Literacy: Unlocking

Potential & Raising Achievement

A range of FREE resources from our conferences and webinars in partnership with RISE and the Department for Education, designed to strengthen literacy and raise achievement across Key Stages 3 and 4.

Fully-funded through the Department for Education.

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A Common Approach to Literacy.

Strengthening the whole school literacy offer drives attainment across KS3 and KS4 and Matrix Academy Trust is excited to offer a dynamic suite of CPD, including face-to-face conferences and targeted webinars, focused on embedding literacy through common approaches to reading, oracy and writing.

Expert-led: implementing a robust offer with proven strategies and fully-resourced.
Research-informed: breathing life into the latest approaches.
Live observation: see it in action across multiple diverse settings.

Attainment in reading and writing across the West Midlands is consistently below national averages, limiting pupil achievement across phases.

Pupils significantly below their chronological reading age by 15 are strongly linked to low GCSE attainment and face a significant disadvantage.

Writing

Effective teaching of writing sits at the heart of success across the curriculum. These Universal RISE webinars, conference materials, CPD suite and practical resources are designed to help schools develop a coherent, whole-school and common approach to writing. With a focus on curriculum design, pedagogy and establishing a common approach across subjects, these materials support leaders and teachers in building consistent routines, shared language and purposeful writing opportunities within the classroom.

Through a granular approach to the teaching of writing, teacher and leaders can explicitly develop the knowledge, structures and processes that underpin high-quality written communication, supporting the implementation of a robust writing strategy that drives improvement across the whole school.

Writing Webinar:

Knowledge vs Skill

Exploring how a knowledge-led approach to the teaching of writing develops and sustains this as a transferable and cohesive skill.

Writing Webinar:

Composite to component knowledge

Exploring how to breakdown long and medium-term learning goals into granular, specific knowledge end points that build through multiple learning episodes, across the curriculum.

Writing Conference:

Foundations of writing across the curriculum

An introduction to the fundamental concepts that underpin the teaching of writing e.g. sentence construction and how to strategically approach this across the curriculum.

 

Writing Webinar:

Grammar through writing

Exploring how a formulaic approach to the teaching of writing, threading and sequencing the knowledge of grammar strengthens writing proficiency.

Writing Webinar:

The power of live modelling and marking

Exploring how live modelling can be used to scaffold the writing process and how live marking can be used to give granular and specific feedback.

Writing Webinar:

Deliberate Practice

An insight into how a strategic approach to embedding opportunities for a range of deliberate practice models sustains a proficient skill and build writing fluency

Reading

A strong culture of reading transforms outcomes across every subject. This hub brings together our Universal RISE webinars, conference materials, CPD suite and practical resources designed to help schools develop a coherent, evidence-informed approach to literacy and reading improvement. Covering disciplinary literacy, common approaches to reading and oracy, curriculum design, whole-school implementation, these materials provide leaders and teachers with tools and rationale to effect change at classroom, department and whole-school level.

Reading Conference:

A whole school approach to reading

An introduction to a whole-school common approach to reading (including reading across the curriculum, interventions and a reading culture) that can be adapted to suit individual school contexts.

Reading Webinar:

How to select academic texts

A methodological approach to selecting high quality academic texts across the curriculum.

Reading Conference:

Implementing an impactful reading offer within the curriculum

Exploring how reading should be prioritised in the curriculum as part of a broad literacy offer, and how practical strategies can be implemented across different subject disciplines.

Reading Webinar:

Using reading as a vehicle

An introduction to how reading can be used as a vehicle to look at wider societal issues, with a focus on personal development.

Reading Webinar:

Explicit teaching of vocabulary

A strategic approach to develop both language and vocabulary development across the curriculum.

Reading Webinar:

Reading and Inclusion

An inclusive approach to driving reading across the whole school to ensure we meet the needs of all pupils.

Reading Webinar:

Creating a Reading Culture

An insight into how to develop, drive and sustain a reading culture across the whole school.

Reading Conference:

Observations

An opportunity to see the effective implementation of the reading common approach, across the curriculum.

Curriculum Resources

An effective knowledge-led curriculum supports the embedding of sustained skills in English, and we are pleased to share with you selected resources to support progress and success for GCSE English. These resources are designed to complement an existing foundational knowledge-based curriculum, sequenced to ensure pupils have opportunities to develop and practice knowledge application, supported by specific and targeted feedback at each juncture.

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