Tested Practices for Schools to Identify Gaps and Implement Interventions for Secondary Readers.

Turning the Page to Secondary Literacy highlights the need for a more cohesive and deliberate approach to teaching literacy across subject areas in secondary schools. 

The report emphasises that literacy is not just the responsibility of English teachers; rather, every learning area requires explicit instruction in reading, writing, and disciplinary language. It outlines how adolescents often struggle when literacy demands increase, particularly if foundational skills were not fully developed in earlier years. 

The report recommends targeted professional learning, consistent school-wide strategies, and collaborative planning to ensure all students can access and succeed in the curriculum. 

Literacy Connections has been working with Carmen Street from Hillmorton High School, Geraldine Bovett from Rangi Ruru Girls school and Bex Roberts from Papanui High.

They all kindly agreed to share what they have been doing around SL implementation at their secondary schools in the hope that it will support other secondary educators.  

Ngā mihi nui to Carmen, Geraldine, Bex and the team at Literacy Connections for sharing this video. 

Anita Archer has a range of modelled videos specific to teaching and learning in a late primary/early secondary context.  

The above title takes you to the relevant section of her webpage.

Niky Clegg from Ōwhiro Bay School in Wellington has kindly shared this website she has created.

The website contains Level 2 texts that can be used for Partner Reading / Paragraph Shrinking. 

Each text comes with a PDF of the text, summary, vocabulary and comprehension questions. There is also an audio file to accompany each text. (Niky has mentioned that there may be some mistakes in the audio and is fixing them as she finds them. If you find one please email her and she will correct it niky@owhiro.school.nz)

Ngā mihi to Niky for creating this amazing resource and sharing it with everyone.