Literacy

History is the closest subject to literacy. There are many opportunities between the two subjects for cross- curriculum teaching. Teaching history raises standards in literacy because there are many English based activities that are used in history lessons. History lessons require teachers and children to use their literacy skills in reading, writing and speaking and listening. Read more

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  • Using historical fiction in the classroom

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    If it is a story then what has that got to do with my teaching history? Well to begin with the best historical fiction is well researched. Good writers like Jill Paton Walsh take their research very seriously. She has commented that, "the writer may invent characters, conversations, circumstances, but...

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  • Think Bubble - Print the Legend

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    Anyone who has pretensions to being a film buff learns pretty early on the immortal lines of the jaundiced newspaperman from John Ford's 1962 movie The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance that when it comes to choosing between the truth and the legend……..I was reminded of this recently whilst preparing...

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  • Creating Stories For Teaching Primary History

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    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references are outdated. With primary history contributing to writing, some research by Sandra Dunsmuir and Peter Blatchford into pupils aged 4-7 has relevance to history teaching. The findings were published in the "British Journal of Educational Psychology", edition...

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  • Book for the Literacy Hour

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    Jo Barkham reviews the book 'What Babies Used to Wear', written by Anne Witherington and Bobbie Neate.

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  • Book for the Literacy Hour

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    Jo Barkham reviews the book 'A Day in the Life of a Victorian Child', written by Penelope Harnett.

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  • Book for the Literacy Hour

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    Jo Barkham reviews 'Asha in the Attic' written by Gill Howell and illustrated by Alan Marks.

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  • History book for the literacy hour

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    Jo Barkham reviews the book 'A Street Through Time, A 12,000 year journey along the same street', illustrated by Steve Noon and written by Dr Anne Millard, and comments on how the book can be used at Key Stage 1.

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  • Literacy, text-genres and history: reading and learning from difficult and challenging texts

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    This paper examines the application of TEXT-BREAKER to a year 3 class being taught a history text in the Literacy hour. The context was the Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings in Britain Study Unit of the National Curriculum for History (DFE, 1995). Within our scheme of work we have used TEXT-BREAKER...

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