Literacy and language
in every subject
A simple, repeatable way to develop reading, writing, and talking in any subject.
- Start with one unit you already teach.
- Grow it into a shared department approach.
- Grounded in the four C's of CLIL.
Literacy is every teacher's work
Reading and writing are not the language department's job alone.
Each subject reads differently
A historian, a scientist, and a mathematician write in their own way. Each subject teaches its own moves.
Language is the medium
Learning in a second language means the academic register has to be built on purpose, not assumed.
The gap is language
Many students reason well when talking, then stall in writing. We scaffold the register, for everyone.
One pattern, eight parts
Fill in the pattern for one unit. Here are the first six; the full eight are one click away.
The unit in one line
The content, and the question driving it.
The Language Triptych
The language of, for, and through learning.
The one move
One analytical move, and what the student writes.
The standing furniture
Word wall, sentence frames, word bank, retrieval starter.
Reading the hard text
How the toughest source is made readable.
Inclusive assessment
One paper, with the scaffold built in for everyone.
How the training works
Hybrid, and never all at once.
- This site carries the reading, at your own pace.
- Workshops are for building your own unit, with support in the room.
First, the furniture
Install the standing practices in every room.
Then, the move
Each department names and drills its one move.
Last, redesign
Rebuild a full unit around the pattern.
What a whole-school approach needs
The pattern gives visible answers to the questions a literacy strategy must address.
- Visible in every room. Word walls, desk frames, word banks, retrieval starters.
- Fair to all. One paper, scaffold built in. Support through conferencing, not a separate paper.
- Early warning. A weekly check, with a named reteach move when a class dips.
- Led as a process. A phased rollout, run by your own CLIL specialist.