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    How to communicate in Health and Physical Education
    • Oct 10, 2021
    • 3 min

    How to communicate in Health and Physical Education

    Disciplinary literacy in HPE and PDHPE Disciplinary literacy in Health and Physical Education means communicating about health and...
    Teaching reading in secondary school subjects
    • Sep 27, 2021
    • 3 min

    Teaching reading in secondary school subjects

    How can we support students to read like subject experts in secondary schools? There are three main things to know about reading in...
    How to communicate like a historian
    • Sep 12, 2021
    • 3 min

    How to communicate like a historian

    Disciplinary literacy in History To me, literacy in History is like remnants of an ancient tower. Literacy helps historians to understand...
    Teaching the language of climate change science
    • Sep 10, 2021
    • 1 min

    Teaching the language of climate change science

    Free sample chapter from the award winning publication for Years 7 & 8 I'm delighted to show you a fantastic publication for Science...
    How to communicate like a musician
    • Sep 9, 2021
    • 3 min

    How to communicate like a musician

    Disciplinary literacy in Music: the concepts of music Disciplinary literacy in Music means how to communicate like a musician does. For...
    How to communicate like a scientist
    • Sep 8, 2021
    • 3 min

    How to communicate like a scientist

    Disciplinary literacy in Science Disciplinary literacy in Science means how to communicate like a scientist. I think of disciplinary...
    The literacy demands of subject areas
    • Aug 22, 2021
    • 1 min

    The literacy demands of subject areas

    Patterns of genre across the curriculum The literacy demands of each subject area are different. But what does that actually mean? One of...
    What is disciplinary literacy anyway?
    • Aug 19, 2021
    • 2 min

    What is disciplinary literacy anyway?

    Disciplinary literacy means communicating like a subject expert: such as writing like a musician. Secondary school subject teachers know...
    What is genre and why should I care?
    • Aug 19, 2021
    • 3 min

    What is genre and why should I care?

    Improve literacy achievement by knowing and teaching the genre of each task When I was teaching Music in a secondary school, one day, we...
    Where do we start with disciplinary literacy?
    • Aug 19, 2021
    • 3 min

    Where do we start with disciplinary literacy?

    Map the literacy demands of subject area assessment tasks If you're keen to explore the literacy demands of your subject, I have found a...

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