The Literacy Toolkit
The Literacy Toolkit Improving students' speaking, listening, reading and writing skills. The Literacy Toolkit is a journey into understanding literacy in our society, it impacts upon our schools and the practical and creative strategies we can use to ensure every pupil's literacy skills progress rapidly in all subjects. It embraces what we know about literacy learning and how we can move things forward creatively in the classroom and beyond for KS3 and KS4, so that students, learners and teachers will have a positive impact upon learning. It also embraces the notion that literacy needs to be addressed by all for all students to succeed. It looks at the key issues and alternative ways, to address them in a creative and fun but purposeful manner.
Reviewed by Sebastian Bailey
Anyone involved in education will know the immense value of high quality tools for teaching and learning. With this book Amanda has crafted a clear, compelling and useful toolkit for the most fundamental of issues.
Sebastian Bailey, The Mind Gym
Reviewed by David Onllwyn-Jones
The genius of Amanda Sara's Literacy Toolkit is that it satisfies the teacher and the student's intellectual curiosity whilst providing both with stimulating strategies to raise levels of literacy.
Amanda embraces a definition of literacy that encompasses all its new technological forms and enables students to "crack these codes" in ways that will develop and support all other learning and to assess progress.
Amanda's book will motivate teacher and student and actually allow both to enjoy creative, fun and purposeful activities.
David Onllwyn-Jones MBE, Assistant Headteacher,
Villiers High School, West London
Teacher of the Year in
a Secondary School in London 2006
Comenius
Ambassador British Council
Reviewed by Sharon Ginnis
What an incredible resource this book is, enjoyable to read, passionately written, theoretically sound, yet firmly grounded in the realities of everyday school life and the world of the modern learner.
This exciting, well-researched treasure-trove presents hundreds of creative classroom strategies to help you raise the literacy bar. For leaders and managers, there are plenty of well-conceived ideas for whole school development, cross-curricular literacy, staff training, monitoring and assessment.
Whoever you are and whatever you teach, you are a member of your school's literacy development team; I'm sure that you will find Amanda's ideas illuminating, motivating and empowering.
Sharon Ginnis, author of Covering the Curriculum with Stories and Independent Trainer
Amanda Sara
Amanda Sara is Deputy Head at Westminster Academy.
Previously she was Assistant Head Teacher and Head of Sixth Form at Villiers High School, (before that her roles included: Head of English and Literacy Across the Curriculum Coordinator).
In addition to her current role she is also literacy consultant for The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts.