Education Endowment Foundation:Leader insights: Disciplinary Literacy in English Literature

Leader insights: Disciplinary Literacy in English Literature

Exploring disciplinary literacy in action
Author
Chloe Butlin
Chloe Butlin
Content Specialist (Literacy)

In the first in a series of Voices from the Classroom from Tudor Grange Research School, we gain teacher and leader reflections on specific aspects of how reading may differ in subjects across the curriculum, with professional development and implementation insights woven through.

Blog •2 minutes •

How do we read in English Literature?

Helen Myers, Tudor Grange Research School

Curriculum team discussions

Farida Mili, Tudor Grange Research School

Harnessing cross-curricular links

Farida Mili, Tudor Grange Research School

Protecting time for curriculum discussion is an integral part of implementation planning for disciplinary literacy. Senior leaders and curriculum leads can use this template, in conjunction with the disciplinary literacy tree’ resource on the EEF website, to discuss the often unique and specialised ways that experts read in their subject area.

Find out more about disciplinary literacy – an approach to improving literacy across the curriculum that emphasises the importance of subject specific support – in the Improving Literacy in Secondary Schools guidance report.