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Literacy in primary CLIL
Supporting teachers in primary
CLIL contexts
Overview
• What does literacy mean?
• How does CLIL develop literacy in
primary contexts?
• What does literacy in primary CLIL look
like?
• How can teachers develop learners’
literacy skills in CLIL contexts?
What does literacy mean?
Interactive task 1
Literacy is … (multiple choice)
A. the study of literature
B. knowing the alphabet and how to write
words and sentences
C. the ability to read and write
D. the ability to read, write, speak and
listen
E. something more than A, B, C and D
Meanings of literacy
1. ‘the ability to read, write, speak and listen well’ (National Literacy Trust – UK, 2009)
… and think creatively (New Zealand Curriculum, 2010)
Meanings of literacy
1. ‘the ability to read, write, speak and listen well’ (National Literacy Trust – UK, 2009)
… and think creatively (New Zealand Curriculum, 2010)
2. ‘the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate and compute, using printed and written materials associated with varying contexts.’ (UNESCO, 2006)
Meanings of literacy
1. ‘the ability to read, write, speak and listen well’ (National Literacy Trust – UK, 2009)
… and think creatively (New Zealand Curriculum, 2010)
2. ‘the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate and compute, using printed and written materials associated with varying contexts.’ (UNESCO, 2006)
3. ‘literacy involves … literacy in action, critical literacy, literacy as social practice and multiple literacies’ (Cambridge Assessment: What is literacy? 2013)
How does CLIL develop
literacy in primary contexts?
How do you think literacy is
developed in primary CLIL?
1. Learners develop academic vocabulary.
2. Learners develop basic interpersonal
communicative skills.
3. Learners read and produce a wide range of
text types.
4. There’s a focus on subject and other
literacies.
5. CLIL incorporates multimodal learning of
subject concepts and language.
How do you think literacy is
developed in primary CLIL?
1. Learners develop academic vocabulary.
Academic vocabulary
mammal
amphibian
reptile
plus
equals
lava
crater
vent
compare classify predict
How do you think literacy is
developed in primary CLIL?
2. Learners develop basic interpersonal
communicative skills.
We think the
pen is made
of plastic.
Yes. But we
think the pen is
made of plastic
and metal.
First we should
measure its length.
OK. Then let’s
measure its
width.
How do you think literacy is
developed in primary CLIL?
3. Learners read and produce a wide
range of text types in CLIL.
explanations
descriptions
instructions
recounts
How do you think literacy is
developed in primary CLIL?
4. There’s a focus on subject and other
literacies.
subject level text type: explanation type of visuals
science 2 where food comes from
how animals move
photographs, Venn
diagram, table
geography 5 where water comes
from
how volcanoes erupt
diagrams, maps, video
How do you think literacy is
developed in primary CLIL?
5. CLIL incorporates multimodal learning
of subject concepts and language.
video audio digital print image
Literacy and CLIL
• ‘… literacy instruction must be
embedded across the curriculum ... and
developed by the growing complexity of
content’ (Cambridge Assessment: What is literacy? 2013)
• ‘Subject literacy skills (are) essential to
learners’ cognitive academic language
proficiency, (but) are often absent from
CLIL practices’ (T. Ting, 2014)
Developing literacy for CLIL in
primary ELT: Level 1 Subject literacy
skills for CLIL
English Ladder 1
examples
Science
Literacy
instruction …
embedded across
the curriculum
Science
Classify the pictures (animals) and make a
poster.
Make a food chart. (plants or animals)
The English Ladder Student’s Book 1, Cambridge University Press 2012
Developing literacy for CLIL in
primary ELT: Level 1 Subject literacy
skills for CLIL
Super Minds 1
examples
Art and Maths
Literacy
instruction …
embedded across
the curriculum
Art
Look and read. Mix the colours to make
new colours.
(Short explanation of how to mix primary
colours to make secondary colours)
Maths
Listen and look at the shapes.
(Short explanation of tangrams)
Look at the tangrams. What shapes are
missing?
Super Minds, Student’s Book 1, Cambridge University Press 2012
Developing literacy for CLIL in
primary ELT: Level 4 Subject literacy
skills for CLIL
English Ladder 4
‘Learning about maps’
Geography
Literacy
instruction …
embedded across
the curriculum
1. Match the map symbols and the words.
(village, lake, road, castle, forest, beach,
bridge, river)
2. Read and complete the descriptions for
the map.
‘Start at A2. Go south for 3 kilometres.
Then go west for half a kilometre. You are
at the bridge/ beach.’
3. Play the ‘Where are you?’ game.
The English Ladder Student’s Book 4, Cambridge University Press 2012
Developing subject literacy in
primary CLIL Subject literacy
skills for CLIL
Essential Science 4
Science, Geography and History
‘Where do we live?’
Geography
Literacy
instruction
embedded across
the curriculum
Subject literacy
skills develop
academic
language
proficiency
LOOK AND READ
Look at this map.
