At the start of November 2018 I presented a session, ‘How sound is your language?’ at the Practical Pedagogies conference in Cologne. You can download the PowerPoint from the session here.

You may also find this brief list useful for further reading / information.

Reading

• Beck, I.L., McKeown, M.G. and Kucan, L. (2002), Bringing Words To Life: Robust Vocabulary Instruction. New York: Guilford Press
• Carroll, J. (2018), ‘Another reason why…’ some writing frames stunt students’ historical causal arguments. https://jcarrollhistory.com/2018/02/09/another-reason-why-some-writing-frames-stunt-students-historical-causal-arguments/
• Dale, L. and Tanner, R. (2012), CLIL Content and Language Integrated Learning: A Resource for Subject and Language Teachers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
• Lobworth, P. (2017), ‘William was a bastard and wanted to prove it.’ Prioritising substantive knowledge in a process of ‘rewriting’ to help pupils improve their essays. https://lobworth.com/2017/11/05/william-was-a-bastard-and-wanted-to-prove-it-how-can-i-help-my-year-7s-and-8s-know-more-and-perhaps-care-more-about-past-individuals/
• Quigley, A. (2018), Closing the Vocabulary Gap. London: Routledge

Podcasts

• History Extra – www.historyextra.com/article-type/podcast/
• In Our Time – Will Bailey-Watson’s list of episodes sorted by century is at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tc4nrbYV3zEwkIGs0N61gGo_uDF10F4M/view
• History Hit – www.historyhit.com/podcasts/
• HistoryPod – www.historypod.net (click ‘Timeline’ for a chronological list of all episodes)