Greenshaw Research School
Welcome to Greenshaw Research School - supporting schools in London and the South East to better understand evidence and how to apply it.
- Our newsletter is out now! We cover literacy and metacognition - and paid and free events! Read it here and sign-up to receive it : researchschool.org.uk/greenshaw/ne...
- The EEF Toolkit identifies five high impact strategies to support pupils’ comprehension of texts: activating prior knowledge; making predictions; generating questions; clarifying uncertainty; summarising reading.⬇️
- Our threads up until now have focused on strategies to deploy before reading - we now shift our attention to the ‘during reading’ phase, beginning with 4A - Read with fluency and provide opportunities for pupils to practise theirs. ⬇️
- Today's Secondary reading thread looks at Graphic organisers... A graphic organiser is a visual tool or diagram used to organise and represent information, concepts, or ideas in structured way, helping pupils build mental representations and monitor their own comprehension.⬇️
- Join tomorrow’s practical session to help deepen your understanding of what makes professional development delivery effective - with a particular focus on the role of facilitation & how to manage participant cognitive load. researchschool.org.uk/greenshaw/ev...
- We've got some great FREE webinars coming up in the next few weeks! 👉Effective Facilitation and Managing Cognitive Load A free session on Making Your PD Delivery Impactful 👉Five principles for teaching grammar 👉Metacognition and self-regulated learning researchschool.org.uk/greenshaw/ev...
- A supporting resource is designed to help pupils comprehend and interpret information, perhaps by providing relevant background knowledge, or by making relationships between different people, events and ideas more clear. ⬇️
- Today’s focus is on Getting texts ready for teaching. As well as considering things like vocabulary, necessary prior knowledge, and the questions to ask during the lesson, teachers should also think about the actual texts that pupils are reading in the classroom.⬇️
- Join one of this month's free webinars taking place after school⬇️ 21 January - Effective Facilitation and Managing Cognitive Load - a session on making your PD delivery impactful. 26 January - 5 Principles for teaching grammar. Sign-up here ➡️ researchschool.org.uk/greenshaw/ev...
- ‘Check, Link, Connect’ is a method of teacher questioning during reading to scaffold comprehension and help pupils build a mental model of text as they read. ⬇️
- Most texts contain words that will be unfamiliar to pupils - but we can’t teach all of them!
- Technical vocabulary usually represents complex and interconnecting ideas that pupils need to learn in order to understand the different subjects they study. ⬇️
- Have you been following the launch of content from our new resource Supporting reading in the Secondary classroom? Why not join our associated programme - it runs online and in-person in South London/Surrey border in Jan & Feb (3 sessions). Read more⬇️ researchschool.org.uk/greenshaw/ev...
- We continue our threads on Secondary reading and consider: With any classroom activity, a useful question to ask is - what is the purpose of this? Reading is no different. ⬇️