‘1 cm on the map is equivalent to 2 kilometers.’
real map of part of Tenerife with human
features
What type of information does it give us?
1. Where do we live?
(explanation of e.g. settlement, municipality,
region)
• Is there a special word to describe people
from your region?
(Focus on Citizenship)
Essential Science 4, Santillana Richmond, 2006
What does literacy in primary
CLIL look like?
What do you think literacy in
primary CLIL looks like?
1. It has easy content and language.
2. It can’t be cross-curricular.
3. It can be formal and impersonal.
4. It can be imaginative and informative.
5. It can’t involve PowerPoint
presentations.
1. ‘Literacy … developed by the
growing complexity of content’
Super Minds, Student’s Book 2, Cambridge University Press 2012
Literacy …
developed by
the growing
complexity
of content
Kids Box, Student’s Book 5, Cambridge University Press 2014
2. Literacy in primary CLIL can be
cross-curricular
http://englishpile.blogspot.com.es Teacher: Ana Prieto Estrada, Catalonia
Science: subject-specific stimulus
• a range of materials to find out how
to describe different textures
Science and art: peer collaboration
• communicating ideas to create a
hand that shows and describes
how different materials feel
3. Literacy in primary CLIL can be
formal and impersonal
1
2
3
4
Most learners need
longer planning, drafting
and editing time than in
ELT or when learning
subjects in their L1.
4. Literacy in
CLIL can be
imaginative
and
informative.
Teacher: Jose Mª Álvarez
Carmona
CEIP San Blas (Ajalvir)
Madrid
5. Literacy in CLIL can be subject-
specific, collaborative and multimodal
Europe FRANCE
… nice, nice district.
… nice, nice street.
… nice, nice school.
Smagghe
Once upon a time there was
a nice, nice planet. Smagghe
On this planet there was
a nice, nice continent.
Europe
Smagghe
In this continent there was
a nice, nice country.
FRANCE
Arles
Smagghe
In the country there was
a nice, nice city. Smagghe
Literacy in CLIL looks subject-
specific, collaborative and multimodal
… nice, nice district.
… nice, nice street.
+
+
+
… nice, nice school.
Smagghe
Behind this door there was
a nice, nice classroom. Smagghe
How can teachers develop learners’ literacy skills in primary CLIL?
Developing learners’ literacy
skills in primary CLIL
1. Learners talk together to think and
learn about new content and language.
How?
Write one suggestion in the chat box.
Developing learners’ literacy
skills in primary CLIL
1. Talk together to think and learn about
new content and language.
How?
• Use motivating stimuli to activate learners’ prior knowledge of subject content, e.g. photographs
Developing learners’ literacy
skills in primary CLIL
1. Talk together to think and learn about
new content and language.
How?
• Use motivating stimuli to activate learners’ prior knowledge of subject content, e.g. photographs
• Use multimodal input
Developing learners’ literacy
skills in primary CLIL
1. Talk together to think and learn about
new content and language.
How?
• Use motivating stimuli to activate learners’ prior knowledge of subject content, e.g. photographs
• Use multimodal input
• Use a range of age-appropriate model texts
Task 1: motivating
photographic stimulus to
activate prior knowledge
and develop subject and
visual literacy.
Task 3: age-appropriate,
subject-specific model
text.
(explanation of an
underwater food chain)
Task 2: multimodal
input.
Tasks 4–6: reading,
writing, talking, creating
Guess What! Student’s Book 5, Cambridge University Press 2015
Developing learners’ literacy
skills in primary CLIL
2. Read and listen to a range of subject
text types for different purposes.
Write some examples of text types in the
chat box.
Developing learners’ literacy
skills in primary CLIL
2. Read and listen to a range of subject text types for different purposes, for example: • simple explanations, recounts (e.g. science)
• charts, maps, graphs (e.g. geography/maths)
• reports, descriptions (e.g. science/geography)
• instructions (e.g. physical education)
• short biographies (e.g. art/music)
• video clips with all of the above
• non-fiction books for extended
reading
Developing learners’ literacy
in primary CLIL
3. Work together to prepare for writing texts
2. Model the text.
3. Work together to write a
similar text.
4. Learners work alone or in pairs to write a
similar text.
5. Compare other
examples of the text type.
1. Talk about
purpose of the text.
What
is it?
What
features
does it
have?
What support will learners need?
Learners
suggest ideas to
include in a
collaborative
class text.
What’s the
same?
What’s
different?
LITERACY
IN PRIMARY
CLIL
To summarise
1. CLIL develops literacy in primary
contexts
2. What literacy in primary CLIL can be
3. Teachers can develop literacy in
primary CLIL lessons
To conclude …
‘CLIL can educate towards pluriliteracy ...
across languages and disciplines.’
Disciplinary literacy (2014) T. Ting
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