The latest Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) guidance on secondary school literacy (2019) is a must-read for all colleagues working in secondary schools.
The endorsement of every teacher being aware of their own academic discipline’s literacy needs, regardless of subject specialism, is refreshing to read. For example, when a science teacher supports their students’ understanding and learning of polysyllabic, Latinate key terms (90 per cent of these have a Latin or Greek origin in their subjects) they are identifying, then supporting a very specific literacy need in their unique discipline.
However, this must go hand-in-hand with the explicit teaching of comprehension strategies to enable their students to have ownership of their own understanding and learning of challenging knowledge and skills.
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