverness, the castle, one of the largest in Scotland, overlooks much of Loch Ness. Visitors come to stroll through the ruins of the 13th-century castle because Urquhart has earned the reputation of being one of the best spots for sighting Loch Ness’s most famous inhabitant.

37. Urquhart castle is probably one of the most picturesquely situated castles in the Scottish Highlands. Located 16 miles south-west of Inverness, the castle, one of the largest in Scotland, overlooks much of Loch Ness. Visitors come to stroll through the ruins of the 13th-century castle because Urquhart has earned the reputation of being one of the best spots for sighting Loch Ness’s most famous inhabitant.

38. Let’s teach reading • Show reading as something men do • Wider range of texts, esp non-fiction • Framing texts matters a lot • Teach research skills, not FOFO • Teach vocabulary • Create reading communities Reading:

39. Implications for you in your school?

40. Model writing explicitly • Purpose and authenticity: no unnecessary writing • Demonstrate the messiness of writing • Allow oral rehearsal • Teach sentence variety • Teach and display connectives • Teach composition Writing:

41. Implications for you in your school?

42. What? How? Implications for you in your school? So what needs to happen in your context? What are your l@t&$*cy priorities? How can you make them happen across a whole teaching team?

43. Teaching Leaders SeminarBoys & Literacy: “Stretch” Geoff Barton Download free at www.geoffbarton.co.uk (Presentation 86)