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Schemes of work: Geography at key stage 3 Teacher's Guide

APPENDIX 5: POSSIBLE LINKS BETWEEN GEOGRAPHY AND LITERACY

WHAT DO I/OTHERS THINK AND FEEL ABOUT THIS? EVALUATING

Specific language skills encouraged

Expressive language has a strong role in any aspect of geography that involves aesthetic responses to places, eg landscape appreciation, conservation. It may invoke expressive prose, poetry or oral responses.

Examples of connections to literacy

  • progression in all areas from using language to expressing simple likes and dislikes to the use of an increasing range of expressive language for effect and carefully selected language to articulate, support and justify personal views and advocate the views of others

Examples of connections to geography programme of study

  • appreciate people's values and attitudes (1e)
  • communicate in appropriate ways (1f)
  • communicating and exchanging ideas (2f)
  • decision making (1g)
  • explore sustainable development (5b)
  • explore global citizenship (3e)
  • human responses to hazard (6cii)
  • factors which influence development (6iiii)
  • how conflicting demands on an environment arise (6ji)
  • resource planning and management (6kiii)

NB The list above provides examples. It is not exhaustive.

What is it?

Where is it?

What is it like?

How did it come to be like this?

How is it changing?