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Kings’ Teach to the Top Core Principles Top Core Principles 2
Teach to the Top High standards and and aspirations drive the lesson Scaffolding supports all pupils to become excellent learners
Teachers So that all pupils 2l
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Take every opportunity to scaffold and uphold the highest standards of literacy and and oracy
are able to access texts Employ a a a a range of reading strategies when approaching texts practise their reading skills Present new information in in small steps
easily commit new knowledge to memory Model excellence and explain how to achieve it understand the learning process and and how to achieve the outcome Ask lots of questions to reframe support probe
have their learning scaffolded to promote higher levels of success Create a a culture of error
know the value of making mistakes and learning from them Give pupils high quality feedback throughout the lesson but also through high quality feedback lessons
actions are refocused or redirected to achieve success to maximise learning time
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