Secondary literacy
Secondary reading and writing
Professional learning and resources for explicit teaching of reading and writing through the secondary curriculum are available at Secondary reading and writing (staff only).
Stage 6 literacy in practice – writing
Resources are designed for Stage 6 teachers to support student writing development in the context of syllabus content.
Teachers can use these resources flexibly to suit their contexts. There are suggestions for how they can be used to support EAL/D learners and high potential and gifted students (HPGE).
Each resource pack contains activities targeting subject vocabulary, planning for writing and writing and feedback.
This resource includes:
- references to the Teaching and Learning Cycle, with its 4 guiding questions and the interrelated phases of analysis for decision making, planning and programming, classroom practice, assessment, feedback, and reporting and
- links to the National Literacy Learning Progression – the progression indicators support teacher feedback to students on their progress and inform decisions about next steps in learning.
How to use this resource
Use these resources individually, as a faculty, or as part of a whole school literacy team. Whole school engagement with these activities is recommended, as the department’s What works best publication states “evidence suggests that ... the effectiveness [of teaching strategies] is stronger when they are implemented as whole-school approaches.”
Narrator:
Welcome to the resources for Stage 6 Literacy in context.
This suite of resources focuses on improving student writing. These resources support teachers of Year 11 and Year 12 across the whole school to improve student writing. The benefits of using these resources include:
- improving student writing
- increasing teacher capacity
- supporting the use of the literacy progression, and incorporating the teaching and learning cycle
- the resources highlight relevant syllabus links
- support your school’s strategic directions
- provide differentiated activities
- link to professional learning and further resources
- and these resources support teacher professional development plans
- reflect teacher professional standards
- and foster teacher collegiality.
Importantly these resources use content that teachers have already planned to use in class.
The resources have videos, downloadable activities for whole school and specific key learning areas, and links to further resources and professional learning.
The place to start is with this introductory video. Teachers then work individually or in a faculty or Year or Stage groups to populate the ‘Know your students’ data document. This will enable teachers to understand their students’ literacy strengths and needs.
The resources are specifically focused for each key learning area and include examples from a specific subject within that key learning area. In that way teachers can model their examples from a close sample within their KLA.
Whilst they are KLA specific, each set of resources follows a similar teaching and learning sequence: improve student writing through subject vocabulary, improve student writing through planning for writing and improve student writing through writing and feedback.
Using these Literacy in context resources will support teachers as they continue to develop their students’ writing skills and create a solid foundation of literacy for their education and future.
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