Sarah Spencer, Hilary Lowe, Judy Clegg and Joy Stackhouse did a project in a secondary school, teaching academic words to 12 and 13 year olds. The lesson plans from this 11 week intervention programme are provided below.
Please do get in touch if you would like to know more about our project or if you plan to use the session plans in your own work: sarah.spencer@sheffield.ac.uk.
Lesson 2 Discriminate
Supporting new word learning in secondary schools 