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

Write up can go here. Introduction to writing resources.

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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

Write up can go here. Introduction to reading resources.

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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.

Stronger Together

Meet The Team

Expert-Led Conferences. Explore real practice, observe live strategies and leave with clear implementation and action plans.