Reconstructing Reading: Multilingualism
Download this toolkit, developed as a takeaway from the National Literacy Trust’s Reconstructing Reading conference, to help your team translate research evidence into high-impact classroom results.
How you can use this resource:
Challenge your current literacy strategy by using the 'Multimodality' research one-pager to support your planning and teacher inquiry. The document features a series of provocations designed to help leaders evaluate school routines for multimodal text access and student opportunities to demonstrate understanding through different modes.
Deploy the linked Modular Moves resource to provide staff with a practical framework for using 'translanguaging" strategies, such as 'Say, See, Shape', that allow pupils to rehearse ideas in their home language before capturing them in academic English.
Enable teachers to design targeted instructional moves for multilingual students by implementing 'Layered Texts', which add dual-language keyword strips or mirror paragraphs to complex, grade-level material to ensure students can access rigorous content without reducing the challenge.
