The quick solution to integrating Literacy and Scientific Enquiry Skills into every day teaching with short targeted activities, helping your students to get better results.

- Meet the new assessment requirements and improve grades by targeting literacy, communication, and scientific enquiry skills
- Easily integrate skills teaching with targeted, short, student-friendly activities for every day lessons
- Track and encourage skills progression with student and teacher progression charts
- Save time with this flexible resource, with clear teacher notes and advice, suitable for experienced teachers and NQTs

All activities and notes are available as editable MS Word files on the accompanying CD-ROM.

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 232 pages in this book. This book was published 2013 by Hodder Education .

Alison Pyle is the Secondary Literacy Consultant for Camden (London). She has over twenty years' experience in education in inner London Schools and nationally via a secondment to the National Strategies. Alison's current role involves working with teachers to embed literacy skills in subjects across the curriculum, specifically developing speaking and listening, reading and writing skills so that all pupils can effectively demonstrate their subject knowledge and understanding. Julia Leewood is the Secondary Science and Assessment consultant for Camden (London), with over 20 years teaching experience. Her current role involves working with teachers to develop proven and effective practices that improve learning in all areas of teaching, in particular Literacy, Assessment for Learning, and Thinking in Science. Jeremy Pollard and Adrian Schmit are the authors of the succcessful WJEC GCSE Science and Additional Science textbooks.

This book has the following chapters: SECTION 1: LITERACY SKILLS IN SCIENCE Chapter 1 Before Reading Chapter 2 During Reading Chapter 3 After Reading Chapter 4 Preparation for writing: the importance of oracy Chapter 5 Writing for different purposes Chapter 6 Structuring reports SECTION 2: SCIENTIFIC ENQUIRY SKILLS Chapter 7 Scientific ideas Chapter 8 Designing experiments Chapter 9 Recording and processing results Chapter 10 Analysing results Chapter 11 Drawing conclusions Chapter 12 Evaluating an experiment Chapter 13 Experiments for enquiry skills INDEX Each chapter include teacher notes, activities, and a progress chart.