We all know that reading is an essential skill, but many teachers struggle to fit it in with all the competing demands on their time.
Rather than see reading as an extra thing to make time for, we need to see it as part of how we teach content and skills.
There are three books in the How to write what you want to say … in the secondary years set and when used together they make it easier for teachers to teach key writing skills or cognitive verbs.
Many of the cognitive verbs students need to master are quite complex concepts. In this video, logonliteracy's Pat Hipwell discusses why and how to ensure students actually understand these key task words.
It is common practice to give students a glossary of words, particularly words in a unit of work, but Pat Hipwell argues this is not enough to help students understand key task words or the new cognitive verbs.
In her first video update, logonliteracy's Pat Hipwell explains why cognitive verbs, also known as key task words, are so important for students to understand and recognise.
