What Counts as a High Quality Text in a Primary Science Classroom?

We should be reading more high quality books to children, but which books should we choose? Literacy books, blogs and … More

Using AI For Generating Literacy Feedback in KS3 Science

At my trust, we have used comparative judgement for 8 years. We use NoMoreMarking both for the national tasks, but … More

Born Listening? Why Listening Is Hard and How to Help Your Students Listen and Understand Better.

This blog is about the forgotten half of oracy: not talking but listening. Listening is often described as the Cinderella … More

Good Enough Comprehension

Or not quite good enough… I’m a decent reader, but I find recipes hard to follow. The trouble is that … More

Writing Full (and I Mean Really Full) Sentences in Subjects

When we quiz students for knowledge retrieval, we are helping them remember key knowledge but we aren’t helping them build … More

Some Jobs Sentences Do in Science

I’ve been thinking a lot about how important sentences are in science. The new DfE Writing Framework puts sentences at … More

Building Sentences in Physics – Talking Precisely about Energy at KS 3&4

It’s a mistake to think that we don’t have time to explicitly teach the sentences that students need to talk … More

2 Comma Rules for Science Teachers

Yesterday, I published a blog showing how I teach longer sentences in science (here). The sentence examples I used were:  … More

Build better sentences in science writing

How can we ensure students understand complex scientific ideas, beyond just recalling facts? Developing their ability to write clear, precise … More

Tier Three Vocabulary: The Forgotten Words`

How important is science vocabulary in everyday reading? Are geographical terms helpful outside of a geography lesson? To what extent … More