The Literacy Leader's Toolkit Raising Standards Across the Curriculum 11-19

In The Literacy Leader's Toolkit, the winners of the TES National Award for Outstanding Literacy Initiative 2011 share the secrets behind school improvement through raising literacy levels across the curriculum. The book provides specific guidance on planning for the development of literacy across the curriculum, includes 40 tried-and-tested practical ideas to help students to progress as well as highlighting proven strategies for evaluating and measuring the impact of your programme on literacy levels across the school. The authors draw on the successful literacy initiatives that have worked at their own school, as well as case studies from three schools with various Ofsted ratings in different counties across the UK. The ideas are grouped into beginning, embedding and sustaining stages and include: - Choosing the literacy focus for your school - Involving parents as literacy leaders - Helping students to become inventors of language The book includes suggestions for applying the strategies in your own setting, and there are online resources including auditing and tracking materials to help you to get started.

Graham Tyrer is headteacher of the highly successful and oversubscribed Chenderit School in Northamptonshire, UK. He has successfully helped lead two schools in challenging circumstances out of special measures and delivers training in Literacy Across the Curriculum throughout the country.

Patrick Taylor is deputy head of Chenderit School in Northamptonshire, UK. He was formerly head of English and also works part time as a school inspector for Ofsted. He has delivered training for the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust in Literacy Across the Curriculum.

Introduction / PART 1 Planning Your Literacy Programme/ What is Literacy? / How to develop literacy across the curriculum. / Mapping out a two-year plan. / PART 2 Putting Your Literacy Programme into Practice / 1 The Beginning Stage / Strategies 1-8 / 2 The Embedding Stage / Strategies 9-38 / 3 The Sustaining Stage / Strategies 39-47 / 4 Evaluating Impact / Strategies 48-52 / 5 Working with Others / Strategies 53-54 / Index