Language and Literacy

Browse our ever-growing library of online CPD content for teachers and schools, including pedagogy and classroom strategies for maximising knowledge gains, developing literacy, assessment, behaviour for learning, pastoral support and care, leadership development, SEND and many more. New modules are added all the time. If you would like to suggest a topic we should cover, please get in touch.

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Listening Comprehension and Booktalk: Practical Strategies and Approaches

An opportunity to explore research-based classroom practices proven to improve pupils’ listening comprehension.

Approx 40 mins of video
Activities & Reading

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literacy

Listening Comprehension and Booktalk: What Does the Research Tell Us?

What the research tells us about what listening comprehension is and its impact on the development of reading comprehension.

Approx 30 mins of video
Activities & Reading

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literacy

Reading Comprehension: Practical Strategies and Approaches for Teaching

An opportunity to explore research-based classroom practices proven to improve pupils’ reading comprehension.

Approx 40 mins of video
Activities & Reading

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Reading comprehension: What Does the Research Tell Us?

What the research tells us about what reading comprehension is and its impact on reading for meaning.

Approx 30 mins of video
Activities & Reading

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literacy

Improving Reading Fluency: Practical Strategies and Approaches

An opportunity to explore research-based classroom practices proven to improve pupils’ reading fluency.

Approx 35 mins of video
Activities & Reading

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literacy

Improving Reading Fluency: What Does the Research Tell Us?

What the research tells us about what reading fluency is and its impact on reading comprehension.

Approx 35 mins of video
Activities & Reading

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literacy

Strategies and Approaches to Support EAL Learners in the Curriculum

Practical strategies and approaches to help EAL learners access your curriculum.

Approx 25 mins of video
Activities & Reading

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knowledge, literacy

Phonics – The Key to Speaking Spanish

The theory and practice of phonics in the Spanish language classroom.

Approx 40 mins of video
Activities & Reading

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literacy, knowledge

Providing Targeted Vocabulary Instruction in the English Classroom

Implementing practical approaches to improve disciplinary literacy in secondary English.

0.5 hours of videos
Activities & Reading

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literacy

Promoting Metacognitive Talk

The importance of classroom talk in developing metacognitive abilities

1 hr of videos
Activities & Reading

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literacy, metacognition

The Fundamentals of Phonics

A back to basics look at systematic synthetic phonics.

1.5hrs of videos
supporting activities and reading

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literacy

Meeting the Needs of Pupils with Delayed Language Skills Within the Mainstream Classroom

The impact of delayed language skills on learning and how to identify and support pupils in the classroom.

1 hr of videos
Activities & Reading

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literacy, featured, SEND

Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum

From product to process - Transforming the quality and depth of written work.

1 hr of videos
Activities & Reading

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literacy

Classroom talk and closing gaps

Classroom talk, consider the emerging evidence with an emphasis on the principles and practicalities of dialogic teaching. Explore the conditions teachers create to allow classroom talk to flourish, learn techniques to ensure impact on learning.

1.5hrs of videos
Activities & Reading

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literacy

Pedagogical Literacy

Learn about disciplinary literacy in learning and the impact of literacy development in the classroom and across school strategies. Explore explicit vocabulary instruction strategies to enhance disciplinary literacy development. Consider how to review the literacy demands of your subject.

1.5hrs of videos
Activities & Reading

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literacy

Developing Independent Comprehension Strategies: Practical Strategies and Approaches

An opportunity to explore research-based classroom practices proven to improve pupils’ independent reading comprehension strategies.

Approx 20 mins of video
Activities & Reading

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Developing Independent Comprehension Strategies: What Does the Research Tell Us?

What the research tells us about the most effective teaching and learning approaches for developing pupils’ independent reading comprehension strategies.

Approx 35 mins of video
Activities & Reading

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coming soon, literacy

BlueSky Learning Presents ..... Reading for Meaning: Comprehending Across the Curriculum

In this webinar Susie Spolander talks about how to support the development of pupils’ reading strategies and skills both within reading lessons and across the wider curriculum.

Approx 50 mins of video

Free

Webinars, literacy