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

APPENDIX 5: POSSIBLE LINKS BETWEEN GEOGRAPHY AND LITERACY

WHERE IS IT? LOCATING FEATURES IN THE FIELD AND ON PICTURES, GLOBES AND MAPS

Specific language skills encouraged

The understanding and use of prepositions of place (in, beside, behind, etc) in describing relative location, progressing to the specialised vocabulary of absolute location (eg grid reference, latitude, northing).

Examples of connections to literacy

  • use terms that describe location with increasing precision
  • use number in language

Examples of connections to geography programme of study

  • the location of places and environments studied (3a)
  • the national, international and global context of places studied (3b)
  • use atlases, globes and maps at a variety of scales (2c)
  • at a variety of scale and range of study (7a)

What is it?

What is it like?

How did it come to be like this?

How is it changing?

What do I/ others think and feel about this?