Connecting Literacy Teacher Book 2

Connecting Literacy targets whole-school literacy improvement for Secondary students and teachers. 

What is Connecting Literacy? 

A developmental literacy program for Secondary schools, including: 

• 3 student folios
• 3 teacher books
• 100s of video lessons hosted by literacy consultant, Hayley Harrison.

Who is Connecting Literacy for? 

Secondary school students and teachers who: 

• are embarking on whole-school literacy improvement, OR 
• integrate literacy skills in the English classroom, OR 
• attend a timetabled literacy block.

How does Connecting Literacy work? 

With cumulative skill development over three books where students: 

• Model: read and annotate an ‘anchor text’ – an authentic piece of student writing 
• Practise: complete units of work in class or as homework with video support from Hayley Harrison, literacy coach 
• Apply: draft their own text directly into the writing pages included in each student folio.

Why do you need Connecting Literacy? 

• Flexibility: Use the series over three consecutive years or use the student folios in parallel to differentiate, support and extend. 
• Support: Video lessons, teacher books with answers and suggested programs, a literacy skills ‘toolkit’ and on-demand P.D. sessions will support experienced and out-of-discipline teachers alike. The digital download file contains learning ladders for each unit of the book and additional resources.
• Evidence: Student folios are designed as a learning pathway with built-in student reflection, metacognition and formative assessment (with developmental rubrics). 
• Whole-school: Use Connecting Literacy to underpin your whole school literacy plan and create a common metalanguage around literacy.

When you purchase a Connecting Literacy teacher book, you gain access to a suite of online material, including:

• over 60 videos recorded by Hayley Harrison: every lesson in each book has an accompanying video, where the author provides more information about the particular topic
• information on how to support handwriting development for adolescents
• activating prior knowledge activities
• an information sheet about conjunctions, which can be used as a classroom poster.

Find out more about our author Hayley Harrison here

Check out Hayley Harrison's introduction to Connecting Literacy video below, and an example of the video lessons that are incorporated via QR code throughout the student and teacher books.