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Literacy

Oral language, phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, spelling, handwriting and writing, with the research behind them. I've organised structured literacy and the science of reading into ten areas, in the order a teacher meets them across the primary years. The frameworks area explains the Simple View of Reading, Scarborough's Reading Rope and Pamela Snow's Language House.

10 areas in Literacy

Each one gathers videos, podcasts, reading and research in one place.

Oral languageHow spoken language underpins reading and writing, and how to teach talk deliberately.52 resources Phonological and phonemic awarenessHow children learn to hear and work with the sounds in spoken words, from syllables and rhyme down to single phonemes, and why phoneme awareness grows fastest when it is taught alongside letters.18 resources PhonicsHow to teach the links between letters and sounds systematically, so children can decode words for reading and encode them for spelling.60 resources Reading fluencyHow accurate word reading becomes smooth and expressive, at a pace that leaves attention free for meaning.20 resources VocabularyHow to choose words worth teaching and teach them so students understand them, remember them and use them.20 resources Reading comprehension and text studyHow knowledge, vocabulary and language drive understanding, and how to teach a whole text well.65 resources Spelling and morphologyHow spelling draws on sounds, letter patterns and meaningful word parts, and how to teach it explicitly beyond the phonics years.30 resources Handwriting and transcriptionWhy fluent handwriting and automatic spelling free a writer's attention for composing, and how to build them, including keyboarding.21 resources WritingHow to build writers from the sentence up, and how writing strengthens knowledge.89 resources Frameworks and research behind literacyThe models and bodies of research that explain how children learn to read, write and use language, from the Simple View of Reading to the Writing Rope.97 resources

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Other people's brilliant work, gathered in one place

I'm Jo Griffin. I was spending a long time trawling the internet to find resources that support teachers' professional learning, and thought it might help others if they were all in one place, sorted into categories.

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